MAIN Main Street Capital Corporation
Financial Services · Asset Management
59.03
+0.87%
About the company
Main Street Capital Corporation is a business development company and a small business investment company specializing in direct and indirect investments. In direct investments, the firm specializes in private equity capital to lower middle market companies. The firm specializes in recapitalizations, loan, growth capital, mezzanine debt, corporate carveouts, family estate planning, management buyouts, refinancing, private loan, private credit solutions, senior secured term debt, unintranche term debt, subordinated debt, preferred equity, common equity, minimal or no fixed amortization, split lien term debt, industry consolidation, mature, later stage and emerging growth. The firm makes both control and non-control equity investments. The firm also provides debt capital to middle market companies for strategic acquisitions, management buyouts, growth financings, majority and minority recapitalizations, and refinancing. The firm also makes equity co-investments. The firm provides debt financing solutions for acquisitions, recapitalizations, and refinancing to middle market companies. The firm provides private debt and private equity capital to lower middle market companies and debt capital to middle market companies. 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, manufacturing, road and rail, software, specialty retail, telecommunication, consumer discretionary, energy, materials, concrete, plumbing pipes, electrical component, heavy electrical equipment, media, utilities, technology, and transportation. The firm invests in Southwest of the United States of America. The firm typically invests in business services, commercial and professional services, communication services, consumer discretionary, consumer staples, lower middle market companies ranging between $5 million and $125 million in equity investment with annual revenues between $10 million and $150 million and EBITDA in ranging between $3 million and $20 million. The firm typically prefers to invest in the range of $5 million and $150 million per transaction in debt investment value but holds the ability to lead debt financings up to $250 million. For credit solutions, the firm invests between $10 million and $150 million with an EBITDA in the range of $7.5 million and $50 million. The firm loan portfolio companies generally have annual revenues between $25 million and $500 million. 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 offices in Chicago, United States and Chojnów, Poland.
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Dividend deep dive
Main Street Capital Corporation (MAIN), an Asset Management firm within the Financial Services sector, offers a dividend yield of 7.89%. This yield is positioned fairly when compared to its 5-year historical range, which saw a low of 6.68% and a high of 9.53%, with a 5-year average of 7.72%. The company’s dividend safety status is currently marked as "watch", indicating areas for investor scrutiny.
Dividend history
Main Street Capital Corporation distributes dividends quarterly across all months of the year. The annual dividend payments have generally increased over time, rising from $2.17 per share in 2013 to $3.36 per share in 2024. While specific 3-year and 5-year Dividend Compound Annual Growth Rates (CAGRs) are not available in the provided data, the company's annual payments did remain constant at $2.87 per share from 2019 to 2021 before resuming increases to $3.01 in 2022 and $3.185 in 2023. A continuous dividend increase streak is not specified.
Dividend safety
Main Street Capital Corporation's dividend payout ratio stands at 92.21%, calculated from its dividend of $4.38 and EPS of $4.75, which suggests a large portion of earnings is used for distributions.
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