Dividend Stocks

• BXSL is a business development company (BDC) within the Blackstone platform, focused heavily on senior secured lending to private, middle-market and upper-middle-market companies.

• OBDC is a business development company focused on direct lending to private, often middle-market, companies within the broader private-credit space.

• OWL has drawn income-investor attention as an alternative asset manager whose dividend yield can sit above many broad-market peers, tied to fee-related cash flows.

• OTF, Blue Owl Technology Finance, operates as a business development company focused on lending to technology and software-oriented companies, a niche corner of the private credit market.

• ABR is a mortgage REIT whose elevated dividend yield has kept it on the radar of income-focused investors.

• ARCC, the ticker for Ares Capital, has long drawn income-investor attention thanks to a dividend yield that has frequently sat well above broad-market averages.

• ARR is the ticker for ARMOUR Residential REIT, an agency-focused mortgage real estate investment trust that has long attracted income-oriented investors with an elevated distribution.