CGBD News and Press, TCG BDC Inc. From 10/11/19

NEW YORK, Oct. 11, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TCG BDC, Inc. (“TCG BDC”) (NASDAQ: CGBD) will host a conference call at 8:30 a.m. EST on Wednesday, November 6, 2019 to announce its third quarter 2019 financial results. A news release containing the quarterly results will be i...

Commentary In the third quarter there were two FED rate declines each 1/4 point. There is still no trade agreement with China and a meeting has been set for mid-October. The threat of a presidential impeachment provides plenty of uncertainty in the political arena and the market will respo...

As predicted in previous articles, business development companies ("BDC") continue to outperform the overall markets in 2019 with an average total return of around 22%. However, there is a wide range of results, and I will briefly discuss some of the reasons why as well as compare to the retur...

With September almost in the rear view mirror I briefly took a look at the stock market's performance (month to date) to see how the "September Effect" has played out for 2019. For those of you whom are not familiar with the September Effect is typically a drop-off in the Dow, S&P and NASD...

Source: TCG Check out Williams Equity Research's ("WER") June 2019 article for a deep dive into TCG BDC Inc's ( CGBD ) Q1's results and the firm's background, including Carlyle's ( CG ). That publication set forth our expectations for TCG BDC going forward; let's evaluate if Q2 results...

TCPC Dividend Yield & Coverage Update BlackRock TCP Capital Corp ( TCPC ) has a higher yield due to its previous net asset value ("NAV") declines (discussed later) driving lower stock prices coupled with paying a higher dividend relative to its NAV as shown below: TCPC consistent...

Potential Pullback in Treasuries? For 2019, the iShares 20+Year Treasury ETF ( TLT ) has almost outperformed the S&P 500 Index, as measured by the SPDR S&P 500 ETF ( SPY ) but that is likely coming to end and others agree as the open interest for the Sept. 20 TLT puts continues to ...

TCG BDC ( CGBD ) is a business development company ("BDC") that's externally managed by Carlyle GMS Investment Management and part of the Carlyle Group, which is a global alternative asset manager with $216 billion of AUM across ~360 investment vehicles providing CGBD access to scale, rela...

The VanEck Vectors BDC Income ETF ( BIZD ) invests in a wide array of business development companies in the United States. The fund offers a huge dividend yield of 9% and the underlying BDCs trade at a weighted average P/E ratio of 8.5X. As you would expect, all of that reward comes with a f...

Commentary August 2019 is shaping up to be a challenging time of the year. The Fed, Jay Powell Chair of the Federal Reserve, began cutting rates in July, "mid-cycle adjustment" they called it, and did not specify future rate cuts. In August China retaliated with increased tariffs on 75 billi...