Gladstone Capital (GLAD)

• Market cap: $556M
• 1 day: 1.34%
• 5 days: 4.53%
• 1 month: -8.45%
• 3 months: -16.41%
• 6 months: -0.36%
• Year to date: -14.37%
• 1 year: 20.81%
• 5 years: 107.24%
• 10 years: 39.79%
• Sector: Financials
• Industry: Asset Management

About: Gladstone Capital Corp is an externally managed, closed-end, non-diversified management investment company. Its investment objectives are to, achieve and grow current income by investing in debt securities of established businesses that would provide stable earnings and cash flow to pay expenses, make principal and interest payments on its outstanding indebtedness, and make distributions to stockholders that grow over time; and provide its stockholders with long-term capital appreciation in the value of its assets by investing in equity securities of established businesses that can grow over time to permit it to sell its equity investments for capital gains.

Employees: 65

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2024 Q4 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

238% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 27 | Existing positions closed: 8

124% more call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $1.12M | Put options by funds: $500K

29% more funds holding

Funds holding: 59 [Q3] → 76 (+17) [Q4]

1% less capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $53.8M [Q3] → $53.2M (-$581K) [Q4]

3.65% less ownership

Funds ownership: 12.03% [Q3] → 8.39% (-3.65%) [Q4]

19% less repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 17 | Existing positions reduced: 21