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MAY 31, 2024

AI hyperscaler CoreWeave, which operates data centres in the US, has secured a $7.5bn debt financing facility led by funds managed by Blackstone with participation from Magnetar as co-lead investor, as well as Coatue Management. The company also recently opened its headquarters in London and said it planned to invest $1.25bn in the region.

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Private Equity Insights

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Paris-based alternative investment firm Anaxago Capital’s first fund dedicated to the decarbonisation of European assets, AxClimat I, made its first investment in Vidia Equity’s oversubscribed Vidia Climate Fund I, which closed last month at its €415m hard cap. billion in the month of January, marking a 15 per.

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OCTOBER 28, 2024

It's a relatively small real estate investment trust (REIT) focused on investing in the long-term healthcare industry. It invests in skilled nursing and assisted living facilities operated by other healthcare companies. The healthcare REIT's investments have paid big dividends for its investors throughout the years.

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MAY 7, 2024

At recent prices, Hercules Capital (NYSE: HTGC) , Altria Group (NYSE: MO) , and AT&T (NYSE: T) offer an average yield of 8.5% That's high enough to turn an initial investment of $5,890 into $500 of annual dividend income. For example, Hercules invested in Palantir Technologies a few years before it began trading publicly.

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Private Equity Professional

APRIL 8, 2025

Trive Capital held a final and above-target close of its fifth flagship fund, Trive Capital Fund V LP , with total capital commitments of $2.7 billion in capital. Trive Capital was founded in 2012 by Managing Partner Conner Searcy and Partner Chris Zugaro and is headquartered in Dallas.

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DECEMBER 3, 2023

Invest $106,000 in these three high-yield dividend stocks. Ares Capital Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) looks like a great target for one-third of your $106,000 upfront amount. Ares Capital provides financing to the upper end of the middle market. Instead, it's organized as a real estate investment trust (REIT).

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

One of the best aspects of putting your money to work on Wall Street is that a variety of investment styles can succeed. If you want $300 in super safe annual dividend income, simply invest $3,075 (split equally, three ways) into the following three ultra-high-yield energy stocks, which sport an average yield of 9.77%!

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APRIL 20, 2024

If you have just $100 available to invest, you could buy shares of both Altria Group (NYSE: MO) , and AT&T (NYSE: T). billion of net debt on AT&T's balance sheet at the end of 2023 is concerning, but the company's efforts to reduce it have been encouraging. Net debt fell to 2.97 Image source: Getty Images.

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JULY 21, 2024

The GSA Capital purchase GSA added 1,889 shares of Norwegian in the first quarter of 2024, taking the total to 21,922 shares. Nonetheless, investors should understand that this is not a new position for the investment management company, and its trading behavior is difficult for outsiders to understand. Still, it faces almost $1.6

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

As a result, heaps of well-run midsize businesses are starving for capital and willing to pay eye-popping interest rates. In the second quarter, the average yield on debt securities in Ares Capital's portfolio was 12.2% As a well-established BDC, it has a fairly low cost of capital. of total investments at cost.

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AUGUST 18, 2023

The last decade has been tough at times If you'd invested $10,000 into Southern 10 years ago, that investment would be worth a little under $16,000 today, looking at the stock price performance. However, utilities are generally expected to be slow and steady investments, usually with a heavy emphasis on dividends.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2024

If you’re worried you’ve already missed your chance to invest, now is the best time to buy before it’s too late. And the numbers speak for themselves: Amazon: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2010, you’d have $23,657 !* Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, you’d have $43,034 !*

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DECEMBER 19, 2024

Should you invest $1,000 in Lennar right now? if you invested $1,000 at the time of our recommendation, youd have $790,028 !* debt to total capital ratio. This enabled Lennar to acquire with a limited investment and producing a high return enabled by the Millrose platform. We ended the quarter with $4.7

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JUNE 20, 2023

One of the more surprising stories in investing is the struggles of Verizon (NYSE: VZ) , only one of three U.S. In past decades, slowly evolving technology didn't necessitate heavy capital investments. Verizon had a cost of debt of $4 billion in 2022. companies providing nationwide wireless service.

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AUGUST 25, 2024

However, the shares remain 35% below their 2020 highs, and the dividend isn't expected to be increased for a little while as management focuses on paying down debt. The cash from the sale is expected to be used to pay down debt and invest in the business. For dividend investors, the first big step is going to be debt reduction.

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JUNE 23, 2023

It's a great industry to invest in, but there is one logical problem with it: Historically, airlines don't actually cover their cost of capital. The former is simply the profits generated from the capital invested in the business, while the latter is the weighted cost of its equity and debt. Global $26.4

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APRIL 11, 2024

Not only does the MLP earn an investment-grade rating, but its ratio of debt to earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) of 3.1 EPD financial debt to EBITDA (TTM); data by YCharts; TTM = trailing 12 months. billion worth of capital investment projects.

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Private Equity Professional

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Sun Capital invests from $50 million to $300 million in leveraged buyouts, equity, and debt in companies with more than $32 million in EBITDA that can benefit from its in-house operating professionals and experience. Sectors of interest include business services, consumer, healthcare, industrial, and technology.

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JANUARY 4, 2024

Chevron also has one of the strongest balance sheets in the sector, with a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.12 This is vital because it allows management to take on debt during industry downturns to keep funding the business and the dividend. CVX Debt to Equity Ratio data by YCharts 2. The yield is around 4% today. population.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

For many years, there were a lot of opportunities for midstream companies to grow, and investors were happily willing to help finance that via the equity and debt markets. Today, most of the best investment opportunities for new projects have been exploited. In 2023, capital spending is projected to be around $2.3

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JULY 26, 2024

Last year, the investment advisors at Hartford Funds published a report that examined the numerous ways dividend stocks have outperformed non-payers over the last 50 years (1973-2023). Three years of reduced capital investment by global energy majors during the COVID-19 pandemic has helped to lift the spot price of crude oil.

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AUGUST 4, 2024

One of the problems with investing in a certain style, like dividend investing, is that you'll end up owning a lot of stocks from the same sectors. Like all utilities, WEC Energy's business is capital intensive and, thus, it tends to make heavy use of debt. Higher rates will make it more costly to service that debt.

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JANUARY 12, 2024

The entire utility sector has been dealing with the impact of rising interest rates, which make alternative income investments like a certificate of deposit (CD) more attractive. More specific to Black Hills, however, rising rates increased the utility's debt costs. That somewhere was its capital spending budget.

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DECEMBER 8, 2023

This was done because management had to choose between paying the dividend or putting money to work in capital investment projects that would grow the company. KMI Financial Debt to EBITDA (TTM) data by YCharts That said, a part of the problem was Kinder Morgan's more aggressive use of leverage than its peers'.

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APRIL 20, 2024

A look Chevron's balance sheet shows that its debt-to-equity ratio of 0.12 More customers means more revenue and more opportunity for regulator-approved capital investments. The big story is that the cost-cutting, streamlining, and debt reduction efforts are going to start bearing fruit in 2024. per share to $4.50

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AUGUST 10, 2023

million bad-debt expense in the second quarter related to the bankruptcy, which hurt GAAP earnings. PubMatic owns and operates its own infrastructure, so it can scale down investments when business slows to preserve cash. The company had cash and investments of $171 million at the end of the second quarter, with no debt.

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Private Equity Professional

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Monomoy Capital Partners makes control investments of debt and equity in companies with $20 million to $100 million of EBITDA. billion of capital. billion of capital. Wynnchurch Capital invests in businesses with revenues between $50 million and $1 billion.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Avoiding the need to tap the capital markets The most prominent benefit for miners from working with Wheaton, or peers like Royal Gold (NASDAQ: RGLD) and Franco-Nevada (NYSE: FNV) , is that they don't have to sell stock or issue debt. The payment it made covered around 78% of the capital investment Vale was making in the Salobo mine.

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AUGUST 4, 2023

Here are some near-term and long-term reasons to like this income investment. Black Hills is out of favor at the moment, partly because it is pulling back on capital spending this year so it can focus on debt reduction. However, it can provide a nice cornerstone investment to a broadly diversified income portfolio.

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AUGUST 4, 2024

Kinder Morgan has done a good job of balancing investments and financial discipline. It has continued to reduce its leverage and now plans to finish the year with a net debt-to-adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) ratio of just 3.9. Should you invest $1,000 in Kinder Morgan right now?

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MARCH 28, 2025

If you have $2,000 in cash (or any amount really) available to invest and you like the idea of owning reliable dividend stocks, you should be looking at Dividend Kings Nucor (NYSE: NUE) , Black Hills (NYSE: BKH) , and Stanley Black & Decker (NYSE: SWK) right now. Where to invest $1,000 right now? Where to invest $1,000 right now?

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JULY 7, 2023

For the better part of six decades, Warren Buffett, the billionaire CEO of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) , has been dazzling Wall Street with his investing prowess. For decades, he's discussed how he qualifies his investments and laid out other intangible factors that may work into his investment process.

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JANUARY 7, 2024

It recently flexed those muscles by raising $2 billion in low-cost debt. Capitalizing on its cost of capital advantage Enterprise Products Partners took care of its 2024 funding needs early. (At The midstream giant will use some of that money to refinance its lone 2024 debt maturity ($850 million of 3.9% It had about $3.8

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AUGUST 10, 2023

The optical transceiver market has been competitive and highly cyclical, with telecom operators under pressure and therefore making inconsistent capital investments. One, Infinera does have a notable debt load of $683 million against $165 million in cash. As of July 31, about 18.5%

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Private Equity Professional

JANUARY 23, 2025

The company is a market leader in higher education, strategically positioned to capitalize on the broader growth trends within the technology services industry. We have closely tracked the companys success for several years given our investment activity within the education vertical and firmwide focus on tech-enabled service business models.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Surging interest rates have made lower-risk investment options like government bonds and bank CDs more attractive. This capital investment involves the construction of two large-scale nuclear power plants. Some of that money will probably go to debt reduction and some to other capital investment projects.

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JULY 14, 2024

It doesn't have a great track record for investing its capital efficiently As an investor, it's important to know whether a business is going to make good use of the capital it has on hand, as well as the capital it can draw on in the form of debt and shareholders' equity.

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