At the time of writing, Main Street Capital Corporation [MAIN] stock is trading at $56.75, up 1.29%. Until recently, the best way to gauge how the stock has performed was to look at its short-term value. The MAIN shares have gain 5.15% over the last week, with a monthly amount glided 9.13%, and seem to be holding up well over a long-time horizon.
From an analyst’s perspective:
Main Street Capital Corporation [NYSE: MAIN] stock has seen the most recent analyst activity on January 08, 2024, when B. Riley Securities downgraded its rating to a Neutral but kept the price target unchanged to $47 for it. Previously, Hovde Group upgraded its rating to Outperform on June 30, 2023, and kept the price target unchanged to $45. On December 19, 2022, UBS initiated with a Neutral rating and assigned a price target of $40 on the stock. B. Riley Securities started tracking the stock assigning a Buy rating and suggested a price target of $42 on December 12, 2022. Raymond James downgraded its rating to a Mkt Perform. Hovde Group started tracking with a Market Perform rating for this stock on March 07, 2022, and assigned it a price target of $44. In a note dated October 05, 2021, Oppenheimer initiated an Perform rating and provided a target price of $39 on this stock.
For the past year, the stock price of Main Street Capital Corporation fluctuated between $44.26 and $62.99. Currently, Wall Street analysts expect the stock to reach $52 within the next 12 months. Main Street Capital Corporation [NYSE: MAIN] shares were valued at $56.75 at the most recent close of the market. An investor can expect a potential drop of -8.37% based on the average MAIN price forecast.
Analyzing the MAIN fundamentals
According to Main Street Capital Corporation [NYSE:MAIN], the company’s sales were 598.15M for trailing twelve months, which represents an -9.58% plunge. Gross Profit Margin for this corporation currently stands at 0.67% with Operating Profit Margin at 0.74%, Pretax Profit Margin comes in at 0.65%, and Net Profit Margin reading is 0.63%. To continue investigating profitability, this company’s Return on Assets is posted at 0.08, Equity is 0.15 and Total Capital is 0.09.
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Ratios To Look Out For
Considering the valuation of this stock, the price to sales ratio is 8.45, the price to book ratio is 1.77 and price to earnings (TTM) ratio is 9.64.
Transactions by insiders
Recent insider trading involved McHugh Ryan, VP, CAO & Assistant Treasurer, that happened on May 16 ’25 when 4590.0 shares were purchased. CEO, SMD, Hyzak Dwayne L. completed a deal on Mar 26 ’25 to sell 0.12 million shares. Meanwhile, PRESIDENT, CIO AND SMD Magdol David L. sold 100000.0 shares on Mar 26 ’25.
