The Motley Fool

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. This can require lots of effort when it comes to performing due diligence, and there's always the risk that you could be wrong.

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The Motley Fool

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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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

MARCH 6, 2024

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. Hercules Capital: 10.6%

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

However, the US investor has been involved in the Costa Group journey for much longer than that, having been a majority owner of the company prior to its 2015 initial public offering (IPO) on the ASX with its first equity stake acquired in 2011, back when its name was Paine + Partners. PSP had previously snared a 13.78

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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. PennantPark Floating Rate Capital: 11.1%

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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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