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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. Its average deposit balance of $1.9

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JUNE 14, 2023

Ares Capital: A 10.05% yield Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) is a business development company, or BDC. Ares Capital is essentially a lender to midsized companies that have a hard time getting the big banks to return their calls. This BDC's costs of capital are rising too, but not quite as fast.

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JANUARY 7, 2024

Stock Business Summary Dividend Yield 12. Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) Leading business development company (BDC) 9.4% Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) Large financial services company 2.8% Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) Large financial services company 2.9% Data source: Company websites, Google Finance.

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APRIL 5, 2024

Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) , Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) , and Realty Income (NYSE: O) are dividend-paying stocks that offer above-average yields. Ares Capital Ares Capital is America's largest publicly traded business development company ( BDC ). At recent prices, Ares Capital offers a big 9.3%

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JANUARY 19, 2024

Less competition from the illicit e-cigarette market means investors can reasonably expect this company's earnings and dividend payouts to continue climbing for years to come. Ares Capital Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) is a business development company ( BDC ). Shares of Ares Capital offer investors a huge 9.5%

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

"These projects provide visibility to new sources of cash flow for the partnership for this year and beyond," co-CEO Jim Teague said in the company's fourth-quarter earnings release. Ares Capital If you'd like to earn even more dividend income from your investments, consider Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC). Ares spread its $22.9

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FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The businesses underlying AT&T (NYSE: T) , Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) , and Altria Group (NYSE: MO) have what they need to meet their dividend commitments and raise them further. Last year was the sixth in a row that the company added over 1 million new fiber subscribers. at recent prices. This figure peaked at 1.3%

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MARCH 17, 2024

But with so many opportunities out there, it's challenging to identify companies that both pay dividends and consistently perform at a high level. One good place to source ideas is to look at business development companies (BDCs). Hercules Capital: Dividend yield 10.5% Ares Capital: Dividend yield 9.2%

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JANUARY 31, 2024

AIMCo CEO Evan Siddall wrote an op-ed for the Globe and Mail stating ‘shadow banks’ aren’t a problem for the financial system – they are the solution: During the Great Financial Crisis of 2008-09, society paid a heavy price for having allowed financial institutions to become “too big to fail.”

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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. Ares Capital has a 14-year track record of delivering stable quarterly dividends.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Acquiring properties that you rent to others is a popular one, but acquiring rental properties often requires more capital than most investors are prepared to commit. Ares Capital Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) is America's largest publicly traded business development company ( BDC ). as of Sept.

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MARCH 2, 2024

Ares Capital Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) is the largest publicly traded business development company (BDC). The BDC industry has grown significantly because many banks have shied away from these opportunities. The real estate capital that IIP provides is critical to U.S.

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MAY 7, 2024

Investors eager to bulk up their passive income streams can do so without breaking the bank. At recent prices, Hercules Capital (NYSE: HTGC) , Altria Group (NYSE: MO) , and AT&T (NYSE: T) offer an average yield of 8.5% Many of Hercules Capital's investments will fail, but winners like Palantir more than offset the losses.

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MARCH 5, 2024

At recent prices, shares of Altria Group (NYSE: MO) , Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) , and AT&T (NYSE: T) offer an average yield of 8.5%. Ares Capital Ares Capital is America's largest business development company (BDC), which essentially means it's a lender for mid-market businesses throughout America.

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APRIL 28, 2024

Let's break down five companies that are established dividend payers, and assess why holding each of these stocks over a long-term time horizon can lead to massive gains for your portfolio. Hercules Capital Hercules Capital (NYSE: HTGC) is a business development company (BDC). Given the company's 7.1%

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DECEMBER 3, 2023

Ares Capital Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) looks like a great target for one-third of your $106,000 upfront amount. How can Ares Capital pay such a juicy dividend yield? Ares Capital stands out from most BDCs, though. More importantly, the company has a more stringent risk management approach than most of its peers.

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JANUARY 5, 2024

One of the best ways to create wealth is by investing in companies that pay a dividend. While many different types of companies pay dividends, business development companies (BDCs) represent a unique opportunity. Hercules Capital: 11.5% Ares Capital: 9.6% The company's 9.6%

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JULY 31, 2023

Ares Capital Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) offers a dividend yield of nearly 9.7%. The company has paid a stable-to-growing dividend for 56 consecutive quarters. Ares Capital has handily outperformed the S&P 500 since the company's IPO in 2004 as well as over the last three-year and fie-year periods.

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DECEMBER 17, 2023

Ares Capital If you take one-third of an initial $123,500 and buy shares of Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) , you should make a little over $4,000 in passive income next year. That's because Ares Capital's dividend yield stands at 9.73%. I think you can safely bank on that dividend payout at least staying at the current level.

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MARCH 23, 2024

But the company's very biggest holdings, like Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) , Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) , American Express (NYSE: AXP) , and Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO) , are at best merely keeping up with the S&P 500, or at worst severely lagging it. A category of organizations called business development companies (or BDCs) can do the job too.

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APRIL 22, 2024

The capital markets have gotten off to a red-hot start in 2024. While a small cohort of megacap-technology companies collectively known as the " Magnificent Seven " have played a big role in the market's upward movements, the excitement surrounding artificial intelligence has spread to small and mid-cap technology enterprises as well.

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DECEMBER 27, 2023

Ares Capital Ever since the Great Recession , America's largest banks mostly stopped lending to middle-market companies regardless of their ability to generate cash and make interest payments. In the third quarter, 69% of Ares Capital's portfolio was earning interest at floating rates that grew significantly.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Ally Financial Ally Financial (NYSE: ALLY) is an online-only bank. The company offers all the services you'd expect from any traditional bank, including checking and savings accounts, credit cards , investing, and a wide array of loans. Bancorp It's another bank, but U.S. The capital markets business comes to mind.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2023

In an effort to combat historically high inflation that briefly surpassed an annualized rate of 9% in June 2022, the nation's central bank has raised its federal funds rate at the fastest pace in more than four decades. One of the biggest tailwinds for Annaly Capital Management is the Fed's quantitative tightening measures.

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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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JANUARY 23, 2024

Annaly Capital Management: 13.47% yield The first supercharged dividend stock I'm gladly accepting outsized quarterly payments from is mortgage real estate investment trust (REIT) Annaly Capital Management (NYSE: NLY). For example, the nation's central bank is expected to cut interest rates three times in 2024.

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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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DECEMBER 4, 2023

PennantPark Floating Rate Capital PenantPark Floating Rate Capital (NYSE: PFLT) is a business development company ( BDC ) that offers investors a huge 10.9% America's BDCs exist to finance middle-market businesses that the country's biggest banks tend to ignore. PennantPark Floating Rate Capital's $1.1

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FEBRUARY 27, 2024

While many companies pay dividends, business development companies (BDCs) represent a unique and potentially lower-risk way of adding substantial passive income to your portfolio. Hercules Capital: 10.3% In exchange for capital, founders will give up equity in their company. Ares Capital: 9.6%

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The company has raised its dividend payout for 17 straight years. Steady cash flow generation and declining capital expenditures suggest its debt load will be manageable. Like most BDCs, PennantPark lends to middle-market companies that can't get the attention they want from bigger banks. Shares of Verizon offer a huge 7.7%

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JULY 9, 2023

Ares Capital Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) reigns as the largest publicly traded business development company (BDC). It provides financing primarily to middle-market businesses. With Ares Capital's dividend yield above 10.1% With Ares Capital's dividend yield above 10.1% midstream energy market.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

There's a pretty good chance you've never heard of Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC). With a market cap of under $12 billion, Ares Capital is still small enough that it can fly under the radar screens of many investors. However, I think that Ares Capital deserves a hard look, especially for income investors. yielding dividend stock."

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DECEMBER 16, 2023

PennantPark Floating Rate Capital Ever since the Great Recession , large American banks subject to stricter regulations have been hesitant to lend to middle-market businesses. As its name implies, PennantPark Floating Rate Capital is a lender that almost always lends at variable interest rates.

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MARCH 6, 2024

Hercules Capital: 10.6% dividend yield Hercules Capital (NYSE: HTGC) is a business development company (BDC) that specializes in providing capital to venture-backed start-ups. Hercules is different from a typical bank as it tends to offer more flexible financing options. Ares Capital: 9.5%

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JANUARY 6, 2024

As one of three giant telecom businesses in America, there's a very good chance that rising broadband revenues will allow it to keep raising that payout for at least another decade. Ares Capital Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) is a business-development company ( BDC ) that offers a huge 9.4%

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MARCH 28, 2024

Realty Income completed the acquisition of Spirit Realty Capital in January for $9.3 A BDC is a business that invests its capital into the equity (common and/or preferred stock) or debt of middle-market companies -- i.e., generally unproven micro- and small-cap businesses. billion, as well. billion in secured debt.

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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. lags only narrowly behind Ares Capital.

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