MAIN Stock - Main Street Capital Corporation
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Financial Statements
| Metric | FY2024 | FY2023 | FY2022 | FY2021 | FY2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $724.68M | $612.46M | $396.46M | $470.01M | $100.58M |
| Gross Profit | $601.25M | $509.88M | $318.19M | $411.17M | $51.00M |
| Gross Margin | 83.0% | 83.3% | 80.3% | 87.5% | 50.7% |
| Operating Income | $538.71M | $451.09M | $264.93M | $363.63M | $15.84M |
| Net Income | $508.08M | $428.45M | $241.61M | $330.76M | $29.38M |
| Net Margin | 70.1% | 70.0% | 60.9% | 70.4% | 29.2% |
| EPS | $5.85 | $5.23 | $3.24 | $4.80 | $0.45 |
Main Street Capital Corporation is a business development company specializes in equity capital to lower middle market companies. The firm specializing in recapitalizations, management buyouts, refinancing, family estate planning, management buyouts, refinancing, industry consolidation, mature, later stage emerging growth. The firm also provides debt capital to middle market companies for acquisitions, management buyouts, growth financings, recapitalizations and refinancing. The firm seeks to partner with entrepreneurs, business owners and management teams and generally provides one stop financing alternatives within its lower middle market portfolio. It prefers to invest in air freight and logistics, auto components, building products, chemicals, commercial services, computers, construction and engineering, consumer finance, consumer services, electronic equipment, energy equipment and services, financial services, health care equipment, health care providers, hotels, restaurants, and leisure, internet software and services, IT Services, machinery, oil, gas and consumable fuels, paper and forest products, professional and industrial services, road and rail, software, specialty retail, telecommunication, consumer discretionary, energy, materials, technology, and transportation. The firm typically invests in lower middle market companies generally with annual revenues between $5 million and $300 million. It prefers to invest in ranging between $2 million and $75 million in equity investment and enterprise value in ranging between $3 million and $20 million. The firm typically prefers to invest in the range of $5 million and $50 million per transaction in debt investment value and in the range of $1 million and $20 million in annual EBITDA. The firm's middle market debt investments are made in businesses that are generally larger in size than its lower middle market portfolio companies. It takes 5 percent minority and up to 50 percent majority equity investments. Main Street Capital Corporation was founded in 2007 and is based in Houston, Texas with an additional office in Chojnów, Poland.
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Recent Analyst Actions
| Date | Firm | Action | Rating | Price Target |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 8th 2025 | Citizens JMP | Initiation | Mkt Outperform | $70 |
| January 8th 2024 | B. Riley Securities | Downgrade | Neutral | $47 |
| June 30th 2023 | Hovde Group | Upgrade | Outperform | $45 |
| December 19th 2022 | UBS | Initiation | Neutral | $40 |
| December 12th 2022 | B. Riley Securities | Initiation | Buy | $42 |
| August 8th 2022 | Raymond James | Downgrade | Market Perform | - |
Earnings History & Surprises
MAINEPS Surprise History
Quarterly EPS Details
| Period | Report Date | Estimated EPS | Actual EPS | Surprise | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Q1 2026 | Feb 26, 2026 | $1.05 | — | — | — |
Q4 2025 | Nov 6, 2025 | $1.04 | $0.97 | -6.7% | ✗ MISS |
Q3 2025 | Aug 7, 2025 | $0.99 | $0.99 | 0.0% | = MET |
Q2 2025 | May 8, 2025 | $1.00 | $1.01 | +1.0% | ✓ BEAT |
Q1 2025 | Feb 27, 2025 | $1.08 | $1.02 | -5.6% | ✗ MISS |
Q4 2024 | Nov 8, 2024 | $1.02 | $1.00 | -2.0% | ✗ MISS |
Q3 2024 | Aug 8, 2024 | $1.01 | $1.01 | 0.0% | = MET |
Q2 2024 | May 9, 2024 | $1.03 | $1.05 | +1.9% | ✓ BEAT |
Q1 2024 | Feb 22, 2024 | $1.06 | $1.07 | +0.9% | ✓ BEAT |
Q4 2023 | Nov 2, 2023 | $1.00 | $0.99 | -1.0% | ✗ MISS |
Q3 2023 | Aug 3, 2023 | $1.00 | $1.06 | +6.0% | ✓ BEAT |
Q2 2023 | May 4, 2023 | $0.98 | $1.02 | +4.1% | ✓ BEAT |
Q1 2023 | Feb 23, 2023 | $0.88 | $0.98 | +11.4% | ✓ BEAT |
Q4 2022 | Nov 3, 2022 | $0.76 | $0.83 | +9.2% | ✓ BEAT |
Q3 2022 | Aug 4, 2022 | $0.70 | $0.75 | +7.1% | ✓ BEAT |
Q2 2022 | May 5, 2022 | $0.70 | $0.73 | +4.3% | ✓ BEAT |
Q1 2022 | Feb 24, 2022 | $0.65 | $0.77 | +18.5% | ✓ BEAT |
Q4 2021 | Nov 4, 2021 | $0.63 | $0.71 | +12.7% | ✓ BEAT |
Q3 2021 | Aug 5, 2021 | $0.57 | $0.62 | +8.8% | ✓ BEAT |
Q2 2021 | May 6, 2021 | $0.55 | $0.58 | +5.5% | ✓ BEAT |
Latest News
Main Street Capital widens gains to seventh session
📈 PositiveRBC Capital Maintains Outperform on Main Street Capital, Lowers Price Target to $66
📈 PositiveCitizens Initiates Coverage On Main Street Capital with Market Outperform Rating, Announces Price Target of $70
📈 PositiveMain Street Capital Invests $20M to Help Roofing Leader Chamberlin Expand to the Southeast
📈 PositiveMain Street Capital Completes New Portfolio Investment Totaling $27.2M In The Nearshore Company To Facilitate Its Acquisition Of Carmi Companies
📈 PositiveB. Riley Securities Maintains Neutral on Main Street Capital, Lowers Price Target to $60
➖ NeutralCORRECTION: Main Street Capital Q3 Adj. EPS $1.03 Beats $0.98 Estimate, Sales $139.831M Miss $139.872M Estimate
➖ NeutralMain Street Capital Q3 Adj. EPS $1.07 Beats $0.98 Estimate, Sales $139.831M Miss $139.872M Estimate
📈 PositiveMain Street Capital Raises Dividend By 2% To $0.78/Share
📈 PositiveTruist Securities Maintains Hold on Main Street Capital, Lowers Price Target to $60
➖ NeutralMain Street Capital Announce That It Recently Completed A New Portfolio Investment Totaling $81.0M To Facilitate The Minority Recapitalization Of A Leading Musculoskeletal Care Management Services Organization Located In The Southeastern U.S
📈 PositiveMain Street Capital Reports Q3 2025 Preliminary NII of $0.95–$0.99 Per Share, NAV at $32.74–$32.82 and Over 16% Annualized ROE in Q3 2025
📈 PositiveMSC Income Fund Posts Q3 2025 Private Loan Activity With $94.2M New Commitments, $74.6M Funded; Portfolio At $761.1M Across 81 Companies, 92% First Lien Debt
📈 PositiveRBC Capital Maintains Outperform on Main Street Capital, Raises Price Target to $67
📈 PositiveMain Street Capital Announces Dual Listing Of Its Common Stock On NYSE Texas
📈 PositiveB. Riley Securities Maintains Neutral on Main Street Capital, Raises Price Target to $64
📈 PositiveMain Street Capital falls after short pitch at Sohn Investment Conf
📉 NegativeFrequently Asked Questions about MAIN
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