Main Street Capital (MAIN) Stock Price, News & Analysis

5 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Main Street Capital in the last twelve months. There are currently 3 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "hold" MAIN shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in MAIN, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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5 analysts have issued 1-year target prices for Main Street Capital's stock. Their MAIN share price targets range from $41.00 to $48.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $44.80 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 0.6% from the stock's current price.
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Main Street Capital's stock was trading at $43.23 at the start of the year. Since then, MAIN stock has increased by 3.0% and is now trading at $44.52.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 22nd 2024.
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Main Street Capital will be holding an earnings conference call on Friday, February 23rd at 10:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at 201-612-7415 with passcode "13743850#".

Main Street Capital Co. (NYSE:MAIN) announced its earnings results on Thursday, November, 4th. The financial services provider reported $0.71 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.63 by $0.08. The financial services provider had revenue of $76.78 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $67.78 million. Main Street Capital had a net margin of 81.59% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 14.77%. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business posted $0.46 EPS.

Main Street Capital announced a dividend on Wednesday, February 7th. Investors of record on Thursday, February 8th will be paid a dividend of $0.24 per share on Thursday, February 15th. This represents a yield of 6.37%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, February 7th. This is an increase from the stock's previous dividend of $0.24.
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Main Street Capital (NYSE:MAIN) pays an annual dividend of $2.88 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 6.47%. MAIN has a dividend yield higher than 75% of all dividend-paying stocks, making it a leading dividend payer. The company has been increasing its dividend for 3 consecutive year(s), indicating that it does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 58.30%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, MAIN will have a dividend payout ratio of 74.23% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Main Street Capital (NYSE:MAIN) stock in their portfolio include Putnam BDC Income ETF (PBDC), ProShares Global Listed Private Equity ETF (PEX), VanEck BDC Income ETF (BIZD), WisdomTree Alternative Income Fund (HYIN) and Innovator IBD Breakout Opportunities ETF (BOUT).Invesco Global Listed Private Equity ETF (PSP).

Main Street Capital updated its fourth quarter 2023 earnings guidance on Friday, January, 19th. The company provided EPS guidance of 1.060-1.080 for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of -.

1 employees have rated Main Street Capital Chief Executive Officer Dwayne Hyzak on Glassdoor.com. Dwayne Hyzak has an approval rating of 100% among the company's employees. This puts Dwayne Hyzak in the top 10% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Main Street Capital investors own include AT&T (T), Enterprise Products Partners (EPD), Altria Group (MO), Realty Income (O), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Verizon Communications (VZ), Exxon Mobil (XOM), AbbVie (ABBV), Coca-Cola (KO) and Two Harbors Investment (TWO).

Main Street Capital's stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Van ECK Associates Corp (1.06%), Sound Income Strategies LLC (0.42%), Adell Harriman & Carpenter Inc. (0.34%), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.22%), Paradiem LLC (0.22%) and Mckinley Capital Management LLC (0.21%). Insiders that own company stock include David L Magdol, Dwayne L Hyzak, Jason B Beauvais, John Earl Jackson, Nicholas Meserve and Vincent D Foster.
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