Hercules Capital, Inc. (HTGC): Price and Financial Metrics

HTGC POWR Grades

• HTGC scores best on the Quality dimension, with a Quality rank ahead of 74.8% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for HTGC is in Stability, which has been heading down over the past 179 days.
• HTGC's current lowest rank is in the Growth metric (where it is better than 5.34% of US stocks).

HTGC Stock Summary

• For HTGC, its debt to operating expenses ratio is greater than that reported by 95.96% of US equities we're observing.
• As for revenue growth, note that HTGC's revenue has grown -2.19% over the past 12 months; that beats the revenue growth of only 15.36% of US companies in our set.
• In terms of volatility of its share price, HTGC is more volatile than only 1.49% of stocks we're observing.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to Hercules Capital Inc, a group of peers worth examining would be CSV, SEM, AMTX, SUP, and TVTY.
• HTGC's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit Hercules Capital Inc's official web site, go to www.htgc.com.

HTGC Valuation Summary

• HTGC's price/sales ratio is 6.8; this is 466.67% higher than that of the median Financial Services stock.
• HTGC's price/sales ratio has moved down 37.1 over the prior 196 months.
• Over the past 196 months, HTGC's price/earnings ratio has gone up 908.6.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for HTGC.

HTGC Growth Metrics

Its 3 year revenue growth rate is now at 33.18%.
• Its 4 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 136%.
• Its 5 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 229.02%.

HTGC's revenue has moved up $63,128,000 over the prior 34 months.

The table below shows HTGC'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	280.976	128.621	174.155
2021-09-30	283.843	260.498	321.615
2021-06-30	283.989	208.385	341.113
2021-03-31	282.398	182.085	320.147
2020-12-31	287.258	207.802	227.261
2020-09-30	282.503	-37.927	120.7

HTGC'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.

• HTGC has a Quality Grade of B, ranking ahead of 78.29% of graded US stocks.
• HTGC's asset turnover comes in at 0.107 -- ranking 195th of 444 Trading stocks.
• BX, AIV, and WY are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with HTGC.

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