With 1.66 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 4.32 million shares. During the session, the Asset Management company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $14.275 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $13.955. The 52-week range on OBDC shows that it touched its highest point at $16.73 and its lowest point at $12.11 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $16.19. With its current market cap of 7.28 billion, OBDC has annualized dividend of $1.48 while the current yield stands at 10.39%. OBDC paid its most recent dividend on 1743379200, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1748476800. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.76.
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 OBDC was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 5.32%, but this was down by -6.06% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -3.33% while six-month performance fell -5.81%. The stock lost -8.52% in the past year, while it has lost -5.44% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for OBDC yields 1.53 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.61. For the next quarter, that number is 0.43. This implies an EPS growth rate of -11.79% for this year and -4.10% for next year. EPS is expected to decline by -7.44% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -0.11%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 511.05 million OBDC shares are outstanding with a float of 483.77 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-31, short shares totaled 5.5 million, which was 108.0 higher than short shares on 1740700800. In addition to Mr. Craig William Packer as the firm’s CEO & Director, Mr. Logan Joseph Nicholson serves as its President.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.32986 of OBDC’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 OBDC since 2 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 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 OBDC analysts setting a high price target of 17.0 and a low target of 14.5, the average target price over the next 12 months is 16.0. Based on these targets, OBDC could surge 19.3% to reach the target high and rise by 1.75% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 12.28% from current levels.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $1.91429 being high and $1.87441 being low. For OBDC, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $1.88438. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.43 and the low estimate is $0.41. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.42.
