PSEC 📈 Prospect Capital - Overview

Exchange: NASDAQ • Country: United States • Currency: USD • Type: Common Stock • ISIN: US74348T1025

PSEC: Debt, Loans, Equity, Real Estate, Investments

Prospect Capital Corporation is a business development company. It specializes in middle market, mature, mezzanine finance, later stage, emerging growth, leveraged buyouts, refinancing, acquisitions, recapitalizations, turnaround, growth capital, development, capital expenditures and subordinated debt tranches of collateralized loan obligations, cash flow term loans, market place lending and bridge transactions. It also makes real estate investments particularly in multi-family residential real estate asset class. The fund makes secured debt, senior debt, senior and secured term loans, unitranche debt, first-lien and second lien, private debt, private equity, mezzanine debt, and equity investments in private and microcap public businesses. It focuses on both primary origination and secondary loans/portfolios and invests in situations like debt financings for private equity sponsors, acquisitions, dividend recapitalizations, growth financings, bridge loans, cash flow term loans, real estate financings/investments. It also focuses on investing in small-sized and medium-sized private companies rather than large public companies. The fund typically invests across all industry sectors, with a particular expertise in the energy and industrial sectors. It invests in aerospace and defense, chemicals, conglomerate services, consumer services, ecological, electronics, financial services, machinery, manufacturing, media, pharmaceuticals, retail, software, specialty minerals, textiles and leather, transportation, oil and gas production, coal production, materials, industrials, consumer discretionary, information technology, utilities, pipeline, storage, power generation and distribution, renewable and clean energy, oilfield services, healthcare, food and beverage, education, business services, and other select sectors. It prefers to invest in the United States and Canada. The fund seeks to invest between $10 million to $500 million per transaction in companies with EBITDA between $5 million and $150 million, sales value betw Web URL: https://www.prospectstreet.com/corporate-profile/

Additional Sources for PSEC Stock

PSEC Stock Overview

Market Cap in USD 2,085m
Sector Financial Services
Industry Asset Management
GiC Sub-Industry Asset Management & Custody Banks
IPO / Inception 2004-07-27

PSEC Stock Ratings

Growth 5y 8.33%
Fundamental -5.60%
Dividend 69.0%
Rel. Strength Industry -160
Analysts 1/5
Fair Price Momentum 4.26 USD
Fair Price DCF 23.00 USD

PSEC Dividends

Dividend Yield 12m 14.79%
Yield on Cost 5y 17.43%
Annual Growth 5y 0.00%
Payout Consistency 89.0%

PSEC Growth Ratios

Growth Correlation 3m -79.2%
Growth Correlation 12m -41.6%
Growth Correlation 5y 23.9%
CAGR 5y 3.34%
CAGR/Mean DD 5y 0.24
Sharpe Ratio 12m -0.80
Alpha -37.93
Beta 0.62
Volatility 30.61%
Current Volume 5863.4k
Average Volume 20d 3777.5k
What is the price of PSEC stocks?
As of December 26, 2024, the stock is trading at USD 4.36 with a total of 5,863,421 shares traded.
Over the past week, the price has changed by +2.35%, over one month by -8.50%, over three months by -15.53% and over the past year by -19.55%.
Is Prospect Capital a good stock to buy?
Neither. Based on ValueRay Fundamental Analyses, Prospect Capital is currently (December 2024) neither a good nor a bad stock to buy. It has a ValueRay Fundamental Rating of -5.60 and therefor a neutral outlook according to the companies health.
Based on ValueRays Analyses, Dividends and Discounted-Cash-Flow, the Fair Value of PSEC as of December 2024 is 4.26. This means that PSEC is currently overvalued and has a potential downside of -2.29%.
Is PSEC a buy, sell or hold?
Prospect Capital has received a consensus analysts rating of 1.00. Therefor, it is recommend to sell PSEC.
  • Strong Buy: 0
  • Buy: 0
  • Hold: 0
  • Sell: 0
  • Strong Sell: 1
What are the forecast for PSEC stock price target?
According to ValueRays Forecast Model, PSEC Prospect Capital will be worth about 4.6 in December 2025. The stock is currently trading at 4.36. This means that the stock has a potential upside of +5.96%.
Issuer Forecast Upside
Wallstreet Target Price 4.5 3.2%
Analysts Target Price 5.8 31.9%
ValueRay Target Price 4.6 6%