UVE vs BBDC Comparison

Universal Insurance Holdings Inc is a private personal residential homeowner insurance company. The company develops, markets, and underwrites insurance products for consumers predominantly in the personal residential homeowners' lines of business and performs substantially all other insurance-related services for its primary insurance entities, including risk management, claims management, and distribution. The company generates revenue from the collection of premiums, earned net interest and dividend income from the investment portfolio, the collection of reinsurance recoverable and financing fees. The company's primary insurance subsidiaries, (UPCIC) and (APPCIC) provide insurance for personal residential: homeowners, renters/tenants, condo unit owners, and other related coverages.

Barings BDC Inc operates as a closed-end, non-diversified investment company and has elected to be treated as a business development company. The company's investment objective is to generate current income by investing directly in privately held middle-market companies to help these companies fund acquisitions, growth, or refinancing. Barings employs fundamental credit analysis and targets investments in businesses with low levels of cyclicality and operating risk relative to other businesses in this market segment. The holding size of each position will generally be dependent upon a number of factors including total facility size, pricing and structure, and the number of other lenders in the facility.