NASDAQ: PSEC
Prospect Capital Corp Stock

$4.22-0.04 (-0.94%)
Updated Mar 21, 2025
PSEC Price
$4.22
Fair Value Price
-$2.28
Market Cap
$1.87B
52 Week Low
$4.09
52 Week High
$5.72
P/E
-21.1x
P/B
0.54x
P/S
2.36x
PEG
N/A
Dividend Yield
15.64%
Revenue
$796.25M
Earnings
$39.84M
Gross Margin
72.3%
Operating Margin
24.76%
Profit Margin
-11.5%
Debt to Equity
0.63
Operating Cash Flow
$558M
Beta
0.71
Next Earnings
N/A
Ex-Dividend
Mar 27, 2025
Next Dividend
Apr 17, 2025

PSEC Overview

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 between $25 million and $500 million, and enterprise value between $5 million and $1000 million. It fund also co-invests for larger deals. The fund seeks control acquisitions by providing multiple levels of the capital structure. The fund focuses on sole, agented, club, or syndicated deals.

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Industry: Asset Management

Industry Rating
C
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#40 of 84

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PSEC ($4.22) is overvalued by 285.34% relative to our estimate of its Fair Value price of -$2.28 based on Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) modelling
Below Fair Value Valuation
PSEC ($4.22) is not significantly undervalued (285.34%) relative to our estimate of its Fair Value price of -$2.28 based on Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) modelling, when including a healthy margin of safety
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Valuation

PSEC fair value

Fair Value of PSEC stock based on Discounted Cash Flow (DCF)

Price
$4.22
Fair Value
-$2.28
Undervalued by
285.34%
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PSEC price to earnings (PE)

For valuing profitable companies with steady earnings

Company
-21.1x
Industry
31.05x
Market
31.55x

PSEC price to book (PB)

For valuing companies that are loss-making or have lots of physical asset

Company
0.54x
Industry
2.75x
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PSEC's financial health

Profit margin

Revenue
$185.5M
Net Income
-$66.0k
Profit Margin
-16.7%
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Interest Coverage Financials
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Assets to liabilities

Assets
$7.2B
Liabilities
$2.2B
Debt to equity
0.63
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Healthy Debt to Equity Financials

Cash flow

Operating
$278.5M
Investing
$0.0
Financing
-$275.8M
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Debt Coverage Financials

PSEC vs Asset Management Stocks

TickerZen RatingMarket Cap1d %P/EP/B
PSECC$1.87B-0.94%-21.10x0.54x
BBUCC$1.93B-0.38%N/A5.11x
PAXC$1.80B-1.10%27.42xN/A
TSLXC$2.11B+0.54%11.07x1.31x
GSBDC$1.44B-0.08%22.29x0.91x

Prospect Capital Stock FAQ

What is Prospect Capital's quote symbol?

(NASDAQ: PSEC) Prospect Capital trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol PSEC. Prospect Capital stock quotes can also be displayed as NASDAQ: PSEC.

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What is the 52 week high and low for Prospect Capital (NASDAQ: PSEC)?

(NASDAQ: PSEC) Prospect Capital's 52-week high was $5.72, and its 52-week low was $4.09. It is currently -26.22% from its 52-week high and 3.18% from its 52-week low.

How much is Prospect Capital stock worth today?

(NASDAQ: PSEC) Prospect Capital currently has 442,744,944 outstanding shares. With Prospect Capital stock trading at $4.22 per share, the total value of Prospect Capital stock (market capitalization) is $1.87B.

Prospect Capital stock was originally listed at a price of $15.00 in Jul 27, 2004. If you had invested in Prospect Capital stock at $15.00, your return over the last 20 years would have been -71.87%, for an annualized return of -6.14% (not including any dividends or dividend reinvestments).

How much is Prospect Capital's stock price per share?

(NASDAQ: PSEC) Prospect Capital stock price per share is $4.22 today (as of Mar 21, 2025).

What is Prospect Capital's Market Cap?

(NASDAQ: PSEC) Prospect Capital's market cap is $1.87B, as of Mar 23, 2025.

Market cap (market capitalization) is the total market value of a publicly traded company's outstanding shares.

Prospect Capital's market cap is calculated by multiplying PSEC's current stock price of $4.22 by PSEC's total outstanding shares of 442,744,944.
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