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Main Street Capital Corporation MAIN

6 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported
SEC FILINGS ONLY4 YEARS OF DIVIDEND GROWTH
Dividend streak
4 yrs
Raised every year since 2022
EPS · FY25
$3.95
Dividend / sh · FY25
$4.23
Payout · FY25
77%
ROE · FY25
17.0%
Net margin · FY25
Dividend coverage
0.9×
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Result
Revenue, FY2025 · full 6-year series below
Revenue Net income
2.5e-105e-107.5e-101e-090.5202020232025
2.5e-105e-107.5e-101e-090.5202020232025

Per share
USD 3.95
Diluted EPS, FY2025
EPS Dividend
2464.233.95202020232025
2464.233.95202020232025

Earnings covered only a fraction of the dividend — the rest came from cash or borrowing.

Profitability
17.0%
Return on equity, FY2025
ROE
8162417.0%202020232025
8162417.0%202020232025
Operating margin
Net margin
Return on assets9.1%

Each USD of equity produced 17 cents of profit this year.

Returned to shareholders
USD 378.0M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Dividends paidUSD 378.0M
Net buybacks
Share of profit76.6%
Consecutive raises4 years

USD 378.0M in dividends — 77% of the year's profit went back to shareholders.

Growth
revenue, compounded over five years
CAGR
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs
Net income
+26.9%
+75.8%
EPS, diluted
+6.3%
+13.5%
Dividend / share
+17.7%
Returned to shareholders
+25.3%

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where the series crosses a loss.

Share base
0.09B
Shares outstanding, FY2025
0.070.09202020232025
0.070.09202020232025
Change, 5 years
Change, 10 years

A share split breaks the comparison across the period, so we leave it out.

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Balance sheet
USD 5.7B
total assets, end of FY2025
Total assetsUSD 5.7B
EquityUSD 3.0B
CashUSD 42.0M
Gross debtUSD 2.5B
Net debtUSD 2.4B

Net debt stands at 81% of equity.

History
6 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
Metric
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
Revenue $B
·
·
·
·
·
·
Operating income $B
·
·
·
·
·
·
EBITDA $B
·
·
·
·
·
·
Income tax $B
·
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
−0.0
Net income $B
0.5
0.5
0.4
0.2
0.3
0.0
EPS, diluted $
3.95
3.93
4.04
3.29
2.65
2.10
Dividend / sh $
4.23
4.11
3.69
2.60
2.48
·
Payout %
77
70
71
80
51
·
ROE %
17.0
19.3
18.7
12.4
20.0
1.9
Shares out B
0.09
0.09
0.08
0.08
0.07
·

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks figures not disclosed in the filing for that year.

How we verifyAUDITED
6 of 11
checks passed before publication
EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidity

Every figure was compared against the original statement: 5 failures and 0 presentation gaps.

What we don’t show

We’d rather say what’s missing than fill the gap with an estimate.

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