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About Main Street Capital
Main Street Capital Corporation is a Houston-based investment firm focusing on providing comprehensive financial solutions to small and medium-sized businesses. With a knack for nurturing growth, the company offers equity and debt financing for a variety of purposes including management buyouts, refinancing, and expansion. It targets companies across diverse sectors such as logistics, healthcare, technology, and energy, preferring those with annual revenues between $10 million and $150 million. Founded in 2007, Main Street Capital prides itself on partnering closely with entrepreneurs and management teams to achieve mutual success.
MAIN Coverage
2:15pm ET
Personal Finance
Generating $252,000 a year from dividends sounds like a math problem with one clean answer, but the eleven-fund lineup most investors build hides yield traps, tax landmines, and overlapping exposures that quietly…
11:10am ET
Investing
Baby boomers quietly built monthly paychecks from four very different economic engines, and the combination they landed on sidesteps K-1 tax headaches while stacking coverage ratios that most retirees never knew existed.
10:45am ET
Investing
Monthly dividend stocks promise 12 paychecks a year, but some of those checks quietly shrink while others quietly grow. Five popular names reveal just how different a monthly payout can look once…
1:52pm ET
Investing
Holding high-yield REITs and BDCs in a taxable brokerage triggers a recurring annual tax bill that quietly erodes returns for decades, and the account where you park these six tickers matters far…
10:00am ET
Investing
Not every high-yield asset belongs in a Roth IRA, and parking the wrong one there can saddle the account itself with a surprise tax bill. Knowing which popular income payers to keep…
8:00am ET
Investing
Not every stock that pays you every month is built the same way, and the gap between the safest name on this list and the riskiest one spans a yield difference that…
8:44pm ET
Personal Finance
Most income investors chase the highest yield they can find, but a 50-year-old couple targeting $8,300 a month discovered that blending a 14% payer with two seemingly boring alternatives changes what that…
8:40am ET
Investing
September historically punishes stock investors, and this year the warning signs are louder than usual. Five monthly dividend payers have quietly pulled back to yields that look compelling right now, and Wall…
5:38pm ET
Personal Finance
Putting SCHD and MAIN in the wrong accounts can silently drain a six-figure retirement income by tens of thousands of dollars every year, and most investors never notice until tax season hits.
7:01am ET
Investing
Most high-yield investors assume a Roth automatically improves every position they move into it, but one popular income asset can trigger a tax bill inside the account itself, and owning it there…
10:00am ET
Investing
Ordinary dividends from BDCs, REITs, and midstream partnerships hand the IRS a cut before the income even compounds, but the account holding these positions changes everything about what you actually keep.
10:23am ET
Personal Finance
The $2 million retirement target assumes something most financial advice never questions, and the gap between that assumption and reality is where serious dividend income actually gets built.
8:11am ET
Personal Finance
A six-ticker income stack promises $4,100 every month without selling a single share, but two of its highest-paying positions carry a risk most retirees discover only after the check shrinks.
7:01am ET
Investing
Ordinary dividends from BDCs and REITs hand a cut of every distribution to the IRS before it reaches your account, and the bracket you sit in determines exactly how steep that cost…
7:49pm ET
Personal Finance
The yield you chase to replace a six-figure income determines not just how much capital you need, but whether that income holds up a decade from now or quietly erodes beneath you.