The Motley Fool

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%

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Private Equity Insights

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Centerbridge Partners and Wells Fargo & Company announced they are entering into a strategic relationship focused on direct lending to non-sponsor North American middle market companies. Overland Advisors is targeting a minimum of $5bn in investible capital, including $2.5bn in equity commitments for this strategy.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 17, 2024

But with so many opportunities out there, it's challenging to identify companies that both pay dividends and consistently perform at a high level. One good place to source ideas is to look at business development companies (BDCs). Horizon Technology Finance: Dividend yield 11.4% dividend yield.

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The Motley Fool

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). Should you invest in it today?

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 27, 2024

Business development companies (BDC) can be particularly good sources of dividend income, paying above market returns. dividend yield Horizon Technology Finance (NASDAQ: HRZN) is comparable to Hercules in that it also specializes in high-yield term loans to technology and life-sciences businesses.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

While many companies pay dividends, business development companies (BDCs) represent a unique and potentially lower-risk way of adding substantial passive income to your portfolio. Over the past decade, this company's stock has returned 152% to investors (with dividends reinvested).

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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 17, 2023

Lately, much attention has been lavished on Ares Capital, the unit created in 2004 to provide financing for middle-market acquisitions, recapitalizations, and leveraged buyouts. At the end of 2022, the weighted average EBITDA of Ares Capital’s portfolio companies reached $275 million.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Ares Capital is a leading business development company (BDC). It invests in and provides direct lending to middle-market businesses that generate annual revenue between $10 million and $1 billion. In the third quarter of 2024, the company's largest investment made up only 1.7% of its total portfolio. of the total.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 1, 2023

Churchill’s publicly registered business development company. Be sure to check out our Masters in Business next week with Aswath Damodaran, Professor of Finance at New York University’s Stern School of Business. All of our earlier podcasts on your favorite pod hosts can be found here.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 11, 2024

“It gets back to the ability to grow the operating performance of the companies and making sure that returns” come from that rather than from “financial leverage,” he tells Bloomberg. The amount of distressed debt owed by portfolio businesses of the 50 biggest PE firms has climbed 18% since mid-March to $42.7

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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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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 31, 2024

That borrowers can secure loans through several non-bank models provides a wider range of competitive financing sources that strengthens our financial system. Because they aren’t traded, private credit funds tend to be less volatile than their publicly traded counterparts, such as business development companies, or BDCs.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The Scheme is not subject to any financing condition. To meet the alternative credit needs of this segment, Centerbridge intends to launch Overland Advisors to manage a newly formed business development company that will be primarily focused on making senior secured loans.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

million in net debt, its net-leverage ratio is a modest 0.31. Furthermore, the company is slated to complete a number of projects in 2024, which should lead to considerably lower capital expenditures next year. Smaller, unproven companies usually have limited options when it comes to accessing traditional debt and credit markets.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

While this added protection does lower the yield Annaly receives on the MBSs it purchases, it also enables the company to prudently leverage its investments. This leverage allows Annaly to maximize its profit potential and sustain a double-digit yield. Lastly, the Treasury yield-curve inversion has lessened in recent months.

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