The Mysterious Tale of "America's No. 1 Retirement Stock"
This factory of 53,000 employees, in Burbank, CA, was camouflaged to look like a sleepy suburb (with the help of artists, set designers, and painters from nearby Hollywood movie studios). The mysterious company behind this disappearing act is now being called "America's No. 1 Retirement Stock".
Financials
| Curr Year EPS Estimate | 1.32 |
| Next Quarter EPS Estimate | 0.33 |
| Profit Margin | 0.79 |
| Return on Assets | 0.06 |
| Return on Equity | 0.19 |
| Revenue | 287,257,984 |
| Earnings Per Share | 2.01 |
| Revenue Per Share | 2.57 |
| Gross Profit | 287,258,000 |
| Quarterly Revenue Growth | 0.07 |
General
| Name | Hercules Capital, Inc |
| Ticker | HTGC |
| Exchange | NYSE |
| Sector | Financial Services |
| Industry | Mortgage Finance |
| Currency | USD |
| Country | USA |
| Fiscal Year End | December |
| Full Time Employees | 82 |
About Hercules Capital, Inc
Hercules Capital, Inc. is a business development company. The firm specializing in providing venture debt, debt, senior secured loans, and growth capital to privately held venture capital-backed companies at all stages of development from startups, to expansion stage including select publicly listed companies and select special opportunity lower middle market companies that require additional capital to fund acquisitions, recapitalizations and refinancing and established-stage companies. The firm provides growth capital financing solutions for capital extension; management buy-out and corporate spin-out financing solutions; company, asset specific, or intellectual property acquisition financing; convertible, subordinated and/or mezzanine loans; domestic and international corporate expansion; vendor financing; revenue acceleration by sales and marketing development, and manufacturing expansion. It provides asset-based financing with a focus on cash flow; accounts receivable facilities; equipment loans or leases; equipment acquisition; facilities build-out and/or expansion; working capital revolving lines of credit; inventory. The firm also provides bridge financing to IPO or mergers and acquisitions or technology acquisition; dividend recapitalizations and other sources of investor liquidity; cash flow financing to protect against share price volatility; competitor acquisition; pre-IPO financing for extra cash on the balance sheet; public company financing to continue asset growth and production capacity; short-term bridge financing; and strategic and intellectual property acquisition financings. It also focuses on customized financing solutions, emerging growth, mid venture, and late venture financing. The firm invests primarily in structured debt with warrants and, to a lesser extent, in senior debt and equity investments. The firm generally seeks to invest in companies that have been operating for at least six to 12 months prior to the date of their investment. It prefers to invest in technology, energy technol
Dividend
Hercules Capital, Inc pays out a dividend of $1.28 per share, with a dividend yield of 9.59%.
HTGC's last dividend payment was made to shareholders on March 15, 2021.
They pay out 96.43% of their earnings out as a dividend.
Recent Dividends
| Mar 6, 2024 | $0.08 |
| Nov 22, 2023 | $0.08 |
| Aug 25, 2023 | $0.08 |
| May 23, 2023 | $0.08 |
| Mar 9, 2023 | $0.39 |
| Nov 17, 2022 | $0.15 |
| Aug 16, 2022 | $0.35 |
| May 24, 2022 | $0.15 |
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