During the recent session, Prospect Capital Corp (NASDAQ:PSEC)’s traded shares were 0.88 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 0.89. At the last check today, the stock’s price was $3.54, reflecting an intraday loss of -2.35% or -$0.08. The 52-week high for the PSEC share is $5.72, that puts it down -61.58 from that peak though still a striking 4.24% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $3.39. The company’s market capitalization is $1.58B, and the average trade volume was 2.98 million shares over the past three months.
Prospect Capital Corp (PSEC) received a consensus recommendation of Sell from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 5.00. PSEC has a Sell rating from 1 analyst(s) out of 1 analysts who have looked at this stock. 0 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 0 suggest Overweight, and 0 recommend a Buy rating for it.
Prospect Capital Corp (NASDAQ:PSEC) trade information
Prospect Capital Corp (PSEC) registered a -2.35% downside in the last session and has traded in the red over the past 5 sessions. The stock plummet -2.35% in intraday trading to $3.54, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is -1.81%, and it has moved by -4.97% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is -32.79%.
The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $4.5, which implies an increase of 21.33% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $4.5 and $4.5 respectively. As a result, PSEC is trading at a discount of -27.12% off the target high and -27.12% off the low.
While earnings are projected to return -45.10% in 2025.
PSEC Dividends
Prospect Capital Corp is due to release its next quarterly earnings in June. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance. Investors should also take the other fundamental and operational aspects into account before investing in the stock. The forward dividend ratio for Prospect Capital Corp is 0.63, with the dividend yield indicating at 17.82 percent, continuing the trend of increasing dividends in recent years.
The next largest institutional holding, with 5.06 million shares, is of Y.D. MORE INVESTMENTS LTD’s that is approximately 1.1917% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $29.06 million.
Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of Prospect Capital Corp (PSEC) shares are VanEck ETF Trust-VanEck BDC Income ETF and Listed Funds Trust-TrueShares Active Yield ETF . Data provided on Apr 30, 2025 indicates that VanEck ETF Trust-VanEck BDC Income ETF owns about 7.99 shares. This amounts to just over 1.79 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $28.19 million market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 501.92, or about 0.11% of the stock, which is worth about $1.77 million.
