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.

$9.45 $0.00 (0.00%)
52-week range $7.96 – $9.92
Business development company NYSEFinancial ServicesAsset Management

Price as of Aug 25, 2026 (9 hours ago) · supplied by fmp. Quotes may be delayed. Verify with your broker before acting on anything here.

Forward yield 11.01% 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 12.06% Cash actually paid per share over the last 365 days ($1.14) divided by the last price. Backward-looking, and not comparable with a bond's yield to maturity or an index yield.
Forward annual payment $1.04 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 Sep 02, 2026 First day the shares trade without the next payment attached.
Next pay date Sep 09, 2026 When the declared payment reaches holders.
Growth streak 1 yr 1 consecutive complete years in which the highest regular payment was above the year before. Our stored payment history for this security begins in 2007. The run ends inside that history, so it is measured rather than a floor.
Years paying 19 Complete calendar years with a payment in our stored history, which begins in 2007. The issuer may have paid for longer than we hold.
Payout ratio 131% Not meaningful for this structure — GAAP earnings do not describe what it pays out.
Income score 51 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 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

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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.

Company description supplied by the issuer and relayed by our market-data provider, not written by Income Investing. See data sources.

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.

Recorded payments for BBDC. 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
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.

2016: $1.8900 per share from 4 payments, matching the 4 a year the recorded cadence implies. 1.89 2016 2017: $1.6500 per share from 4 payments, matching the 4 a year the recorded cadence implies. 1.65 2017 2018: $2.2136 per share from 4 payments, matching the 4 a year the recorded cadence implies. 2.21 2018 2019: $0.5400 per share from 4 payments, matching the 4 a year the recorded cadence implies. 0.54 2019 2020: $0.6500 per share from 4 payments, matching the 4 a year the recorded cadence implies. 0.65 2020 2021: $0.8200 per share from 4 payments, matching the 4 a year the recorded cadence implies. 0.82 2021 2022: $0.9500 per share from 4 payments, matching the 4 a year the recorded cadence implies. 0.95 2022 2023: $1.0200 per share from 4 payments, matching the 4 a year the recorded cadence implies. 1.02 2023 2024: $1.0400 per share from 4 payments, matching the 4 a year the recorded cadence implies. 1.04 2024 2025: $1.3400 per share from 4 payments, matching the 4 a year the recorded cadence implies. 1.34 2025
Bar height is the total per share of the regular dividends whose ex-dividend date fell in that calendar year, in USD. The year is assigned by ex-dividend date, not by the issuer's own dividend year and not by the date the cash arrived. These are a trailing record — never the forward estimate shown in the tiles above.
Complete calendar years only, bucketed by ex-dividend date — the current year is still in progress and is left out.
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%
What can go wrong
A BDC lends to private, unrated, mostly floating-rate borrowers that banks declined. In a downturn those loans go on non-accrual, net asset value falls and the dividend follows. The portfolio is valued by the manager rather than by a market, leverage is used, external management fees are charged on gross assets, and distributions are largely ordinary income rather than qualified dividends.

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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 BBDC

Does BBDC pay a dividend, and how often?
Yes. The regular payment cadence recorded for BBDC is quarterly. The annual figure works out at $1.04 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 Jun 03, 2026.
What is the yield on BBDC, and is it forward or trailing?
There are two, and they measure different things. The forward yield is 11.01%: the last regular payment annualised to $1.04 a year and divided by the last price of $9.45. That is an estimate of the next twelve months. The trailing 12-month yield is 12.06%: the $1.14 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 BBDC ex-dividend date?
The next ex-date recorded for BBDC is Sep 02, 2026, with the payment due Sep 09, 2026. Shares bought on or after the ex-date do not carry that payment; the seller keeps it. Dates are as announced and can change.
Why is there no meaningful payout ratio for BBDC?
A payout ratio compares a dividend to accounting earnings. For a business development company the payment is not funded out of GAAP net income — REITs and BDCs pay out of taxable income under distribution rules, funds pass through whatever the portfolio produced, and partnerships distribute cash flow. Analysts use structure-specific measures instead, such as funds from operations for REITs or net investment income for BDCs.
Has the BBDC payment grown?
Over the complete calendar years in our history, the total went from $1.89 in 2016 to $1.34 in 2025. The payment rose in 1 consecutive complete years to the end of that record, measured within the history we hold, which begins in 2007. The chart on this page shows every year in between, including any cuts. Those totals bucket each payment by its ex-dividend date, so a year can hold more or fewer payments than the cadence implies when a payment shifts across a year end. Past payment history describes what happened, not what will happen.
How to read this page
Nothing on this page is investment advice or a recommendation to buy, hold or sell BBDC. 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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