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Company snapshot — Blue Owl Capital Corporation

OBDC in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Blue Owl Capital Corporation is a business development company that lends directly to private, middle-market businesses rather than trading public securities. It writes senior secured, unitranche and mezzanine loans, and sometimes takes warrants or preferred equity alongside a loan. Its borrowers are mid-sized US companies seeking growth capital, acquisition financing or refinancing rather than a bank loan or a public bond. The company is based in New York and listed since its 2019 public offering.
Where it sits in the stack
OBDC sits in Closelook's Financial Services sleeve for the US, alongside other scored names from banks and asset managers; it carries no seat in our AI-focused indices and the diary treats it purely as a credit and asset-management name.
Who it is priced against
Closelook's peer group places it with other scored Financial Services names from the US universe, including Brookfield Asset Management and TPG; the market separately compares it with Ares Capital as another listed business development company.
Why Closelook tracks it
OBDC holds no seat in our indices and has not appeared in the diary's editions or quotes so far. It does carry a Closelook score, where the valuation module reads strongest and the momentum module reads weakest.
What the diary watches
The diary watches how the loan book behaves as middle-market borrowers face refinancing, since that shapes credit quality more than any single quarter's price move.

Blue Owl Capital Corporation (OBDC) trades on US exchanges, classified under Financial Services.

The Closelook company score reads 55/100 composite (momentum 46, quality 66, valuation 69) across 7 modules — the full breakdown, chart structure and analog history load live above.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for OBDC, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Asset Management · US · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Asset Management · US

Names in the same industry from the Closelook universe; scored names rank on their Closelook score, the rest on trend state.

Compared against OBDC on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 13.33%, quarterly · buybacks 148 m USD in FY2025

Dividends and capital return

What OBDC pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 1.44 USD per share · a 13.33% yield on the 2026-09-24 close 5 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-09-24
  • Change on the year +77.8% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 0.81 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.0200 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-08-31
  • By calendar year 2025: 1.55 USD (partial) · 2026: 0.70 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2025-02-28
  • Dividends paid, FY2025 753 m USD 73% of earnings
  • Buybacks, FY2025 148 m USD 2.7% of today's market value
  • Share count +29.7% in FY2025
  • Capital returned 901 m USD · 52% of free cash flow dividends and buybacks together, against the year’s free cash flow

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

How it trades on rate days beta 0.51 to TLT · on the worst bond days it fell more than the market

How it trades on rate days

How OBDC has moved when long-dated Treasury yields rise — measured against TLT, the 20+ year Treasury fund.

  • Beta to long bonds, 1 year 0.51 — tends to move with bonds for every 1% move in TLT (20+ year Treasuries), Blue Owl Capital Corporation moved 0.51% on average · correlation 0.20 · higher than 53% of US names
  • Beta, last 3 months 0.89 more rate-sensitive lately than over the year
  • On the 10 worst bond days −1.13% on average against −0.74% for the S&P 500 the 10 sessions of the past year in which TLT fell most, i.e. long yields rose most
  • Latest of those days −1.37% TLT −1.29% that day 2026-09-24

Daily total returns from the adjusted price series; a TLT down day is a day long yields rose. Beta = the average move of the name for a 1% move in TLT. Past sensitivity, not a forecast. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Weather around the name 4 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sector × region …

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 60/100 · S&P 500 fund at 66, bullish alignedEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-24
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 99th percentile of the window, +10.1% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-24
  • Sector × region Financials in US: −2.1% week · −6.2% month · +2.4% quarter · +9.7% yearThe Sector Engine cell this name lives in, from XLF.US; the 11 × 4 matrix shows where its sector is being bought and where it is being sold. Sector Engine → 2026-09-24
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.60 · up 0.32 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-23

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-25

Quick answers

What is Blue Owl Capital Corporation (OBDC)?

Blue Owl Capital Corporation trades as OBDC on the US exchange (US) and is classified under Financial Services in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-25.

Is OBDC in a Closelook index?

Not currently — Blue Owl Capital Corporation is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-25.

What is Blue Owl Capital Corporation's Closelook composite score?

55 out of 100, with momentum 46, quality 66 and valuation 69 sub-scores, as of 2026-09-25. Scores are Closelook's own research readings, not ratings or investment advice.

Where does OBDC trade against its moving averages?

Mixed moving-average stack: Trades -3.4% vs the 50-day and -2.4% vs the 200-day average, 12.6% below the 52-week high and +7.7% off the 52-week low; a golden cross printed 14 sessions ago. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-24 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does Blue Owl Capital Corporation do?

Blue Owl Capital Corporation is a business development company that lends directly to private, middle-market businesses rather than trading public securities. It writes senior secured, unitranche and mezzanine loans, and sometimes takes warrants or preferred equity alongside a loan. Its borrowers are mid-sized US companies seeking growth capital, acquisition financing or refinancing rather than a bank loan or a public bond. Closelook's peer group places it with other scored Financial Services names from the US universe, including Brookfield Asset Management and TPG; the market separately compares it with Ares Capital as another listed business development company.

Where does Blue Owl Capital Corporation sit in the AI build-out?

OBDC sits in Closelook's Financial Services sleeve for the US, alongside other scored names from banks and asset managers; it carries no seat in our AI-focused indices and the diary treats it purely as a credit and asset-management name. OBDC holds no seat in our indices and has not appeared in the diary's editions or quotes so far. It does carry a Closelook score, where the valuation module reads strongest and the momentum module reads weakest.

Does Blue Owl Capital Corporation pay a dividend?

Blue Owl Capital Corporation has paid 1.44 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 13.33% on the 2026-09-24 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.0200 USD on 2026-08-31. In fiscal 2025 the company paid 753 m USD in dividends and bought back 148 m USD of its own shares, 52% of that year’s free cash flow. The share count rose 29.7% over the fiscal year. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

How does Blue Owl Capital Corporation trade when bond yields rise?

Over the past year Blue Owl Capital Corporation had a beta of 0.51 to TLT, the long-dated Treasury fund — it tends to move with bonds, higher than 53% of US names. On the 10 sessions in which long bonds fell most it moved −1.13% on average, against −0.74% for the S&P 500. The "How it trades on rate days" block on this page carries the lines.

Where has Closelook written about Blue Owl Capital Corporation?

Blue Owl Capital Corporation appears in 1 Closelook piece, most recently Midday 10: AI Credit — Oracle invokes force majeure on a New Mexico data center; the 30-year hits 5.45% (2026-09-24). What Closelook said most recently: Private-credit lenders lower but calm: OBDC (-1.6%), Ares Capital (-0.91%), BXSL (-0.73%); the neoclouds mixed: Applied Digital (-2.53%), TeraWulf (-2.11%), Core Scientific (-1.57%), CoreWeave (-0.93%), Nebius $239.80 (+5.82%) (Midday 10, 2026-09-24). The "Mentioned on Closelook" block on this page lists the long reads, the reference entries and the dailies that name it.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for OBDC, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Mentioned on Closelook 1 piece · newest: Midday 10, “AI Credit — Oracle invokes force majeure on a New Mexico data center; the 30-year hits 5.45%” (2026-09-24)

Mentioned on Closelook

Where OBDC appears in the diary — 1 piece, newest first. Every link is our own writing.

Dailies

Related in the Closelook universe

then Asset Management. Scored names rank on their Closelook score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.