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Bain Capital Specialty Finance trades at a near 27% discount to NAV, well below its 5-year average of 13.6%. BCSF's portfolio is diversified across 203 holdings, with a gross asset yield of 10.26% and a non-leverage expense ratio of 2.85%. BCSF outperforms peers with a 5-year total NAV return of 10.41% versus the group's 7.18% and maintains a BBB- Fitch credit rating.

Currently, BDCs provide very high-yield opportunities. The fact that additional interest rate cuts are unlikely to happen this year should theoretically support the existing levels. Yet for most BDCs, the damage has already been done.

Private equity firms including Apollo ​Global Management and Bain Capital are weighing bids ‌for tyremaker Continental's industrial division in a deal that could value it at roughly 3.5 ​billion euros ($4.06 billion), Bloomberg News reported ​on Monday.

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We take a look at the action in business development companies through the last week of February and highlight some of the key themes we are watching. BDCs fell sharply on Friday, likely as a result of a bankruptcy of a UK mortgage provider. Q4 earnings are largely fine in aggregate, if not spectacular.