HgCapital Trust (HGT) Share Price, News & Analysis

Company Overview

HgT provides investors with a unique opportunity to participate in the growth in value of a portfolio of +58 private companies sourced by Hg. Value is created through implementing an investment strategy focused on software and business service companies with resilient, recurring revenue streams and from leveraging the network and expertise of Hg to support management teams to deliver the full potential of their respective businesses. Hg brings to HgT an experienced team of c.430 employees, including >250 investment and other professional executives, supported by a network of portfolio partners, all of them seasoned senior managers from across industry, who work with the management teams of the companies in which we are invested to create value for shareholders. At the centre of this network, Hg builds and shares knowledge and expertise by facilitating the active collaboration of management teams across sector clusters and geographies. HgT’s funds are invested pro rata alongside those of Hg’s other institutional clients. This enables shareholders to invest, on similar terms, alongside some of the world’s largest investors in private equity, in high-growth private companies, which would otherwise be inaccessible. This allows HgT to achieve diversification across markets and geographies and gain exposure to fast growing portfolio companies at different stages of their development and size from an enterprise value of £100 million to over £10 billion.

Key Stats

• Today's Range: 405.50 to 427
• 50-Day Range: 363 to 427
• 52-Week Range: 318.64 to 514.60
• Volume: 1.40 million shs
• Average Volume: 2.56 million shs
• Market Capitalization: £1.93 billion
• P/E Ratio: 19.87
• Dividend Yield: 1.25%
• Price Target: N/A
• Consensus Rating: Sell

HgCapital Trust Stock Analysis - MarketRank™

HgCapital Trust scored higher than 33% of companies evaluated by MarketBeat. Scores are calculated by averaging available category scores, with extra weight given to analysis and valuation.

Analyst's Opinion

• Score: 0.7 / 5
• Analyst Rating: Sell

Consensus Rating

HgCapital Trust has received a consensus rating of Sell. The company's average rating score is 1.00, and is based on no strong buy ratings, no buy ratings, no hold ratings, and 1 sell rating.

Amount of Analyst Coverage

HgCapital Trust has only been the subject of 1 research reports in the past 90 days.

Earnings and Valuation

• Score: 1.9 / 5
• Proj. Earnings Growth: N/A

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the Market

The P/E ratio of HgCapital Trust is 19.87, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the market average P/E ratio of about 45.61.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. Sector

The P/E ratio of HgCapital Trust is 19.87, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the Finance sector average P/E ratio of about 29.40.

Price to Book Value per Share Ratio

HgCapital Trust has a P/B Ratio of 0.81. P/B Ratios below 1 indicate that a company could be undervalued with respect to its assets and liabilities.

Short Interest

• Score: N/A
• Short Interest Level: N/A

Short Interest

There is no current short interest data available for HGT.

Dividend

• Score: 1.7 / 5
• Dividend Strength: Weak

Dividend Yield

HgCapital Trust pays a meaningful dividend of 1.25%, higher than the bottom 25% of all stocks that pay dividends.

Dividend Growth

HgCapital Trust does not have a long track record of dividend growth.

Dividend Coverage

The dividend payout ratio of HgCapital Trust is 25.59%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%.

News and Social Media

• Score: 3.4 / 5
• News Sentiment: N/A

News Sentiment

HgCapital Trust has a news sentiment score of 1.38. This score is calculated as an average of sentiment of articles about the company over the last seven days and ranges from 2 (good news) to -2 (bad news). This is a higher news sentiment than the 0.81 average news sentiment score of Finance companies.

News Coverage This Week

MarketBeat has tracked 1 news article for HgCapital Trust this week, compared to 0 articles on an average week.

Company Ownership

• Score: 2.4 / 5
• Insider Trading: Acquiring Shares

Cluster Insider Buying

2 insiders have purchased shares of HgCapital Trust in the last three months. Multiple insiders buying is a strong bullish signal.

Insider Buying vs. Insider Selling

In the past three months, HgCapital Trust insiders have bought more of their company's stock than they have sold. Specifically, they have bought £19,282.08 in company stock and sold GBX 0 in company stock.

Percentage Held by Insiders

0.20% of the stock of HgCapital Trust is held by insiders.

Percentage Held by Institutions

18.11% of the stock of HgCapital Trust is held by institutions.

Company Calendar

• Last Earnings: 3/09/2026
• Today: 8/15/2026

Industry, Sector and Symbol

• Stock Exchange: LON
• Sector: Finance
• Industry: Capital Markets
• Sub-Industry: Asset Management & Custody Banks
• Current Symbol: LON:HGT
• CIK: N/A
• Web: www.hgcapitaltrust.com
• Phone: +44-20-70897888
• Fax: N/A
• Employees: N/A
• Year Founded: N/A

Profitability

• EPS (Trailing Twelve Months): GBX 21.49
• Trailing P/E Ratio: 19.87
• Forward P/E Ratio: N/A
• P/E Growth: N/A
• Net Income: £284.58 million
• Net Margins: 88.67%
• Pretax Margin: N/A
• Return on Equity: 3.90%
• Return on Assets: 6.88%

Debt

• Debt-to-Equity Ratio: 1.41
• Current Ratio: N/A
• Quick Ratio: 274.70

Sales & Book Value

• Annual Sales: £109.29 million
• Price / Sales: 17.70
• Cash Flow: GBX 115.73 per share
• Price / Cash Flow: 3.69
• Book Value: GBX 527.94 per share
• Price / Book: 0.81

Miscellaneous

• Outstanding Shares: 452,994,000
• Free Float: N/A
• Market Cap: £1.93 billion
• Optionable: Not Optionable
• Beta: 0.43