WCRS yields 0.58% · ARCC yields 10.65%● Live data
📍 WCRS pulled ahead of the other in Year 10
Combined, WCRS + ARCC cover 0 of 12 months — good coverage
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Western Capital Resources, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the retail business in the United States. The company operates through Cellular Retail, Direct to Consumer, Manufacturing, and Consumer Finance segments. The Cellular Retail segment operates as an authorized retailer for Cricket Wireless selling cellular phones and accessories, ancillary services, and serving as a payment center for customers. This segment's Cricket retail stores offer various products and services, including cricket wireless service plans; cricket wireless plan upgrades, such Cricket International, individual country add-ons, Cricket Protect, and mobile hotspots; Cricket handsets and accessories; and a range of cellular accessories. The Direct to Consumer Segment is involved in the online and direct marketing distribution retail of live plants, seeds, holiday gifts, and garden accessories under the Park Seed, Jackson & Perkins, and Wayside Gardens brand names, as well as wholesale under the Park Wholesale brand. It also provides home improvement and restoration products under the Van Dyke's Restorers brand through online and mail catalogs. The Manufacturing segment offers mowers, safety shelters, agricultural accessories, timber management equipment, and string trimmers under the Swisher brand name. This segment also provides turn-key manufacturing services, such as powder coating, fabrication, assembly and distribution, welding, engineering and design, and contract manufacturing to third parties. The Consumer Finance segment offers sub-prime short-term uncollateralized non-recourse cash advance and installment loans, check cashing, and other money services; and owns and operates retail pawn stores. As of December 31, 2021, it owned and operated 229 cellular retail stores; 19 payday stores in Iowa, Kansas, North Dakota, and Wyoming; and 3 pawn stores in Nebraska and Iowa. The company was incorporated in 2001 and is headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska.
Full WCRS 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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