PDCC vs ASMB Comparison

PEARL DIVER CREDIT COMPANY INC is an externally managed, non-diversified, closed-end management investment company. Its primary investment objective is to generate high current income, with a secondary objective to generate capital appreciation by investing predominantly in third-party Collateralized Loan Obligation (CLO) equity and mezzanine tranches of predominately U.S.-dollar-denominated CLOs backed by corporate leveraged loans issued mainly to U.S. obligors.

Assembly Biosciences Inc is a clinical-stage biotechnology company. It is advancing two platform programs, a novel class of oral therapeutics for the treatment of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection and novel class of oral synthetic live biotherapeutics, which are designed to restore health to a dysbiotic microbiome. The company's HBV-cure program is aimed at increasing the current low cure rate for patients with HBV and is pursuing multiple drug candidates that inhibit multiple steps of the HBV lifecycle. Assembly has discovered several novel core protein Allosteric Modulators, which are small molecules that directly target and allosterically modulate the HBV core protein. The majority of the revenue is generated from the HBV cure program.