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Updated: Dec 16, 2025

Stock Analysis

$15.30
$0.08 |0.53%
Day Range:
$15.22 - $15.55
Market Cap:
1.05B
P/E Ratio:
10.0795
Avg Value:
$15.53
Year Range:
$13.06 - $17.99
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General Information
Kayne Anderson BDC Inc is an externally managed, closed-end, non-diversified management investment company that has elected to be regulated as a business development company that invests primarily in first-lien senior secured loans, with a secondary focus on unitranche and split-lien loans to middle-market companies.

Its investment objective is to generate current income and, to a lesser extent, capital appreciation primarily through debt investments in middle-market companies.

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Kayne Anderson BDC (KBDC) Stock Graph
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How We Grade Kayne Anderson BDC (KBDC)

We grade stocks based on past performance, their future growth potential, intrinsic value, dividend history, and overall financial health.

The chart below shows how we grade Kayne Anderson BDC (KBDC) across the board compared to its closest peers.

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Benzinga Edge Rankings

Benzinga Edge stock rankings give you four critical scores to help you identify the strongest and weakest stocks to buy and sell.

Momentum measures a stock's relative strength based on its price movement patterns and volatility over multiple timeframes, ranked as a percentile against other stocks.

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Peer Ratings

See how Kayne Anderson BDC compares to its peers in these key performance metrics from Benzinga Rankings.

Top Peers
Value
Quality
Growth
Momentum
Short
Medium
Long
NMFCNew Mountain Finance
0
22.18
44.58
20.07
MFICMidCap Financial
0
0
0
24.14
PXP10
13.75
0
25.57
25.87
GSBDGoldman Sachs BDC
0
38.44
89.08
17.17
Short: price trend over the last couple of months
Medium: price trend over the last couple of quarters
Long: price trend over the past year
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Future Growth
Our estimate of future price growth is based on an aggregation of 5 analyst ratings over the past 3 months and their 12-month price targets.

Below, you can see that analysts are estimating a 12-month price target range of $15.00 - $16.50 with an average of $15.70

2.61%
Expected movement for Kayne Anderson BDC (KBDC) over the next 12 months
Based on these rankings

Recent Ratings for Kayne Anderson BDC (KBDC)

RBC Capital
Date:
Nov 19, 2025
Action:
Maintains
Prev. Target:
$17.00
New Target:
$16.00
Keefe, Bruyette & Woods
Date:
Nov 13, 2025
Action:
Maintains
Prev. Target:
$16.50
New Target:
$16.00
Wells Fargo
Date:
Nov 12, 2025
Action:
Maintains
Prev. Target:
$16.00
New Target:
$15.00
UBS
Date:
Oct 14, 2025
Action:
Maintains
Prev. Target:
$16.50
New Target:
$15.00
Keefe, Bruyette & Woods
Date:
Oct 6, 2025
Action:
Upgrades
Prev. Target:
$16.50
New Target:
$16.50
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Past Performance
How has Kayne Anderson BDC (KBDC) performed over the past 5 years?

The two main factors that we consider when analyzing past performance is overall return and volatility

Using these two metrics, we can determine if this stock gave its investors enough return for the risk that they took on by owning it. This is measured by the sharpe ratio, which has been used as a primary measure of risk/reward trade-off for almost 60 years.

This ratio can be interpreted as the amount of return an investor has received for the amount of risk that they took on by owning the stock over that timeframe.

Kayne Anderson BDC (KBDC) sharpe ratio over the past 5 years is -0.7612 which is considered to be below average compared to the peer average of -0.3999