PSEC Prospect Capital Corporation
Financial Services · Asset Management
2.35
+2.62%
About the company
Prospect Capital Corporation is a Private Equity, Private Debt and business development company. It specializes in middle market, lower-middle market, mature, mezzanine finance, later stage, emerging growth, leveraged buyouts, refinancing, acquisitions, recapitalizations, turnaround, growth capital, development, capital expenditures and subordinated debt tranches of collateralized loan obligations, cash flow term loans, market place lending and bridge transactions. It also makes real estate investments particularly in multi-family residential real estate asset class. The fund makes secured debt, senior debt, senior and secured term loans, unitranche debt, first-lien and second lien, private debt, private equity, mezzanine debt, and equity investments in private and microcap public businesses. It focuses on both primary origination and secondary loans/portfolios and invests in situations like debt financings for private equity sponsors, acquisitions, dividend recapitalizations, growth financings, bridge loans, cash flow term loans, real estate financings/investments. It also focuses on investing in small-sized and medium-sized private companies rather than large public companies. The fund typically invests across all industry sectors, with a particular expertise in the energy and industrial sectors. It invests in aerospace and defense, chemicals, conglomerate services, consumer services, ecological, electronics, financial services, machinery, manufacturing, media, pharmaceuticals, retail, software, specialty minerals, textiles and leather, transportation, oil and gas production, coal production, materials, industrials, consumer discretionary, information technology, utilities, pipeline, storage, power generation and distribution, renewable and clean energy, oilfield services, healthcare, food and beverage, education, business services, and other select sectors. It prefers to invest in the United States and Canada. The fund seeks to invest between $10 million to $500 million per transaction in companies with EBITDA between $5 million and $150 million, sales value between $25 million and $500 million, and enterprise value between $5 million and $1000 million. It fund also co-invests for larger deals. The fund seeks control acquisitions by providing multiple levels of the capital structure. The fund focuses on sole, agented, club, or syndicated deals.
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Dividend deep dive
Prospect Capital Corporation, operating in the Asset Management industry within Financial Services, is an equity instrument. The company currently has a dividend yield of 22.22%. This is significantly higher than its 5-year average yield of 11.99% and its 5-year high of 16.38%, suggesting it is undervalued according to Yield Theory. The company holds a rating score of 6.0.
Dividend history
Prospect Capital Corporation has not increased its dividend for a consecutive streak, with a dividend streak of 0 years. The dividend per share has seen a 3-year Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of -9.14% and a 5-year CAGR of -5.59%. Dividends are paid monthly. Annual dividends per share were 1.32 USD in 2014, 0.996 USD from 2015 to 2017, 0.72 USD from 2018 to 2024, and are projected at 0.54 USD for 2025.
Dividend safety
Regarding dividend safety, the company's payout ratio is not available. Prospect Capital Corporation is not a REIT, so FFO payout is not applicable. The company maintains a debt-to-equity ratio of 37.92%.
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