Hercules Capital Inc (NYSE:HTGC) shares, rose in value on Friday, March 28, with the stock price down by -1.68% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $19.26.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $19.59, falling within a range of $19.105 and $19.552. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 1.317 whereas the PE ratio was 11.96 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $21.97, and the low was $16.75. On the whole, HTGC has fluctuated by -6.28% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Hercules Capital Inc currently standing at about $3.33 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-Feb-12. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 1.59, with its dividend yield at 8.26%.
Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 533.54M, with a low estimate of 118.7M and a high estimate of 132.4M. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 125.43M.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that HTGC’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 50% Sell on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 50% Buy while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 50% Sell.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the price of HTGC currently trading nearly 1.23% and -4.61% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 46.28, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 1.48% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 2.31%. Furthermore, Hercules Capital Inc (HTGC)’s beta value is 1.07, and its average true range (ATR) is 0.41.
A comparison of Hercules Capital Inc (HTGC) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. HTGC showed an intraday change of -1.68% in last session, and over the past year, it grew by 7.38%%.
Data on historical trading for Hercules Capital Inc (NYSE:HTGC) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 0.93 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 1.20 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 173.15 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 1.71% of Hercules Capital Inc’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 28.91% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 6.21 million shares as on 2025-03-14, resulting in a short ratio of 3.42. According to the data, the short interest in Hercules Capital Inc (HTGC) stood at 365.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-03-14; the number of short shares registered in 2025-02-14 reached 5.47 million. The stock has fallen by -3.81% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the HTGC stock heading into the next quarter.
