The BDC Credit Reporter has a brief look at a new set of data from the Restaurant Sector. The trend remains negative and a risk for BDC exposure.
Three analyst recommendations from May 10th for Main Street, THL Credit and Golub Capital, all from Raymond James and all with the word “cut” included in the headline.
BDC Reporter discusses the PSEC price drop, our projection about future distributions posted yesterday and what could go wrong for shareholders and what could go right. We lean to the wrong.
BDC News Of The Day snippets re: Solar Capital, TCP Capital, PennantPark Investment, PennantPark Floating, THL Credit and musings on BDC market direction.
We review Monroe Capital’s IQ 2017 results: Good, but credit and earnings challenges increasing.
Harvest Capital earnings reviewed. Lackluster, but no smoking gun. Stock headed south, but Baby Bond holding up.
American Capital Senior Floating performs better than one might have expected…
We discuss why Main Street Capital, Prospect Capital and Garrison Capital are down in price.
We review Prospect Capital’s latest results and come to the conclusion a major dividend cut is coming. We spell out why and leave readers to decide for themselves. No, we are not Short PSEC (but we did consider a position).
A stunning new development: a leading asset manager offers to be the Investment Advisor of Hercules Capital.
Focus on Medley Capital’s (MCC) latest earnings, and the lesson for BDC investors of all stripes.
The BDC Reporter is still catching up on News Of The Day from May 8th. Here is a review of PennantPark Investment’s earnings and 10-Q.
Virtually all the press releases and filings of the day. Too may BDCs to mention all, except Gladstone Investment, New Mountain Finance and Solar Capital.
BDC News: Medallion Financial to hold a Conference Call. Why, the BDC Reporter wonders ?
Week 18 of the BDC Market Recap. Stocks go haywire. Baby Bonds don’t.
The top topic in News Of The Day is yesterday’s too: the bid to switch Hercules Capital from internally managed to externally managed, but discussed in the bigger context of the balance of power in the BDC sector between those who do the deals and those who supply the capital. This is a subject that will not go away whatever happens at Hercules.
The BDC Reporter has been trying to read and comment on essentially every filing and news article about 45 public BDCs. The flood of new items brought on by earnings season has encouraged us to take a different approach which we believe will be both useful to our readers and within the scope of our resources as the Boswell of the BDC sector.
Hercules Capital’s Chairman & CEO wants to change the BDC from internally managed to externally. Much confusion and a big drop in market capitalization ensues.
We are updating the BDC News Of The Day as we go along to keep our reporting as timely as possible. This is the second cut, with a review of KCAP Financial and BlackRock Capital.