Loan market participants enter 2019 looking back at a miserable December. Senior secured loans traded off the most since early 2016. BB-rated loans were trading below $96.00 for the first time in the three-year span and nearly all loans fell below par.
Topics: Loans, Middle Market, Analytics, BDC, market analytics, business development company, BDC Filings, Fixed Income
BDC Common Stocks Market Recap: Week Ended November 9, 2018
BDC COMMON STOCKS
Back In The Saddle. Again.
It’s Week Two of the late 2018 BDC rally.
More than three-quarters of the 45 BDCs we track were up in price, just like the week before.
The price of the UBS Exchange Traded Note which covers most of the companies in the sector – BDCS – was up to $19.76.
That’s 2.0% on the week, and 5.0% over a fortnight.
The Wells Fargo BDC Index – which provides more of a total return picture – was up 2.7%.
Topics: Analytics, market analytics, business development company, Finance, BDC Filings, Fixed Income, News, bdc reporter
Popular BDC holdings Global Tel Link, Sorenson aim to widen 1L margins; several credits up for add-ons appear in Barings BDC’s portfolio
A deluge of earnings took center stage last week and while results inevitably spurred a number of notable downside movers, the tone in the broader leveraged finance market slowly improved over the course of the week, opening the door for new opportunistic business such as Bausch Health’s latest refinancing effort. Among the week’s biggest earnings-related standouts were Air Methods, Akorn and Revlon.
Topics: Loans, Middle Market, Analytics, market analytics, business development company, Finance, BDC Filings, Fixed Income, LevFin Insights, News
BDC Preview: Week Of November 12 – November 16, 2018
MARKET RALLY MARCHES ON ? : The BDC sector – as measured by the BDC Wells Fargo Index – was up 2.7% last week, reflecting a broad based rally across the 45 public companies tracked. That was the second week in a row that the BDC sector headed up in price, following 5 consecutive weeks of descent that ended the prior rally which had begun in March 2018.
Topics: Loans, Middle Market, market analytics, Finance, BDC Filings, Fixed Income, News, bdc reporter
Q2 2018 BDC Non-Accruals: Medley Capital Corp No Longer Worst Performer
Last month we shared a list of the top 10 BDC non-accruals based on first quarter 2018 SEC filings. Now that we are mid-way through August and second quarter filings are readily available, let’s take a fresh look at the first quarter’s worst performer.
Topics: BDC, First Lien, Non-accruals, Distressed Debt, Restructuring, Second Lien, Loan Default Rate, BDC Filings, Default Rate, Fixed Income, fair value, portfolio, download, News
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