Prospect Capital Corp (NASDAQ:PSEC) has a beta value of 0.83 and has seen 1.73 million shares traded in the recent trading session. The company, currently valued at $1.43B, closed the recent trade at $3.16 per share which meant it gained $0.01 on the day or 0.48% during that session. The PSEC stock price is -78.8% off its 52-week high price of $5.65 and 1.9% above the 52-week low of $3.10. If we look at the company’s 10-day average daily trading volume, we find that it stood at 3.02 million shares traded. The 3-month trading volume is 3.38 million shares.
Prospect Capital Corp (NASDAQ:PSEC) trade information
Sporting 0.48% in the green today, the stock has traded in the red over the last five days, with the highest price hit on recent trading when the PSEC stock price touched $3.16 or saw a rise of 2.47%. Year-to-date, Prospect Capital Corp shares have moved -42.97%, while the 5-day performance has seen it change -0.47%. Over the past 30 days, the shares of Prospect Capital Corp (NASDAQ:PSEC) have changed -5.24%. Short interest in the company has seen 29.46 million shares shorted with days to cover at 8.58.
Wall Street analysts have a consensus price target for the stock at $4.5, which means that the shares’ value could jump 29.78% from the levels at last check today.. The projected low price target is $4.5 while the price target rests at a high of $4.5. In that case, then, we find that the latest price level in today’s session is -42.41% off the targeted high while a plunge would see the stock gain -42.41% from the levels at last check today..
Prospect Capital Corp (PSEC) estimates and forecasts
The company’s shares have lost -25.27% over the past 6 months.
PSEC Dividends
Prospect Capital Corp is expected to release its next earnings report on 2025-May-08 this year, and investors are excited at the prospect of better dividends despite the company’s debt issue. The forward dividend is 0.61 at a share yield of 19.43%. The company’s dividend yield has gone up over the past 12 months, with a 5 Year Average Dividend Yield of 11.78%.
Prospect Capital Corp (NASDAQ:PSEC)’s Major holders
Insiders own 28.11% of the company shares, while shares held by institutions stand at 13.74% with a share float percentage of 19.11%. Investors are also buoyed by the number of investors in a company, with Prospect Capital Corp having a total of 245.0 institutions that hold shares in the company. The top two institutional holders are VAN ECK ASSOCIATES CORP with over 7.25 million shares worth more than $40.09 million. As of 2024-06-30, VAN ECK ASSOCIATES CORP held 1.7062% of shares outstanding.
The other major institutional holder is Y.D. MORE INVESTMENTS LTD, with the holding of over 5.06 million shares as of 2024-06-30. The firm’s total holdings are worth over $29.06 million and represent 1.1917% of shares outstanding.
Also the top two Mutual Funds that are holding company’s shares are VanEck ETF Trust-VanEck BDC Income ETF and Listed Funds Trust-TrueShares Active Yield ETF . As of May 31, 2025 , the former fund manager holds about 1.78% shares in the company for having 7.94 shares of worth $25.14 million while later fund manager owns 564.93 shares of worth $1.79 million as of Mar 31, 2025 , which makes it owner of about 0.13% of company’s outstanding stock.