American Capital Strategies: Ride the Recovery

Private equity has literally gone to the dogs this year, and our pick this week is one of the lesser-known, but higher quality names in the industry. It's not the "rock star" type of private equity company that makes headlines on a regular basis, like a Blackstone (BX) or a Fortress Group (FIG), but it's got some very strong internals to it, despite having been pretty much the baby that is being thrown out with the PE bathwater this year.

American Capital Strategies (ACAS) is a principal investment firm specializing in management and employee private equity buyouts, acquisitions, recapitalizations, mergers and acquisitions, add-on acquisitions, securitizations, special situations, growth capital investments in middle market companies, early stage in mature private and public companies, corporate divestitures, acquisitions of portfolio companies of private equity firms, acquisitions of family-owned or closely held businesses, change of control, or the exit of minority shareholders, going private transactions, and ownership transitions.