Business development company
Barings BDC, Inc. (BBDC)
Barings BDC, Inc. trades as BBDC on NYSE. 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.
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.
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 BBDC begins in 2007. The run of increases above ends inside that history rather than at its edge, so the figure is measured within what we hold and is not a floor. A streak is counted on the split-adjusted payment, so a share split does not read as a cut.
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.
What BBDC is
Barings BDC, Inc. (NYSE: BBDC) functions as a publicly traded, externally managed Business Development Company (BDC), operating under the regulatory framework of the Investment Company Act of 1940. Its investment strategy primarily involves providing capital through various debt instruments, such as senior secured loans, first and second lien debt, unitranche facilities, and subordinated debt, alongside equity co-investments. These financial solutions are extended to private middle-market companies operating across a diverse array of industries. BBDC's specialization encompasses financial solutions for situations like leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, growth financing, acquisition financings, recapitalizations, and change of control transactions. It also provides mezzanine capital and supports ESOPs for enterprises ranging from the lower middle market to mature and later-stage companies. Its industry exposure spans manufacturing and distribution, business services and technology, transportation and logistics, and consumer products and services. Operating exclusively within the United States, BBDC targets companies with an EBITDA between $10 million and $75 million, frequently those backed by private equity sponsors. Founded on October 10, 2006, Barings BDC, Inc. is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and also maintains an office in Raleigh.
BBDC is a business development company — a listed vehicle that lends to, and sometimes takes equity in, private middle-market businesses. It elects regulated-investment-company treatment, which requires it to distribute the large majority of its taxable income each year; that requirement, not a board's generosity, is what produces the high headline yield.
The payment is a distribution rather than interest, and it can include return of capital as well as net investment income and realised gains. Most of it is taxed as ordinary income rather than as qualified dividends. The loan book is valued by the manager, not by a market, so net asset value is an estimate. Read how BDCs work.
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 24 most recent recorded dividends for BBDC, newest first, with ex-dates running from Nov 24, 2020 to Sep 02, 2026. The latest is $0.2600 per share in USD, ex-date Sep 02, 2026, pay date Sep 09, 2026. Measured against the nearest payment about a year earlier, 18 are higher, 3 lower and 3 unchanged; the remaining 0 have no comparable payment in the record. 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.
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 02, 2026 | Sep 09, 2026 | $0.2600 | Quarterly | Regular | -27.78% |
| Jun 03, 2026 | Jun 10, 2026 | $0.2600 | Quarterly | Regular | -27.78% |
| Mar 04, 2026 | Mar 11, 2026 | $0.2600 | Quarterly | Regular | -27.78% |
| Dec 03, 2025 | Dec 10, 2025 | $0.2600 | Annual | Regular | 0.00% |
| Sep 03, 2025 | Sep 10, 2025 | $0.3600 | Untagged | Regular | +38.46% |
| Jun 04, 2025 | Jun 11, 2025 | $0.3600 | Untagged | Regular | +38.46% |
| Mar 05, 2025 | Mar 12, 2025 | $0.3600 | Untagged | Regular | +38.46% |
| Dec 04, 2024 | Dec 11, 2024 | $0.2600 | Quarterly | Regular | 0.00% |
| Sep 04, 2024 | Sep 11, 2024 | $0.2600 | Quarterly | Regular | 0.00% |
| Jun 05, 2024 | Jun 12, 2024 | $0.2600 | Quarterly | Regular | +4.00% |
| Mar 05, 2024 | Mar 13, 2024 | $0.2600 | Quarterly | Regular | +4.00% |
| Dec 05, 2023 | Dec 13, 2023 | $0.2600 | Quarterly | Regular | +8.33% |
| Sep 05, 2023 | Sep 13, 2023 | $0.2600 | Quarterly | Regular | +8.33% |
| Jun 06, 2023 | Jun 14, 2023 | $0.2500 | Quarterly | Regular | +4.17% |
| Mar 07, 2023 | Mar 15, 2023 | $0.2500 | Quarterly | Regular | +8.70% |
| Dec 06, 2022 | Dec 14, 2022 | $0.2400 | Quarterly | Regular | +9.09% |
| Sep 06, 2022 | Sep 14, 2022 | $0.2400 | Quarterly | Regular | +14.29% |
| Jun 07, 2022 | Jun 15, 2022 | $0.2400 | Quarterly | Regular | +20.00% |
| Feb 15, 2022 | Feb 23, 2022 | $0.2300 | Quarterly | Regular | +21.05% |
| Nov 23, 2021 | Dec 01, 2021 | $0.2200 | Quarterly | Regular | +29.41% |
| Sep 07, 2021 | Sep 15, 2021 | $0.2100 | Quarterly | Regular | +31.25% |
| Jun 08, 2021 | Jun 16, 2021 | $0.2000 | Quarterly | Regular | +25.00% |
| Mar 09, 2021 | Mar 17, 2021 | $0.1900 | Quarterly | Regular | +18.75% |
| Nov 24, 2020 | Dec 02, 2020 | $0.1700 | Quarterly | Regular | +13.33% |
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.
Dividends by calendar year
Calendar-year totals, bucketed by ex-dividend date: every regular dividend whose ex-dividend 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 dividend figure.
The chart covers 10 complete calendar years for BBDC, 2016 to 2025, per share, in USD. Each bar totals the regular dividends with an ex-dividend date in that calendar year. The year is assigned by ex-dividend date, which is not necessarily the issuer's own dividend year. Our stored payment history for BBDC begins in 2007. The total went from $1.89 in 2016 to $1.34 in 2025 — 29% lower. Within that span 7 years were higher than the year before and 3 lower. The three most recent years shown are 2023 $1.02, 2024 $1.04 and 2025 $1.34. The current year is still in progress and is left out, and special or one-off payments are excluded. This is a record of what was paid, not a projection. Every year shown holds the 4 dividends a quarterly cadence implies, so no year on this chart is short or long because a payment shifted across a year end.
Each bar, and each row underneath it, is one calendar year of regular payments added together for a single share. Read left to right and you are reading whether the payment has grown, held or been cut — a record of what was paid, never a forecast of what will be. One thing to watch for: a year here is decided by the date the payment went ex, so when that date slips across a year end one year holds an extra payment and its neighbour is one short while the payment itself never moved. Any year where that has happened is drawn as a dashed bar and marked with an asterisk, and it is the usual reason these totals differ from the annual figure the issuer itself publishes.
| Year | Paid per share that yearEvery regular payment dated in that year, added up, for one share. | Payments in the yearA count that differs from the usual one means a payment moved across a year end. | Change on the year before |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | $1.89 | 4 | -14.48% |
| 2017 | $1.65 | 4 | -12.70% |
| 2018 | $2.21 | 4 | +34.16% |
| 2019 | $0.54 | 4 | -75.61% |
| 2020 | $0.65 | 4 | +20.37% |
| 2021 | $0.82 | 4 | +26.15% |
| 2022 | $0.95 | 4 | +15.85% |
| 2023 | $1.02 | 4 | +7.37% |
| 2024 | $1.04 | 4 | +1.96% |
| 2025 | $1.34 | 4 | +28.85% |
Similar securities
The eight closest business development company entries by trailing 12-month yield, in the same sector. A research screen, not a recommendation.
These are not the best-paying securities of this kind, and no ranking is meant by the order. They are the ones whose trailing 12-month yield sits nearest to this one, in the same structure and usually the same sector, so that this security can be seen in company rather than on its own. Every figure here is backward-looking cash that has already been paid. A row that sits well away from the rest is a question to take to that security's own page, not an answer.
| Ticker | Name | Price | Trailing 12m yieldCash paid out over the last year, over today's price. | Paid over 12 months | Pays |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SLRC | SLR Investment Corp. | $12.60 | 12.22% | $1.54 | Quarterly |
| KBDC | Kayne Anderson BDC, Inc. | $13.52 | 11.83% | $1.60 | Quarterly |
| TRIN | Trinity Capital Inc. | $18.70 | 11.82% | $2.21 | Monthly |
| MSDL | Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund | $15.38 | 12.35% | $1.90 | Quarterly |
| BXSL | Blackstone Secured Lending Fund | $24.83 | 12.40% | $3.08 | Quarterly |
| OCSL | Oaktree Specialty Lending Corporation | $13.15 | 11.71% | $1.54 | Quarterly |
| OBDC | Blue Owl Capital Corporation | $11.36 | 12.68% | $1.44 | Quarterly |
| HTGC | Hercules Capital, Inc. | $17.59 | 11.09% | $1.95 | Quarterly |
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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