Financial Services
Main Street Capital Corporation(MAIN)
Live Price
Offline$50.97
+0.71% today
1Y Change
-13.19%
Window
Jun 25, 2025 β Jun 17, 2026
- Market Cap
- $5.06B
- Revenue Growth
- -11.1%
- EPS Growth
- -5.6%
- Dividend Yield
- 7.6%
Coverage: 246 bars Β· Jun 25, 2025 β Jun 17, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
Main Street Capital Corporation (MAIN) is a Financial Services stock with a market cap of $5.06B and listed on NYSE. The stock last traded around $50.97 and down 13.2% across the available one-year price window (Jun 25, 2025 β Jun 17, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of -11.1%, EPS growth of -5.6%, a dividend yield of 7.6%. What stands out right now is revenue -11.1%, EPS -5.6%, free cash flow +498.8% with operating margin 70.8% and ROIC 8.6%. The dividend matters to the case here, with a current yield around 7.6%. Valuation is more restrained than many high-expectation growth names at P/E 10.2 and price/sales 6.9. Overall, the current profile looks closer to a income-oriented value setup than a generic broad-market placeholder. Stock Foundry combines MAIN price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Financial Services peers on this page.
Sector Context
How this name stacks up against nearby peers on first-pass metrics.
Revenue Growth
Below sector median
-11.1% vs +3.4% peer median
Operating Margin
Above sector median
+70.8% vs +4.7% peer median
What Changed This Quarter
Latest report context and the signals most likely to have changed the story.
Latest report is on the board
2026 was reported on May 14, 2026, but the surprise data is still limited.
The operating picture looks softer than before
Revenue is at -11.1% and EPS is at -5.6%, with operating margin around 70.8%.
Shareholder return is still part of the story
The stock is still offering a dividend yield around 7.6%, which matters if the thesis depends on income as much as growth.
Earnings Reaction Memory
How the stock has tended to move after recent reports.
Across the last 3 reported quarters, the stock averaged +1.4% over the next 5 trading days and finished higher after 3 of those reports.
View quarter-by-quarter reaction table
| Quarter | EPS Ξ | 1D | 5D | 20D |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2026 May 14, 2026 | β | -0.5% | +0.7% | +2.6% |
2026 Feb 26, 2026 | +3.8% | -2.2% | +0.4% | -8.9% |
2025 Nov 6, 2025 | -6.7% | +2.7% | +3.1% | +6.3% |
Benchmark Edge
MAIN vs SPY, QQQ, and Sector ETFs
Normalized return, excess return, max drawdown, and calendar-year wins against the benchmarks investors actually use.
MAIN
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Normalized return
SPY
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S&P 500
Excess Return
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Relative to SPY
MAIN Max Drawdown
-26.52%
Trailing 1Y
SPY Max Drawdown
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Calendar-Year Returns
Uses the longest available daily history for MAIN and SPY.
Company Overview
Main Street Capital Corporation
New York Stock Exchange
Main Street Capital Corporation is a business development company specializes in equity capital to lower middle market companies. The firm specializing in recapitalizations, management buyouts, refinancing, family estate planning, management buyouts, refinancing, industry consolidation, mature, later stage emerging growth. The firm also provides debt capital to middle market companies for acquisitions, management buyouts, growth financings, recapitalizations and refinancing. The firm seeks to partner with entrepreneurs, business owners and management teams and generally provides one stop financing alternatives within its lower middle market portfolio. It prefers to invest in air freight and logistics, auto components, building products, chemicals, commercial services, computers, construction and engineering, consumer finance, consumer services, electronic equipment, energy equipment and services, financial services, health care equipment, health care providers, hotels, restaurants, and leisure, internet software and services, IT Services, machinery, oil, gas and consumable fuels, paper and forest products, professional and industrial services, road and rail, software, specialty retail, telecommunication, consumer discretionary, energy, materials, technology, and transportation. The firm typically invests in lower middle market companies generally with annual revenues between $5 million and $300 million. It prefers to invest in ranging between $2 million and $75 million in equity investment and enterprise value in ranging between $3 million and $20 million. The firm typically prefers to invest in the range of $5 million and $50 million per transaction in debt investment value and in the range of $1 million and $20 million in annual EBITDA. The firm's middle market debt investments are made in businesses that are generally larger in size than its lower middle market portfolio companies. It takes 5 percent minority and up to 50 percent majority equity investments. Main Street Capital Corporation was founded in 2007 and is based in Houston, Texas with an additional office in ChojnΓ³w, Poland.
- Leadership
- Dwayne Louis Hyzak
- IPO Date
- Oct 9, 2007
- Employees
- 104
- Street Address
- 1300 Post Oak Boulevard
- Mailing
- Houston, TX, 77056
- Region
- Houston, TX, US
- Reporting Currency
- USD
- Investor Line
- 713 350 6000
- Last Updated
- May 2, 2026
Key Fundamentals
Valuation, growth, profitability, and balance sheet signals.
Valuation
- P/E
- 10.2
- EV/EBITDA
- 14.4
- Price/Sales
- 6.9
- Price/Book
- 1.7
Growth
- Revenue
- -11.1%
- EPS
- -5.6%
- Free Cash Flow
- +498.8%
Profitability
- Gross Margin
- 86.9%
- Operating Margin
- 70.8%
- Net Margin
- 67.2%
- ROE
- 16.9%
- ROIC
- 8.6%
Balance Sheet
- Debt/Equity
- 0.82
- Current Ratio
- 449.84
Earnings Reports
Latest News
Official Releases
Company announcements and filings-style updates.
Next Step
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