With 3.33 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 3.61 million shares. During the session, the Asset Management company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $4.33 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $4.27. The 52-week range on PSEC shows that it touched its highest point at $6.26 and its lowest point at $4.09 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $4.00. With its current market cap of 1.88 billion, PSEC has annualized dividend of $0.69 while the current yield stands at 16.01%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.98.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of PSEC was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 1.17%, but this was down by -4.65% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -17.12% while six-month performance fell -21.78%. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for PSEC yields 0.34 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.50. For the next quarter, that number is 0.17. This implies an EPS growth rate of -40.20% for this year and -18.00% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 5.00% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 8.90%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 436.18 million PSEC shares are outstanding with a float of 310.15 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-13, short shares totaled 17.02 million, which was 390.0 higher than short shares on 1731628800. In addition to Mr. John Francis Barry III, J.D. as the firm’s Chairman of the Board & CEO, Mr. Michael Grier Eliasek serves as its President, COO & Director.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.09413999 of PSEC’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for PSEC since 1 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 0 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 1 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 0 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With PSEC analysts setting a high price target of 4.0 and a low target of 4.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 4.0. Based on these targets, PSEC could drop -7.19% to reach the target high and fall by -7.19% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a decline of -7.19% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $0.77436 being high and $0.77436 being low. For PSEC, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.77436.
