PFLT PennantPark Floating Rate Capital Ltd.
PennantPark Floating Rate Capital Ltd. is a Private Debt, business development company. It seeks to make secondary direct, debt, equity, and loan investments. The fund seeks to invest through floating rate loans in private or thinly traded or small market-cap, public middle market companies. It primarily invests in the United States and to a limited extent non-U.S. companies. The fund typically invests between $2 million and $20 million. The fund also invests in equity securities, such as preferred stock, common stock, warrants or options received in connection with debt investments or through direct investments. It primarily invests between $10 million and $50 million in investments in senior secured loans and mezzanine debt. It seeks to invest in companies not rated by national rating agencies. The companies if rated would be between BB and CCC under the Standard & Poor's system. The fund invests 30% is invested in non-qualifying assets like investments in public companies whose securities are not thinly traded or do not have a market capitalization of less than $250 million, securities of middle-market companies located outside of the United States, high-yield bonds, distressed debt, private equity, securities of public companies that are not thinly traded, and investment companies as defined in the 1940 Act. Under normal conditions, the fund expects atleast 80 percent of its net assets plus any borrowings for investment purposes to be invested in Floating Rate Loans and investments with similar economic characteristics, including cash equivalents invested in money market funds. It expects to represent 65 percent of its portfolio through senior secured loans. In case of floating rate loans, it holds investments for a period of three to ten years.…
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About PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (NYSE: PFLT)
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PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (NYSE: PFLT) is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, where its shares trade in USD. It belongs to the Asset Management industry, part of the Financial Services sector.
The shares were at 6.660 USD on 13 November 2026, down 19.0% over 52 weeks. Its 52-week range is 6.152 USD to 9.750 USD: the price is 31.7% below the high and 8.3% above the low.
At a market capitalisation of 660.79M USD, it trades at 13.1 times trailing earnings and 6.2 times forward earnings. The median trailing P/E of its 18 largest Asset Management peers is 15.8, a discount of 17% for PFLT. It pays a dividend yielding 14.59% (it pays out 237% of its earnings), against a median of 1.73% among the dividend payers in that peer group.
PennantPark Floating Rate Capital reports return on equity of 6.2%, an operating margin of 77.5% and revenue up 4.1% year over year.
Its debt exceeds its cash by 1.47B USD, a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.65. Its Piotroski F-score is 1 out of 9, a weak reading of its financial health. 7 analysts cover the stock; their mean price target of 9.571 USD is 43.7% above the current price. The next earnings report is expected on 23 November 2026.