Prospect Capital Earnings Estimate
| PSEC Stock | USD 5.48 0.08 1.48% |
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Prospect Capital Earnings per Share Projection vs Actual
About Prospect Capital Earnings Estimate
The earnings estimate module is a useful tool to check what professional financial analysts are assuming about the future of Prospect Capital earnings. We show available consensus EPS estimates for the upcoming years and quarters. Investors can also examine how these consensus opinions have evolved historically. We show current Prospect Capital estimates, future projections, as well as estimates 1, 2, and three years ago. Investors can search for a specific entity to conduct investment planning and build diversified portfolios. Please note, earnings estimates provided by Macroaxis are the average expectations of expert analysts that we track. If a given stock such as Prospect Capital fails to match professional earnings estimates, it usually performs purely. Wall Street refers to that as a 'negative surprise.' If a company 'beats' future estimates, it's usually called an 'upside surprise.'
Please read more on our stock advisor page.| Last Reported | Projected for Next Year | ||
| Retained Earnings | -352.2 M | -334.6 M | |
| Earnings Yield | (0.04) | (0.04) | |
| Price Earnings Ratio | (27.96) | (26.56) | |
| Price Earnings To Growth Ratio | 0.20 | 0.21 |
Prospect Capital Investors Sentiment
The influence of Prospect Capital's investor sentiment on the probability of its price appreciation or decline could be a good factor in your decision-making process regarding taking a position in Prospect. The overall investor sentiment generally increases the direction of a stock movement in a one-year investment horizon. However, the impact of investor sentiment on the entire stock market does not have solid backing from leading economists and market statisticians.
Investor biases related to Prospect Capital's public news can be used to forecast risks associated with an investment in Prospect. The trend in average sentiment can be used to explain how an investor holding Prospect can time the market purely based on public headlines and social activities around Prospect Capital. Please note that most equities that are difficult to arbitrage are affected by market sentiment the most.
Prospect Capital's market sentiment shows the aggregated news analyzed to detect positive and negative mentions from the text and comments. The data is normalized to provide daily scores for Prospect Capital's and other traded tickers. The bigger the bubble, the more accurate is the estimated score. Higher bars for a given day show more participation in the average Prospect Capital's news discussions. The higher the estimated score, the more favorable is the investor's outlook on Prospect Capital.
Some investors attempt to determine whether the market's mood is bullish or bearish by monitoring changes in market sentiment. Unlike more traditional methods such as technical analysis, investor sentiment usually refers to the aggregate attitude towards Prospect Capital in the overall investment community. So, suppose investors can accurately measure the market's sentiment. In that case, they can use it for their benefit. For example, some tools to gauge market sentiment could be utilized using contrarian indexes, Prospect Capital's short interest history, or implied volatility extrapolated from Prospect Capital options trading.
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Is Prospect Capital's industry expected to grow? Or is there an opportunity to expand the business' product line in the future? Factors like these will boost the valuation of Prospect Capital. If investors know Prospect will grow in the future, the company's valuation will be higher. The financial industry is built on trying to define current growth potential and future valuation accurately. All the valuation information about Prospect Capital listed above have to be considered, but the key to understanding future value is determining which factors weigh more heavily than others.
Quarterly Earnings Growth (0.78) | Dividend Share 0.72 | Earnings Share (0.20) | Revenue Per Share 2.183 | Quarterly Revenue Growth (0.01) |
The market value of Prospect Capital is measured differently than its book value, which is the value of Prospect that is recorded on the company's balance sheet. Investors also form their own opinion of Prospect Capital's value that differs from its market value or its book value, called intrinsic value, which is Prospect Capital's true underlying value. Investors use various methods to calculate intrinsic value and buy a stock when its market value falls below its intrinsic value. Because Prospect Capital's market value can be influenced by many factors that don't directly affect Prospect Capital's underlying business (such as a pandemic or basic market pessimism), market value can vary widely from intrinsic value.
Please note, there is a significant difference between Prospect Capital's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if Prospect Capital is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, Prospect Capital's price is the amount at which it trades on the open market and represents the number that a seller and buyer find agreeable to each party.