Main Street Capital Corporation’s recent filing unveils that its Officer Meserve Nicholas acquired Company’s shares for reported $0.94 million on Aug 14 ’25. In the deal valued at $67.15 per share,14,000 shares were bought.
Then, Meserve Nicholas sold 14,000 shares, generating $940,100 in total proceeds. Upon selling the shares at $67.15, the MANAGING DIRECTOR now owns 82,383 shares.
Before that, Morris Jesse E sold 35,000 shares. Main Street Capital Corporation shares valued at $2,077,789 were divested by the EVP AND COO at a price of $59.37 per share. As a result of the transaction, Morris Jesse E now holds 235,698 shares, worth roughly $15.36 million.
B. Riley Securities downgraded its Main Street Capital Corporation [MAIN] rating to a Neutral from a a Buy in a research note published recently. A number of analysts have revised their coverage, including Hovde Group’s analysts, who increased its forecast for the stock in late June from “a Market perform” to “an Outperform”. UBS began covering MAIN with “Neutral” recommendation on December 19, 2022. B. Riley Securities started covering the stock on December 12, 2022. It rated MAIN as “a Buy”.
Price Performance Review of MAIN
On Monday, Main Street Capital Corporation [NYSE:MAIN] saw its stock fall -2.70% to $65.17. Over the last five days, the stock has lost -1.21%. Main Street Capital Corporation shares have risen nearly 34.83% since the year began. Nevertheless, the stocks have risen 11.83% over the past one year.
How much short interest is there in Main Street Capital Corporation?
A steep rise in short interest was recorded in Main Street Capital Corporation stocks on 2025-08-29, dropping by -0.35 million shares to a total of 4.95 million shares. Yahoo Finance data shows the prior-month short interest on 2025-07-31 was 5.3 million shares. There was a decline of -7.12%, which implies that there is a negative sentiment for the stock.
