Capital Southwest (NASDAQ:CSWC) Issues Q3 Earnings Guidance

Capital Southwest (NASDAQ:CSWC) updated its third quarter earnings guidance on Wednesday. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $0.62-$0.63 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of $0.62. Capital Southwest also updated its Q3 2025 guidance to 0.630-0.640 EPS.

Capital Southwest Trading Up 1.0 %

NASDAQ CSWC opened at $22.26 on Thursday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.35, a quick ratio of 0.16 and a current ratio of 0.16. Capital Southwest has a one year low of $20.68 and a one year high of $27.23. The company has a 50-day simple moving average of $22.39 and a 200-day simple moving average of $24.24. The firm has a market capitalization of $1.06 billion, a PE ratio of 13.57 and a beta of 1.24.

Capital Southwest (NASDAQ:CSWC) last issued its earnings results on Monday, October 28th. The asset manager reported $0.66 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.65 by $0.01. The company had revenue of $48.71 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $49.79 million. Capital Southwest had a return on equity of 15.54% and a net margin of 37.77%. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $0.69 earnings per share. On average, equities analysts forecast that Capital Southwest will post 2.53 earnings per share for the current year.

Capital Southwest Cuts Dividend

The business also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Tuesday, December 31st. Investors of record on Friday, December 13th were paid a dividend of $0.63 per share. The ex-dividend date was Friday, December 13th. This represents a $2.52 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 11.32%. Capital Southwest’s payout ratio is currently 141.46%.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Separately, B. Riley boosted their price target on shares of Capital Southwest from $24.00 to $24.50 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a report on Wednesday, October 30th.

Capital Southwest Company Profile

Capital Southwest Corporation is a business development company specializing in credit and private equity and venture capital investments in middle market companies, mezzanine, later stage, mature, late venture, emerging growth, buyouts, industry consolidation, recapitalizations and growth capital investments.