---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-22-282603"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FDUS"
cik: "0001513363"
company_name: "FIDUS INVESTMENT Corp"
filed_at: "2022-11-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-21T22:50:21.772032+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Fidus Investment enters ATM equity offering for up to $50M of common stock

## Summary
- May sell up to $50M of common stock at market prices through Raymond James and B. Riley.
- Commission to sales agents up to 1.50% of gross proceeds plus expense reimbursement.
- Net proceeds to repay debt, fund lower middle-market investments, and for working capital.
- Shares offered under existing shelf registration statement on Form N-2 (File No. 333-253525).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-22-282603
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FDUS
- cik: 0001513363
- company_name: FIDUS INVESTMENT Corp
- filed_at: 2022-11-10T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1513363/000119312522282603/0001193125-22-282603-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1513363/000119312522282603/d386893d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-282603.txt

## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  FIDUS INVESTMENT Corp entered into Equity Distribution Agreement with Fidus Investment Advisors, LLC, Raymond James & Associates, Inc., and B. Riley Securities, Inc. valued at $50,000,000 (effective 2022-11-10).
  - Action: entry
  - Agreement: atm program
  - Counterparty: Fidus Investment Advisors, LLC, Raymond James & Associates, Inc., and B. Riley Securities, Inc.
  - Value: $50,000,000
  - Effective: 2022-11-10
  source text: On November 10, 2022, Fidus Investment Corporation (the “Company”) entered into an equity distribution agreement (the “Equity Distribution Agreement”) with Fidus Investment Advisors, LLC and Raymond James & Associates, Inc. and B. Riley Securities, Inc., as sales agents and/or principals thereunder (the “Sales Agents”). Under the Equity Distribution Agreement, the Company may, but has no obligation to, issue and sell, from time to time, up to $50,000,000 in aggregate offering price of shares of its common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Shares”), through the Sales Agents, or to them, as principals for their own accounts.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1513363/000119312522282603/0001193125-22-282603-index.htm

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