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Main Street Capital: What Bubble?

Investors love to look at Main Street Capital’s relatively high price-to-book value and immediately declare it an overvalued bubble of a Business Development Company (“BDC”). But what many investors don’t realize is it’s a fundamentally different type of BDC with its steady net asset value (“NAV”) gains (while peers stay relatively flat—or worse). So while some thumb their nose at Main Street’s mere 5.3% dividend yield (puny in the BDC space), they fail to recognize the steady dividend growth, plus the powerful supplemental dividends, as well as the many other attractive qualities that set it apart (i.e. low debt, strong liquidity, above-average pipeline, healthy portfolio, efficient operations and macro resilience). This report reviews all of that (and the big risks) and then concludes with my strong opinion on investing.