You hear the term due diligence a lot with researching stock. Just how important is it...
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Looking at the past performance of MAIN vs TCAP it would appear Main Street Capital has given more total returns so what's my complaint? Past performance is no guarantee of future returns. The price that the market has assigned to MAIN is separate from how management runs the company. If a few of their loans go bad now MAIN has to cut the dividend or sell even more assets. Whereas with TCAP if some of their loans go bad they can always resort to selling assets for a short term fix while they replace those loans.
Now I am not saying Main Street Capital is a bad company. They aren't doing anything illegal in hiding definitions because it is in their public filings and
it continues to be on my investing watch list (3 tab of the spreadsheet). I think management is good overall and I will wait to see if the net interest income covers the dividend.
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