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BDC Common Stocks Market Recap: Week Ended September 7, 2018

Posted by Nicholas Marshi, BDC Reporter on Sep 12, 2018 10:30:00 AM

Summary

A pull-back in the BDC sector in this holiday shortened week, and a couple of unexpected developments.

To the BDC Reporter, though, the outlook remains the same.

Back To Business

In the semi-official, Labor Day shortened, first week back after the summer holidays, the BDC sector dropped back a little.

The UBS Exchange Traded Note with the ticker BDCS – which we use to measure the whole group – was off 1.0% to end at $20.79.

Likewise, the Wells Fargo BDC Index was down 1.05%.

The number of BDC stocks up in price, or at least unchanged, numbered just 14, versus 27 last week.

No BDC common stock increased more than 3.0% in price on the week, but three dropped by 3.0% or greater.

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Topics: Middle Market, Analytics, BDC, business development company, Fixed Income, News

BDC Common Stocks Market Recap: Week Ended August 31, 2018

Posted by Nicholas Marshi, BDC Reporter on Sep 5, 2018 4:44:53 PM

BDC COMMON STOCKS

Ended Well

Like a good beach novel, the BDC sector ended the summer in a satisfying manner.

The UBS Exchange Traded Note with the ticker BDCS – which is based on the Wells Fargo BDC Index – and which we use as a sector proxy, closed at $21.00.

That was 1.50% above the prior week’s end.

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Topics: Loans, BDC, debt, business development company, Fixed Income, News

BDC Common Stocks Market Recap: Week Ended August 24, 2018

Posted by Nicholas Marshi, BDC Reporter on Aug 29, 2018 8:53:38 AM

Treading Water

Another quiet week – as you might expect in August – for BDC common stocks.

The headline number – the price of the sector-wide UBS Exchange Traded Note with the ticker BDCS – was down. BDCS closed at $20.69, following a mostly downward sloping week.

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Topics: Loans, Middle Market, BDC, market analytics, Fixed Income, portfolio, News

BDC Common Stocks Market Recap: Week Ended August 17, 2018

Posted by Nicholas Marshi, BDC Reporter on Aug 22, 2018 9:51:20 AM

Going Nowhere

Often, after the completion of a BDC earnings season, we are witness to sharp price adjustments. After taking the health of nearly four dozen different funds in a very short period, analysts and investors often reach for the Buy or Sell button.This frequently results in a re-pricing of the entire sector, sometimes favorably and sometimes not. This week was a little different. Looking at the multiple data points that we do every week, we conclude that market participants did not do much in the way of re-thinking.

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Topics: Middle Market, BDC, market analytics, Fixed Income, portfolio, News

BDC Market Recap: Week Ended January 26, 2018

Posted by Nicholas Marshi, BDC Reporter on Jan 29, 2018 8:58:10 PM
BDC COMMON STOCKS

The Week Of Nothing Much

We’ve been writing these Market Recaps for more weeks than a shark has teeth and we’re hard pressed to remember 5 consecutive days as uneventful as these have been.

As the BDC Reporter has been saying in the preamble of our articles of late, there is very little new to report.

We counted just 4 stories on our Daily News Table and one Stock Watch alert  (as OFS hit a new 52 Week Low) during the week. The week before ? 18 different items.

The same applies to BDC common stock prices, which barely shifted over this, admittedly brief, period between January 19 and 26. 

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Topics: BDC, Fixed Income


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