Capital Southwest (NASDAQ:CSWC) Releases Q3 2025 Earnings Guidance

Capital Southwest (NASDAQ:CSWC) updated its third quarter 2025 earnings guidance on Wednesday. The company provided earnings per share guidance of 0.630-0.640 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of 0.620. The company issued revenue guidance of -. Capital Southwest also updated its Q3 guidance to $0.62-$0.63 EPS.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

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

Capital Southwest Stock Performance

Shares of NASDAQ CSWC traded up $0.22 during mid-day trading on Wednesday, hitting $22.26. The company had a trading volume of 339,316 shares, compared to its average volume of 396,422. Capital Southwest has a 12 month low of $20.68 and a 12 month high of $27.23. The firm has a market cap of $1.06 billion, a P/E ratio of 13.57 and a beta of 1.24. The business’s 50-day simple moving average is $22.40 and its 200-day simple moving average is $24.26. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.35, a current ratio of 0.16 and a quick ratio of 0.16.

Capital Southwest (NASDAQ:CSWC) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Monday, October 28th. The asset manager reported $0.66 EPS for the quarter, topping 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 quarter last year, the company earned $0.69 EPS. As a group, analysts predict that Capital Southwest will post 2.53 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Capital Southwest Cuts Dividend

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

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.