Dividend Power Score
A single, comprehensive score designed to measure the true strength of a company’s dividend.
This score combines three essential pillars of dividend quality:
Consistency – Measures how reliable the dividend has been over time, focusing on payment history, stability, and the absence of cuts or suspensions.
Payability – Assesses the company’s financial ability to sustain its dividend, taking into account cash flow, earnings coverage, balance sheet strength, and overall financial health.
Growth – Evaluates the long-term growth of both the dividend and the company’s share price, highlighting businesses that consistently increase payouts while creating shareholder value.
Higher scores identify companies that have historically delivered dependable income alongside sustained dividend growth and long-term capital appreciation.
Company Overview
OFS Credit Company, Inc. is a publicly registered, non-diversified, closed-end management investment company that operates as a business development company (BDC). The company focuses on providing debt capital to U.S.-based middle-market companies, primarily through privately negotiated credit investments. Its activities place it within the asset management, private credit, and middle-market lending segments of the broader financial services industry.
The company’s primary revenue driver is interest income generated from a portfolio of senior secured loans, second lien loans, and, to a lesser extent, subordinated debt and equity-related investments. OFS Credit Company, Inc. is externally managed by OFS Capital Management, LLC, an investment adviser specializing in credit strategies. The company was formed in 2010 and elected BDC status under the Investment Company Act of 1940, enabling it to provide flexible financing solutions to middle-market borrowers while offering income-oriented returns to investors.
Business Operations
OFS Credit Company, Inc. generates revenue predominantly through interest income, origination fees, and prepayment-related income from its debt investment portfolio. Its operations are organized around a single investment segment focused on middle-market credit, with capital deployed primarily in floating-rate senior secured loans. The company does not operate traditional commercial subsidiaries and instead functions as an investment vehicle managed under an external advisory structure.
All investment sourcing, underwriting, and portfolio management activities are conducted by OFS Capital Management, LLC, leveraging the broader OFS platform’s credit research, sponsor relationships, and deal origination capabilities. The company’s assets are primarily domestic, and it does not maintain operating businesses, manufacturing assets, or technology platforms of its own.
Strategic Position & Investments
Strategically, OFS Credit Company, Inc. emphasizes capital preservation and income generation through senior secured lending to established middle-market companies. Its investment strategy prioritizes downside protection, covenant structures, and collateral coverage, rather than high-growth or venture-oriented opportunities. Growth is primarily achieved through disciplined portfolio expansion and opportunistic capital market activity, rather than acquisitions.
The company does not maintain a portfolio of operating subsidiaries, nor does it directly invest in emerging technologies or early-stage sectors. Any exposure to new industries occurs indirectly through borrower operations. Data inconclusive based on available public sources regarding material joint ventures or transformative acquisitions beyond routine portfolio investments.
Geographic Footprint
OFS Credit Company, Inc. is headquartered in the United States, with its corporate offices located in Illinois. Its investment activities are concentrated almost entirely within the United States, reflecting its mandate to serve domestic middle-market companies.
While borrowers may have international operations, the company itself does not maintain direct international offices or a global operational footprint. Its geographic influence is therefore primarily national, aligned with U.S. economic and credit market conditions.
Leadership & Governance
The company is externally managed and governed by a board of directors, with day-to-day investment and operational oversight provided by OFS Capital Management, LLC. Leadership is closely aligned with the broader OFS Capital platform, which sets strategic direction, risk management practices, and portfolio construction philosophy emphasizing credit discipline and long-term income generation.
Key executives associated with the company and its investment manager include:
- John K. Barry – Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
- Bilal Rashid – Chief Operating Officer
- Matthew J. Kaiser – Chief Financial Officer
- Zachary J. Madsen – Chief Investment Officer
Leadership philosophy centers on conservative leverage, rigorous underwriting, and alignment of interests between management and shareholders, consistent with the firm’s long-standing focus on middle-market credit investing.