Main Street Capital (STU:13M) 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio : -7.70% (As of Mar. 2025)

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What is Main Street Capital 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio?

Shares Outstanding (EOP) are shares that have been authorized, issued, and purchased by investors and are held by them.

3-Year Share Buyback Ratio measures the average annual proportion of a company's outstanding shares repurchased over the past three years. It is calculated as the annualized percentage change in shares outstanding from three years ago to the current year. A positive ratio may indicate share buybacks over the period, while a zero or negative ratio may reflect no repurchases or potential share issuance. Main Street Capital's current 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio was -7.70%.

The historical rank and industry rank for Main Street Capital's 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio or its related term are showing as below:

STU:13M' s 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -47.2 Med: -7.8 Max: -1.5
Current: -7.7

During the past 13 years, Main Street Capital's highest 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio was -1.50%. The lowest was -47.20%. And the median was -7.80%.

STU:13M's 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio is ranked worse than
72.99% of 1155 companies
in the Asset Management industry
Industry Median: -0.8 vs STU:13M: -7.70

Competitive Comparison of Main Street Capital's 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio

For the Asset Management subindustry, Main Street Capital's 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio, along with its competitors' market caps and 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.

Main Street Capital's 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio Distribution in the Asset Management Industry

For the Asset Management industry and Financial Services sector, Main Street Capital's 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio distribution charts can be found below:

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Main Street Capital 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio Calculation

This is the annualized percentage change in shares outstanding from three years ago to the current year. The annualized percentage change is calculated with expontential compound based on the latest four years of annual data on Shares Outstanding (EOP).

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Main Street Capital (STU:13M) 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio Explanation

A negative number means the company might be issuing new shares. A positive number indicates that the company is buying back shares.

Be Aware

Investors usually like share buybacks. But as pointed by Warren Buffett, only if a company buys back shares at the prices below the stock's intrinsic value, it rewards remaining shareholders. If a company buys its overvalued stocks back, it destroys shareholder value.

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Main Street Capital Business Description

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MAIN:USA 0JXQ:UK 13M:Germany

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1300 Post Oak Boulevard, 8th Floor, Houston, TX, USA, 77056

Website

https://www.mainstcapital.com

Main Street Capital Corp is an investment firm engaged in providing customized debt and equity financing to lower middle market companies and debt capital to middle market companies. The investment portfolio of the company is typically made to support management buyouts, recapitalizations, growth financings, refinancing, and acquisitions of companies that operate in diverse industry sectors. The group invests in secured debt investments, equity investments, warrants, and other securities of the lower middle market and middle market companies based in the United States. Business functioned through the U.S. region and it derives the majority of its income from the source of fees, commission, and interest.

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