Hercules Capital Inc (HTGC) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $19.09, with 5.57 million shares of worth about $106.37 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 0.32% during that period and on March 05, 2025 the price saw a loss of about -4.41%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 173.15M shares, out of which, 169.33M shares are available for trading.
According to filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), insiders took part in trade of the company’s stock for 0 times over the past 12 months. They bought 0 shares in 0 of the transactions. In 0 selling transactions, insiders dumped 0 shares.
Stock saw a price change of -7.46% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -8.75%. Year-to-date (YTD), HTGC shares are showing a performance of -4.66% which increased to 7.49% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $16.75 but also hit the highest price of $21.97 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Hercules Capital Inc shares is 980.57K. The stock is currently trading -8.58% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -6.91% for SMA50 and it goes to -3.18% lower than SMA200.
Hercules Capital Inc (NYSE: HTGC) currently have 173.15M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 28.94% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $3.31B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.06. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 11.86, while it has posted earnings per share of $1.61 in the same period. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for HTGC, volatility over the week remained 3.05% while standing at 2.17% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -1.80% while it is estimated to increase by 3.54% in next year.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by Keefe Bruyette on December 12, 2024 offering an Outperform rating for the stock and assigned a target price range of between $19.50 and $21.50 to it. Coverage by Compass Point stated Hercules Capital Inc (HTGC) stock as a Neutral in their note to investors on January 16, 2024, suggesting a price target of $17.50 for the stock. On November 21, 2023, UBS Initiated their recommendations, while on August 30, 2023, Compass Point Upgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $17.50. Stock get a Mkt perform rating from Keefe Bruyette on August 04, 2023.
