Capital Southwest Co. (NASDAQ:CSWC) Shares Bought by Hodges Capital Management Inc.

Hodges Capital Management Inc. lifted its stake in shares of Capital Southwest Co. (NASDAQ:CSWC) by 17.2% in the fourth quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 91,753 shares of the asset manager’s stock after buying an additional 13,448 shares during the quarter. Hodges Capital Management Inc. owned approximately 0.19% of Capital Southwest worth $2,002,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

A number of other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also made changes to their positions in the stock. Barclays PLC lifted its holdings in Capital Southwest by 1.7% during the 3rd quarter. Barclays PLC now owns 76,083 shares of the asset manager’s stock worth $1,924,000 after buying an additional 1,263 shares during the last quarter. Franklin Resources Inc. lifted its stake in Capital Southwest by 24.6% during the third quarter. Franklin Resources Inc. now owns 154,038 shares of the asset manager’s stock worth $3,893,000 after purchasing an additional 30,423 shares during the last quarter. Blue Trust Inc. boosted its holdings in Capital Southwest by 1,539.2% in the third quarter. Blue Trust Inc. now owns 7,147 shares of the asset manager’s stock worth $186,000 after purchasing an additional 6,711 shares during the period. Harbor Capital Advisors Inc. raised its holdings in shares of Capital Southwest by 146.7% during the third quarter. Harbor Capital Advisors Inc. now owns 387,647 shares of the asset manager’s stock worth $9,804,000 after purchasing an additional 230,513 shares during the period. Finally, Benjamin Edwards Inc. lifted its position in shares of Capital Southwest by 970.6% in the 3rd quarter. Benjamin Edwards Inc. now owns 80,201 shares of the asset manager’s stock worth $2,028,000 after buying an additional 72,710 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors own 23.42% of the company’s stock.

Analyst Ratings Changes

Separately, B. Riley boosted their price objective on shares of Capital Southwest from $24.00 to $24.50 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a research report on Wednesday, October 30th.

Capital Southwest Price Performance

Shares of CSWC opened at $22.28 on Tuesday. Capital Southwest Co. has a 12 month low of $20.68 and a 12 month high of $27.23. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.35, a current ratio of 0.16 and a quick ratio of 0.16. The stock has a fifty day moving average price of $22.25 and a 200 day moving average price of $23.86. The company has a market cap of $1.06 billion, a P/E ratio of 13.59 and a beta of 1.24.

Capital Southwest (NASDAQ:CSWC) last released its quarterly earnings data on Monday, February 3rd. The asset manager reported $0.63 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.62 by $0.01. Capital Southwest had a net margin of 37.77% and a return on equity of 15.54%. On average, research analysts forecast that Capital Southwest Co. will post 2.55 earnings per share for the current year.

Capital Southwest Profile

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, industry consolidation, recapitalizations and growth capital investments.