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Private-credit managers report the metric differently, with some using aggressive math to project strength.

Blue Owl Capital (NYSE:OBDC) reported second-quarter 2026 adjusted net investment income of $0.34 per share, up from $0.31 in the prior quarter, as a large investment realization and higher specialty-finance dividend income lifted results. Net asset value per share declined to $14.26 from $14.41 in

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Blue Owl Capital (NYSE:OWL) reported second-quarter 2026 fee-related earnings of $0.25 per share and distributable earnings of $0.22 per share, with distributable earnings rising 9% from the prior-year quarter. The alternative asset manager declared a quarterly dividend of $0.23 per share, payable A

Ares Capital and Blue Owl Capital reported resilient second-quarter results this week, while Ares Management posted record fundraising, highlighting continued institutional demand for private credit despite rising defaults, ‌retail redemptions and liquidity concerns. Ares Management, one of the industry's largest players, raised a record $36 billion ‌in the second quarter, including $23.7 billion for its credit strategies. Assets under management rose 17% from a year earlier to $671.3 billion.

Blue Owl Capital Inc (OWL) reports strong diversification and a $380 million future fee pipeline, while navigating a tepid M&A environment and wealth channel challenges.

The firm’s real assets segment eclipsed credit in fundraising during this year’s second quarter, while investor withdrawals from lending vehicles eased.

Blue Owl Capital (OWL) delivered earnings and revenue surprises of 0.00% and +1.12%, respectively, for the quarter ended June 2026. Do the numbers hold clues to what lies ahead for the stock?

New fundraising by Blue Owl Capital—one of the pioneers of private credit—dropped precipitously in the second quarter, according to the company's SEC filing. The figure is crucial to growing the firm's assets under management, the key driver of its stock valuation. The amount of money raised declined about 16% from the first quarter of this year and 37% from the second quarter of 2025, reflecting a sharp decline in demand for private-credit funds from the wealthy individual investors that Blue Owl built its franchise around.

Blue Owl Capital’s flagship private credit arm reported its slowest pace of fundraising in three years in the second quarter, underscoring the...

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Investors in two of Blue Owl Capital’s flagship private-credit funds asked the firm to return $4.7 billion of their money in the second quarter, a drop from the previous quarter. Withdrawal requests amounted to $3.6 billion, or 19% of shares outstanding, in the firm’s largest private-credit fund. Blue Owl opted to cap redemptions in both funds at 5%, a built-in feature intended to prevent having to liquidate the fund’s hard-to-sell corporate loans to meet withdrawals.

Redemption requests declined from the previous quarter but remained elevated.

Many of this year’s hottest stocks are the biggest decliners in premarket trading Thursday after sharp drops in the previous session.

Business development company (BDC) portfolios have likely taken a hit this year, with sector pressures showing few signs of easing. High-profile collapses, including Wheel Pros' bankruptcy and the unwinding of United Site Services, have exposed embedded losses across the private credit ...