The Motley Fool

JUNE 27, 2024

dividend yield Horizon Technology Finance (NASDAQ: HRZN) is comparable to Hercules in that it also specializes in high-yield term loans to technology and life-sciences businesses. There are many companies in need of capital or advisory services, but they are not big enough or deemed suitable by investment banks.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

With Hercules's dividend yield of 10.3%, the first one-third of the proposed $100,000 investment could yield $3,433 of dividend income for your portfolio. Image source: Getty Images Horizon Technology Finance: 10% dividend yield One of Hercules's biggest rivals is Horizon Technology Finance (NASDAQ: HRZN).

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Pension Pulse

JULY 11, 2024

“On things like NAV loans and margin loans, it’s just additional leverage and if things go against you, you can have a problem,” Stavros, KKR’s cohead of global private equity, said at the Berlin event. Many were acquired at the buyout boom’s zenith in 2021 and 2022, and often paid for by piling them up with floating-rate debt.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

And what was interesting was the first leveraged buyout of a public company happened when I was in graduate school. KLINSKY: In 1979, it was the first leveraged buyout of a public company. We had sold the family business, maybe buy another family business one day through a leveraged buyout. KLINSKY: Yeah.

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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 17, 2023

Lately, much attention has been lavished on Ares Capital, the unit created in 2004 to provide financing for middle-market acquisitions, recapitalizations, and leveraged buyouts. Perhaps so, but resentment among banks is bound to increase as Ares pushes into another lucrative domain of theirs — funding of leveraged buyouts.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Were you always thinking about going into finance? What, what was it that made you say, Hey, this finance thing looks like it’s fun and interesting? And that was very important because when this was the dawning of what is now a big analyst program across the country in all banks and investment banks.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

And it’s a, a reasonable way to do financing depending on what risk level the, the bar the lender wants to assume. The investment banks were stuck with syndications that they had committed to, to place in the markets with price caps on the, on the coupons. And, and there just is less competition from the banks.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

So, I graduated from business school in 1987 and went to GE Capital for two years, financing leveraged buyouts. When you were there, was it a financial engineering firm, or was it a more traditional credit finance firm? You know, GE Capital, you have to understand, like, investment banking was so hot then.

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