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ALD ALD

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-77.01% in 456 days ALD is poised to outperform as the markets recovery from the past year of uncertainty. They make middle market loans..... a bit like venture capital. Continue reading »

Allied Capital Corporation ALD

62%

-76.91% in 501 days llied Capital Corporation is a private equity firm specializing in buyouts, acquisitions, recapitalizations, note purchases, growth capital, and middle market equity and debt investments. The firm provides debt financing in the form of senior loans, first and second lien loans, junior or subordinated debt, and unitranche debt. It prefers to invest in business services, financial services, consumer products, healthcare services, energy services, industrial products, retail, and consumer services sectors. The firm seeks to invest a maximum of $300 million in buyout transactions and between $1... Continue reading »

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Merger Arbitrage Opportunity With Allied and Ares Capital

In my prior post, “Allied Capital Goes from Value Trap to Deep Value,” I made the point that the Ares/Allied acquisition created a potentially interesting merger arbitrage opportunity. As astutely pointed out by commenter BeauZeau at Seeking Alpha, the merger arbitrage opportunity is not quite as large as I portrayed. <>In a classic merger arbitrage, the investor ought to short the acquirer Ares Capital (ARCC) and buy the target Allied Capital (ALD). That is because, assuming that the deal closes, the target and acquirer shares are now representative of the same asset. Consequently, any p... Continue reading »

Allied Capital Goes from Value Trap to Deep Value

<>For those that follow this blog, I once wrote about an asset class known as business development companies, particularly middle-market lending BDCs. These businesses typically concentrate on investing through the financing of middle-market private equity transactions. Over the last year, some have come under pressure as a result of government regulations over BDCs which require them to maintain certain asset coverage levels. As a result of the disjunction in the markets, mark-to-market mark downs on BDC portfolios resulted in some BDCs (most recognizably Allied Capital (ALD) and <>American Ca... Continue reading »

Allied Capital Goes from Value Trap to Deep Value

<>For those that follow this blog, I once wrote about an asset class known as business development companies, particularly middle-market lending BDCs. These businesses typically concentrate on investing through the financing of middle-market private equity transactions. Over the last year, some have come under pressure as a result of government regulations over BDCs which require them to maintain certain asset coverage levels. As a result of the disjunction in the markets, mark-to-market mark downs on BDC portfolios resulted in some BDCs (most recognizably Allied Capital (ALD) and <>American Ca... Continue reading »

Analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations: AZN, BCS, JACK, MVL, PCLN, UA ...

Filed under: Analyst reports, Analyst upgrades and downgrades, Analyst initiations Analyst upgrades: <> Oppenheimer upgraded Gymboree (NASDAQ: GYMB) to Outperform from Perform following the company's Q2 results to reflect valuation and square footage growth from Crazy 8. The firm has a $52 target on the stock. KeyBanc upgraded Lululemon (NASDAQ: LULU) to Buy from Hold on expectations sales and margins will improve in the near-term due to clean inventory levels. The firm recommends a pair trade of long Lululemon, short Under Armour (NYSE: UA). <>Keefe Bruyette upgraded Allied Capital (N... Continue reading »

Trading Radar for 8/10: DISH (DISH), Echostar (SATS), SYSCO (SYY), Fluor (FLR), Rackspace (RAX), priceline.com (PCLN) Report

The Trading Radar highlights key earnings and economic announcements for Monday's trading session:<u>Before Market Opens:</u>Earnings:4Kids Entertainment (NYSE: KDE)Boots and Coots (NYSE: WEL) - consensus EPS $0.03 Chindex (Nasdaq: CHDX) - consensus EPS $0.07 Dynegy (NYSE: DYN) - consensus loss $0.04 Holly (NYSE: HOC) - consensus EPS $0.27 Molecular Insight (Nasdaq: MIPI) - consensus loss $0.59 Perfect World (Nasdaq: PWRD) - consensus EPS $0.64 EW Scripps (NYSE: SSP) - consensus loss $0.11 Virgin Mobile (NYSE: VM) - consensus EPS $0.17<u>Intraday or Not Specified:</u>Earnings:Allied Capital... Continue reading »

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