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MAY 23, 2024

If you don't have enough capital to spread among dozens of qualified candidates, or a team of experienced analysts who can help you recognize potential winners, you would be more likely to lose your shirt by putting your money into such businesses than to realize significant gains over the long run. per share in 2010, to the $0.40

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MAY 5, 2024

This steadfast dividend stock is offering you a generous 9% yield today. As the largest publicly traded business development company ( BDC ) in the U.S., Ares provides private companies with the cash they need to expand. billion portfolio held debt and equity positions in 505 businesses as of Dec.

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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. The company specializes in an instrument called venture debt -- or loans made at high interest rates.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 20, 2024

One type of business that income-focused investors might have come across is the business development company (BDC) , which invests in the debt and equity of middle-market companies. And about 96% of its debt investments are at floating rates. About 96% of its debt portfolio is floating rate.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Though a 15% yield is typically viewed as unsustainable for most companies, Annaly has supported an average yield of around 10% over the past two decades and returned $25 billion to shareholders since its initial public offering in 1997. million in debt securities. PennantPark Floating Rate Capital: 11.1%

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 25, 2023

PennantPark Floating Rate Capital: 11.75% yield A second ultra-high-yield dividend stock that can provide $200 in super safe annual-dividend income from an initial investment of just $1,750 (split equally, three ways) is under-the-radar business development company (BDC) PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (NYSE: PFLT).

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The Motley Fool

MAY 5, 2024

Hercules Capital Hercules Capital (NYSE: HTGC) is a business development company ( BDC ) that allows individual investors to take part in the previously elusive world of venture capital investing. For example, the BDC invested in Palantir a few years before its initial public offering ( IPO ) in 2020.

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