Financial Services
Live Price
Offline$24.95
-0.20% today
1Y Change
+0.00%
Window
Jun 26, 2025 → Jun 23, 2026
Coverage: 248 bars · Jun 26, 2025 → Jun 23, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
Hercules Capital, Inc. (HCXY) is a Financial Services stock with a market cap of $3.50B and listed on NYSE. The stock last traded around $24.95 and up 0.0% across the available one-year price window (Jun 26, 2025 → Jun 23, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of +18.3%, EPS growth of +18.0%, a dividend yield of 6.3%. What stands out right now is revenue +18.3%, EPS +18.0%, free cash flow -258.4% with operating margin 87.8% and ROIC 83.1%. The dividend matters to the case here, with a current yield around 6.3%. Valuation is more restrained than many high-expectation growth names at P/E 13.0 and price/sales 7.1. Overall, the current profile looks closer to a quality compounder than a generic broad-market placeholder. Stock Foundry combines HCXY price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Financial Services peers on this page.
Benchmark Edge
Normalized return, excess return, max drawdown, and calendar-year wins against the benchmarks investors actually use.
HCXY
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Normalized return
SPY
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S&P 500
Excess Return
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Relative to SPY
HCXY Max Drawdown
-3.81%
Trailing 1Y
SPY Max Drawdown
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Trailing 1Y
Uses the longest available daily history for HCXY and SPY.
Financial profile
Profitability, balance sheet stamina, and cash efficiency drawn from the latest filings.
FY Revenue
$281.0M
-12.7% YoY
FY Net Income
$174.2M
+70.6% YoY
Free Cash Flow
$128.5M
+130.2% YoY
Revenue Growth
+18.3%
EPS Growth
+18.0%
Gross Margin
110.8%
Net Margin
68.9%
Income statement
USD
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 492M | 416M | 461M | 322M | 281M |
| Gross Profit | 480M | 362M | 461M | 322M | 281M |
| Operating Income | 432M | 237M | 388M | 256M | 221M |
| EBITDA | 432M | 341M | 382M | 251M | 213M |
| Net Income | 340M | 260M | 337M | 102M | 174M |
| EPS (Diluted) | — | — | — | — | — |
Balance sheet
USD
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | 57M | 113M | 99M | 16M | 133M |
| Total Assets | 4.6B | 3.8B | 3.4B | 3.0B | 2.6B |
| Total Liabilities | 2.4B | 1.8B | 1.6B | 1.6B | 1.3B |
| Shareholder Equity | 2.2B | 2.0B | 1.8B | 1.4B | 1.3B |
| Total Debt | 2.3B | 1.8B | 1.6B | 1.6B | 1.2B |
| Net Debt | 2.2B | 1.7B | 1.5B | 1.6B | 1.1B |
Cash flow positioning
Latest Full Year
Operating Cash Flow
129M
+130.3% YoY
Capital Expenditures
106K
+7.0% YoY
Free Cash Flow
129M
+130.2% YoY
Key ratios
Gross Margin
110.8%
Operating Margin
87.8%
Net Margin
68.9%
ROE
15.8%
Debt / Equity
1.04x
Next Step
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