The Motley Fool

MAY 2, 2024

Time to pounce: PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (10.82% yield) A second ultra-high-yield dividend stock that's begging to be bought in May is off-the-radar business development company (BDC) PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (NYSE: PFLT). Image source: Getty Images.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 14, 2024

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. Because there are some prospective downsides. Like dividends? A little outfit called Hercules Capital (NYSE: HTGC) dishes them out in a big way. Think about it.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 17, 2023

Ares Capital Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) is the largest publicly traded business development company (BDC). Ares Capital appears to have solid growth prospects going forward as middle-market businesses increasingly turn to it to raise capital. Its dividend yield currently stands at a hair below 10%.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 23, 2024

A category of organizations called business development companies (or BDCs) can do the job too. Take Prospect Capital (NASDAQ: PSEC) as an example. All told, Prospect is working with over 100 different companies including Shutterfly, Staples, Credit.com, and playground equipment maker PlayPower.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

What current and prospective investors should be focused on is AT&T's steadily improving operating performance. Without getting overly complicated, BDCs seek to invest in the debt and/or equity (common and preferred stock) of middle-market businesses. Furthermore, any potential liabilities would likely be determined by the U.S.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The intimation is that the replacement of these cables, along with potential health-related liabilities, could be quite costly for telecom companies. Though these are real issues that prospective investors shouldn't sweep under the proverbial rug, they're not game changers for AT&T.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 2, 2024

Yet its prospects are brightening. Ares is a leading business development company (BDC). That attractive valuation isn't because the company's business is floundering. Sales in the most recent quarter were up a healthy 19% to $617 million. And its stock is dirt cheap, with shares trading at only 8.7

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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. While Verizon may not offer the tempting growth prospects of hot tech stocks, the company is best-in-breed when it comes to telecom providers. Hercules Capital: 10.6%

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

The business development company (BDC) offers a dividend yield of more than 9.6%. Bright prospects ahead The future looks bright for Ares Capital as well. The company expects greater deal activity in 2024 than it saw last year. Over the long run, the stock's total returns have handily beaten the S&P 500.

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Private Equity Wire

APRIL 16, 2024

While the prospect of increased regulation kept banks largely on the sidelines last year, Managing Director Meghan Neenan noted that banks had become more active in recent months as seen with several bank/non-bank partnerships of late.

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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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The Motley Fool

APRIL 7, 2024

It's the largest publicly traded business development company (BDC). Enterprise's growth prospects look good, too. is a leading exporter of NGLs, which should keep Enterprise's pipelines and other midstream assets busy. Here are my five top ultrahigh-yield dividend stocks to buy in April (listed alphabetically).

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 28, 2024

However, it's the largest publicly traded business development company (BDC) in the U.S. The company could even have better long-term growth prospects than many think with its major investments in carbon capture and storage. Ares Capital You might not be familiar with Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC).

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 25, 2024

Ares Capital Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) is the largest publicly traded business development company (BDC). The company provides financing to middle-market businesses with a special focus on the upper end of that market. The company has also increased its distribution for 25 consecutive years.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 18, 2023

That yield is so high in large part because Ares is a business development company (BDC). BDCs provide financing to small-to-medium-sized businesses. The company's growth prospects also look promising with businesses turning to BDCs as access to credit has tightened.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 28, 2024

It's an interesting income-generating prospect all the same, currently yielding right around 10%. The VanEck BDC Income ETF holds nothing but business development companies , or BDCs for short. Their business, however, is providing capital to up-and-coming companies that usually aren't publicly traded.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 11, 2024

To clear a path for a potential initial public offering that could come as early as 2026, prospective advisers have suggested pushing this debt up into the holding company or getting cash from a pre-IPO investor, the same people say. They took on heavy debts when buying TK Elevator including a roughly €2 billion ($2.1

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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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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

As a business development company (BDC) , it returns at least 90% of profits to shareholders like me in the form of dividends to be exempt from federal income taxes. I'm especially upbeat about Dominion Energy's prospects because of its data center opportunity. The company is headquartered in Virginia.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 29, 2025

But with the business development company (BDC) offering an ultra-high forward yield of 8.6% The stock looks even cheaper when you factor in its growth prospects: Its price/earnings-to-growth (PEG) ratio is a low 0.61, according to LSEG. at the current share price, who can blame me? Pfizer's shares trade at roughly 8.7

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 6, 2025

Stock Business Summary Forward Dividend Yield 1. Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) One of the largest business development companies (BDCs) 8.65% 2. Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) A large financial services company providing banking and financial products 2.34% 3. However, many might not know much about Ares Capital.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 19, 2025

Ares Capital is a business development company (BDC). Several of the company's drugs will lose patent protection over the next few years. I like Pfizer's prospects over the second half of the decade, though. I think doing so might be one of the best investments you can make, especially if you're looking for income.

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