IE vs FDUS Comparison

Ivanhoe Electric Inc is a United States-based d minerals exploration company with a focus on developing mines from mineral deposits principally located in the United States. The company has four business segments; Santa Cruz Project; critical metals; data processing services; and energy storage. It derives a majority of its revenue from Canada. The Santa Cruz Project and critical metals segments are focused on mineral project exploration and development. The data processing segment provides data analytics, geophysical modeling, and artificial intelligence services for the mineral, oil & gas, and water exploration industries. The energy storage segment develops, manufactures, and installs vanadium flow batteries for grid-scale energy storage.

Fidus Investment Corp is an externally managed, closed-end, non-diversified management investment company that has elected to be treated as a business development company. The company provides customized debt and equity financing solutions to lower middle-market companies. Its investment objective is to provide attractive risk-adjusted returns by generating both current income from debt investments and capital appreciation from equity related investments. The company's portfolio of investments is comprised of securities of companies from different industries such as, Information Technology Services, Business Services, Healthcare Products among others.