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Billionaires Are Buying Hercules Capital Left and Right. Is the High-Yield Dividend Stock Right for Your Portfolio?

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Would you like to invest in cutting-edge technology businesses while they are still in their start-up stages? Lending to tech start-ups is far too risky for individual investors, but not for an organization like Hercules Capital (NYSE: HTGC). This business development company ( BDC ) sports a portfolio worth about $3.6

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Is Hercules Capital the Best Dividend Stock for You?

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A little outfit called Hercules Capital (NYSE: HTGC) dishes them out in a big way. Shares of this business development company boast a trailing dividend yield of a little over 8%, in fact, and that's based on just its ordinary quarterly payout. How Hercules Capital is different. Data source: Hercules Capital.

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Is Ares Capital Stock a Buy?

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One such stock that has been attracting a lot of attention is Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) , which at its current share price yields a massive 8.9%. Why does Ares Capital pay such a high dividend? To mitigate that risk, Ares has spread its investments across 525 companies in over 30 different industries. at the end of this June.

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1 Ultra-High-Yield Dividend Stock You'll Want to Have on Your Radar as Rate Cuts Loom

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There are many types of businesses that could benefit from reductions in interest rates. In particular, I've been looking closely at business development companies ( BDCs ). What are business development companies? BDCs are pretty interesting. Well, not exactly.

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3 Ultra-High-Yield Dividend Stocks I'm Buying for Decades of Passive Income

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Ares Capital Few stocks offer a dividend as spectacular as Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC). As a business development company (BDC) , Ares must return at least 90% of its income to shareholders in the form of dividends for its profits to be exempt from taxes. The company's scale and reputation help.

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2 Unstoppable Dividend Stocks Yielding More Than 9% That Income-Seeking Investors Will Want to Buy in October and Hold Forever

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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. Ares Capital Ares Capital is the world's largest publicly traded business development company ( BDC ).

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This Completely Off-the-Radar Company Yielding 11.5% Might Be the Safest High-Octane Dividend Stock to Own in 2025

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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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