Prospect Capital Declares Its 69th, 70th, and 71st Consecutive Cash Distributions to Shareholders, Exceeding $1.1 Billion in Cumulative Distributions to Shareholders Since 2004
(firmenpresse) - NEW YORK, NY -- (Marketwired) -- 11/04/13 -- Prospect Capital Corporation (NASDAQ: PSEC) ("Prospect") announced today that Prospect has declared monthly cash distributions to shareholders in the following amounts and with the following record and payment dates:
11.0400 cents per share for April 2014 (record date of April 30, 2014 and payment date of May 22, 2014);
11.0425 cents per share for May 2014 (record date of May 30, 2014 and payment date of June 19, 2014); and
11.0450 cents per share for June 2014 (record date of June 30, 2014 and payment date of July 24, 2014).
These distributions mark Prospect's 69th, 70th, and 71st consecutive cash distributions to shareholders.
Prospect's closing stock price of $11.34 as of November 1, 2013 delivers to shareholders a current dividend yield of 11.7%.
Prospect has generated cumulative net investment income in excess of cumulative dividends to shareholders in the recently completed June 2013 fiscal year and since Prospect's initial public offering nine years ago. For Prospect's 2013 fiscal year, Prospect's net investment income in excess of dividends to shareholders was $53.4 million and 26 cents per share.
Based on past distributions and assuming its current share count for upcoming distributions, Prospect since inception through its June 2014 distribution will have distributed more than $12.60 per share to original shareholders and over $1.1 billion in cumulative distributions to all shareholders.
Prospect expects to declare its July, August, and September 2014 distributions in February 2014.
Prospect Capital Corporation () is a business development company that focuses on lending to and investing in private businesses. Our investment objective is to generate both current income and long-term capital appreciation through debt and equity investments.
We have elected to be treated as a business development company under the Investment Company Act of 1940 ("1940 Act"). We are required to comply with a series of regulatory requirements under the 1940 Act as well as applicable NASDAQ, federal and state rules and regulations. We have elected to be treated as a regulated investment company under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. Failure to comply with any of the laws and regulations that apply to us could have an adverse effect on us and our shareholders.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, whose safe harbor for forward-looking statements does not apply to business development companies. Any such statements, other than statements of historical fact, are highly likely to be affected by other unknowable future events and conditions, including elements of the future that are or are not under our control, and that we may or may not have considered; accordingly, such statements cannot be guarantees or assurances of any aspect of future performance. Actual developments and results are highly likely to vary materially from any forward-looking statements. Such statements speak only as of the time when made, and we undertake no obligation to update any such statement now or in the future.
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