BDC prices barely budged after the holiday. However, there was a spate of important and not-so-important news items which the BDC Reporter has noted and analyzed.
BDC investors are an indecisive bunch, pushing up prices sharply after last week’s decline. We discuss the principal winners on the day. Also on the docket: a new CFO for two BDCs and the post-facto capital structure at Great Elm Capital after a Baby Bond offering.
Yet another BDC price record; three dividend announcements and some credit news and company updates.
The BDC Reporter offers up a long list of BDC developments in the past 24 hours, all annotated. We also discuss the new BDC sector price record.
Corrected: PennantPark Floating Rate issues new unsecured notes. The BDC Reporter analyzes the pro-forma impact on the balance sheet and earnings.
A portfolio company of PennantPark Floating Rate Capital files for Chapter 11, shortly after the BDC placed its debt on non accrual.
The BDC Reporter annotates the PennantPark Floating Rate IQ 2020 Conference Call transcript, helped by reference to the just published earnings release, 10-Q and Investor Presentation.
The BDC sector dropped back again last week after a head fake the week before. We review the numbers and evaluate what we’ve been learning from the BDCs themselves all week and what remains unknown.
We review PennantPark Floating Rate’s earnings release, 10-Q and Conference call and summarize IVQ 2019 results and offer up our quarterly assessment of overall performance.
In the first in a series we review how an investment has played out for two related BDCS from start to finish and see what lessons can be learned with the benefit of hindsight.
We are back with the common stocks market recap just as the BDC sector ends November on a high note. Is BDC market enthusiasm justified by the recent fundamentals ?
The BDC Reporter is back after a hiatus with one of our annotations of a BDC’s Conference Call transcript: in this case PennantPark Floating Rate. As always, we have analysis and commentary to intersperse with management’s prepared remarks and subsequent Q&A.
There was a paucity of news affecting the BDC sector in the week ended September but developments out of the SEC could change price dynamics.
We alert readers to several credit developments affecting multiple BDCs that we’ve covered in our sister publication, the BDC Credit Reporter, and discuss some lessons learned.
We reprint a post from our sister publication about a major BDC portfolio company that’s mulling a Chapter 11 filing, and the implications for the three BDCs involved.
