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OCTOBER 9, 2023

The Bank of America has speculated that defaults in corporate private credit will exceed those in the syndicated loan market next year if interest rates remain consistently higher, as reported by Bloomberg.

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APRIL 22, 2024

Berkshire's top-five largest positions are Apple , Bank of America , American Express , Coca-Cola , and Chevron. First, all of them are blue chip companies that are some of the most recognizable brands in their respective industries. American Express is an advertising partner of The Ascent, a Motley Fool company.

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JANUARY 19, 2024

Less competition from the illicit e-cigarette market means investors can reasonably expect this company's earnings and dividend payouts to continue climbing for years to come. Ares Capital Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) is a business development company ( BDC ). With an investment portfolio totaling $21.9

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Ares is a leading business development company ( BDC ) based in the U.S. As a direct lender, it supplies the capital that private companies need to fund and grow their operations. Ares typically serves established businesses with revenue of $10 million to $1 billion. Ares spread its $22.9

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MAY 5, 2024

As the largest publicly traded business development company ( BDC ) in the U.S., Ares provides private companies with the cash they need to expand. It specializes in loans to "middle-market" businesses that typically have sales of between $10 million and $1 billion.

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JULY 31, 2023

Ares Capital has handily outperformed the S&P 500 since the company's IPO in 2004 as well as over the last three-year and fie-year periods. Business development companies (BDCs) have become increasingly attractive sources of capital for small-to-medium-sized businesses. Strong total returns.

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JULY 9, 2023

Ares Capital Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) reigns as the largest publicly traded business development company (BDC). It provides financing primarily to middle-market businesses. The company's dividend appears to be on solid footing. With Ares Capital's dividend yield above 10.1% midstream energy market.

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AUGUST 23, 2024

Hercules Capital Hercules Capital (NYSE: HTGC) is a business development company (BDC) that specializes in high-yield loans to venture-backed companies. Generally speaking, a bank may avoid making a loan to a young company. Generally speaking, a bank may avoid making a loan to a young company.

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JUNE 25, 2024

Ares Capital Ares Capital is a business development company ( BDC ) that offers a huge 9.3% Ares Capital and its BDC peers are essentially lenders to misize businesses that are too big for small-business loans but too small for consideration by a traditional American bank. dividend yield at recent prices.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Ares Capital Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) is America's largest publicly traded business development company ( BDC ). Middle-market businesses generally have over $10 million in annual revenue, but they still can't get America's big banks to give them loans.

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JANUARY 5, 2024

One of the best ways to create wealth is by investing in companies that pay a dividend. While many different types of companies pay dividends, business development companies (BDCs) represent a unique opportunity. BDCs are required to pay out 90% of their taxable income to investors each year.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Ares Capital Ares Capital is a business development company ( BDC ), which means it can legally avoid paying income taxes by distributing nearly all its profit to shareholders as a dividend. For decades now, American banks have been increasingly hesitant to lend money directly to midsize businesses.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This is a business development company ( BDC ), which means it can legally avoid paying income taxes by distributing nearly all its profits to shareholders as a dividend. As a BDC, Ares Capital lends to middle-market businesses. at recent prices.

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MAY 4, 2024

Ares Capital Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) is America's largest business development company ( BDC ). BDCs exist because big American banks generally aren't willing to lend to middle-market businesses, regardless of their ability to generate cash and pay their bills.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Ares Capital Ares Capital is the world's largest publicly traded business development company ( BDC ). Ares Capital's dividend payout hasn't risen in a straight line, but it is up by 60% since the company began distributing earnings in 2005. At recent prices, the stock offers an attractive 9.2% dividend yield.

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OCTOBER 21, 2024

Ares Capital Ares Capital is the world's largest publicly traded business development company, or BDC. banks that have been dialing back their direct lending operations for decades. Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) , and EPR Properties (NYSE: EPR) offer yields above 8% at recent prices.

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AUGUST 3, 2024

Ares Capital Corporation Ares Capital is a business development company, or BDC. Income-seeking investors like these types of businesses because they can legally avoid federal income taxes by distributing nearly everything they earn to shareholders as a dividend. over the past five years. For decades, U.S.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Ares Capital Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) is a business development company ( BDC ), which means it lends to companies that are too big for small business loans but still too small to work with large banks. Management expects earnings per share to rise 1% to 4% this year.

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JUNE 23, 2023

Morgan Asset Management, a division of money-center bank JPMorgan Chase , released a study that compared the performance of publicly traded companies that initiated and grew their payouts between 1972 and 2012 to public companies that didn't offer a payout over the same timeline. In 2013, J.P. Between Sept.

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APRIL 5, 2024

Ares Capital Ares Capital is America's largest publicly traded business development company ( BDC ). For decades, American banks have been increasingly hesitant to lend to mid-market businesses, which by definition generate between $10 million and $1 billion in annual revenue. dividend yield.

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MARCH 5, 2024

Ares Capital Ares Capital is America's largest business development company (BDC), which essentially means it's a lender for mid-market businesses throughout America. This makes growth a challenge, but the company raised its payout by 20% over the past three years. At recent prices, it offers a 9.5% dividend yield.

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JULY 5, 2023

yield PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (NYSE: PFLT) is a business development company (BDC), which is another type of entity that can avoid paying taxes by distributing nearly all its profits to shareholders as a dividend. BDCs exist because big banks generally aren't willing to make commercial loans to midsized businesses.

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JULY 10, 2024

This is a business development company (BDC), which essentially means it makes relatively high-interest loans to businesses that are large, but not large enough to get loans from traditional banks. As its name implies, nearly all the loans this BDC originates collect interest at floating rates.

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OCTOBER 22, 2024

The nation's central bank has officially shifted to a rate-easing cycle, which is expected to reduce short-term borrowing costs. At one point, the nation's central bank was purchasing MBSs to stabilize the mortgage market. In turn, this shrunk the net interest margin for mortgage REITs, including Annaly.

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MARCH 2, 2024

Ares Capital Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) is the largest publicly traded business development company (BDC). The BDC industry has grown significantly because many banks have shied away from these opportunities. It focuses primarily on providing financing alternatives to the upper end of the middle market.

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DECEMBER 27, 2023

Ares Capital Ever since the Great Recession , America's largest banks mostly stopped lending to middle-market companies regardless of their ability to generate cash and make interest payments.

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JUNE 27, 2023

yield Unlike the telecom stocks on this list, PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (NYSE: PFLT) is a business development company (BDC). Like most BDCs, PennantPark focuses on mid-sized companies that the big banks generally aren't willing to work with. PennantPark Floating Rate Capital: An 11.7%

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DECEMBER 3, 2023

It's a business development company (BDC) that's required to distribute at least 90% of its income to shareholders in the form of dividends to be exempt from federal taxes. The company's total returns have trounced the S&P 500 through the years. How can Ares Capital pay such a juicy dividend yield?

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Ares Capital Corporation: Ultra-high yield and mild growth Ares Capital Corporation (NASDAQ: ARCC) is a business development company ( BDC ), which means it can avoid paying income taxes by delivering at least 90% of its earnings to investors as a dividend. At recent prices, Ares Capital offers a huge 10.1%

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NOVEMBER 30, 2023

In an effort to combat historically high inflation that briefly surpassed an annualized rate of 9% in June 2022, the nation's central bank has raised its federal funds rate at the fastest pace in more than four decades. BDCs are businesses that invest in the debt and/or equity (common and preferred stock) of middle-market companies.

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DECEMBER 17, 2023

I think you can safely bank on that dividend payout at least staying at the current level. Ares Capital is organized as a business development company (BDC). That's because Ares Capital's dividend yield stands at 9.73%.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

PennantPark Floating Rate Capital PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (NYSE: PFLT) is a business development company, or BDC, which means it has to distribute nearly all the profit it generates to shareholders as a dividend. PennantPark and similar BDCs make loans to midsized businesses that big banks tend to ignore.

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JANUARY 6, 2024

As one of three giant telecom businesses in America, there's a very good chance that rising broadband revenues will allow it to keep raising that payout for at least another decade. Ares Capital Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) is a business-development company ( BDC ) that offers a huge 9.4% yield at recent prices.

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JULY 27, 2023

Ares Capital Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) is a large business development company (BDC) that essentially acts as a lender to many of the midsized businesses that large banks tend to ignore.

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JUNE 20, 2024

Investors, say hello to business development company (BDC) PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (NYSE: PFLT). Meet the safest 11%-yielding monthly dividend stock on the planet BDCs are businesses that invest in the equity (common or preferred stock) and/or debt of "middle-market companies." Image source: Getty Images.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

PennantPark Floating Rate Capital PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (NYSE: PFLT) is a business development company (BDC), which means it legally avoids paying income taxes by distributing at least 90% of profits to investors as a dividend. As its name implies, it only lends out capital at floating interest rates.

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JULY 16, 2024

PennantPark Floating Rate Capital: 10.31% yield A second super safe ultra-high-yield monthly payer that can help you bring home $1,000 in monthly income from a starting investment of $121,000 that's been split three ways is business development company (BDC) PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (NYSE: PFLT).

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