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Capital Southwest Receives Affirmed Investment Grade Rating from Fitch Ratings
Fitch Ratings affirms BBB- long-term issuer rating with a stable outlook DALLAS, July 02, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Capital Southwest Corporation (“Capital
About this update from Capital Southwest Corporation
[{"type":"text","content":"Fitch Ratings affirms BBB- long-term issuer rating with a stable outlook\nDALLAS, July 02, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Capital Southwest Corporation (“Capital Southwest,” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: CSWC), an internally managed business development company focused on providing flexible financing solutions to support the acquisition and growth of middle market businesses, today announced that Fitch Ratings (“Fitch”) has affirmed Capital Southwest’s investment grade long-term issuer rating of BBB- with a stable outlook. Additionally, Fitch affirmed CSWC’s senior secured debt rating of BBB with a stable outlook. Factors cited by Fitch in support of its ratings include Capital Southwest’s senior secured portfolio focus, diverse funding profile, robust asset coverage cushion and consistent operating performance. About Capital Southwest Capital Southwest Corporation (Nasdaq: CSWC) is a Dallas, Texas-based, internally managed business development company with approximately $1.8 billion in investments at fair value as of March 31, 2025. Capital Southwest is a middle market lending firm focused on supporting the acquisition and growth of middle market businesses with $5 million to $50 million investments across the capital structure, including first lien, second lien and non-control equity co-investments. As a public company with a permanent capital base, Capital Southwest has the flexibility to be creative in its financing solutions and to invest to support the growth of its portfolio companies over long periods of time. Forward-Looking Statements This press release contains historical information and forward-looking statements with respect to the business and investments of Capital Southwest, including, but not limited to, the statements about Capital Southwest's future performance and financial performance and financial condition. Forward-looking statements are statements that are not historical statements and can often be identified by words such as \"will,\" \"believe,\" \"expect\" and similar expressions and variations or negatives of these words. These statements are based on management's current expectations, assumptions and beliefs. They are not guarantees of future results and are subject to numerous risks, uncertainties and assumptions that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking...