Gladstone Investment Corporation (GAIN) saw downtrend of -0.14% in the recent trading with $13.97 being its most recent. The current price level -5.57% lower than the highest price of $14.79 marked by the stock while trading over the past 52-weeks, whereas it is 26.84% higher than the lowest price of $11.01 the company dropped to over past 52-weeks. The latest news story on GAIN appeared in (ACCESSWIRE) under the title “Gladstone Investment Announces Intent to Redeem All Outstanding 8.00% Notes due 2028”.
Squeezing the time span to 30 day period shows us the stock is currently trading -1.27% below one month high and is +3.33% above of the lowest during that time. Looking into the simple moving average, Gladstone Investment Corporation (GAIN)’s stock stands at a SMA-50 of $13.84 while that of 5-day is reading $13.81.
Daily rise and fall of price influence many of the traders, and in order to overcome the fluctuating effect of that and to watch the stock closely, traders focus more on stock’s 200-day moving average. At various points in trading activity, investors are more likely to be making use of that measure as a strong indicator in figuring out their support and resistance levels, and GAIN’s SMA-200 as of now is $13.90.
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 Moderate Buy by 1 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 2.00 for the stock.
Gladstone Investment Corporation Earnings – What Happened With GAIN
Coming around sales and income figures on GAIN 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. Gladstone Investment Corporation (GAIN) last released financial results for the quarter that ended 12/31/2024, posting a surprise factor of -87.39% for net revenue.
GAIN – Gladstone Investment Corporation Stock Earnings Estimates
The perspective of Gladstone Investment Corporation (NASDAQ:GAIN)’s current quarter earnings identifies that analysts are in consensus over the estimate of 0.24 for stock’s EPS in the current quarter. Gladstone Investment Corporation (GAIN) last released financial results for the quarter that ended 12/31/2024, posting a surprise factor of -87.39% for net revenue. Company’s EPS for the last quarter was 0.03.
Gladstone Investment Corporation – 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 39.59 million. GAIN does have institutional investors; and they hold 15.75% of the stock.
As on 2024-06-30, MELIA WEALTH LLC was the top most holder in Gladstone Investment Corporation (NASDAQ:GAIN) with an ownership of 0.97 million shares of the company or 2.6416 of the stake worth $13.55 million. The filing also reveals VAN ECK ASSOCIATES CORP as the second largest holder in the company with a control over 2.3034 of the outstanding shares. Its stake is worth $11.81 million for having 0.85 million shares in hand.
LEGAL & GENERAL GROUP PLC also came holding a key position in the company during the recent quarter and it now holds 0.7978 of the outstanding shares. With this there are now 106.0 institutions which have possession in GAIN’s shares.
Key Metrics for GAIN
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, Gladstone Investment Corporation has a debt to equity ratio of 1.04.
Technical Analysis of Gladstone Investment Corporation (NASDAQ:GAIN) stock
To comprehend better with the trade moves and investors’ behavior, exploring the short, medium and long term technical indicators along with average volume of a stock is an effective way to make use of. When looking into those indicators for Gladstone Investment Corporation (GAIN), we notice that the stock’s 20-day average volume is at 121,280 shares and 50% of short term indicators are suggesting the stock as Sell. Medium term indicators at an average of 50% are spotting the stock at Sell with its 50-day average volume of 150,316 shares. And to end, GAIN’s 100-day average volume is 148,531 shares with 25% of the long-term indicators pointing towards Buy for the stock.
