Capital Southwest (NASDAQ:CSWC) Releases 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 Stock Performance

Capital Southwest stock opened at $22.26 on Thursday. The firm’s fifty day moving average price is $22.39 and its 200 day moving average price is $24.24. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.35, a current ratio of 0.16 and a quick ratio of 0.16. The company has a market capitalization of $1.06 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 13.57 and a beta of 1.24. Capital Southwest has a 12-month low of $20.68 and a 12-month high of $27.23.

Capital Southwest (NASDAQ:CSWC) last issued its quarterly 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. Capital Southwest had a return on equity of 15.54% and a net margin of 37.77%. The firm had revenue of $48.71 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $49.79 million. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business posted $0.69 earnings per share. On average, research analysts forecast that Capital Southwest will post 2.53 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Capital Southwest Cuts Dividend

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

Analyst Ratings Changes

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

About Capital Southwest

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.