FDUS News and Press, Fidus Investment Corporation From 02/10/20

Rethinking Portfolio Allocations WisdomTree and Jeremy Siegel, professor of finance at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, are encouraging investors to consider alternatives to the traditional "60% stock, 40% bond allocation" in this recent CNBC interview : We...

Fidus Investment Has a Dividend Payment Deficit Whenever you look at a high yield investment company or security, you need to ask if the company can afford the dividend. The best way to understand this is to look at the company's cash flow statement. In this case, Fidus Investment ( FDUS )...

The other day I covered business development companies in " BIZD: As High-Yield Credit Spreads Fall, BDCs Will Perform Well " that explained why I believe BDCs are a solid bet over the next few months and how the ETF BIZD is a decent way to make that bet. While I like BIZD, I believe that ...

Contributor Note: The information used in this article was as of January 23, 2020, and pricing has changed as I suggested that my subscribers sell or at least trim current positions of MRCC and wait for the company to report Q4 results (see dates below). The stock was headed down on the morn...

According to Fidelity Investments , 57% of baby boomers (born between 1946 to 1964) who manage their own portfolios are holding more stock than the company would recommend – "largely due to the bull market of the last 10 years." Fidelity Investments says that baby boomers are over...

BDC Total Returns As predicted in previous articles, business development companies ("BDC") continue to do well with an average total return of almost 24%. However, there is a wide range of results and the market has started to pullback. The table below shows the total returns by BDC usi...

In anticipation of a drop in rates, preferred stock buyers continued to push up the prices of previously issued higher payers. As the month came to a close, the average market price for all U.S.-traded preferred stocks was $26.02 per share, up $0.09 per share over the last month. October&#x...

The following slide deck was published by Fidus Investment in conjunction with their 2019 Q3 earnings Read more ...

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Fidus Investment Corporation (FDUS) Q3 2019 Earnings Conference Call November 1, 2019 09:00 ET Company Participants Jody Burfening - IR Edward Ross - Chairman & CEO Shelby Sherard - CFO Conference Call Participants Robert Dodd - Raymond James Ryan Lynch - KBW Mickey...