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Equus Total Return, Inc is an asset management business based in the US. Equus Total Return shares (EQS) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars.
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Latest market close | USD$1.72 |
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52-week range | USD$0.74 - USD$2.25 |
50-day moving average | USD$1.3591 |
200-day moving average | USD$1.2947 |
Wall St. target price | N/A |
PE ratio | 7.375 |
Dividend yield | N/A (0%) |
Earnings per share (TTM) | USD$0.158 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $1.72 from 2021-01-11
1 week (2021-01-15) | 4.24% |
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1 month (2020-12-22) | -14.00% |
3 months (2020-10-22) | 44.54% |
6 months (2020-07-22) | 19.44% |
1 year (2020-01-22) | 1.18% |
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2 years (2019-01-19) | N/A |
3 years (2018-01-19) | 2.41 |
5 years (2016-01-22) | 2.38% |
Valuing Equus Total Return stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Equus Total Return's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Equus Total Return's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 7x. In other words, Equus Total Return shares trade at around 7x 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.
Revenue TTM | USD$467,000 |
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Gross profit TTM | USD$351,000 |
Return on assets TTM | -2.72% |
Return on equity TTM | -27.19% |
Profit margin | 0% |
Book value | $2.769 |
Market capitalisation | USD$29.5 million |
TTM: trailing 12 months
There are currently 76,518 Equus Total Return shares held short by investors – that's known as Equus Total Return's "short interest". This figure is 3538.5% up from 2,103 last month.
There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Equus Total Return shares can be evaluated.
Equus Total Return's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Equus Total Return shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Equus Total Return shares traded daily (recently around 110895.65217391). Equus Total Return's SIR currently stands at 0.69. In other words for every 100,000 Equus Total Return shares traded daily on the market, roughly 690 shares are currently held short.
However Equus Total Return's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Equus Total Return shares, or, against the total number of tradable Equus Total Return shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Equus Total Return's short interest could be expressed as 0.01% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Equus Total Return shares in existence, roughly 10 shares are currently held short) or 0.0106% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Equus Total Return shares, roughly 11 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 Equus Total Return.
Find out more about how you can short Equus Total Return stock.
We're not expecting Equus Total Return to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.
Equus Total Return's shares were split on a 110:100 basis on 29 November 2001. So if you had owned 100 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 110 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Equus Total Return shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 9.1% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Equus Total Return shares which in turn could have impacted Equus Total Return's share price.
Over the last 12 months, Equus Total Return's shares have ranged in value from as little as $0.74 up to $2.25. 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 Equus Total Return's is 0.8745. This would suggest that Equus Total Return's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).
Equus Total Return, Inc. is a business development company (BDC) specializing in leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, recapitalizations of existing businesses, special situations, equity and equity-oriented securities issued by privately owned companies, debt securities including subordinate debt, debt convertible into common or preferred stock, or debt combined with warrants and common and preferred stock, and preferred equity financing. The fund invests in small to mid sized companies and acts as a lead investor. It invests in companies engaged in the alternative energy, real estate, healthcare, education, e-learning, leisure and entertainment, and foreign investment sector in the United States, China, India, and Europe. The fund's investments include common and preferred stock, debt convertible into common or preferred stock, debt combined with warrants and options, and other rights to acquire common or preferred stock. The fund seeks to invest in companies with revenues between $10 million and $100 million. Equus Total Return, Inc. was founded in 1991 and is based in Houston, Texas with additional office in Vancouver, Canada.
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