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Prospect Capital Corp (NASDAQ: PSEC) closed the day trading at $2.91 down -2.02% from the previous closing price of $2.97. In other words, the price has decreased by -$2.02 from its previous closing price. On the day, 8.44 million shares were traded. PSEC stock price reached its highest trading level at $2.98 during the session, while it also had its lowest trading level at $2.87.
Ratios:
For a better understanding of PSEC, let’s look at its different ratios.
On June 25, 2020, Wells Fargo started tracking the stock assigning a Underweight rating and target price of $4.50.
Insider Transactions:
The insider trade also gives investors a glimpse into the future direction of stock prices, which can be beneficial to investors. A recent insider transaction in this stock occurred on Jun 23 ’25 when Barry John F bought 319,000 shares for $3.16 per share. The transaction valued at 1,008,646 led to the insider holds 83,585,026 shares of the business.
Barry John F bought 623,300 shares of PSEC for $1,988,763 on Jun 20 ’25. The CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER now owns 83,266,026 shares after completing the transaction at $3.19 per share. On Mar 24 ’25, another insider, Barry John F, who serves as the CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER of the company, bought 24,000 shares for $4.24 each. As a result, the insider paid 101,681 and bolstered with 82,594,540 shares of the company.
Valuation Measures:
Investors should consider key stock statistics when deciding whether to invest or divest. In the wake of the recent closing price, PSEC now has a Market Capitalization of 1318404608 and an Enterprise Value of 4922186240. For the stock, the TTM Price-to-Sale (P/S) ratio is 1.72 while its Price-to-Book (P/B) ratio in mrq is 0.40. Its current Enterprise Value per Revenue stands at 6.436.
Stock Price History:
The Beta on a monthly basis for PSEC is 0.85, which has changed by -0.44252872 over the last 52 weeks, in comparison to a change of 0.20799685 over the same period for the S&P500. Over the past 52 weeks, PSEC has reached a high of $5.57, while it has fallen to a 52-week low of $2.96. The 50-Day Moving Average of the stock is -11.20%, while the 200-Day Moving Average is calculated to be -27.96%.
Shares Statistics:
Over the past 3-months, PSEC traded about 3.07M shares per day on average, while over the past 10 days, PSEC traded about 4183650 shares per day. A total of 451.53M shares are outstanding, with a floating share count of 323.47M. Insiders hold about 28.34% of the company’s shares, while institutions hold 13.33% stake in the company. Shares short for PSEC as of 1752537600 were 28884549 with a Short Ratio of 9.41, compared to 1749772800 on 29228575. Therefore, it implies a Short% of Shares Outstanding of 28884549 and a Short% of Float of 8.870000000000001.
Dividends & Splits
PSEC’s forward annual dividend rate is 0.58, up from 0.645 a year ago. Against a Trailing Annual Dividend Yield of 0.21717171The stock’s 5-year Average Dividend Yield is 11.93.
