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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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 4, 2024

PennantPark Floating Rate Capital: 10.17% yield A second high-yield stock capable of producing $100 in super safe monthly dividend income in 2024 from an initial investment of $11,925 (split three ways) is business development company (BDC) PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (NYSE: PFLT). and Realty Income wasn't one of them.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 25, 2023

What this added protection does is allow AGNC to deploy leverage to bolster its profits and sustain its juicy payout. Being debt-focused has three key advantages that help support the company's supercharged yield. million of the company's $950.3 The second advantage has to do with PennantPark protecting its invested capital.

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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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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

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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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 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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