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Debtwire Middle-Market – 9/18/2023

Source: VanEck BDC Income ETF, BofA Merrill Lynch US High Yield Effective Yield The red line in the chart is the current dividend yield of the *VanEck BDC Income ETF (currently at 10.5%) that tracks the overall performance of publicly traded business development companies (BDCs, lenders to privately held middle-market businesses that tend to be…

Debtwire Middle-Market – 9/4/2023

Source: VanEck BDC Income ETF, BofA Merrill Lynch US High Yield Effective Yield The red line in the chart is the current dividend yield of the *VanEck BDC Income ETF (currently at 10.7%) that tracks the overall performance of publicly traded business development companies (BDCs, lenders to privately held middle-market businesses that tend to be…

Debtwire Middle-Market – 8/14/2023

Derisking remains key focus for loan issuers and investors alike Source: Debtwire There has been a striking 70% year-on-year decrease in new money institutional activity in the loan market following a continued lack of supply from M&A auctions processes. In its place, refinancing has taken center stage, propping up issuance at over 80% of the…

Debtwire Middle-Market – 8/7/2023

Source: VanEck BDC Income ETF, BofA Merrill Lynch US High Yield Effective Yield The red line in the chart is the current dividend yield of the *VanEck BDC Income ETF (currently at 10.6%) that tracks the overall performance of publicly traded business development companies (BDCs, lenders to privately held middle-market businesses that tend to be below…

Debtwire Middle-Market – 7/31/2023

Likely-to-distress scores highlight struggling industries Source: Debtwire Out of a universe of more than 12,000 leveraged US companies, 180 are in the stressed/distressed lifecycle categories – which receive Debtwire’s likely-to-distress (LTD) scores of 50 to 99. Another 600 are in ongoing restructuring – or have an LTD score of 100. The transportation sector has eight…

Debtwire Middle-Market – 7/24/2023

Source: VanEck BDC Income ETF, BofA Merrill Lynch US High Yield Effective Yield The red line in the chart is the current dividend yield of the *VanEck BDC Income ETF that tracks the overall performance of publicly traded business development companies (BDCs, lenders to privately held middle-market businesses that tend to be below investment grade…

Debtwire Middle-Market – 7/10/2023

Source: VanEck BDC Income ETF, BofA Merrill Lynch US High Yield Effective Yield The red line in the chart is the current dividend yield of the *VanEck BDC Income ETF that tracks the overall performance of publicly traded business development companies (BDCs, lenders to privately held middle-market businesses that tend to be below investment grade…

Debtwire Middle-Market – 6/26/2023

Source: VanEck BDC Income ETF, BofA Merrill Lynch US High Yield Effective Yield and US Bureau of Labor Statistics The red line in the chart is the current dividend yield of the *VanEck BDC Income ETF that tracks the overall performance of publicly traded business development companies (BDCs, lenders to privately held middle-market businesses that…

Debtwire Middle-Market – 6/20/2023

Buyout issuance shifts to high yield bonds Source: Debtwire Par Buyout financing diverges between markets Leveraged issuers tapping public syndication for leveraged buyouts have turned to the high yield bond market in recent months, with impressive levels of activity considering the current shortage of new money issuance. LBOs backed by bond issuance already reached the…

Debtwire Middle-Market – 6/12/2023

Source: VanEck BDC Income ETF and BofA Merrill Lynch US High Yield Effective Yield The red line in the chart is the current dividend yield of the *VanEck BDC Income ETF (BIZD) that tracks the overall performance of publicly traded business development companies (BDCs, lenders to privately held middle-market businesses that tend to be below…