The Motley Fool

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. per share in 2010, to the $0.40

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 8, 2024

Hercules Capital Hercules Capital is a business development company ( BDC ), which means it has to return at least 90% of the profits it generates to shareholders as a dividend. So far this year, two unnamed portfolio companies filed for initial public offerings ( IPOs ). per share.

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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.

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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). Hercules Technology Growth Capital (NYSE: HTGC) is a leading BDC that specializes in a vehicle called venture debt for life sciences, energy, and technology businesses.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 11, 2024

Private Grief Private markets — made up of PE firms who take stakes in companies, and private credit funds who lend to them — have ballooned since the turn of the millennium, expanding by 15 times according to a September report from the International Organization of Securities Commissions.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

a share deal comes after months of negotiations with the suitor, which slashed its initial $1.6 billion offer after Costa revealed underlying profit for the full year would take a $30 million hit due to unfavourable growing conditions. per cent stake in Costa on 25 October 2022. The approved $3.20

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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. Including its equity stakes, PennantPark's average investment size is only $8.1

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