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Blue Owl Technology Finance Corp. (NYSE:OTF) closed a $150 million private placement of 7.60% senior unsecured notes due September 3, 2032, on September 4. The deal was the company’s third financing since June 30 and brought total debt capital raised over that period to $800 million.

The financing run matters because OTF’s latest per-share income remains below its regular distribution. Second-quarter adjusted net investment income was $0.30 per share, while the base dividend was $0.35. That puts the base dividend at 116.7% of adjusted NII on a simple DFB calculation. OTF also declared a $0.05 listing-related special dividend, but that payment should be kept separate from the recurring base-dividend test.

OTF has already shown it can raise debt. What remains unresolved is whether the capital structure changes and subsequent deployment can lift per-share NII enough to cover the regular dividend.

Three Financings, Different Functions

OTF said the September private placement brought total debt financing raised since June 30 to $800 million. That total consists of the new $150 million 7.60% notes, an additional $400 million issuance of its 6.50% notes due 2029 in August, and a $250 million special-purpose-vehicle facility secured by portfolio investments.

Those three transactions should not be treated as $800 million of simple incremental leverage. The August prospectus said OTF expected to use the proceeds from the $400 million notes to pay down existing indebtedness, including borrowings under its senior secured revolving credit facility. That transaction changes the funding mix as well as the amount of capital available.

The $400 million issuance increased the outstanding principal amount of OTF’s 6.50% notes due 2029 to $900 million after an earlier $500 million issuance in June. On an annualized cash-coupon basis, the new $400 million tranche requires $26 million of payments, while the September $150 million notes require $11.4 million.

The combined $37.4 million is not a measure of incremental interest expense. Part of the August proceeds were earmarked for debt repayment, and the effective financing cost also differs from the stated coupon because of issuance pricing and expenses.

That distinction is necessary when judging what the financing eventually does to NII.

Coverage Is Already Below The Base Dividend

OTF reported second-quarter GAAP NII and adjusted NII of $0.30 per share. The board subsequently declared a third-quarter base dividend of $0.35 per share, payable on or before October 15.

The gap is not new to the second quarter. First-quarter adjusted NII was $0.29 per share against the same $0.35 base dividend. On that basis, the base dividend represented about 120.7% of adjusted NII in the first quarter and 116.7% in the second.

Some balance-sheet and portfolio metrics were steadier. NAV per share was $16.48 at June 30 versus $16.49 at March 31. Non-accrual investments were 0.1% of the portfolio at fair value. The weighted-average total yield of accruing debt and income-producing securities was 9.6% at fair value, up from 9.5% a quarter earlier.

Those figures do not by themselves close the dividend gap. Operating expenses increased to $199 million from $153 million in the second quarter. OTF attributed the increase primarily to the absence of the prior quarter’s capital-gains incentive-fee reversal and modestly higher interest expense as average daily borrowings increased.

The Per-Share Test Comes Next

OTF ended June with $7.3 billion of debt outstanding on a principal-value basis, $214 million of cash and $1.8 billion of undrawn capacity on its credit facilities. Net debt-to-equity increased to 0.93x from 0.85x in March. Management described leverage as being at the low end of its target range and said the company had more than $2 billion of available liquidity.

The financing activity since quarter-end broadens the funding mix, but it also introduces new contractual financing costs. The August notes partly refinance existing debt, while the September notes and secured facility add additional sources of capital.

New investment commitments were $852 million in the second quarter, while $222 million of investments were sold or repaid. OTF said 100% of new debt investment commitments were floating-rate and carried a weighted-average interest rate of 9.0%.

That 9.0% portfolio rate cannot be directly compared with a 6.50% or 7.60% bond coupon as if the difference were a net spread. Funding costs, fees, leverage, deployment timing and repayments all sit between those figures.

The next reported NII per share will provide the direct test. OTF has expanded and reshaped its funding. The dividend math improves only if the resulting portfolio income, after financing costs, moves adjusted NII back above the $0.35 recurring distribution.

Source: Blue Owl Technology Finance Corp. SEC filings dated August 20 and September 4, 2026, including the August 2026 prospectus supplement and September note purchase agreement, plus the company’s first- and second-quarter 2026 financial results. Calculations labeled or described as DFB calculations are derived from disclosed figures.

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