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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...
Do you remember the “And it’s gone” scene from South Park? Stan goes to a bank to save his money, the banker quickly says some financial gibberish, and he then loses all of Stan’s money in an instant. (The banker then does the same thing to a retiree a second la...
Actionable Conclusions (1-10): Brokers Estimated Top Ten MoPay Equities To Net 34% to 63% Gains By Mid-May 2021 Five of the ten top-yield MoPay stocks (shaded in the chart below) were verified as being among the top ten gainers for the coming year based on analyst one-year target prices. T...
Article Follow-Up As mentioned last month in " Picking Winners And Losers In The 18% Yielding BDC Sector ," Business Development Companies continue to trade at depressed values for many reasons including being considered small-cap, financial sector, and high yield, all of which have been...
Prospect Capital Corporation (PSEC) Q3 2020 Earnings Conference Call May 12, 2020 11:00 AM ET Company Participants John Barry - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Kristin Van Dask - Chief Financial Officer Michael Eliasek - President and Chief Operating Officer Conference Ca...
Article Follow-Up As mentioned earlier this month in " Picking Winners And Losers In The 18% Yielding BDC Sector ," Business Development Companies continue to trade at depressed values for many reasons including being considered small cap, financial sector, and high yield, all of which...
This article is a small extract out of a blog post that we've published on March 29 (written the day before). We haven't changed anything to the original post, because frankly there is no need to. Nonetheless, we did add a few new paragraphs to expand on the specific topic which is the fo...
Focus of Article: The focus of this two-part article is a very detailed analysis comparing Ares Capital Corp. (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...