ELCV yields 1.73% · ARCC yields 10.82%● Live data
📍 ARCC pulled ahead of the other in Year 1
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ELCV invests in dividend-paying securities, seeking to deliver competitive returns while aligning investments with broader social and environmental goals. The fund aims to achieve a higher average dividend yield than the Bloomberg US 3000 Total Return Index. Portfolio selection combines fundamental research with a commitment to ethical, value-based principles. Initially, it employs a bottom-up research process, evaluating financial strength, dividend potential, and stakeholder value creation. The fund then applies a values-based screening rooted in Christian principles, avoiding industries like tobacco, alcohol, gambling, and weapons. Instead, it favors companies that exhibit responsible management, social justice, and environmental stewardship. While the fund primarily holds large-cap US stocks, it may also include ADRs. Investment focuses on sectors traditionally known for high dividends or growth, such as energy, utilities, industrials, technology, infrastructure, and real estate.
Full ELCV Calculator →Ares Capital Corporation is a business development company specializing in acquisition, recapitalization, mezzanine debt, restructurings, rescue financing, and leveraged buyout transactions of middle market companies. It also makes growth capital and general refinancing. It prefers to make investments in companies engaged in the basic and growth manufacturing, business services, consumer products, health care products and services, and information technology service sectors. The fund will also consider investments in industries such as restaurants, retail, oil and gas, and technology sectors. It focuses on investments in Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast and Southwest regions from its New York office, the Midwest region, from the Chicago office, and the Western region from the Los Angeles office. The fund typically invests between $20 million and $200 million and a maximum of $400 million in companies with an EBITDA between $10 million and $250 million. It makes debt investments between $10 million and $100 million The fund invests through revolvers, first lien loans, warrants, unitranche structures, second lien loans, mezzanine debt, private high yield, junior capital, subordinated debt, and non-control preferred and common equity. The fund also selectively considers third-party-led senior and subordinated debt financings and opportunistically considers the purchase of stressed and discounted debt positions. The fund prefers to be an agent and/or lead the transactions in which it invests. The fund also seeks board representation in its portfolio companies.
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