Golub Capital BDC Inc (GBDC) saw an uptrend of 1.88% in the recent trading with $14.06 being its most recent. The current price level -12.15% lower than the highest price of $16.00 marked by the stock while trading over the past 52-weeks, whereas it is 10.88% higher than the lowest price of $12.68 the company dropped to over past 52-weeks. The latest news story on GBDC appeared in (Business Wire) under the title “Golub Capital BDC, Inc. Schedules Release of Fiscal Year 2025 Fourth Quarter Results”.
Do analysts rate it as a buy, sell or hold?
Irrespective of recent performance, what’s important is what the future holds. In uncertain economic times, a clear picture is difficult to get. Analysts generally have a good understanding of the market works, which gives them a leg up in making predictions. Currently, the stock has been recommended as Strong Buy by 2 of the brokerage firms. Analyst ratings are often compiled into a single score from 1 to 5. The score of 1 signifies buy or strong buy, the score of 2 signifies outperform, the score of 3 means hold, and the score of 4 indicates underperform. The simple numeric range of brokerage firm referenced at the scale of 1 to 5 reads a current average recommendation of 1.80 for the stock.
Golub Capital BDC Inc Earnings – What Happened With GBDC
Coming around sales and income figures on GBDC Stock Income Statement, public trading companies under normal circumstances post earnings and revenues near to average estimates by the Wall Street analysts, but those could came either above or below estimates and known as surprise factor. Golub Capital BDC Inc (GBDC) last released financial results for the quarter that ended 9/30/2024, posting a surprise factor of 1.81% for net revenue.
GBDC – Golub Capital BDC Inc Stock Earnings Estimates
The perspective of Golub Capital BDC Inc (NASDAQ:GBDC)’s current quarter earnings identifies that analysts are in consensus over the estimate of 0.44 for stock’s EPS in the current quarter. Golub Capital BDC Inc (GBDC) last released financial results for the quarter that ended 9/30/2024, posting a surprise factor of 1.81% for net revenue. Company’s EPS for the last quarter was 0.45.
Golub Capital BDC Inc – Insider Activity and Holdings
Investors get the exact data about the key information of institutional ownership in a listed company through its 13F filings at the Stock Exchange Commission (SEC). The total number of common shares currently owned by the public is 266.38 million. GBDC does have institutional investors; and they hold 39.01% of the stock.
As on 2024-06-30, STRS OHIO was the top most holder in Golub Capital BDC Inc (NASDAQ:GBDC) with an ownership of 14.08 million shares of the company or 7.0396 of the stake worth $221.16 million. The filing also reveals CI PRIVATE WEALTH, LLC as the second largest holder in the company with a control over 3.4263 of the outstanding shares. Its stake is worth $107.64 million for having 6.85 million shares in hand.
ROCKEFELLER CAPITAL MANAGEMENT L.P. also came holding a key position in the company during the recent quarter and it now holds 2.0162 of the outstanding shares. With this there are now 361.0 institutions which have possession in GBDC’s shares.
Key Metrics for GBDC
The liquidity is a key characteristic of any stock and is the main point of focus of both short-term as well as long term investors before start trading into a stock. In recently reported quarter, Golub Capital BDC Inc has a debt to equity ratio of 1.28.
