EQS — Equus Total Return Closed Fund

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About Equus Total Return Closed Fund

Equus Total Return, Inc. is a business development company (BDC) specializing in leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, corporate partnerships/joint ventures, growth and expansion capital, acquisition financing, roll-up acquisition strategies, operational turnarounds, recapitalizations of existing businesses, special situations, equity and equity-oriented securities issued by privately owned companies, debt securities including subordinate debt, … Read full Trend Edge analysis →

Trend Edge Proprietary Indicators

Key Metrics

Current Price$1.39
Market Cap$20.1M
Float5.8M
Shares Outstanding14.0M
Price/Sales (TTM)14.65
Operating Margin (TTM)-118.32%
Revenue (TTM)$1.4M
Earnings Growth (YoY)-34.70%
Dividend RateNone

Financial History

Annual Revenue & Earnings History

YearRevenueNet IncomeGross ProfitEBITDA
2020 $318,000 -$12.3M -$7.1M -$12.3M
2021 $6.1M $2.6M $6.1M $2.6M
2022 $2.5M -$1.1M $2.5M -$1.1M
2023 $17.2M $12.9M $17.2M $12.9M
2024 -$14.2M -$18.8M -$14.3M -$18.8M
2025 $1.4M -$14.2M $1.4M -$3.7M

Recent Quarterly Revenue & Net Income

QuarterRevenueNet Income
Jun 2025 $881,000 -$86,000
Sep 2025 -$6.3M -$8.1M
Dec 2025 -$9.2M -$9.9M
Mar 2026 $315,000 -$9.9M

Ownership & Float

Insider Ownership58.2%
Institutional Ownership0.9%
Short Float0.1%
% of All Funds Holding0.10%
Number of Funds Holding8

Current Moving Averages

Trend Edge tracks near-term, medium-term, cyclical, and secular moving averages across weekly and monthly timeframes to identify trend structure at every horizon.

TimeframeSMAValueTrend Context
Weekly10-Week SMA$1.42Near-term / short-term trend
Weekly40-Week SMA$1.68Medium-term trend
Weekly80-Week SMA$1.45Cyclical trend (business cycle)
Weekly200-Week SMA$1.50Secular trend (multi-year)
Monthly10-Month SMA$1.64Near-term monthly trend
Monthly20-Month SMA$1.43Medium-term monthly trend
Monthly40-Month SMA$1.45Secular monthly trend

Volume Shelves — Support & Resistance

Trend Edge identifies volume shelves: price zones where historically elevated trading volume creates structural support or resistance. A volume shelf forms when a disproportionate share of cumulative volume was transacted at a specific price level, making it a high-conviction anchor for future price reactions.

Price LevelTypeVolume RatioAge
$1.00 support 2.00x 10 months ago

Historical Earnings Reactions (74 events)

TimeframeAvg ReturnMedianWin RateBestWorst
Gap -0.26% 0.00% 35.14% 9.94% -9.81%
1 Day -0.13% -0.49% 39.19% 9.03% -6.18%
1 Week 0.08% -0.46% 41.89% 24.36% -17.31%
2 Weeks 0.48% -0.53% 43.24% 37.18% -30.32%
1 Month 1.00% -0.72% 40.54% 75.64% -46.28%

Next earnings: May 13, 2025

Seasonality & Day-of-Week Patterns

Monthly Seasonality

MonthAvg ReturnWin RateSamples
Jan2.4%58.8%34
Feb-1.0%32.4%34
Mar-1.9%41.2%34
Apr0.0%44.1%34
May0.8%51.5%33
Jun2.2%54.5%33
Jul-0.7%27.3%33
Aug0.5%51.5%33
Sep-2.0%30.3%33
Oct-0.1%44.1%34
Nov-1.5%47.1%34
Dec1.5%29.4%34

Day-of-Week Tendencies

DayAvg ReturnWin RateSamples
Monday 0.03% 40.4% 1596
Tuesday -0.07% 37.9% 1742
Wednesday -0.00% 40.9% 1740
Thursday -0.06% 39.0% 1706
Friday 0.12% 40.3% 1698

Top Institutional Holders

Institutional holder breakdown coming soon.

Total institutional ownership: 0.9%

Insider Transactions — Smart Summary

Total insider ownership: 58.2%

Full insider transaction history and smart buy/sell sentiment summary available on Trend Edge.

AI Consult Analysis

Trend Edge's AI Consult feature delivers a comprehensive, multi-layer trade plan for Equus Total Return Closed Fund (EQS) powered by Claude Opus — Anthropic's most capable AI model. The analysis covers five layers: technical analysis (near-term, medium-term, cyclical, and secular trend, momentum, volume shelf support and resistance, breakout and breakdown signals), qualitative analysis (business model, competitive moat, sector dynamics), insider sentiment (buy and sell signals from executive and director transactions), share stats analysis (institutional accumulation, fund positioning, short float squeeze potential), and fundamental analysis (valuation, revenue growth, profit margin, earnings quality).

AI Consult synthesizes all five layers into a single bullish or bearish thesis with explicit entry, exit, stop loss, and take profit levels — giving you a complete, AI-powered trade plan with defined risk/reward. Whether you are building a long position, initiating a short, or looking for a reversal setup, AI Consult identifies the highest-probability signal from the current trend.

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