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We know that investment professionals benefit from reliable, holistic, aggregated data. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that making data easy to find and understand translates to efficient analysts and more profitable firms.

Over the past two weeks, we have shown you a few ways you can leverage business development company filing data with BDC Advantage. BDC Advantage eliminates the tedious, time-consuming process of manually compiling and standardizing BDC quarterly filings, allowing users to easily analyze data relevant to their firm.

We've shown you how to:

BDC filings are around the corner. See our Q2 2018 BDC earnings calendar below. Outsourcing your data collection efforts to AdvantageData provides your team with access to standardized #BDC data within 8 hours of filings. BCD Advantage empowers your team with the aggregated data they need. Leveraging filing information has never been easier.

BDC Advantage was developed in partnership with a group of BDCs seeking to outsource BDC data aggregation, direct lending analytics and loan pricing across the thousands of US middle market companies currently held as portfolio companies. AdvantageData provides unmatched insight into the BDC space by leveraging tools perfected through over 20 years of serving the sell-side but using data specific to the BDC and private credit space. See why BDCs, direct lenders, BDC analysts and investors all use AdvantageData.

With BDC earnings season underway, here is a repost of the BDC Reporter's regular recap of the current state of the market for the sector's common stocks and Baby Bonds. They have a look at where these two segments of the 46 publicly traded BDCs they track every week, in a series that began months ago. 

The world's largest meat processor, Tyson Foods, Inc. (NYSE: TSN), experienced bad news ahead of one of the nation's top meat-consuming holidays. The Tyson Foods, Inc. 7% (USD) 1/15/2028 bond saw a sharp $6 drop in bid price leading up to Thanksgiving - coming on the heels of a month of unpleasent news. In addition to facing numerous downgrades, the Arkansas-based company missed Wall Street predictions in last week's earnings report as well as face a class-action lawsuit citing extensive price-collusion in the chicken-boiler market dating back to 2008.