Capital Southwest Corporation is a business development company specializing in credit and private equity and venture capital investments in middle market companies, mezzanine, later stage, mature, late venture, emerging growth, buyouts, recapitalizations and growth capital investments. It does not invest in startups, publicly traded companies, real estate developments, project finance opportunities, oil and gas exploration businesses, troubled companies, turnarounds, and companies in which significant senior management is departing. In lower middle market, the firm typically invests in growth financing, bolt-on acquisitions, new platform acquisitions, refinancing, dividend recapitalizations, sponsor-led buyouts, and management buyouts situations. The investment structures are Unitranche debt, subordinated debt, senior debt, first and second lien debt, and preferred and common equity. The firm makes equity co-investments alongside debt investments, up to 20% of total check and only makes non-control investments. It prefers to invest in Industrial manufacturing and services, value-added distribution, healthcare products and services, business services, specialty chemicals, food and beverage, tech-enabled services and SaaS models. The firm seeks to invest in energy services and products, industrial technologies, and specialty chemicals and products. Within energy services and products, the firm seeks to invest in each segment of the industry, including upstream, midstream and downstream, excluding exploration and production with a focus on differentiated products and services, equipment and tool rental, consumable products, and drilling and completion chemicals. Within industrial technologies, it seeks to invest in automation and process controls, handling and packaging equipment, industrial filtration and fluid handling, measurement, monitoring and testing, professional tools, and sensors and instrumentation. Within and specialty chemicals and products, the firm seeks to invest in businesses that develop and manufacture highly differentiated chemicals and products including adhesives, coatings and sealants, catalysts and absorbents, cosmeceuticals, fine chemicals, flavors and fragrances, performance lubricants, polymers, plastics and composites, chemical dispensing and filtration equipment, professional and industrial trade consumables and tools, engineered solutions for HVAC, plumbing, and electrical installations, specified high performance materials for fire protection and oilfield applications. It may also invest in exceptional opportunities in building products. The firm seeks to invest in the United States. The firm seeks to make investments ranging from $5 to $25 million in securities. It seeks to make equity investments up to $5 million and debt investments between $5 million and $20 million and co-invest in transaction size upto $40 million. It prefers to invest in companies with revenues approaching above $10 million, profitable operations, historical growth rate of at least 15 percent per year. . Within the lower middle market, it seeks to invest in with less than $15 million in EBITDA and also opportunistically invests in the upper middle market, generally defined as companies with EBITDA in excess of $50 million. In addition to making direct investments, the firm allocates capital to syndicated first and second lien term loans in the upper middle market. Criteria for Upper Middle Market Syndicated 1st Lien is EBITDA Size more than $30 million, Closing Leverage greater than 4 times, investment hold size between $5 million and $7 million, investment yield greater than 6.5%. Criteria for Upper Middle Market Syndicated 2nd Lien is EBITDA Size more than $50 million, Closing Leverage greater than 6 times, investment hold size between $5 million and $7 million, investment yield greater than 9%. It prefers to take a majority and minority stake. The firm has the flexibility to hold investments for very long period in its portfolio companies. It may also invest through warrants. The firm prefers to take Board participation in its portfolio companies. Capital Southwest Corporation was founded on April 19, 1961 and is based in Dallas, Texas.
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Website: capitalsouthwest.com
| Date | Price Target | Rating | Analyst |
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| 5/15/2024 | Mkt Outperform → Mkt Perform | JMP Securities | |
| 1/8/2024 | $23.50 | Buy → Neutral | B. Riley Securities |
| 4/11/2023 | $19.00 | Neutral | UBS |
| 12/9/2022 | $20.00 | Neutral → Buy | B. Riley Securities |
| 9/16/2022 | $18.00 | Neutral | B. Riley Securities |
| 9/24/2021 | Perform | Oppenheimer | |
| 8/4/2021 | $27.50 → $29.00 | Outperform | Raymond James |
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DALLAS, June 11, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Capital Southwest Corporation ("Capital Southwest" or the "Company") (NASDAQ:CSWC), an internally managed business development company focused on providing flexible financing solutions to support the acquisition and growth of middle market businesses, is pleased to announce a change to its regular dividend payment frequency from quarterly to monthly beginning in July 2025. In addition, the Company is pleased to announce that its Board of Directors has declared monthly regular dividends of $0.1934 per share for each of July, August, and September 2025 and a quarterly supplemental dividend of $0.06 per share payable in September 2025, each of which
DALLAS, May 14, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Capital Southwest Corporation ("Capital Southwest," "CSWC" or the "Company") (NASDAQ:CSWC), an internally managed business development company focused on providing flexible financing solutions to support the acquisition and growth of middle market businesses, today announced its financial results for the fourth fiscal quarter and year ended March 31, 2025. Fourth Quarter Fiscal Year 2025 Financial Highlights Total Investment Portfolio: $1.8 billion Credit Portfolio of $1.6 billion 99% 1st Lien Senior Secured Debt$146.2 million in new committed credit investments during the quarterWeighted Average Yield on Debt Investments: 11.7%Current non-accrual
DALLAS, April 28, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Capital Southwest Corporation ("Capital Southwest") (NASDAQ:CSWC), an internally managed business development company focused on providing flexible financing solutions to support the acquisition and growth of middle market businesses, is pleased to announce that its Board of Directors has declared a regular dividend of $0.58 per share and a supplemental dividend of $0.06 per share for the quarter ending June 30, 2025. The Company's dividends will be payable as follows: Regular DividendAmount Per Share:$0.58Ex-Dividend Date:June 13, 2025Record Date:June 13, 2025Payment Date:June 30, 2025 Supplemental DividendAmount Per Share:$0.06Ex-Dividend Date
DALLAS, April 21, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Capital Southwest Corporation ("Capital Southwest") (NASDAQ:CSWC), an internally managed business development company focused on providing flexible financing solutions to support the acquisition and growth of middle market businesses, today announced its wholly owned subsidiary, Capital Southwest SBIC II, LP ("SBIC II"), has received a license from the U.S. Small Business Administration ("SBA") to operate as a Small Business Investment Company ("SBIC"). As an SBIC, SBIC II will be subject to a variety of regulations and oversight by the SBA concerning, among other things, the size and nature of the companies in which it may invest as well as the
DALLAS, April 14, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Capital Southwest Corporation ("Capital Southwest") (NASDAQ:CSWC), an internally managed business development company focused on providing flexible financing solutions to support the acquisition and growth of middle market businesses, is pleased to announce its preliminary operating results for the fourth quarter of its 2025 fiscal year (quarter ended March 31, 2025) and its fourth quarter 2025 earnings release and conference call schedule. During the quarter ended March 31, 2025, Capital Southwest incurred $2.8 million, or $0.05 per share, of one-time net expenses related to the departure of our former President and Chief Executive Officer. Cap
DALLAS, April 09, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Capital Southwest Corporation ("Capital Southwest") (NASDAQ:CSWC), an internally managed business development company focused on providing flexible financing solutions to support the acquisition and growth of middle market businesses, today announced an increase to the total commitments under its senior secured credit facility (the "Corporate Credit Facility"). The Corporate Credit Facility was increased under the existing accordion feature by $25 million, bringing total commitments from $485 million to $510 million. The $25 million increase was provided by two existing lenders in the lender group, which consists of 11 participants. The existing a
DALLAS, March 25, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Capital Southwest Corporation ("Capital Southwest," or the "Company") (NASDAQ:CSWC), an internally managed business development company focused on providing flexible financing solutions to support the acquisition and growth of middle market businesses, today announced that Moody's Investors Service, Inc. ("Moody's") has affirmed Capital Southwest's investment grade long-term issuer rating of Baa3 with a stable outlook. Factors cited by Moody's in support of its rating include Capital Southwest's strong capitalization and diverse funding profile, first-lien oriented investment portfolio, recurring earnings generation, and internally managed structu
Michael Sarner to Succeed Bowen Diehl as President & Chief Executive OfficerChris Rehberger Promoted to Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer & SecretaryTabitha Geiger Promoted to Chief Compliance Officer DALLAS, Feb. 18, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Capital Southwest Corporation ("Capital Southwest" or the "Company") (NASDAQ:CSWC), an internally managed business development company focused on providing flexible financing solutions to support the acquisition and growth of middle market businesses, announced today that Chief Financial Officer Michael Sarner has been appointed by the Board of Directors (the "Board") to succeed Bowen Diehl as President and Chief Executive Officer of Capital Southwe
DALLAS, Feb. 03, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Capital Southwest Corporation ("Capital Southwest," "CSWC" or the "Company") (NASDAQ:CSWC), an internally managed business development company focused on providing flexible financing solutions to support the acquisition and growth of middle market businesses, today announced its financial results for the third fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2024. Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2025 Financial Highlights Total Investment Portfolio: $1.7 billion Credit Portfolio of $1.5 billion: 98% 1st Lien Senior Secured Debt$313.4 million in new committed credit investments during the quarterWeighted Average Yield on Debt Investments: 12.1%Current non-accruals with
DALLAS, Jan. 31, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Capital Southwest Corporation ("Capital Southwest" or the "Company") (NASDAQ:CSWC), an internally managed business development company focused on providing flexible financing solutions to support the acquisition and growth of middle market businesses, announced today the U.S. federal income tax treatment of its 2024 dividends. U.S. Federal Income Tax Treatment of 2024 Dividends Capital Southwest paid dividends totaling $2.53 per share that are attributable to the tax year ended December 31, 2024, with 100.00% of those dividends comprised of ordinary income, including net short-term capital gains. The Company has posted information regarding t