Hercules Capital (HTGC) reported $119.51 million in revenue for the quarter ended March 2025, representing a year-over-year decline of 1.7%. EPS of $0.45 for the same period compares to $0.50 a year ago.
The reported revenue represents a surprise of -1.91% over the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $121.83 million. With the consensus EPS estimate being $0.46, the EPS surprise was -2.17%.
While investors scrutinize revenue and earnings changes year-over-year and how they compare with Wall Street expectations to determine their next move, some key metrics always offer a more accurate picture of a company's financial health.
Since these metrics play a crucial role in driving the top- and bottom-line numbers, comparing them with the year-ago numbers and what analysts estimated about them helps investors better project a stock's price performance.
Here is how Hercules Capital performed in the just reported quarter in terms of the metrics most widely monitored and projected by Wall Street analysts:
- Total Fee Income: $3.94 million versus $6.02 million estimated by four analysts on average.
- Total interest and dividend income: $102.10 million compared to the $115.81 million average estimate based on four analysts.
- Fee Income- Non-control/Non-affiliate investments: $3.90 million versus the two-analyst average estimate of $6.46 million.
- Interest and dividend income- Control investments: $3.10 million versus $3.39 million estimated by two analysts on average.
- Fee Income- Control investments: $0.04 million versus the two-analyst average estimate of $0.04 million.
- Interest and dividend income- Non-control/Non-affiliate investments: $99 million compared to the $112.37 million average estimate based on two analysts.
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Shares of Hercules Capital have returned -6.1% over the past month versus the Zacks S&P 500 composite's -0.7% change. The stock currently has a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold), indicating that it could perform in line with the broader market in the near term.
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