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Last year was the sixth in a row that the company added over 1 million new fiber subscribers. This is a business development company ( BDC ), which means it can legally avoid paying income taxes by distributing nearly all its profits to shareholders as a dividend. at recent prices. year over year.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Brand loyalty is strong enough that the company was able to raise prices on Marlboros and limit the losses. In 2023, smokable product revenue fell just 1.6%, net of excise taxes. With additional sales of nonsmokable products, Altria reported revenue net of excise taxes that fell just 0.9%

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APRIL 5, 2024

Ares Capital Ares Capital is America's largest publicly traded business development company ( BDC ). These specialized entities are popular among income-seeking investors because they can legally avoid paying income taxes by distributing at least 90% of their earnings to shareholders. dividend yield.

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OCTOBER 20, 2024

With equity stakes in successful businesses such as Palantir Technologies and Axsome Therapeutics , this business development company's ( BDC ) regular quarterly dividend has held steady or risen since 2009. To compensate for lumpy cash flows, it also declares a supplemental dividend each year.

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JUNE 15, 2023

As a REIT, Medical Properties Trust can avoid paying income taxes by distributing at least 90% of earnings to shareholders as dividends. It gets hospital operators to sign long-term net leases that transfer responsibility for variable costs of building ownership (such as maintenance and taxes) to the tenant. and nine other countries.

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JULY 27, 2023

Ares Capital Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) is a large business development company (BDC) that essentially acts as a lender to many of the midsized businesses that large banks tend to ignore. Like BDCs, REITs can avoid paying income taxes by distributing nearly all their earnings to investors as a dividend.

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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). Image source: Getty Images.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Ares Capital Corporation: Ultra-high yield and mild growth Ares Capital Corporation (NASDAQ: ARCC) is a business development company ( BDC ), which means it can avoid paying income taxes by delivering at least 90% of its earnings to investors as a dividend. At recent prices, Ares Capital offers a huge 10.1%

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

The company is on pace to achieve a net debt-to-adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) ratio in the 2.5 PennantPark Floating Rate Capital PenantPark Floating Rate Capital (NYSE: PFLT) is a business development company ( BDC ) that offers investors a huge 10.9%

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JUNE 25, 2024

Ares Capital Ares Capital is a business development company ( BDC ) that offers a huge 9.3% Ares Capital and its BDC peers are essentially lenders to misize businesses that are too big for small-business loans but too small for consideration by a traditional American bank. dividend yield at recent prices.

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APRIL 28, 2024

The kicker: The iShares Core High Dividend ETF is very tax efficient. But simply owning a fund can create taxable events, even if you don't sell that fund in a particular tax year. If this fund isn't held in a tax-protected account like an IRA, you may end up owing taxes on these gains. A word of warning here.

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AUGUST 3, 2024

Ares Capital Corporation Ares Capital is a business development company, or BDC. Income-seeking investors like these types of businesses because they can legally avoid federal income taxes by distributing nearly everything they earn to shareholders as a dividend. over the past five years.

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APRIL 16, 2024

Hercules Capital Hercules Capital is a business development company ( BDC ) that lets everyday investors get in on the ground floor with innovative tech and life science businesses. Its investments include a mixed bag of successful companies, including Axsome Therapeutics , Palantir Technologies , and Transmedics Group.

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JANUARY 6, 2024

The company expects to achieve a manageable net debt-to-adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA) ratio of 2.5 Ares Capital Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) is a business-development company ( BDC ) that offers a huge 9.4% in the first half of 2025. yield at recent prices.

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AUGUST 10, 2024

REITs are also required to pay at least 90% of their taxable income as dividends to maintain a favorable tax rate. Gladstone Investment Gladstone Investment is a business development company ( BDC ) that mainly offers loans to smaller, midsize, and mature companies.

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MAY 4, 2024

Ares Capital Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) is America's largest business development company ( BDC ). These tax-advantaged entities are popular among income-seeking investors because they must distribute at least 90% of their profits to investors as a dividend. At recent prices, Ares Capital offers an eye-popping 9.2%

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NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Ares Capital Ares Capital is the world's largest publicly traded business development company ( BDC ). These specialized entities fill the gap left by big banks that no longer lend directly to most businesses.

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DECEMBER 24, 2023

Ares Capital Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) ranks as the largest publicly traded business development company (BDC). To be exempt from paying federal taxes, BDCs must return at least 90% of their income to shareholders in the form of dividends.

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JUNE 23, 2024

The company hasn't raised the payout since slashing it a couple of years ago, and at recent prices, the telecom stock offers a 6.1% At the end of March, the company's net debt level was 2.9 times the adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) it generated over the past 12 months.

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JULY 18, 2024

Main Street Capital Another stock that pays a monthly dividend is Main Street Capital (NYSE: MAIN) , which is a business development company (BDC) that invests in the debt and equity of lower-middle-market companies.

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OCTOBER 22, 2024

yield The second magnificent ultra-high-yield dividend stock that can be bought with confidence right now is little-known business development company (BDC) PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (NYSE: PFLT). PennantPark Floating Rate Capital: 10.4%

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FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Ares Capital Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) is a business development company ( BDC ), which means it lends to companies that are too big for small business loans but still too small to work with large banks.

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DECEMBER 3, 2023

It's a business development company (BDC) that's required to distribute at least 90% of its income to shareholders in the form of dividends to be exempt from federal taxes. With its dividend yield of nearly 9.7%, this stock should generate more than $3,420 of annual income without you having to lift a finger.

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MARCH 2, 2024

Ares Capital Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) is the largest publicly traded business development company (BDC). Like BDCs, REITs must return at least 90% of their earnings to shareholders in the form of dividends to be exempt from federal income taxes. The real estate capital that IIP provides is critical to U.S.

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OCTOBER 15, 2024

Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) and PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (NYSE: PFLT) are a pair of well-manged business development companies (BDCs) that offer eye-popping dividend yields. banks have been increasingly hesitant to lend to businesses directly for decades. Ares Capital is the world's largest publicly traded BDC.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2024

The company's dividend yield of 9.49% would enable you to make well nearly $3,638 in passive income this year. Ares Capital offers such a high yield primarily because of its business structure. Of course, the company must generate plenty of income in the first place to have enough to pay dividends.

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AUGUST 12, 2024

Hercules Capital Hercules Capital is a business development company that makes heaps of minor investments in a variety of technology and life sciences businesses.

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OCTOBER 19, 2024

telecom businesses with a nationwide 5G network, investors can also look forward to steady gains over the long run. PennantPark Floating Rate Capital PennantPark Floating Rate Capital is a business development company ( BDC ) that lends to mid-market companies earning between $10 million and $50 million annually.

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JANUARY 19, 2024

Ares Capital Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) is a business development company ( BDC ). This means it's a specialized lender to businesses that are too big for a government-backed, small-business loan but still too small to get a large American bank to pick up the phone.

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AUGUST 23, 2023

With a steadily growing telecom business, though, its payout could rise at a low single-digit percentage throughout your retirement years. PennantPark Floating Rate Capital PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (NYSE: PFLT) is a business development company.

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JUNE 27, 2023

yield Unlike the telecom stocks on this list, PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (NYSE: PFLT) is a business development company (BDC). These specialized investment vehicles can avoid paying income taxes by distributing at least 90% of earnings to shareholders as a dividend. PennantPark Floating Rate Capital: An 11.7%

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JUNE 14, 2023

Ares Capital: A 10.05% yield Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) is a business development company, or BDC. These specialized investment vehicles can avoid paying income taxes by distributing at least 90% of their profits to shareholders.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Selling off its media assets helped reduce AT&T's debt load, but the company was still sitting on $132 billion in net debt at the end of June. the amount of adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) that management expects this year. That works out to about 3.1x adjusted EBITDA.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

PennantPark Floating Rate Capital PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (NYSE: PFLT) is a business development company (BDC), which means it legally avoids paying income taxes by distributing at least 90% of profits to investors as a dividend.

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APRIL 7, 2024

It's the largest publicly traded business development company (BDC). As a BDC, Ares Capital must return at least 90% of its income to shareholders as dividends to be exempt from federal taxes. The company continues to generate plenty of income to return as evidenced by its dividend yield of nearly 9.4%.

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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%. The company's dividend yield is nearly 9.5%.

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AUGUST 10, 2024

PennantPark Floating Rate Capital PennantPark Floating Rate Capital is a business development company (BDC). For decades, America's largest banks have stepped back from lending directly to mid-sized businesses. times their interest expenses.

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