NYSE:HTGC - Hercules Capital Stock Price, Forecast & News

Hercules Capital trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "HTGC."

Hercules Capital announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, October 29th. Investors of record on Monday, November 11th will be given a dividend of $0.03 per share on Monday, November 18th. This represents a $0.12 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.83%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, November 7th. View Hercules Capital's Dividend History.

Hercules Capital Inc (NYSE:HTGC) issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, October, 30th. The financial services provider reported $0.37 EPS for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.34 by $0.03. The financial services provider earned $69.24 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $68.08 million. Hercules Capital had a return on equity of 12.94% and a net margin of 44.00%. Hercules Capital's quarterly revenue was up 31.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the business earned $0.31 EPS. View Hercules Capital's Earnings History.

Hercules Capital is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 20th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Hercules Capital.

6 brokers have issued 12 month price targets for Hercules Capital's shares. Their forecasts range from $11.50 to $15.00. On average, they anticipate Hercules Capital's share price to reach $13.54 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 5.8%. View Analyst Price Targets for Hercules Capital.

6 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Hercules Capital in the last year. There are currently 4 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Hercules Capital.

News coverage about HTGC stock has been trending extremely negative on Sunday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research firm identifies negative and positive news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Hercules Capital earned a news impact score of -4.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news headlines about the financial services provider a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near term. View News Stories for Hercules Capital.

Hercules Capital saw a decrease in short interest in the month of December. As of December 13th, there was short interest totalling 2,420,000 shares, a decrease of 10.0% from the November 28th total of 2,690,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 493,300 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 4.9 days. Currently, 2.4% of the shares of the company are sold short. View Hercules Capital's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Hercules Capital include DNP Select Income Fund (DNP), Nuveen Municipal Value Fund (NUV), Adams Diversified Equity Fund (ADX), PIMCO Corporate&Income Opportunity Fund (PTY), Tri-Continental (TY), Gabelli Equity Trust (GAB), Royce Value Trust (RVT), Liberty All-Star Equity Fund (USA), Boulder Growth & Income Fund (BIF), Apollo Investment (AINV), AllianceBernstein Global Hgh Incm Fd (AWF), PIMCO High Income Fund (PHK), General American Investors (GAM), Tortoise Energy Infrastructure (TYG) and Blackrock Muniyield Insured Fund (MYI).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Hercules Capital investors own include New Residential Investment (NRZ), AT&T (T), Ares Capital (ARCC), Energy Transfer LP Unit (ET), Prospect Capital (psec), Main Street Capital (MAIN), ANNALY CAP MGMT/SH (NLY), Starwood Property Trust (STWD), Verizon Communications (VZ) and Blackstone Group (BX).

Hercules Capital's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Sound Income Strategies LLC (2.00%), Sound Income Strategies LLC (2.00%), Advisors Capital Management LLC (1.08%), Gilman Hill Asset Management LLC (0.36%), Mckinley Capital Management LLC Delaware (0.29%) and Assenagon Asset Management S.A. (0.21%). View Institutional Ownership Trends for Hercules Capital.

HTGC stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Telemus Capital LLC and Taylor Frigon Capital Management LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for Hercules Capital.

HTGC stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Sound Income Strategies LLC, Sound Income Strategies LLC, Advisors Capital Management LLC, CFO4Life Group LLC, Mckinley Capital Management LLC Delaware, Steward Partners Investment Advisory LLC and Valeo Financial Advisors LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for Hercules Capital.

Shares of HTGC can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of HTGC stock can currently be purchased for approximately $14.38.

Hercules Capital has a market capitalization of $1.50 billion and generates $207.75 million in revenue each year. The financial services provider earns $76.50 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.19 on an earnings per share basis. Hercules Capital employs 69 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Hercules Capital.

The official website for Hercules Capital is http://www.htgc.com/.

Hercules Capital's mailing address is 400 HAMILTON AVE SUITE 310, PALO ALTO CA, 94301. The financial services provider can be reached via phone at 650-289-3060 or via email at [email protected]