Main Street Capital
MAIN
Market cap $4.74B

53.56 USD

-0.66

1.22%

At close Apr 30, 4:00 PM EDT

After hours

53.80

+0.24

0.45%

1 day

-1.22%

5 days

-0.24%

1 month

-5.30%

3 months

-12.84%

6 months

3.86%

Year to date

-9.62%

1 year

7.98%

5 years

105.37%

10 years

70.95%

About: Main Street Capital Corp is an investment firm engaged in providing customized debt and equity financing to lower middle market companies and debt capital to middle market companies. The investment portfolio of the company is typically made to support management buyouts, recapitalizations, growth financings, refinancing, and acquisitions of companies that operate in diverse industry sectors. The group invests in secured debt investments, equity investments, warrants, and other securities of the lower middle market and middle market companies based in the United States. Business functioned through the U.S. region and it derives the majority of its income from the source of fees, commission, and interest.

Employees: 104

Financials Asset Management

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Funds holding %

of 7,425 funds

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Analysts bullish %

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2024 Q4 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

193% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 79 | Existing positions closed: 27

120% more repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 156 | Existing positions reduced: 71

46% more capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $928M [Q3] → $1.35B (+$424M) [Q4]

20% more funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 5 [Q3] → 6 (+1) [Q4]

13% more funds holding

Funds holding: 351 [Q3] → 396 (+45) [Q4]

0.68% more ownership

Funds ownership: 21.32% [Q3] → 22.0% (+0.68%) [Q4]

76% less call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $10.2M | Put options by funds: $43.3M

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Research analyst outlook

2 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months

Low target

$54

1%

upside

Avg. target

$58

8%

upside

High target

$62

16%

upside

2 analyst ratings

0 positive

0%

2 neutral

100%

0 negative

0%

UBS Vilas Abraham 0 / 0 met price target	1%upside $54	Neutral Maintained	17 Apr 2025
Truist Securities Mark Hughes 58% 1-year accuracy 35 / 60 met price target	16%upside $62	Hold Maintained	3 Mar 2025

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Financial journalist opinion

Based on 25 articles about MAIN published over the past 30 days

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Main Street Announces Amendment of its SPV Credit Facility

Interest Rate Reduced Final Maturity Date Extended to September 2030 HOUSTON , April 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Main Street Capital Corporation (NYSE: MAIN) ("Main Street") is pleased to announce that its wholly-owned subsidiary, MSCC Funding I, LLC ("MSCC Funding"), recently amended its special purpose vehicle revolving credit facility (the "SPV Facility"). The recently closed amendment decreases the interest rate during the revolving period to one-month term Secured Overnight Financing Rate ("Term SOFR") plus 1.95% (from the prior interest rate of Term SOFR plus 2.35%) and during the first and second years after the revolving period to Term SOFR plus 2.075% and 2.20%, respectively (from the prior interest rate of Term SOFR plus 2.475% and 2.60%, respectively).

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