FEN yields 7.50% · MAIN yields 7.09%● Live data
📍 MAIN pulled ahead of the other in Year 1
Combined, FEN + MAIN cover 0 of 12 months — good coverage
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First Trust Energy Income and Growth Fund is a closed-ended equity mutual fund launched and managed by First Trust Advisors L.P. It is co-managed by Energy Income Partners, LLC. The fund invests in the public equity markets of the United States. It seeks to invest in stocks of companies operating in the energy sector, including companies in the business of transporting, processing, storing, distributing, or marketing natural gas, natural gas liquids (including propane), crude oil, refined petroleum products, coal or electricity, or exploring, developing, managing or producing such commodities or products, or in supplying energy-related products and services. The fund primarily invests in growth stocks of companies, energy sector MLPs, and MLP-related entities. It employs a combination of fundamental and quantitative analysis, focusing on such factors as debt to cash flows, coverage ratios, incentive structure, management team, track record of distribution, and dividend growth to create its portfolio. The fund benchmarks the performance of its portfolio against the S&P 500 Index, Barclays Capital U.S. Credit Index of Corporate Bonds, Alerian MLP Total Return Index, Wells Fargo Midstream MLP Total Return Index, and composite index comprised of 50% Alerian MLP Total Return Index and 50% Wells Fargo Midstream MLP Total Return Index. It was formerly known as Energy Income & Growth Fund. First Trust Energy Income and Growth Fund was formed on March 25, 2004 and is domiciled in the United States.
Full FEN Calculator →Main Street Capital Corporation is a business development company specializes in equity capital to lower middle market companies. The firm specializing in recapitalizations, management buyouts, refinancing, family estate planning, management buyouts, refinancing, industry consolidation, mature, later stage emerging growth. The firm also provides debt capital to middle market companies for acquisitions, management buyouts, growth financings, recapitalizations and refinancing. The firm seeks to partner with entrepreneurs, business owners and management teams and generally provides one stop financing alternatives within its lower middle market portfolio. It prefers to invest in air freight and logistics, auto components, building products, chemicals, commercial services, computers, construction and engineering, consumer finance, consumer services, electronic equipment, energy equipment and services, financial services, health care equipment, health care providers, hotels, restaurants, and leisure, internet software and services, IT Services, machinery, oil, gas and consumable fuels, paper and forest products, professional and industrial services, road and rail, software, specialty retail, telecommunication, consumer discretionary, energy, materials, technology, and transportation. The firm typically invests in lower middle market companies generally with annual revenues between $5 million and $300 million. It prefers to invest in ranging between $2 million and $75 million in equity investment and enterprise value in ranging between $3 million and $20 million. The firm typically prefers to invest in the range of $5 million and $50 million per transaction in debt investment value and in the range of $1 million and $20 million in annual EBITDA. The firm's middle market debt investments are made in businesses that are generally larger in size than its lower middle market portfolio companies. It takes 5 percent minority and up to 50 percent majority equity investments. Main Street Capital Corporation was founded in 2007 and is based in Houston, Texas with an additional office in Chojnów, Poland.
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