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How to buy Bain Capital Specialty Finance stock
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Bain Capital Specialty Finance, Inc is an asset management business based in the US. Bain Capital Specialty Finance shares (BCSF) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars.
How to buy shares in Bain Capital Specialty Finance
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- Open and fund your brokerage account. Complete an application with your personal and financial details, like your ID and bank information. Fund your account with a bank transfer, credit card or debit card.
- Search for Bain Capital Specialty Finance. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: BCSF. Research its history to confirm it's a solid investment against your financial goals.
- Purchase now or later. Buy today with a market order or use a limit order to delay your purchase until Bain Capital Specialty Finance reaches your desired price. To spread out your purchase, look into dollar-cost averaging, which smooths out buying at consistent intervals and amounts.
- Decide on how many to buy. Weigh your budget against a diversified portfolio that can minimize risk through the market's ups and downs. You may be able to buy a fractional share of Bain Capital Specialty Finance, depending on your broker.
- Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Bain Capital Specialty Finance. Optimize your portfolio by tracking how your stock — and even the business — performs with an eye on the long term. You may be eligible for dividends and shareholder voting rights on directors and management that can affect your stock.
What's in this guide?
- BCSF shares summary
- Compare share dealing platforms
- Is BCSF stock a buy or sell?
- Stock performance over time
- Can I short BCSF shares?
- Are BCSF shares over-valued?
- Bain Capital Specialty Finance's financials
- How volatile are BCSF shares?
- Does Bain Capital Specialty Finance pay a dividend?
- Have BCSF shares ever split?
- Other common questions
Bain Capital Specialty Finance share price
Use our graph to track the performance of BCSF stocks over time.Bain Capital Specialty Finance shares at a glance
Information last updated 2021-03-03.
| 52-week range | USD$6.3776 - USD$16.9637 |
|---|---|
| 50-day moving average | USD$13.27 |
| 200-day moving average | USD$11.5684 |
| Wall St. target price | USD$14.83 |
| PE ratio | 15.5037 |
| Dividend yield | USD$1.5 (10.25%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | USD$1.32 |
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Is it a good time to buy Bain Capital Specialty Finance stock?
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Is Bain Capital Specialty Finance under- or over-valued?
Valuing Bain Capital Specialty Finance stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Bain Capital Specialty Finance's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Bain Capital Specialty Finance's P/E ratio
Bain Capital Specialty Finance's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 16x. In other words, Bain Capital Specialty Finance shares trade at around 16x recent earnings.
That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.
Bain Capital Specialty Finance financials
| Revenue TTM | USD$201 million |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 76.95% |
| Gross profit TTM | USD$197.9 million |
| Return on assets TTM | 3.61% |
| Return on equity TTM | -0.95% |
| Profit margin | -4.91% |
| Book value | $16.27 |
| Market capitalisation | USD$949.7 million |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Shorting Bain Capital Specialty Finance shares
There are currently 142,580 Bain Capital Specialty Finance shares held short by investors – that's known as Bain Capital Specialty Finance's "short interest". This figure is 43.6% down from 252,787 last month.
There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Bain Capital Specialty Finance shares can be evaluated.
Bain Capital Specialty Finance's "short interest ratio" (SIR)
Bain Capital Specialty Finance's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Bain Capital Specialty Finance shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Bain Capital Specialty Finance shares traded daily (recently around 269018.86792453). Bain Capital Specialty Finance's SIR currently stands at 0.53. In other words for every 100,000 Bain Capital Specialty Finance shares traded daily on the market, roughly 530 shares are currently held short.
However Bain Capital Specialty Finance's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Bain Capital Specialty Finance shares, or, against the total number of tradable Bain Capital Specialty Finance shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Bain Capital Specialty Finance's short interest could be expressed as 0% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Bain Capital Specialty Finance shares in existence, roughly 0 shares are currently held short) or 0.003% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Bain Capital Specialty Finance shares, roughly 3 shares are currently held short).
Such a low SIR usually points to an optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Bain Capital Specialty Finance.
Find out more about how you can short Bain Capital Specialty Finance stock.
Bain Capital Specialty Finance share dividends
Dividend payout ratio: 92.52% of net profits
Recently Bain Capital Specialty Finance has paid out, on average, around 92.52% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 9.3% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Bain Capital Specialty Finance shareholders could enjoy a 9.3% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Bain Capital Specialty Finance's case, that would currently equate to about $1.5 per share.
Bain Capital Specialty Finance's payout ratio would broadly be considered high, and as such this stock could appeal to those looking to generate an income. Bear in mind however that companies should normally also look to re-invest a decent amount of net profits to ensure future growth.
Bain Capital Specialty Finance's most recent dividend payout was on 30 April 2021. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 30 March 2021 (the "ex-dividend date").
Have Bain Capital Specialty Finance's shares ever split?
Bain Capital Specialty Finance's shares were split on a 1019:1000 basis on 12 May 2020. So if you had owned 1000 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 1019 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Bain Capital Specialty Finance shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 1.9% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Bain Capital Specialty Finance shares which in turn could have impacted Bain Capital Specialty Finance's share price.
Bain Capital Specialty Finance share price volatility
Over the last 12 months, Bain Capital Specialty Finance's shares have ranged in value from as little as $6.3776 up to $16.9637. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Bain Capital Specialty Finance's is 1.6648. This would suggest that Bain Capital Specialty Finance's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).
Bain Capital Specialty Finance overview
Bain Capital Specialty Finance, Inc. operates as a business development company (BDC) specializing in direct loans to middle-market companies. The fund seeks to invest in senior investments with a first or second lien on collateral, senior first lien, stretch senior, senior second lien, unitranche, mezzanine debt, junior securities, other junior investments, and secondary purchases of assets or portfolios that primarily consist of middle-market corporate debt. It typically invests in companies with EBITDA between $10 million and $150 million.
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