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 August 20, 2026, HTGC stock price climbed to $17.03 with 1,627,765 million shares trading.

HTGC has a beta of 0.98, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. HTGC has a correlation of 0.22 to the broad based SPY ETF.

HTGC has a market cap of $3.19 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.

HTGC has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of -1.3%, while SPY returned +20.4%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in HTGC shares. However, HTGC has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +14.3% and +4.9%, while SPY returned +4.2% and -0.9%, respectively. This indicates HTGC has been having a stronger performance recently.

HTGC support price is $16.68 and resistance is $17.12 (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.