Exchange-traded note

Runway Growth Finance Corp. 7.25% Notes due 2031 (RWAYI)

Runway Growth Finance Corp. 7.25% Notes due 2031 trades as RWAYI on NASDAQ. This page collects what it has actually paid — every recorded payment, the calendar-year totals, the forward and trailing 12-month yields side by side against the last price, and the dates already declared.

$24.82 $0.23 (+0.94%)
52-week range $24.25 – $25.93
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Price as of Aug 25, 2026 (6 hours ago) · supplied by fmp. Quotes may be delayed. Verify with your broker before acting on anything here.

Forward yield 7.30% Last regular payment annualised, divided by the last price. An estimate of the next twelve months — not money that has been paid.
Trailing 12-month yield 4.16% Cash actually paid per share over the last 365 days ($1.03) divided by the last price. Backward-looking, and not comparable with a bond's yield to maturity or an index yield.
Forward annual payment $1.81 Forward estimate: the last regular payment multiplied by the number of payments a year. It is an estimate of the next twelve months, not cash that has been paid.
Pays Quarterly Cadence of the regular payment, accepted only after three consecutive payments were reported at the same frequency.
Next ex-date First day the security trades without the next payment attached.
Next pay date When the declared payment reaches holders.
Growth streak 0 yr Not measurable — fewer than two complete calendar years of payments are stored, so there is no earlier year to compare against. No complete calendar year of payment history is stored yet.
Years paying 0 Complete calendar years with a payment in our stored history.
Payout ratio Not meaningful for this structure — a coupon or required distribution is not a share of GAAP earnings.
Income score 49 0-100 research screen, not a recommendation.

The two yields above are different measurements and are not interchangeable. The forward yield annualises the last regular payment; the trailing 12-month yield counts the cash actually paid over the last 365 days. Neither is an interest rate, a bond's yield to maturity or an index effective yield, and none of those may be compared with these as like for like. See how we compute these numbers.

Our stored payment history for RWAYI has no complete calendar year yet. There is no current run of increases to report: either the most recent complete calendar year did not pay more than the year before it, or there is no earlier complete year in our history to compare it with.

A yield is just a payment divided by a price, so it moves every day even when the payment does not. The forward number is an estimate of the next twelve months; the trailing number is what was actually paid over the last twelve. Ex-date is the cut-off: own the shares before it and the next payment is yours, buy on or after it and the seller keeps it.

About the annual figure
Forward estimate differs from the trailing 12 months by more than 25% — check for a recent change in the payment or a special dividend.

RWAYI is debt, not equity. It is listed on this site as an exchange-traded note: a small-denomination piece of corporate borrowing, usually issued at a $25 face value and commonly called a baby bond, that trades on a stock exchange in the same way a share does. Holding it makes you a lender to the issuer, not an owner of it. It is deliberately kept out of the common-stock universe on this site and is never counted in it.

What it pays is contractual interest at a fixed coupon rate on the face value, not a dividend the board decides each period. That interest ranks ahead of every class of shares — the issuer cannot pay the preferred or the common until it has paid this — but it ranks behind bank lenders and secured debt, and these issues are usually unsecured. The coupon does not grow with the business. Most carry a call date, after which the issuer may redeem at par, and a stated maturity at which the principal is due, so the price tends to sit near par and a yield computed from the payment and the price is not the yield to maturity a holder would actually earn. Interest is taxed as ordinary income, not as qualified dividends. Read how corporate bonds work and what a call feature does.

Figures on this page are computed by Income Investing from the payment history and last price stored in our own database; the payment records come from fmp and the price from fmp, last recomputed Aug 25, 2026. They describe what has been paid, not what will be paid. Yield, payout ratio, our data sources and our methodology are explained elsewhere on the site.

Payment history

Each row is one payment as recorded by our data provider, newest first. The final column compares it with the nearest payment about a year earlier.

The table lists the 3 most recent recorded interest payments for RWAYI, newest first, with ex-dates running from Feb 13, 2026 to Aug 14, 2026. The latest is $0.4530 per share in USD, ex-date Aug 14, 2026, pay date —. None of them has a comparable payment within sixty days of the same point a year earlier, so the year-on-year column is blank throughout. None is flagged as a special or one-off payment. Payment records supplied by fmp.

How to read this table: one row is one payment, newest at the top, and the amount is what a single share received on that one date. It is not an annual figure — the yearly ones are in the tiles above and in the totals further down. A row marked Special is a one-off the issuer chose to make rather than part of the regular schedule, which is why it is left out of the year-on-year comparison and out of those yearly totals. Whether the amount repeats for several rows or moves every time is a fact about the structure rather than a sign of health: a company usually resets its dividend once a year, while a fund's distribution can change with every payment.

Recorded payments for RWAYI. Amounts are per share as declared, in USD.
Ex-dateOwn it before this day and this payment is yours. Pay date Amount per shareWhat one share received on that date, before tax. Cadence tagged by provider Type vs. a year earlier
Aug 14, 2026 $0.4530 Quarterly Regular
May 15, 2026 $0.4530 Quarterly Regular
Feb 13, 2026 $0.1260 Untagged Regular

The cadence column is the tag our provider attached to that individual payment (fmp), not the security's established schedule. The two can disagree, which is why the cadence shown in the tiles above is only accepted after three consecutive payments were tagged the same way.

A blank comparison means there was no comparable payment within sixty days of the same point a year earlier — a new payer, a changed cadence, or a gap in the record. Special and one-off payments are labelled and are excluded from the comparison.

Interest payments by calendar year

Calendar-year totals, bucketed by ex-interest date: every regular interest payment whose ex-interest date fell in that year, for the last ten complete years on record. These are amounts actually paid, never a forward estimate, and they are not the issuer's own annual interest payment figure.

Not enough payment history yet to build calendar-year totals for RWAYI.

What can go wrong
This is debt, and its rank cuts both ways. It sits ahead of the common and preferred shares, so the interest must be paid before either sees a cent — but it sits behind the issuer's bank lenders and secured debt, and it is usually unsecured, so in a bankruptcy there may be nothing left by the time the queue reaches it. The coupon is fixed: it does not grow with the business, and inflation eats it. Most of these are callable at par on or after a set date, so the issuer refinances when rates fall and leaves it outstanding when they rise, which caps the price near par and makes any premium paid above par a loss waiting to be realised. There is a stated maturity, and the price converges on par as it approaches, so a headline yield computed from the payment and the price is not the yield to maturity a holder would actually earn. Interest is taxed as ordinary income rather than as qualified dividends. These issues are small and trade thinly, with wide bid-ask spreads and days where there is no real market at all.

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Every row in this table is on the same basis — cash actually paid per share over the last 365 days, divided by that security's last price — so the column can be read down. Forward estimates are deliberately not used here, because they exist for some securities and not others and a mixed column would invite a comparison that does not hold. A dash means no payment was recorded in the last 365 days, or no price is on file. Open a security to see both of its yields.

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Questions about RWAYI

Does RWAYI pay interest, and how often?
Yes. The regular payment cadence recorded for RWAYI is quarterly. The annual figure works out at $1.81 per share. Forward estimate: the last regular payment multiplied by the number of payments a year. It is an estimate of the next twelve months, not cash that has been paid. The last ex-date in our history is Aug 14, 2026.
What is the yield on RWAYI, and is it forward or trailing?
There are two, and they measure different things. The forward yield is 7.30%: the last regular payment annualised to $1.81 a year and divided by the last price of $24.82. That is an estimate of the next twelve months. The trailing 12-month yield is 4.16%: the $1.03 per share actually paid over the last 365 days, divided by the same price. Neither number is a bond's yield to maturity, an index effective yield or an interest rate, and none of those should be compared with these as like for like. Yield also moves inversely with price, so it rises when the market marks the security down — a high number is a question, not an answer.
When is the next RWAYI ex-interest date?
No future ex-date has been declared or collected for RWAYI yet. The last one on record was Aug 14, 2026.
Is RWAYI a bond or a share?
RWAYI is debt that trades on a stock exchange like a share. It is listed here as an exchange-traded note — small-denomination corporate debt, commonly called a baby bond, usually issued at a $25 face value with a fixed coupon, a call date and a stated maturity. It is not part of the common-stock universe on this site and is never counted in one. Holders are lenders, not owners: the payment is contractual interest ranking ahead of every class of shares, it does not grow with the business, there is no vote, and it is taxed as ordinary income rather than as qualified dividends.
Why is there no meaningful payout ratio for RWAYI?
A payout ratio compares a dividend to accounting earnings. For a exchange-traded note the payment is contractual interest that must be paid ahead of earnings, not a share of them, so the ratio describes nothing. Lenders look at interest coverage and at the issuer's total debt instead.
How to read this page
Nothing on this page is investment advice or a recommendation to buy, hold or sell RWAYI. Figures are drawn from third-party market data and our own calculations, may be delayed or wrong, and can change without notice. Confirm every number with the issuer and with your own broker, tax adviser and financial adviser before acting.

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