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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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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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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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MAY 4, 2024

Ares Capital Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) is America's largest business development company ( BDC ). These tax-advantaged entities are popular among income-seeking investors because they must distribute at least 90% of their profits to investors as a dividend. At recent prices, Ares Capital offers an eye-popping 9.2%

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Ares Capital Ares Capital is the world's largest publicly traded business development company ( BDC ). These specialized entities are popular among income-seeking investors because they can avoid paying income taxes by distributing nearly all of their earnings to shareholders in the form of dividend payments.

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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. These specialty financiers fill the gap left by U.S.

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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. over the past five years.

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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.

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

The company is on pace to achieve a net debt-to-adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) ratio in the 2.5 PennantPark Floating Rate Capital PenantPark Floating Rate Capital (NYSE: PFLT) is a business development company ( BDC ) that offers investors a huge 10.9%

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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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JANUARY 19, 2024

Ares Capital Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) is a business development company ( BDC ). This means it's a specialized lender to businesses that are too big for a government-backed, small-business loan but still too small to get a large American bank to pick up the phone.

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JANUARY 6, 2024

The company expects to achieve a manageable net debt-to-adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA) ratio of 2.5 Ares Capital Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) is a business-development company ( BDC ) that offers a huge 9.4% in the first half of 2025. yield at recent prices.

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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). These specialized investment vehicles can avoid paying income taxes by distributing at least 90% of earnings to shareholders as a dividend. 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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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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SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Selling off its media assets helped reduce AT&T's debt load, but the company was still sitting on $132 billion in net debt at the end of June. the amount of adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) that management expects this year. That works out to about 3.1x adjusted EBITDA.

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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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MARCH 6, 2024

dividend yield Hercules Capital (NYSE: HTGC) is a business development company (BDC) that specializes in providing capital to venture-backed start-ups. Hercules is different from a typical bank as it tends to offer more flexible financing options. Hercules Capital: 10.6% Kinder Morgan: 6.5%

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OCTOBER 24, 2024

Ares Capital is a business development company ( BDC ) that provides financing for middle-market companies (businesses that generate between $10 million and $250 million in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) every year). Image source: Getty Images.

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DECEMBER 5, 2023

PennantPark Floating Rate Capital: 10.95% yield A second incomparable ultra-high-yield dividend stock that's begging to be added to income seekers' portfolios in December is little-known business development company (BDC) PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (NYSE: PFLT). The company's 103 properties-operating portfolio is 98.5%

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FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Ally Financial Ally Financial (NYSE: ALLY) is an online-only bank. The company offers all the services you'd expect from any traditional bank, including checking and savings accounts, credit cards , investing, and a wide array of loans. Bancorp It's another bank, but U.S. That's big. It may prevent U.S.

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JUNE 23, 2024

The company hasn't raised the payout since slashing it a couple of years ago, and at recent prices, the telecom stock offers a 6.1% At the end of March, the company's net debt level was 2.9 times the adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) it generated over the past 12 months.

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AUGUST 23, 2023

Sporting a whopping 10% dividend yield, investors may initially think that the business development company ( BDC ) Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) is a yield trap. Ares Capital is the crème de la crème of BDCs Over the past three decades, the proportion of loans made to middle-market companies by U.S.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Ares Capital Ares Capital is the world's largest publicly traded business development company ( BDC ). These specialized entities fill the gap left by big banks that no longer lend directly to most businesses. Loans representing just 1.3% The average yield on PennantPark's debt investments was a very healthy 12.1%

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OCTOBER 15, 2024

Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) and PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (NYSE: PFLT) are a pair of well-manged business development companies (BDCs) that offer eye-popping dividend yields. banks have been increasingly hesitant to lend to businesses directly for decades. The BDC industry is a lucrative one because U.S.

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OCTOBER 31, 2024

Baby bonds are issued by the same types of companies that issue traditional bonds, including utility companies, investment banks, telecom companies and other types of corporate issuers. Tax Considerations -- It's important to consider the tax implications of baby bonds.

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OCTOBER 19, 2024

telecom businesses with a nationwide 5G network, investors can also look forward to steady gains over the long run. PennantPark Floating Rate Capital PennantPark Floating Rate Capital is a business development company ( BDC ) that lends to mid-market companies earning between $10 million and $50 million annually.

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AUGUST 10, 2024

PennantPark Floating Rate Capital PennantPark Floating Rate Capital is a business development company (BDC). For decades, America's largest banks have stepped back from lending directly to mid-sized businesses. times their interest expenses.

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Blackstone

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

4 To discuss the opportunities in this rising asset class and how to navigate the benefits and challenges of higher-for-longer rates, I welcome, as indicated below, the perspectives of Jonathan Bock, Co-CEO of Blackstone’s Business Development Companies (BDCs) and Global Head of Market Research for Blackstone Credit.

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JANUARY 6, 2025

Stock Business Summary Forward Dividend Yield 1. Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) One of the largest business development companies (BDCs) 8.65% 2. Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) A large financial services company providing banking and financial products 2.34% 3.

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JANUARY 23, 2024

For example, the nation's central bank is expected to cut interest rates three times in 2024. Not having the nation's central bank as a buyer of MBSs opens the door for Annaly to land more lucrative MBSs for its own asset portfolio. A number of factors are now working in the industry's favor. Image source: Getty Images.

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DECEMBER 28, 2024

That's because Ares is a business development company (BDC) that mainly focuses on paying high dividends to income-oriented investors. Let's review its business model, growth rates, and valuations to decide. It usually invests between $30 million and $500 million in debt and equity in each company.

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JANUARY 18, 2025

PennantPark Floating Rate Capital Direct lending between traditional banks and midsized American businesses hardly exists anymore. Instead, business development companies ( BDCs ) such as PennantPark Floating Rate Capital are raking in profits by originating relatively high-interest loans to capital-starved middle-market companies.

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DECEMBER 23, 2024

PennantPark Floating Rate Capital PennantPark Floating Rate Capital is a business development company ( BDC ) that lends to midsize companies, which U.S. banks are increasingly hesitant to lend to.

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