Golub Capital BDC (GBDC) Stock Price, News & Analysis

5 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Golub Capital BDC in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating and 4 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" GBDC shares.
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5 Wall Street analysts have issued 12-month price targets for Golub Capital BDC's stock. Their GBDC share price targets range from $15.50 to $17.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $16.40 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 1.6%.
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Golub Capital BDC's stock was trading at $15.10 at the start of the year. Since then, GBDC stock has increased by 10.3% and is now trading at $16.66.
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Golub Capital BDC saw a increase in short interest during the month of March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 3,850,000 shares, an increase of 9.1% from the March 15th total of 3,530,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 887,100 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 4.3 days. Approximately 2.3% of the company's stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, May 6th 2024.
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Golub Capital BDC, Inc. (NASDAQ:GBDC) released its earnings results on Monday, February, 5th. The investment management company reported $0.50 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.51 by $0.01. The investment management company earned $164.77 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $160.93 million. Golub Capital BDC had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 12.53% and a net margin of 48.94%.

Golub Capital BDC announced a Variable dividend on Friday, February 2nd. Stockholders of record on Thursday, February 15th will be given a dividend of $0.07 per share on Friday, March 15th. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, February 14th.
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Golub Capital BDC (NASDAQ:GBDC) pays an annual dividend of $1.56 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 9.43%. GBDC has a dividend yield higher than 75% of all dividend-paying stocks, making it a leading dividend payer. The company has been increasing its dividend for 4 consecutive year(s), indicating that it does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 85.71%. Payout ratios above 75% are not desirable because they may not be sustainable. Based on EPS estimates, GBDC will have a dividend payout ratio of 88.64% in the coming year. This indicates that the company may not be able to sustain their current dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Golub Capital BDC (NASDAQ:GBDC) stock in their portfolio include Putnam BDC Income ETF (PBDC), VanEck BDC Income ETF (BIZD), ProShares Global Listed Private Equity ETF (PEX), WisdomTree Alternative Income Fund (HYIN), Sound Enhanced Fixed Income ETF (FXED), Sound Enhanced Fixed Income ETF (SDEF), GraniteShares HIPS US High Income ETF (HIPS) and Virtus Private Credit Strategy ETF (VPC).

Golub Capital BDC updated its first quarter 2024 earnings guidance on Thursday, January, 18th. The company provided EPS guidance of 0.430-0.470 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of 0.480. The company issued revenue guidance of -.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Golub Capital BDC investors own include AT&T (T), Main Street Capital (MAIN), Enterprise Products Partners (EPD), Ares Capital (ARCC), Hercules Capital (HTGC), Energy Transfer (ET), Pfizer (PFE), BlackRock TCP Capital (TCPC) and Boeing (BA).

Golub Capital BDC's stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Sound Income Strategies LLC (1.56%), Confluence Investment Management LLC (0.19%), Silverberg Bernstein Capital Management LLC (0.03%), Neville Rodie & Shaw Inc. (0.03%), RDA Financial Network (0.02%) and First Affirmative Financial Network (0.01%). Insiders that own company stock include Andrew Martin Johnson, Anita J Rival, Anita R Rosenberg, David Golub, James Thomas Gibson, Lawrence E Golub, Lawrence E Golub and Robert G/ Brown.
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