AINV News and Press, Apollo Investment Corporation From 07/01/20

NEW YORK, July 01, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Apollo Investment Corporation (NASDAQ: AINV) (the “Company”) announced today that it will report results for the quarter ended June 30, 2020, after market close on Thursday, August 6, 2020.  The Company will also host a confe...

NEW YORK, July 01, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Apollo Global Management, Inc. (NYSE: APO) (together with its consolidated subsidiaries “Apollo”) and Merx Aviation (“Merx”),  a global aircraft leasing, management and finance company, announced the completion by ...

Quick BDC Market Update As mentioned in previous articles, I was expecting Business Development Company ("BDC") pricing to pull back from recent highs for various reasons including profit-taking and a partial return to "risk-off" mode. Clearly the potential for additional or rene...

Focus of Article The focus of this two-part article is a very detailed analysis comparing Ares Capital (ARCC) to some of the company's business development company ("BDC") peers (all sector peers I currently cover). I am writing this two-part article due to the continued requests that such a...

Good morning and welcome to the last full week of the 2nd quarter. New virus cases are emerging in select states that never saw much contagion during peak-quarantine, and that is starting to show up in put/call ratios. It is becoming a question of the virus reemerging versus simply continuing ...

As we all know very well, the coronavirus has shut down economic activity across the world, impacting nearly all businesses, but hitting small businesses especially hard. This has had a direct effect on the balance sheets of business development companies (or BDCs for short). For the uniniti...

Focus of Article The focus of PART 1 of this article is to analyze Ares Capital Corp.'s ( ARCC ) recent results and compare a handful of the company's metrics to fourteen business development company ("BDC") peers. This analysis will show past and current data with supporting documentation w...

Business Development Companies ("BDCs") were created by Congress in 1980 to give investors an opportunity to invest in private small- and mid-sized U.S. companies typically overlooked by banks. The following slide from ARCC breaks out many of the requirements of the BDC/RIC structure inclu...

Investing in BDC Baby Bonds This article is part of a series discussing Business Development Company ("BDC") Baby Bonds (also known as exchange-traded debt) for investors who would like to limit the amount of overall risk and pricing volatility in exchange for lower yields. These article...

Markets remain fascinating and either detached from current economic reality or simply looking much more forward than they used to be. Eventually, stocks are not even in a bear market anymore despite the worst economy this century and mass-scale protests and riots gripping the U.S. While i...