Fidus Investment Corporation (FDUS): Price and Financial Metrics

FDUS POWR Grades

• FDUS scores best on the Sentiment dimension, with a Sentiment rank ahead of 88.99% of US stocks.
• FDUS's strongest trending metric is Quality; it's been moving up over the last 179 days.
• FDUS's current lowest rank is in the Growth metric (where it is better than 54.56% of US stocks).

FDUS Stock Summary

• FDUS's current price/earnings ratio is 4.29, which is higher than only 4.73% of US stocks with positive earnings.
• The ratio of debt to operating expenses for FIDUS INVESTMENT Corp is higher than it is for about 98.84% of US stocks.
• Shareholder yield, a measure of how much is returned to shareholders via dividends and share repurchases, for FDUS comes in at 24.63% -- higher than that of 93.1% of stocks in our set.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to FIDUS INVESTMENT Corp, a group of peers worth examining would be MRCC, PSEC, ASR, BIP, and OFS.
• FDUS's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit FIDUS INVESTMENT Corp's official web site, go to www.fdus.com.

FDUS Valuation Summary

• FDUS's EV/EBIT ratio is 6.7; this is 22.09% lower than that of the median Financial Services stock.
• Over the past 123 months, FDUS's price/earnings ratio has gone down 2.8.
• Over the past 123 months, FDUS's price/earnings ratio has gone down 2.8.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for FDUS.

FDUS Growth Metrics

Its 5 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 108.76%.
• Its 3 year revenue growth rate is now at 39.91%.
• Its 3 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 162.46%.

Over the past 34 months, FDUS's revenue has gone up $11,924,000.

The table below shows FDUS's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-12-31	90.446	167.901	116.104
2021-09-30	89.975	107.705	95.383
2021-06-30	89.823	95.025	87.648
2021-03-31	88.43	86.317	69.735
2020-12-31	85.123	55.962	31.226
2020-09-30	81	35.58	21.706

FDUS's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• FDUS has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 63.36% of graded US stocks.
• FDUS's asset turnover comes in at 0.112 -- ranking 182nd of 444 Trading stocks.
• RC, CBOE, and SQFT are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with FDUS.

The table below shows FDUS's key quality metrics over time.