MAIN — Main Street Capital Corporation

Founder-Led

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Trend Edge Setup Score

Trend Edge rates MAIN Bearish with a Setup Score of 45, net conviction 23, actionability 90. How the Setup Score works →

Total Setup Score45
Directional BiasBearish
Net Conviction23
Actionability90 (in range)

Key signals behind this score

About Main Street Capital Corporation

Main Street Capital Corporation is a business development company and a small business investment company specializing in direct and indirect investments. In direct investments, the firm specializes in private equity capital to lower middle market companies. The firm specializes in recapitalizations, loan, growth capital, mezzanine debt, corporate carveouts, family estate planning, management buyouts, refinancing, private loan, private credit sol… Read full Trend Edge analysis →

Trend Edge Proprietary Indicators

Key Metrics

Current Price$52.84
Market Cap$4.80B
Float89.3M
Shares Outstanding93.0M
P/E (Forward)13.37
P/E (TTM)10.88
Price/Sales (TTM)8.44
vs. Analyst Target+8.5% to analyst PT
Profit Margin74.86%
Operating Margin (TTM)87.00%
Revenue (TTM)$569M
Earnings Growth (YoY)-58.70%
Dividend Rate4.4%
Analyst Target Price$57.33 (7 analysts)

Financial History

Annual Revenue & Earnings History

YearRevenueNet IncomeGross ProfitEBITDA
2020 $223M $29.4M $51.0M $15.8M
2021 $411M $331M $411M $844M
2022 $331M $242M $331M $318M
2023 $612M $428M $510M $454M
2024 $725M $508M $601M $544M
2025 $645M $493M $645M $527M

Recent Quarterly Revenue & Net Income

QuarterRevenueNet Income
Jun 2025 $177M $123M
Sep 2025 $184M $124M
Dec 2025 $203M $131M
Mar 2026 $164M $49.0M

Ownership & Float

Insider Ownership3.8%
Institutional Ownership26.2%
Short Float10.9%
% of All Funds Holding4.79%
Number of Funds Holding394

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$51.59Near-term / short-term trend
Weekly40-Week SMA$56.42Medium-term trend
Weekly80-Week SMA$58.21Cyclical trend (business cycle)
Weekly200-Week SMA$49.52Secular trend (multi-year)
Monthly10-Month SMA$56.07Near-term monthly trend
Monthly20-Month SMA$58.14Medium-term monthly trend
Monthly40-Month SMA$51.84Secular 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
$56.00 resistance 1.20x 1 months ago
$63.00 resistance 1.10x 4 months ago

Historical Earnings Reactions (75 events)

TimeframeAvg ReturnMedianWin RateBestWorst
Gap 0.02% 0.07% 56.00% 4.88% -9.77%
1 Day 0.24% 0.54% 62.67% 7.70% -9.36%
1 Week 1.11% 1.52% 61.33% 14.21% -10.33%
2 Weeks 0.76% 1.43% 62.67% 15.51% -26.88%
1 Month 1.37% 1.85% 60.00% 24.17% -46.78%

Next earnings: August 6, 2026 (24 days away)

Seasonality & Day-of-Week Patterns

Monthly Seasonality

MonthAvg ReturnWin RateSamples
Jan1.3%52.6%19
Feb0.9%63.2%19
Mar-2.3%52.6%19
Apr3.2%68.4%19
May-0.6%36.8%19
Jun1.6%73.7%19
Jul2.2%72.2%18
Aug0.8%61.1%18
Sep-1.9%38.9%18
Oct0.1%50.0%18
Nov3.8%89.5%19
Dec0.7%52.6%19

Day-of-Week Tendencies

DayAvg ReturnWin RateSamples
Monday -0.01% 54.1% 885
Tuesday 0.05% 51.5% 968
Wednesday 0.02% 52.0% 968
Thursday -0.02% 51.2% 948
Friday 0.17% 55.4% 943

Top Institutional Holders

Institutional holder breakdown coming soon.

Total institutional ownership: 26.2%

Insider Transactions — Smart Summary

Total insider ownership: 3.8%

Founder-led management: Vincent D. Foster (Chairman of Board of Directors)

12-Month Insider Activity Summary

Total Filings2
Net Value-$1.3M
Net Shares Change-21,830
% of Float-0.0%
C-Suite Filings2
Clusters Detected0

Key Insiders

NameTitleNet ValueFilingsActivity
Meserve Nicholas MANAGING DIRECTOR -$940,100 1 1 sell
Beauvais Jason B EVP, GC, SECRETARY -$353,315.9 1 1 sell

Significant Filings

DateInsiderTitleNet ValuePrice After
2026-06-30 Beauvais Jason B EVP, GC, SECRETARY -$353,315.9 Transaction at $51.73, now +2.1%
2025-08-14 Meserve Nicholas MANAGING DIRECTOR -$940,100 Transaction at $67.15, now -21.3%

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AI Consult Analysis

Trend Edge's AI Consult feature delivers a comprehensive, multi-layer trade plan for Main Street Capital Corporation (MAIN) 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).

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