Capital Southwest Corp (CSWC): Investing In A Time Of Crisis

Capital Southwest Corp (NASDAQ:CSWC) currently has a daily average trading volume of 639.29K but it saw 966943 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 993.93M USD, the company’s current market price of $19.65 came rising about 0.87 while comparing to the previous closing price of $19.48. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $27.03 and as low as $17.46. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $19.41 while lowest mark touched by it was $20.0.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Capital Southwest Corp (CSWC) gives us an average price of $20.35, while its current price level is -27.31% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 12.54% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $21.80 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $23.47. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 2.53% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 4.07%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 41.53 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

B. Riley Securities downgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Neutral” from “Buy” on January 08, 2024 while assigning a price target of $23.50. UBS issued its recommendations for the stock as it initiated the price target for the stock is $19.

Over the week, CSWC’s stock price is moving -0.51% down while it is -11.73% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -9.70% down and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -20.83%.

The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Feb-02, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 0.61 while estimate for next year EPS is 2.52. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $55.45M as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $205.11M and seeing the company making $226.39M in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $52.71M for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, Capital Southwest Corp’s total number of outstanding shares is 50.58M with 4.36% of that held by the insiders while 32.70% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 14.04 while having a 8.34 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 1.03. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 1.18 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 5.01.