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As the market enters its sixth month of recovery with valuations moving ever higher, CEF investors may be thinking of ways to bulletproof their portfolio in case the market hits another speed bump. Because CEFs tend to boast some of the highest yields across the investment space, many investor...
Reader Selections Since May 2017, any dividend-paying stock mentioned in a message, e-mail or comment to the author is fair game for a reader favorite listing in this series of articles. Thus, it is possible that only rogues and discontinued, or dreadful, doubtful dividend issues may appea...
Co-produced with Preferred Stock Trader Enstar Group Limited Enstar Group Limited ( ESGR ) is a property/casualty insurance company that has operated as a public company since 1997. Its unsecured bonds carry an investment-grade rating of BBB . Like many property/casualty insuran...
Actionable Conclusions (1-10): Brokers Estimated Top Ten MoPay Equities To Net 10.66% to 33.18% Gains By August 2021 Four 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 p...
Quick BDC Market Update As mentioned in previous articles, I'm expecting many Business Development Companies ("BDCs") to report net asset value "NAV" increases , adequate dividend coverage, and reaffirming current dividends . Please see " Upcoming NAV Changes For The BDC Sector Yield...
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...
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...
Actionable Conclusions (1-10): Brokers Estimated Top 10 MoPay Equities To Net 12.8% to 29% Gains By June 2021 Five of the 10 top-yield MoPay stocks (shaded in the chart below) were verified as being among the top 10 gainers for the coming year based on analyst one-year target prices. Thu...
Introduction: Over the coming months, I will have a series of articles discussing how to build a retirement portfolio using Business Development Companies ("BDCs") currently yielding over 12% and their safer notes - baby bonds/preferred shares with yield-to-maturities ranging from 6.5% t...
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...