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Nov 7, 2025 4:30 PM

CNL STRATEGIC CAPITAL ANNOUNCES OPERATING RESULTS FOR THIRD QUARTER 2025

Orlando, Nov. 07, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- , CNL Strategic Capital, LLC (CNL Strategic Capital or the Company) seeks to provide current income and long-term appreciation to investors by acquiring controlling equity stakes in combination with loan positions in privately owned middle-market businesses. The Company announced its operating results for the nine months ended Sept. 30, 2025.

Highlights:

As of Sept. 30, 2025, CNL Strategic Capital's portfolio consisted of equity and debt investments in 17 portfolio companies and had approximately $1.4 billion in total assets, compared with approximately $1.3 billion as of Dec. 31, 2024.

For the nine months ended Sept. 30, 2025, the Company recognized a net change in unrealized appreciation on investments of approximately $83.4 million, including unrealized foreign currency gain and had total investment income of approximately $60.6 million. That compares with a net change in unrealized appreciation on investments of $50.7 million, including unrealized foreign currency gain, and total investment income of approximately $51.8 million during the first nine months of 2024.

The annualized return since inception based on net asset value (NAV) and through Sept. 30, 2025, was approximately 11.1% for Class FA shares, 10.0% for Class A shares, 9.1% for Class T shares, 9.5% for Class D shares, 10.1% for Class I shares and 12.2% for Class S shares.1 These returns are prior to any applicable sales load and assume shareholders reinvested their distributions. 

For the nine months ended Sept. 30, 2025, CNL Strategic Capital received approximately $118.5 million in net offering proceeds, including approximately $16.0 million received through the distribution reinvestment plan. Since beginning operations in February 2018 until Sept. 30, 2025, CNL Strategic Capital raised approximately $1.3 billion, including $62.4 million received through the distribution reinvestment plan. 

Cash distributions declared net of distributions reinvested were funded from the following sources (in thousands):

 

 

 

Nine Months Ended Sept. 30,   

 

 

 

 

 

 

2025

 

2024

 

 

 

Amount

 

Percentage2

 

Amount

 

Percentage2

 

 

Net investment income before Expense Support (reimbursement)

$   13,453

 

85.7 %

 

$   17,618

 

120.6 %

 

 

Expense Support (reimbursement)

     1,017

 

6.5    

 

 --

 

  --    

 

 

Net investment income

$   14,470

 

92.2 %

 

$   17,618

 

120.6 %

 

 

Net realized gains

1,432

 

9.1

 

--

 

          --

 

 

Cash distributions declared, net of distributions reinvested3

$ 15,703

 

100.0 %

 

$   14,604

 

  100.0 %

 

 

Additionally, the Company accrued expense support due from ...