Prospect Capital Corporation offers extreme value at 6.6x forward earnings with a 4-for-4 beat streak and 17.6% free cash flow yield, but is in a confirmed price downtrend with a 1.4%/month declining 200-day moving average slope and faces negative revenue growth of -12%, making the setup a deep value trap risk.
Thesis pillars
- Revenue Declining Negative Growth→Stable
- Deep Value Beat Streak→Stable
- Confirmed Price Downtrend↓Deteriorating
- +1 more pillar — see the Why tab for full reasoning
Prospect Capital Corporation (PSEC) Stock Analysis
Falling Knife setup · Inst Constrain edge
Financial Services · Asset Management
Hold if already holding. Not a fresh buy at $1.63, but acceptable to hold if already in. Reasons: Thin upside margin: 4.3%; Weak growth.
Prospect Capital is a business development company that lends to and invests in private companies, including CLOs, spread across 32 industry categories. It earns net investment income from interest and fees, and pays its investment adviser a 2% base management fee plus an income... Read more
Hold if already holding. Not a fresh buy at $1.63, but acceptable to hold if already in. Reasons: Thin upside margin: 4.3%; Weak growth. Chart setup: Death cross, below all MAs, RSI 8, MACD bearish. Maintain position. Not compelling to add more. Score 5.4/10, moderate confidence.
Passes 6/9 gates (clean insider activity, no SEC red flags, news events none recent, earnings proximity no date, semi cycle peak clear, materials cycle peak clear). Fails on weak momentum and favorable risk/reward ratio and death cross (50MA < 200MA). Suitability: speculative.
About Prospect Capital Corporation
About Prospect Capital Corporation
Prospect Capital Corporation held approximately $7 billion in total assets as of June 30, 2025, investing primarily in senior and secured first- and second-lien loans to privately-held U.S. middle-market companies with annual revenues below $750 million and enterprise values below $1 billion. The portfolio spans 32 industry categories, with no individual industry exceeding 19.5% of the portfolio on a cost or fair-value basis, and the company is regulated as a business development company under the Investment Company Act of 1940.
Prospect earns net investment income from interest, dividends, and fees on its debt and equity investments, structured as senior and secured loans typically under $250 million per deal, supplemented by a smaller allocation to CLO equity and junior debt tranches and controlling equity positions in real estate investment trusts held through National Property REIT Corp. The company is externally managed by Prospect Capital Management, which earns a base management fee equal to 2.00% annualized on gross assets plus a two-part incentive fee: 100% of net investment income between the 7.00% annualized hurdle rate and a catch-up threshold, 20% above that, and 20% of realized capital gains net of losses and unrealized depreciation at year-end. As a regulated investment company, Prospect must distribute most of its income to maintain its tax status, and it funds new investments partly with borrowed money, subject to a 150% asset-coverage requirement under the 1940 Act.
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Prospect's investment decisions run entirely through an external adviser rather than in-house staff, and the 10-K names two specific individuals — John F. Barry III and M. Grier Eliasek — whose departure it says 'could have a materially adverse effect' on the company's ability to achieve its investment objective; Mr. Barry also controls the adviser itself. That structural dependency compounds a separate concentration risk the filing discloses on the investment side: the portfolio contains a limited number of portfolio companies, some of which comprise a substantial percentage of the total, so a single borrower default carries a greater-than-typical loss risk for a BDC of Prospect's scale.
See also: Financial Services · Asset Management
From Prospect Capital Corporation's most recent 10-K filing, extracted August 30, 2026.
Recent developments
updated 2026-10-16Recent Developments — Prospect Capital Corporation
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- NEWS Prospect Capital (NASDAQ:PSEC) Stock Passes Above 200-Day Moving Average - Should You Sell? - MarketBeat — MarketBeat neutral
- NEWS Prospect Capital schedules FY26 earnings release for Aug 20 - scanx.trade — scanx.trade neutral
- NEWS Prospect Capital Corporation Announces Timing for Fiscal 2026 Form 10-K Filing, Earnings Release and Conference Call - Q — Quiver Quantitative neutral
- NEWS Prospect Capital Schedules Fiscal Year Earnings Release and Conference Call - marketscreener.com — marketscreener.com neutral
- NEWS Prospect Capital Corporation 5.35% Series A Fixed Rate Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock (PSEC/PA) - Minichart — Minichart neutral
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Rating Breakdown
2 floor-breakers·1 ceiling hit
Revenue shrinking — -6.7% YoY. Growth thesis broken unless recovery story develops.static
Price action weak — below key moving averages, no momentum carry. Needs a base before trend-continuation setups apply.static
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Hold if already holding. Not a fresh buy at $1.63, but acceptable to hold if already in. Reasons: Thin upside margin: 4.3%; Weak growth. Chart setup: Death cross, below all MAs, RSI 8, MACD bearish. Maintain position. Not compelling to add more. Target $1.70 (+4.3%), stop $1.54 (−5.8%), A.R:R 0.4:1. Score 5.4/10, moderate confidence.
Take-profit target: $1.70 (+4.3% upside). Target $1.70 (+4.3%), stop $1.54 (−5.8%), A.R:R 0.4:1. Stop-loss: $1.54.
Thin upside margin: 4.3%; Weak growth; Negative momentum.
Prospect Capital Corporation trades at a P/E of 26.7 (forward 4.6). TrendMatrix value score: 8.8/10. Verdict: Hold.
6 analysts cover PSEC with a consensus score of 2.0/5. Average price target: $2.
What does Prospect Capital Corporation do?Prospect Capital is a business development company that lends to and invests in private companies, including CLOs,...
Prospect Capital is a business development company that lends to and invests in private companies, including CLOs, spread across 32 industry categories. It earns net investment income from interest and fees, and pays its investment adviser a 2% base management fee plus an income incentive fee.