A public, graded record of valuation views on Private Credit BDCs — every call timestamped, sourced, and scored against just holding the index.

Horizon: 12 months Benchmark: BIZD (BDC index ETF) Baseline: just hold BIZD Scoring: total return, dividend-adjusted No-calls are graded too.

Reversals · the autopsy log

When the record is wrong, it says so.

A reversal fires whenever a view changes or a call goes wrong — fast, and in the same place every time. The old view is never edited or deleted; a reversal is a new, dated record that links the old stance to the new one and walks the same four questions. Neutral and observational, not a confession.

ARCC ONR-0001 → ONR-0006
What I thought
In January the name read as fairly valued: it traded near NAV with the dividend comfortably covered by net investment income, and the price looked about right for the credit risk on the book.
What changed
The Q1 filing landed alongside a post-quarter selloff. Dividend coverage held, but the price fell to a discount to NAV while attention focused on a small, well-flagged uptick in non-accruals.
What I missed
The January read under-weighted how sensitive the price was to a single quarter's non-accrual print — it treated a near-NAV price as settled rather than as something a routine credit wobble could dislocate.
The new view
The updated view reads undervalued: the discount looks larger than the change in credit quality appears to justify, measured on a 12-month horizon against BIZD.

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