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APRIL 5, 2024

Ares Capital Ares Capital is America's largest publicly traded business development company ( BDC ). Management expects its roster of blockbuster cancer medicines to soar from five today to more than eight in just a few years.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Ares is a leading business development company ( BDC ) based in the U.S. As a direct lender, it supplies the capital that private companies need to fund and grow their operations. Ares typically serves established businesses with revenue of $10 million to $1 billion.

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Private Equity Wire

APRIL 16, 2024

Middle market credit performance outperformed Fitch’s expectations last year, although there are signs of more divergence in credit metrics for business development companies (BDCs). In response, Senior Director Lyle Margolis said some lenders are conceding on terms like pricing in order to maintain key relationships.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Ares Capital Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) is America's largest publicly traded business development company ( BDC ). Middle-market businesses generally have over $10 million in annual revenue, but they still can't get America's big banks to give them loans.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 22, 2024

A good source of consistent dividend income can be found in business development companies (BDCs), which are required to pay out at least 90% of taxable income each year to shareholders. Additionally, I'd encourage investors to look for reliable dividend payers to supplement some passive income for your portfolio.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 5, 2024

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. Despite challenges from an illicit e-vapor market, Altria Group reported adjusted earnings that rose 2.3% At recent prices, it offers a 9.5% dividend yield.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 13, 2023

Ares Capital Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) ranks as the largest publicly traded business development company (BDC) in the world. It provides alternative financing to middle-market companies across a wide range of industries. You can make $1,000 in annual income the easy way with these ultra-high-yield dividend stocks.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Business development companies (BDCs) can be a great source of dividend income, in part because they are required to pay out at least 90% of their taxable income each year as dividends. But portfolio construction requires balance, and one of the pillars of a well-diversified portfolio is dividend stocks.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 2, 2024

Ares Capital Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) is the largest publicly traded business development company (BDC). Investing $10,000 in each of these five ultra-high-yield dividend stocks could make you nearly $4,000 in annual passive income.

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The Motley Fool

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. Management expects earnings per share to rise 1% to 4% this year.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Ares Capital Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) ranks as the largest publicly traded business development company (BDC). Here are my four favorite ultra-high-yield dividend stocks to buy for 2024 (listed in alphabetical order).

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The Motley Fool

JULY 31, 2023

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. Business development companies (BDCs) have become increasingly attractive sources of capital for small-to-medium-sized businesses. Strong total returns.

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The Motley Fool

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. BDCs are required to pay out 90% of their taxable income to investors each year.

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The Motley Fool

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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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The new fund, which is structured as a perpetual-life business development company, will invest in both small and mid-sized firms, as well as distressed companies.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 23, 2024

None of these are companies you can directly invest in on your own. Publicly traded private equity firms aren't your only means of plugging into otherwise-uninvestable companies, however. A category of organizations called business development companies (or BDCs) can do the job too.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Ares Capital is organized as a business development company (BDC). 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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The Motley Fool

JULY 13, 2023

Investors can pick up shares of Stag Industrial at a current-year core FFO per-share ratio of just over 16, a decent value for the company's fundamentals. in the third quarter of 2023.

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The Motley Fool

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 ).

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The Motley Fool

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. I suspect, though, that oil prices will hold up relatively well with recent production cuts announced by Saudi Arabia and Russia.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 7, 2024

It's the largest publicly traded business development company (BDC). Here are my five top ultrahigh-yield dividend stocks to buy in April (listed alphabetically). Ares Capital Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) might be the best dividend stock many investors have never heard of. I think that's a mistake.

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Private Equity Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Centerbridge Partners and Wells Fargo & Company are entering into a strategic relationship to launch a new $5bn private credit fund which will primarily make senior secured loans to non-sponsor-backed middle-market firms in North America.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 7, 2024

These three stand out because their underlying businesses appear capable of meeting their current obligations and raising their yields higher in the years ahead. Hercules Capital Hercules Capital is a business development company ( BDC ) that allows anyone with a brokerage account to participate in exciting venture capital investments.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 27, 2023

Miller has been serving as an advisor to Emergent for several months, the company said. Miller is a veteran of the finance sector, having worked at entities such as merchant banks and business development companies, according to his LinkedIn page.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 13, 2023

This business development company (BDC) makes monthly payments, and it offers an eye-popping 11.3% PennantPark Floating Rate Capital If you don't like waiting three months between dividend payments, consider PennantPark Floating Rate Capital. NYSE: PFLT). yield at recent prices.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Ares Capital ranks as the largest publicly traded business development company (BDC). This, along with the company's diversified portfolio, means Ares Capital's investments are less risky -- which is good news for long-term investors. And you'll get a lot of bang for the buck with this stock.

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2023

At particular risk are unitranches, business development companies, older vintage funds with highly levered deals, and recurring revenue loans.” The report cites a note from Bank of America which stated: “Potential problematic situations within private debt remain unaddressed and are likely to surface near term.

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The Motley Fool

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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Private Equity Wire

MARCH 4, 2024

LeeKong also served as Vice Chairman of Global Credit, Chief Executive Officer of Business Development Companies (BDCs) and was a member of the firm’s private investment committee.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 5, 2023

yield PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (NYSE: PFLT) is a business development company (BDC), which is another type of entity that can avoid paying taxes by distributing nearly all its profits to shareholders as a dividend. PennantPark Floating Rate Capital: An 11.2%

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The Motley Fool

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% At this level, $1,510 is enough to secure $100 per year in dividend payments that could rise significantly in the years ahead. yield at recent prices.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 27, 2023

As a result, heaps of capital-starved companies with between $10 million and $1 billion in annual revenue are eager to accept relatively high-interest loans from business development companies (BDCs) like Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC). The average yield on total investments at cost rose to 11.2% in Q3 from 9.6%

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

A compelling business model Ares Capital's dividends and earnings growth are the end results of what I view as an exceptionally compelling business model. Ares ranks as the largest publicly traded business development company (BDC). Many banks have shied away from middle-market direct lending.

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The Motley Fool

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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The Motley Fool

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).

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Private Equity Wire

MARCH 20, 2024

While certain private credit funds are paused, the firm will still invest across vehicles including its business development company and other funds across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. We will continue to fund existing commitments.”

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The Motley Fool

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% yield at recent prices.

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