Golub Capital BDC, Inc. (GBDC): Are Investors Missing The Big Picture?

Golub Capital BDC, Inc. (NASDAQ:GBDC) does about 859.67K shares in volume on a normal day but saw 605082 shares change hands in Friday trading. The company now has a market cap of 2.90B USD. Its current market price is $16.89, marking an increase of 0.30% compared to the previous close of $16.84. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $17.72 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $12.62.

Golub Capital BDC, Inc. (GBDC) has a 20-day trading average at $16.89 and the current price is -4.68% off the 52-week high compared with 33.80% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $16.36 and its 200-day simple moving average is $15.16. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 1.70%, which decreases to 1.39% over 1 month. It is also key to look at other market indicators of price movement for the stock, where we see that the relative strength index (RSI) is at 52.95 to suggest the stock is neutral.

The consensus objective for the share price is $17.00, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 0.65% over the period.

Raymond James also upgraded the stock to “Outperform” from Mkt Perform on August 09, 2023 at a price target of $15.50. Wells Fargo downgraded its price target at $14.25-$12.25.

Golub Capital BDC, Inc. (GBDC) stock is down -2.93% over the week and 3.05% over the past month. Its price is 12.36% year-to-date and 30.08% over the past year.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 0.65 percent from here.

The company has a return on investment of 5.20% and return on equity of 12.20%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 9.30 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 9.55. The beta has a value of 0.58. Price to book ratio is 1.12 and price to sales ratio is 4.59.