HTGC Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Hercules Capital | NYSE:HTGC)

Hercules Capital Inc is a specialty finance company focused on providing senior secured loans to high-growth, venture capital-backed, and institutional-backed companies in a variety of technology and life sciences industries. The company's primary business objectives are to increase its net income, net investment income, and net asset value (NAV) through its investments mainly in 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 finances companies belonging to computer software and hardware, networking systems, semiconductors, medical devices, bio-pharmaceutical, and other related sectors.

Hercules Capital trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol HTGC.

As of September 18, 2026, HTGC stock price declined to $17.33 with 2,010,776 million shares trading.

HTGC has a beta of 0.93, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. HTGC has a correlation of 0.20 to the broad based SPY ETF.

HTGC has a market cap of $3.24 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.

Last quarter Hercules Capital reported $149 million in Revenue and $.50 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $2 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.01.

In the last 3 years, HTGC traded as high as $22.04 and as low as $13.70.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that HTGC belongs to (by Net Assets): BIZD, PBDC, FBDC, VPC, DVDN.

HTGC has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of -0.1% while the SPY ETF gained +16.7%. However, in the short term, HTGC had mixed performance relative to the market. It has outperformed in the last 3 months, returning +15.5% vs +3.3% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, HTGC shares have been beat by the market, returning -2.2% compared to an SPY return of -1.5%.

HTGC support price is $17.57 and resistance is $17.95 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that HTGC shares will trade within this expected range on the day.