SCM Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Stellus Cap Investment | NYSE:SCM)

Stellus Capital Investment Corp is a closed-end, non-diversified management investment company. Its objective is to maximize the total return to its stockholders in the form of current income and capital appreciation. It invests in private middle-market companies through a first lien, second lien, and unsecured debt financing, often with a corresponding equity investment. The company invests in various sectors, such as business services, energy, general industrial, government services, healthcare, software, and specialty finance. Business activity of the firm is functioned through the United States and it generates revenue in the form of interest income on debt investments and capital gains and distributions.

Stellus Cap Investment trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol SCM.

As of April 18, 2024, SCM stock price climbed to $13.73 with 104,847 million shares trading.

SCM has a beta of 0.52, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. SCM has a correlation of 0.09 to the broad based SPY ETF.

SCM has a market cap of $331.25 million. This is considered a Small Cap stock.

Last quarter Stellus Cap Investment reported $28 million in Revenue and $.50 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $613,000 and exceeded earnings estimates by $.05.

In the last 3 years, SCM stock traded as high as $16.08 and as low as $11.02.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that SCM belongs to (by Net Assets): VPC.

SCM stock has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +10.6%, while SPY returned +22.3%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in SCM shares. However, SCM has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +8.9% and +5.0%, while SPY returned +6.1% and -3.8%, respectively. This indicates SCM has been having a stronger performance recently.

SCM support price is $13.35 and resistance is $13.63 (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 SCM stock will trade within this expected range on the day.