The Motley Fool

JANUARY 22, 2024

Ares Capital Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) is the largest publicly traded business development company (BDC) based on market cap. It provides financing to middle-market businesses with a focus on the upper tier of the market. The company's dividend yield is nearly 9.5%.

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Initial Public Offering Business Development Companies Capital Prospects 130

The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Ares Capital ranks as the largest publicly traded business development company (BDC). It provides financing to middle-market businesses that banks sometimes shun. Since its initial public offering in 2004, the stock's average annual total return tops 12%.

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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. Let's explore three BDCs that offer some juicy dividend yields and assess why now is as good a time as ever to scoop up some shares. HTGC price-to book-value; data by YCharts. Ares Capital: 9.3%

Leveraged Buyouts 130

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The Motley Fool

MAY 5, 2024

Hercules Capital Hercules Capital (NYSE: HTGC) is a business development company ( BDC ) that allows individual investors to take part in the previously elusive world of venture capital investing. For example, the BDC invested in Palantir a few years before its initial public offering ( IPO ) in 2020.

Venture Capital 130

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 25, 2023

Companies that regularly dole out a dividend to their shareholders tend to be profitable on a recurring basis, are time-tested, and can provide investors with transparent long-term growth outlooks. Including buybacks, it's returned nearly $50 billion to its shareholders since its initial public offering (IPO) in July 1998.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 15, 2023

While many different types of companies pay dividends, one of the more generous types is business development companies (BDCs). BDCs are required to pay out at least 90% of taxable income to shareholders in the form of a dividend. This provides the potential for an extra layer of return for its portfolio companies.

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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. Because BDCs are required to pay out at least 90% of their taxable income to shareholders each year.

Leveraged Buyouts 130

Leveraged Buyouts Due Diligence Initial Public Offering Exchange-Traded Funds 130

The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Though a 15% yield is typically viewed as unsustainable for most companies, Annaly has supported an average yield of around 10% over the past two decades and returned $25 billion to shareholders since its initial public offering in 1997. PennantPark Floating Rate Capital: 11.1%

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Debt Initial Public Offering Leveraging Capital 240

Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

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