This was a hard week to be a BDC common stock investor.
After several weeks of ups and downs in a narrow range, BDC prices mostly moved clearly to the downside.
We’ll start as we most always do with the UBS Exchange Traded Note with the ticker BDCS, which fell to $20.361 from $20.72 the week before, a (1.7% drop).
BDCS was at $20.90 a fortnight ago, so the two week decline is (2.6%).
Likewise, the Wells Fargo BDC Index dropped (1.4%) in a week and (2.4%) over two weeks.
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The BDC sector’s upward trend stalled again this week.
The Wells Fargo BDC Index dropped (1.3%).
Likewise, BDCS – the UBS Exchange Traded Note – saw its stock price drop (0.9%) to $20.72.
That’s the lowest level for BDCS in 5 weeks.
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BDC Fixed Income – which most of the time is as exciting as watching paint dry – is in the midst of a dramatic period of change.
First of all – and the primary focus of our weekly Market Recaps – the prices of existing issues are dropping.
We noted as much last week, and the phenomenon continued this week.
The median price of the now 38 different public BDC issues we track dropped to $25.21, from $25.29 and $25.35 two weeks before.
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“We’ll stick with the party line of these past few weeks and project that we still expect BDC prices to move higher in the short term.
Or, at the very least, remain in this narrow channel a little longer”.
That’s an extract from the BDC Reporter’s sentiment last week, which turned out to be a fair summary of what happened through September 21, 2018.
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We are prepared to concede that the once semi-robust BDC common stock rally is in stall mode.
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