---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-230079"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FDUS"
cik: "0001513363"
company_name: "FIDUS INVESTMENT Corp"
filed_at: "2025-10-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T04:44:37.098004+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Fidus issues $100M 6.750% notes due 2030, redeems $100M 4.75% notes due 2026

## Summary
- Issued additional $100M of 6.750% Notes due 2030 on Oct 3, 2025, increasing total to $200M outstanding.
- Redeeming $100M of 4.75% Notes due 2026 on Nov 3, 2025 at 100% of principal plus $1.23M accrued interest.
- New notes mature March 19, 2030; interest payable semi-annually on March 19 and September 19.
- Notes rank pari passu with existing unsecured debt and are structurally subordinated to subsidiary obligations.
- Offering made under effective shelf registration; underwriters led by Raymond James and ING Financial Markets.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-230079
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FDUS
- cik: 0001513363
- company_name: FIDUS INVESTMENT Corp
- filed_at: 2025-10-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 2.03, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1513363/000119312525230079/0001193125-25-230079-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1513363/000119312525230079/d16419d8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Debt Financings
  FIDUS INVESTMENT Corp incurred senior notes of $100.0 million at 6.750% maturing March 19, 2030.
  - Instrument: senior notes
  - Principal: $100.0 million
  - Rate: 6.750%
  - Maturity: March 19, 2030
  - Event: incurrence
  source text: The New 2030 Notes were issued on October 3, 2025 as additional notes under the Base Indenture, dated February 2, 2018 (the “Base Indenture”), by and between the Company and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (as successor in interest to U.S. Bank National Association), as trustee (the “Trustee”), as supplemented by the Sixth Supplemental Indenture, dated March 19, 2025 (the “Sixth Supplemental Indenture” and together with the Base Indenture, the “Indenture”), pursuant to which the Company initially issued $100.0 million in aggregate principal amount of the 6.750% Notes due 2030 (the “Existing 2030 Notes” and together with the New 2030 Notes, the “2030 Notes”) on March 19, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1513363/000119312525230079/0001193125-25-230079-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.