Hercules Capital, Inc.

$15.92 ▲ 2.34%

2026-04-21 07:22:02

www.htgc.com NYQ: HTGC

Explore Hercules Capital, Inc. stock price, valuation, financial statements, dividend history, analyst estimates, and long-term business fundamentals on StockSifting.

Market Cap

$2.92 B

Current Price

$15.92

52W High / Low

$19.67 / $13.7

Stock P/E

8.61

Book Value

$12.28

Dividend Yield

10.05%

ROCE

—

ROE

16.16%

Face Value

—

EPS

$1.85

Exp Qtr EPS

—

Sector

Financial Services

Industry

Asset Management

Employees

100

Beta

0.78

Debt / Equity

103.91

Current Ratio

0.2

Quick Ratio

—

Forward P/E

7.62

Price / Sales

5.16

Enterprise Value

$4.96 B

EV / EBITDA

11.14

EV / Revenue

9.31

Rating

Buy

Target Price

$19.69

EPS Forecast (FY)

—

ABOUT

Hercules Capital, Inc. In essence, is a business development This organization. In essence, the firm specializing in providing private equity, venture debt, and growth capital to privately held venture capital-backed companies at all stages of development from mid venture to expansion stage including select publicly listed companies and select special opportunity companies that require additional capital to fund acquisitions, recapitalizations and refinancing and established-stage companies. In essence, the firm delivers a broad range of growth capital financing solutions for capital extension; management buy-out and corporate spin-out financing solutions; This organization, 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. In essence, it delivers a broad range of 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. In essence, the firm also delivers a broad range of 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 This organization financing to continue asset growth and production capacity; short-term bridge financing; and strategic and intellectual property acquisition financings. In essence, it also focuses on customized financing solutions, emerging growth, mid venture, and late venture financing. In essence, the firm invests primarily in structured debt with warrants and, to a lesser extent, in senior debt and equity investments. In essence, 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. In essence, it prefers to invest in technology, SaaS Finance, energy technology, sustainable and renewable technology, and life sciences. In essence, within technology the firm focuses on advanced specialty materials and chemicals; communication and networking, consumer and business products; consumer products and services, digital media and consumer internet; electronics and computer hardware; enterprise software and services; gaming; healthcare services; information services; business services; media, content and information; mobile; resource management; security software; semiconductors; semiconductors and hardware; and software sector. In essence, within energy technology, it invests in agriculture; clean technology; energy and renewable technology, fuels, and power technology; geothermal; smart grid and energy efficiency and monitoring technologies; solar; and wind. In essence, within life sciences, the firm invests in biopharmaceuticals; biotechnology tools; diagnostics; drug discovery, drug platform, development, and delivery; medical devices and equipment; surgical devices; therapeutics; pharma services; and specialty pharmaceuticals. In essence, within sustainable and renewables, it invests in Vehicle Technology, Energy Generation and Storage, Ag Technology, Advanced Materials, and Industry 4.0. It also invests in educational services. In essence, the firm invests primarily in United States based companies and considers investment in the West Coast, Mid-Atlantic regions, Southeast and Midwest, particularly in the areas of software, biotech, and information services. In essence, the firm prefers to invest between $5 million and $500 million in equity per transactions. In essence, it invests in debt between $1 million and $40 million in companies focused primarily on business services, communications, electronics, hardware, and healthcare services. In essence, the firm invests primarily in private companies but also have investments in public companies. In essence, for equity investments, the firm seeks to represent a controlling interest in its portfolio companies which may exceed 25% of the voting securities of such companies. In essence, the firm seeks to invest a limited portion of its assets in equipment-based loans to early-stage prospective portfolio companies. In essence, these loans are generally for amounts up to $3 million but may be up to $15 million for certain energy technology venture investments. In essence, the firm allows certain debt investments have the right to convert a portion of the debt investment into equity. In essence, it also co-invests with other private equity firms. In essence, the firm seeks to exit its investments through initial public offering, a private sale of equity interest to a third party, a merger or an acquisition of This organization or a purchase of the equity position by This organization or one of its stockholders. In essence, the firm has structured debt with warrants which typically have maturities of between two and seven years with an average of three years; senior debt with an investment horizon of less than three years; equipment loans with an investment horizon ranging from three to four years; and equity related securities with an investment horizon ranging from three to seven years. In essence, the firm prefers to invest through its balance sheet capital. In essence, the firm formerly known as Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Inc. Hercules Capital, Inc. In essence, was founded in December 2003 and is based in San Mateo, California with additional offices in North America and Europe. ROE at 16.16% based on the latest available annual data. Debt to equity stands at 1.04x. Operating margin is 83.82% on trailing numbers. Trailing twelve month sales are available in the dataset.

Pros

Healthy return on equity.
Strong operating margin profile.
Net margin remains healthy.
Valuation is not stretched on P/E basis.
Meaningful dividend yield is available.

Cons

Some data points may be missing or delayed because the source is not an official exchange feed.

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Quarterly Results

Figures shown in M / B

	Q4 2025	Q3 2025	Q2 2025	Q1 2025	Q4 2024
Sales	115.99 M	145.12 M	104.7 M	72.71 M	82.25 M
Operating Profit	—	—	—	—	—
Net Profit	90.83 M	119.69 M	78.89 M	50.34 M	61.44 M
EPS in Rs	0.49	0.65	0.43	0.27	0.33

Profit & Loss

Figures shown in M / B

	2025	2024	2023	2022
Sales	438.52 M	353.75 M	426.5 M	184.64 M
Operating Profit	—	—	—	—
Net Profit	339.74 M	262.97 M	337.48 M	102.08 M
EPS in Rs	1.85	1.43	1.84	0.56

Balance Sheet

Figures shown in M / B

	2025	2024	2023	2022
Total Assets	4.58 B	3.83 B	3.42 B	3.03 B
Total Liabilities	2.37 B	1.84 B	1.61 B	1.63 B
Equity	2.22 B	1.99 B	1.8 B	1.4 B
Current Assets	—	—	—	—
Current Liabilities	—	—	—	—

Cash Flow

Last available yearly cash flow history

	2025	2024	2023	2022
Operating CF	-425.8 M	-118.09 M	68.28 M	-424.8 M
Investing CF	-0.09 M	-0.7 M	-0.89 M	-0.11 M
Financing CF	368.92 M	119.2 M	22.75 M	314.52 M
Free CF	-425.89 M	-118.79 M	67.39 M	-424.91 M
Capex	-0.09 M	-0.7 M	-0.89 M	-0.11 M

5Y Margin & Growth History

Last 5 year derived history from yfinance annual statements

	2025	2024	2023	2022
Revenue Growth %	23.96%	-17.06%	130.99%	—
Earnings Growth %	29.19%	-22.08%	230.6%	—
Profit Margin %	77.47%	74.34%	79.13%	55.29%
Operating Margin %	—	—	—	—
Gross Margin %	—	—	—	—
EBITDA Margin %	—	—	—	—

Dividend & Split History

Latest dividend and stock split events stored from yfinance

Dividend History

Ex Date	Dividend
2026-02-25	$0.47
2025-11-12	$0.47
2025-08-12	$0.47
2025-05-13	$0.47
2025-02-26	$0.47
2024-11-13	$0.4
2024-08-13	$0.48
2024-05-13	$0.48
2024-02-27	$0.48
2023-11-14	$0.48
2023-08-17	$0.48
2023-05-15	$0.47
2023-03-01	$0.47
2022-11-09	$0.51
2022-08-08	$0.5
2022-05-16	$0.48
2022-03-08	$0.48
2021-11-09	$0.4
2021-08-10	$0.39
2021-05-11	$0.39

Stock Splits

No stock split history available.

Shareholding Pattern

Shares and value shown in M / B

Holder Name	Type	Shares	Value	% Out	Report Date
VanEck ETF Trust-VanEck BDC Income ETF	Mutual Fund	2.62 M	$39.08 M	0.01%	2026-02-28
Putnam ETF Trust-Putnam BDC Income ETF	Mutual Fund	0.99 M	$14.81 M	0.01%	2026-01-31
WisdomTree Trust-WisdomTree Private Credit and Alternative Income Fund	Mutual Fund	0.1 M	$1.51 M	0%	2026-01-31
Invesco Exch-Trd Fd. TRT-Invesco Global Listed Private Eqy. ETF	Mutual Fund	0.09 M	$1.28 M	0%	2026-01-31
ETFis Series Trust I-Virtus Private Credit Strategy ETF	Mutual Fund	0.03 M	$0.51 M	0%	2026-01-31
Van Eck Associates Corporation	Institutional	3.46 M	$51.53 M	0.02%	2025-12-31
Sound Income Strategies, LLC	Institutional	2.7 M	$40.28 M	0.01%	2025-12-31
Two Sigma Advisers, LP	Institutional	1.92 M	$28.64 M	0.01%	2025-12-31
LPL Financial LLC	Institutional	1.82 M	$27.17 M	0.01%	2025-12-31
UBS Group AG	Institutional	1.67 M	$24.91 M	0.01%	2025-12-31
Two Sigma Investments, LP	Institutional	1.62 M	$24.09 M	0.01%	2025-12-31
Qube Research & Technologies Ltd	Institutional	1.53 M	$22.75 M	0.01%	2025-12-31
Millennium Management Llc	Institutional	1.39 M	$20.75 M	0.01%	2025-12-31
Legal & General Group PLC	Institutional	1.38 M	$20.59 M	0.01%	2025-12-31
Muzinich & Co., Inc.	Institutional	1.34 M	$19.9 M	0.01%	2025-12-31