Life-Changing Dividends: 7 BDCs Paying Up to 19.6%

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Life-Changing Dividends: 7 BDCs Paying Up to 19.6%

The manic market has been dumping business development companies (BDCs) left and right. Let’s talk about a seven-stock BDC portfolio (yielding 13.5%!) that is poised to bounce back when sanity returns.

BDCs, which lend money to small businesses, are on the “outs” with the Wall Street suits after countless soft jobs reports. The spreadsheet jockeys fret about an unemployment-induced economic slowdown and miss the real story: small businesses are making more money than ever thanks to AI.

Here is what’s actually happening in the Main Street economy:

  • Employers—especially nimble small business owners—are implementing AI to streamline and even run their operations.

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Generate Yields up to 13% For as Little as $8 (No Microcaps, No Options)

Let’s invest like private equity pros without needing seven figures. Yes, that’s right—PE-style starting for as little as $8.

Plus, yields up to nearly 13%.

No special access or options trades needed. Just a few clicks through our brokerage accounts buying regular ol’ tickers.

The sneaky dividend-dishing subjects? Meet business development companies (BDCs), publicly-traded firms that lend to small businesses.

BDCs were invented by Congress years ago to create a new type of lender to small businesses. They were also given the same mandate as real estate investment trusts (REITs): Return at least 90% of taxable income back to shareholders in the form of dividends.… Read more

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3 “Rich Guy Loophole” Stocks Yielding Up to 12.5%

Let’s talk about a “rich guy loophole” that you and I can take advantage of—and bank dividends up to 12.5%.

And no, I’m not going to ask for your most recent tax return or W2. These are perfectly legal “backdoor” divvies trading between $10 and $20 per share. A sweet setup by Congress has these payers yielding between 10.5% and 12.5%.

The secret is the business development company. BDCs provide capital to small and midsized businesses. These firms often invest alongside or after venture capital. They are “kinda sorta” like private equity firms, but available to everybody (as in, we don’t need a half million in liquid assets to invest).… Read more

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2 Cheap 11.2% Dividend Stocks and 1 Paying “Just” 9.5%

Today we’ll discuss a duo of cheap dividend stocks paying 11.2%. And, for good measure, we’ll throw in another bargain even though it “only” yields 9.5%.

I jest because I love. Dividends, that is. And bear markets don’t usually last much longer than this. So, it is double-digit yield shopping we go.

These are serious yields we’re looking at—the kind we need to retire on dividends alone. They’re hard to find among over-followed, over-analyzed and over-owned blue-chip stocks. But they’re abundant in BDCland (populated by business development companies (BDCs), of course).

Like real estate investment trusts (REITs), business development companies are a creation of Congress.… Read more

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