PennantPark Floating Rate Capital: Avoiding This Dividend Powerhouse Amid Declining NAV Concerns

Symeon Mavroudis
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Summary

  • Great dividend, weak stock. The 12% yield looks nice, but the stock and NAV have been slowly sliding for years.
  • NAV keeps dropping. It is down 22% over 14 years and never really recovered.
  • Q2 was not impressive. Core NII came in below the dividend.
  • Costs are up, losses showed up too. They invested a lot, but expenses jumped, and they took a $23.8M hit on portfolio marks.
  • Not bad, just not exciting. The dividend and liquidity are solid, but with better BDCs out there, this one’s a hold for now.

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Thesis

The case of PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (NYSE:PFLT) is a tough one.

The company is generally solid, its portfolio is interesting, and the dividend yield is high, around 12%, with regular monthly payouts of $0.1025 (it has never issued a special dividend).

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