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DECEMBER 8, 2023

Ares Capital Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) ranks as the largest publicly traded business development company (BDC). It provides financing to middle-market businesses with a special focus on the upper end of this market. However, there are exceptions to the rule. Ares has roughly $395 billion in assets under management.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Ares Capital ranks as the largest publicly traded business development company (BDC). It provides financing to middle-market businesses. Delivering great total returns is something Ares Capital has consistently done, by the way.

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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. I suspect, though, that oil prices will hold up relatively well with recent production cuts announced by Saudi Arabia and Russia.

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JUNE 25, 2024

Ares Capital Ares Capital is a business development company ( BDC ) that offers a huge 9.3% Skyrizi and Rinvoq launched in 2019, but they've been so successful that AbbVie thinks that in 2027, they'll contribute more than $27 billion in combined annual sales. dividend yield at recent prices. over the past five years.

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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

Before you plow every penny you can find into these two stocks, it's important to remember that an especially high yield means the market is worried the underlying business can't continue meeting and raising its dividend commitment. Here's why these two stocks could be far less risky than their ultra-high dividend yields suggest.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Last year was the sixth in a row that the company added over 1 million new fiber subscribers. 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. at recent prices.

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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.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Ares Capital Ares Capital is the world's largest publicly traded business development company ( BDC ). Right now, Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) and PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (NYSE: PFLT) offer yields above 9%, and there's a pretty good chance that they'll be able to maintain their payouts over the long term.

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OCTOBER 21, 2024

Ares Capital Ares Capital is the world's largest publicly traded business development company, or BDC. Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) , and EPR Properties (NYSE: EPR) offer yields above 8% at recent prices. These specialty financiers fill the gap left by U.S.

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MAY 23, 2024

If you don't have enough capital to spread among dozens of qualified candidates, or a team of experienced analysts who can help you recognize potential winners, you would be more likely to lose your shirt by putting your money into such businesses than to realize significant gains over the long run.

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DECEMBER 23, 2024

This may be Wall Street's safest 11%-plus-yielding stock for 2025 Though there are well over 100 publicly traded companies currently yielding north of 10% on an annual basis, the one that could allow income seekers to sleep easy at night is little-known business development company (BDC) PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (NYSE: PFLT).

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JULY 13, 2023

Investors can pick up shares of Stag Industrial at a current-year core FFO per-share ratio of just over 16, a decent value for the company's fundamentals. in the third quarter of 2023.

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AUGUST 4, 2024

Ares Capital Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) is a leading business development company (BDC) that provides financing to middle-market businesses. Investing $100,000 in these seven high-yield dividend stocks could generate over $7,000 in annual passive income. Its forward dividend yield stands at nearly 9.2%.

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MAY 2, 2024

Anyone familiar with middle-market financing probably knows the company well, though. It's the largest publicly traded business development company (BDC) providing financing solutions to middle-market businesses. Ares Capital Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) might be the least well-known of my picks.

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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.

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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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APRIL 5, 2024

Ares Capital Ares Capital is America's largest publicly traded business development company ( BDC ). Management expects its roster of blockbuster cancer medicines to soar from five today to more than eight in just a few years.

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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. Despite challenges from an illicit e-vapor market, Altria Group reported adjusted earnings that rose 2.3% At recent prices, it offers a 9.5% dividend yield.

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DECEMBER 15, 2023

Business development companies (BDCs) can be a great source of dividend income, in part because they are required to pay out at least 90% of their taxable income each year as dividends. But portfolio construction requires balance, and one of the pillars of a well-diversified portfolio is dividend stocks.

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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. PennantPark Floating Rate Capital: An 11.2%

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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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MARCH 2, 2024

Ares Capital Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) is the largest publicly traded business development company (BDC). Investing $10,000 in each of these five ultra-high-yield dividend stocks could make you nearly $4,000 in annual passive income.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2024

The company's dividend yield of 9.49% would enable you to make well nearly $3,638 in passive income this year. Ares Capital offers such a high yield primarily because of its business structure. Of course, the company must generate plenty of income in the first place to have enough to pay dividends.

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AUGUST 13, 2023

This business development company (BDC) makes monthly payments, and it offers an eye-popping 11.3% PennantPark Floating Rate Capital If you don't like waiting three months between dividend payments, consider PennantPark Floating Rate Capital. NYSE: PFLT). yield at recent prices.

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OCTOBER 20, 2024

With equity stakes in successful businesses such as Palantir Technologies and Axsome Therapeutics , this business development company's ( BDC ) regular quarterly dividend has held steady or risen since 2009. That said, success for one can offset dozens of failures.

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DECEMBER 24, 2023

Ares Capital Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) ranks as the largest publicly traded business development company (BDC). Here are my four favorite ultra-high-yield dividend stocks to buy for 2024 (listed in alphabetical order).

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JUNE 27, 2023

The company needed 84% of the free cash flow it generated over the past year to meet its dividend commitment. yield Unlike the telecom stocks on this list, PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (NYSE: PFLT) is a business development company (BDC). 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. With its dividend yield of nearly 9.7%, this stock should generate more than $3,420 of annual income without you having to lift a finger.

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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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AUGUST 23, 2023

With a steadily growing telecom business, though, its payout could rise at a low single-digit percentage throughout your retirement years. PennantPark Floating Rate Capital PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (NYSE: PFLT) is a business development 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 ).

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JUNE 15, 2023

Now that some of that risk has been alleviated , the company has a pretty good chance to continue meeting its dividend obligation. Ares Capital: a 10.34% yield Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) is a business development company, or BDC.

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JUNE 14, 2023

Ares Capital: A 10.05% yield Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) is a business development company, or BDC. Ares Capital is essentially a lender to midsized companies that have a hard time getting the big banks to return their calls.

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