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Shares Stats
| Shares Outstanding | 88,060,000 |
| Shares Float | 84,470,000 |
| Shares Short | 4,130,000 |
| Insider Holdings | 410% |
| Institution Holdings | 22.62% |
About Main Street Capital Corporation
Main Street Capital Corporation is a business development company specializes in equity capital to lower middle market companies. The firm specializing in recapitalizations, management buyouts, refinancing, family estate planning, management buyouts, refinancing, industry consolidation, mature, later stage emerging growth. The firm also provides debt capital to middle market companies for acquisitions, management buyouts, growth financings, recapitalizations, and refinancing. The firm seeks to partner with entrepreneurs, business owners and management teams and generally provides one stop financing alternatives within its lower middle market portfolio. It prefers to invest in air freight and logistics, auto components, building products, chemicals, commercial services, computers, construction and engineering, consumer finance, consumer services, electronic equipment, energy equipment and services, financial services, health care equipment, health care providers, hotels, restaurants, and leisure, internet software and services, IT Services, machinery, oil, gas and consumable fuels, paper and forest products, professional and industrial services, road and rail, software, specialty retail, telecommunication, consumer discretionary, energy, materials, technology, and transportation. The firm typically invests in lower middle market companies ranging between $5 million and $125 million in equity investment with annual revenues between $10 million and $150 million and EBITDA in ranging between $3 million and $20 million. The firm typically prefers to invest in the range of $5 million and $150 million per transaction in debt investment value but holds the ability to lead debt financings up to $250 million and invests between $10 million and $150 million in credit solutions with EBITDA in the range of $5 million and $75 million for credit solutions. The firm's middle market debt investments are made in businesses that are generally larger in size than its lower middle market portfolio companies. It takes 5 percent minori
General
| Name | Main Street Capital Corporation |
| Ticker | MAIN |
| Exchange | NYSE |
| Sector | Financial |
| Industry | Asset Management |
| Currency | USD |
| Country | USA |
| Fiscal Year End | December |
| Full Time Employees | 100 |
Highlights
| Analyst Target | 50.00 |
| Market Cap | 5,446,800,000 |
| PE Ratio | 11.20 |
| PEG Ratio | 2.09 |
Financials
| Curr Year EPS Estimate | 4.11 |
| Next Quarter EPS Estimate | 1.02 |
| Profit Margin | 85.56% |
| Operating Margin | 112.12 |
| Return on Assets | 0.06 |
| Return on Equity | 0.19 |
| Revenue | 552.8M |
| Earnings Per Share | 5.53 |
| Revenue Per Share | 6.18 |
| Gross Profit | 529,896,992 |
| Quarterly Revenue Growth | 0.11 |
Valuation
| Trailing PE | 11.17 |
| Forward PE | 15.55 |
| Price/Sales (Trailing 12 Mt.) | 10.28 |
| Price/Book (Most Recent Quarter) | 2.02 |
Dividend
Main Street Capital Corporation pays out a dividend of $3.87 per share, with a dividend yield of 6.26%.
MAIN's next dividend payment will be made to shareholders on March 14, 2025.
They pay out 52.77% of their earnings out as a dividend.
Recent Dividends
| Mar 14, 2025 | $0.25 |
| Feb 14, 2025 | $0.25 |
| Jan 15, 2025 | $0.25 |
| Dec 27, 2024 | $0.30 |
| Dec 13, 2024 | $0.25 |
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| Dec 27, 2023 | $0.28 |
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