Ares Capital Corporation Stock News

There are growing risks of a recession hitting due to weakening job numbers, rising unemployment, and weakening consumer spending capacity. We share a portfolio of high-yield stocks that should be able to weather a recession quite well. The yields range from 4.5%-14%.

BDCs are experiencing a pullback in share prices due to recession fears as well as investor sentiment, creating buying opportunities for investors. Blackstone Secured Lending and Ares Capital are two high-quality BDCs that have seen their share price pullback recently and are now trading at attractive valuations. BXSL and ARCC have strong fundamentals, diversified portfolios, low leverage, and ...

The BDC sector is now in a correction. It also faces numerous significant headwinds. We share our outlook on and approach to the sector moving forward.

Markets are in turmoil due to a troubling US jobs report. This is creating attractive opportunities in high-yield and dividend-growth stocks. We share two attractive investment grade and defensively positioned opportunities that offer 11%+ dividend yields.

As the signs indicated last quarter, investment activity has been strong. However, on a run-rate basis, I believe it is slowing down in Q3 FY24. As expected, Ares Capital's yields seem to be peaking. Yields on incremental deals signed in July 2024 have been 40bps lower than company average levels. The chances of a rate cut have dramatically increased in recent days. Ares Capital, with its highe...

These great sources of passive income include a business development company, three midstream energy leaders, a telecom giant, a renewable energy provider, and a big drugmaker. They offer dividend yields of between 5.5% and 9.2%.

Dividend-paying stocks tend to outperform their non-dividend-paying cousins. Shares of Pfizer offer a high yield, even though sales of the company's non-COVID drugs are climbing by a double-digit annual percentage.

This article is part of our monthly series where we highlight five large-cap, relatively safe, dividend-paying companies offering large discounts to their historical norms. We go over our filtering process to select just five conservative DGI stocks from more than 7,500 companies that are traded on U.S. exchanges, including OTC networks. In addition to the primary list that yields about 3.6%, w...