Hercules Capital announces Q3 earnings per share of 49 cents, surpassing consensus estimate of 48 cents.
Written by Emily J. Thompson, Senior Investment Analyst
Updated: Oct 30 2025
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Record New Originations: Hercules has maintained a record-breaking pace of new debt and equity commitments throughout Q3 2025, with a total of $846.2 million in new commitments during the quarter.
Funding Achievements: The company reported record Q3 fundings of $504.6 million, contributing to year-to-date totals of $2.87 billion in gross originations and $1.75 billion in fundings.
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Analyst Views on HTGC
Wall Street analysts forecast HTGC stock price to rise over the next 12 months. According to Wall Street analysts, the average 1-year price target for HTGC is 20.04 USD with a low forecast of 18.00 USD and a high forecast of 24.00 USD. However, analyst price targets are subjective and often lag stock prices, so investors should focus on the objective reasons behind analyst rating changes, which better reflect the company's fundamentals.
7 Analyst Rating
6 Buy
1 Hold
0 Sell
Strong Buy
Current: 18.680
Low
18.00
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20.04
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24.00
Current: 18.680
Low
18.00
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20.04
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24.00
About HTGC
Hercules Capital, Inc. is a specialty finance company. The Company is focused on providing financing solutions to venture capital-backed and institutional-backed companies in a variety of technology and life sciences industries. It is structured as an internally managed, non-diversified, closed-end investment company. Its business objectives are to increase its net income, net investment income, and net asset value, through its investments in primarily structured debt or senior secured debt instruments of venture capital-backed and institutional-backed companies across a variety of technology-related industries at attractive yields. It invests in a range of companies active in the technology industry sub-sectors characterized by products or services that require advanced technologies, including computer software and hardware, networking systems, semiconductors, telecommunications equipment and media, semiconductor capital equipment, information technology infrastructure and others.
About the author
Emily J. Thompson
Emily J. Thompson, a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) with 12 years in investment research, graduated with honors from the Wharton School. Specializing in industrial and technology stocks, she provides in-depth analysis for Intellectia’s earnings and market brief reports.
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