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Stellus Capital Investment Corporation (SCM)

Name: Stellus Capital Investment Corporation (SCM) filed financial figures
Creator: ValueScreener

NYSE / Financial Services / Asset Management

Share price

7.22 USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026

Market capitalisation

205.6M USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026

Market data: Oct 15, 2026
Filed accounts: FY2025, filed Mar 11, 2026
Ratios computed: Oct 15, 2026
Filed years: 5, FY2020 to FY2025

Four kinds of sourceSEC filingCompany statementMarket dataComputedWhat each means

SEC filingFiled with the SEC: Read from a statement the company filed with the SEC, with the form, fiscal year, filing date and accession beside it.
Company statementCompany statement: What the company says about itself in a filing: an 8-K item, the auditor, its own segment names.
Market dataMarket data: Prices, market value and what analysts publish, with the date they are as of.
ComputedComputed by ValueScreener: Worked out by us from the other three, with the inputs and the formula one press away. A score is a research output, not a rating or a recommendation.

Reading

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Overview

What the business is, what it costs, and how it reads on four questions.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Quality

Return on equity

7.3% Computed

From the FY2025 filing

Read quality

Financial strength

Debt to equity

n/a Computed

From the FY2025 filing

Why n/a

The filed borrowings do not add up to a total we can stand behind: the filer's own liability subtotals leave room for debt we did not read.

Read financial strength

Valuation

Price to earnings

7.60x Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read valuation

Cash generation

Dividend yield

22.1% Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read cash generation

Revenue and net income, by fiscal year

Revenue Net income10 fiscal years; a year whose statement names no SEC filing is market data, and the table in Filings says which.

Named tests met: 3 of 30 Which tests

The business, and the score behind its five axes

The reading, in brief

Is it cheap

Price to earnings is 7.60x at the close of 2026-10-15 on FY2025 figures; the lines are 15.00x (Graham's defensive ceiling) and, by market convention, 10.00x, 25.00x and 40.00x, and this sits below the lowest.

Today, against the Asset Management industry (57 companies), 7.60x sits at the 17th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 8.66x to 42.00x.

Is it good

Return on equity was 7.3% in FY2025, in the band labelled "Likely below the cost of equity" (below 8.0%), on lines anchored on Damodaran's cost-of-capital data, suggesting returns on shareholders' money below the usual cost of equity.

Today, against the Asset Management industry (71 companies), 7.3% sits at the 47th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 1.3% to 14.3%.

Year by year against peers: Whether Stellus Capital Investment Corporation's return on equity stayed above the median of the Asset Management industry, year by year. (FY2024 to FY2025, 2 fiscal years of Stellus Capital Investment Corporation with a comparable figure)
The direction: Which way Stellus Capital Investment Corporation's return on equity has moved, and how steadily. (FY2015 to FY2025, 9 filed years of Stellus Capital Investment Corporation)
What could explain it: What in Stellus Capital Investment Corporation's filed statements could explain the movements. (3 readings drawn from the statement lines Stellus Capital Investment Corporation filed)
What to check next: What to check next on Stellus Capital Investment Corporation, and where in its filings. (2 questions for Stellus Capital Investment Corporation)
In one paragraph: One paragraph on Stellus Capital Investment Corporation's returns, cash, balance sheet and price. (3 of sixteen figures read for Stellus Capital Investment Corporation)

These are SCM’s filed figures. The research desk says what they mean, against peers and its own years, with what to check next.

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What changed

The newest filing, what it moved, and when the next one is due.

SEC filingCompany statement

The newest accounts on file are the FY2025 annual report: 10-K, filed Mar 11, 2026, accession 0001104659-26-026432.

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Quality

The returns the business earns on its capital, and the margins behind them.

SEC filingComputed

Stellus Capital Investment Corporation: returns on capital and margins, each with its source
Figure	Value, source and document
Return on invested capital, after tax Why n/m Invested capital is equity plus debt less cash. A financial company's debt and cash are operating positions, so returns measured against that base are not comparable to an operating business.	n/m ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 11, 2026, 0001104659-26-026432
Return on equity	7.3% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 11, 2026, 0001104659-26-026432
Return on capital employed, pre-tax Why n/m Invested capital is equity plus debt less cash. A financial company's debt and cash are operating positions, so returns measured against that base are not comparable to an operating business.	n/m ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 11, 2026, 0001104659-26-026432
Return on assets	2.6% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 11, 2026, 0001104659-26-026432
Gross margin Why n/a Our archived statements for this filer carry no gross profit line, so there is nothing to compute a gross margin from and trace back to source. That may be because the filer presents no cost of revenue, or because we have not captured the concept. We do not guess which.	n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 11, 2026, 0001104659-26-026432
Operating margin Why n/a No operating income line is filed for this year.	n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 11, 2026, 0001104659-26-026432
Net margin	27.7% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 11, 2026, 0001104659-26-026432

SCM 27.7%

-47.9%27.7%

Net margin: SCM against the 5 companies named under Valuation context, each as filed for its own latest year. Placement only: no average is drawn.

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Financial strength

What it owes against what it owns, and whether it can meet what falls due.

SEC filingComputedCompany statement

Stellus Capital Investment Corporation: leverage, liquidity and distress, each with its source
Figure	Value, source and document
Debt to equity Why n/a The filed borrowings do not add up to a total we can stand behind: the filer's own liability subtotals leave room for debt we did not read.	n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 11, 2026, 0001104659-26-026432
Current ratio Why n/a Our archived statements for this filer carry no current assets line, so we cannot compute this from source and show you where it came from.	n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 11, 2026, 0001104659-26-026432
Quick ratio Why n/a Our archived statements for this filer carry no current assets line, so we cannot compute this from source and show you where it came from.	n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 11, 2026, 0001104659-26-026432
Interest coverage Why n/a No operating income line is filed for this year.	n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 11, 2026, 0001104659-26-026432
Altman Z-score Why n/m Altman's Z-Score was estimated on manufacturers and explicitly excludes financial firms. A financial company scores in the distress zone by construction, so the number would be wrong rather than alarming. Not applicable to financials.	n/m ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Mar 11, 2026, 0001104659-26-026432
Net debt Why n/a The FY2025 balance sheet carries no net debt we could read.	n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 11, 2026, 0001104659-26-026432

Total assets Total liabilities Shareholders’ equity

The balance sheet, line by line

Financial health

What Stellus Capital Investment Corporation owned and owed at the end of fiscal 2025, from the balance sheet it filed (10-K, filed Mar 11, 2026, 0001104659-26-026432).

Stellus Capital Investment Corporation: balance sheet position
Total assets	1.04B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 11, 2026
Total liabilities	670.1M FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 11, 2026
Shareholders' equity	371.2M FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 11, 2026
Cash	25.1M FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 11, 2026
Total debt	n/a FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 11, 2026
Net debt	n/a
Current ratio	n/a
Debt to equity	n/a

Debt to equity: FY2025: The filed borrowings do not add up to a total we can stand behind: the filer's own liability subtotals leave room for debt we did not read.
Current ratio: FY2025: Our archived statements for this filer carry no current assets line, so we cannot compute this from source and show you where it came from.
Interest cover: FY2025: No operating income line is filed for this year.

Read from the filed balance sheet for each year, with the income statement of the same year supplying operating profit where a ratio needs it. Nothing here is a view on whether this company is sound.

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Valuation context

What the market charges for it, against its own record and companies like it.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Stellus Capital Investment Corporation: what the market charges, each with its source
Figure	Value, source and document
Price to earnings	7.60x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Mar 11, 2026, 0001104659-26-026432
P/E on trailing twelve months	7.01x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · Trailing four quarters, each as known on the day; the quarterly filings are listed under Filings
Price to book	0.55x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Mar 11, 2026, 0001104659-26-026432
Price to sales	2.09x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Mar 11, 2026, 0001104659-26-026432
Enterprise value to EBIT Why n/m Enterprise value adds debt and subtracts cash. For a financial company both are the business itself, so the resulting multiple has no economic meaning.	n/m ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Mar 11, 2026, 0001104659-26-026432
Enterprise value to EBITDA Why n/m Enterprise value adds debt and subtracts cash. For a financial company both are the business itself, so the resulting multiple has no economic meaning.	n/m ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Mar 11, 2026, 0001104659-26-026432
Price to earnings over growth Why n/a We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.	n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Mar 11, 2026, 0001104659-26-026432
Diluted earnings per share	0.95 USD FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 11, 2026, 0001104659-26-026432
Graham number	16.72 USD ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 11, 2026, 0001104659-26-026432

We publish no fair value or price target of our own. Value SCM on your own assumptions in the DCF workbench, starting from the filed figures.

Its own record, and companies like it

Valuation

What the market charges for Stellus Capital Investment Corporation today, and the multiples it has carried. No value of ours: the figures are the filings’ and the market’s.

Stellus Capital Investment Corporation: valuation
Share price	7.22 USD
Market capitalisation	205.6M USD
Enterprise value to EBITDA	n/m
Graham number	16.72 USD
Diluted earnings per share, FY2025	0.95 USD

Price to earnings on trailing twelve months, a different basis from the fiscal-year P/E above, since Nov 7, 2023: low 6.53x, median 10.28x, high 26.96x, latest 7.01x. 737 trading days with a meaningful ratio. Each close over the trailing twelve months of earnings as known that day: a quarter counts from the day it was filed.

Companies like Stellus Capital Investment Corporation

Same industry (Asset Management) and size band (Micro, 50M to 300M), nearest in market value and net margin. Each of those counts equally, by how many of the companies considered sit between the two on it. Closest first: the order is likeness and nothing else.

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Cash generation

Whether profit arrives as cash, and what is paid back to shareholders.

SEC filingComputed

Stellus Capital Investment Corporation: cash generation and what is paid out, each with its source
Figure	Value, source and document
Free cash flow yield Why n/m For a bank, an insurer, a broker or investment firm, or a mortgage trust, operating cash flow swings with the size of the loan, trading and funding book rather than with operating performance, so free cash flow is not the measure of the business. Look at earnings and capital adequacy.	n/m ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Mar 11, 2026, 0001104659-26-026432
Free cash flow Why n/a The FY2025 filing carries no free cash flow we could read.	n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 11, 2026, 0001104659-26-026432
Free cash flow margin Why n/m For a bank, an insurer, a broker or investment firm, or a mortgage trust, operating cash flow swings with the size of the loan, trading and funding book rather than with operating performance, so free cash flow is not the measure of the business. Look at earnings and capital adequacy.	n/m ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 11, 2026, 0001104659-26-026432
Dividend yield	22.1% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Mar 11, 2026, 0001104659-26-026432
Payout ratio	167.4% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 11, 2026, 0001104659-26-026432

Free cash flow Net incomeProfit that arrives as cash stands level with net income; a gap year after year is worth reading about.

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Filings

Every figure, the year it is for and the document it was read from.

SEC filingMarket data

The filed figures

Computed from the accounts this company filed with the SEC and, in a ratio with a price in it, the last close, dated on this page. Every filed figure below carries the fiscal year and the filing date its accounts were read from, and every blank carries the reason it is blank. Nothing here is a view on this company.

Stellus Capital Investment Corporation: the eight ratios, with the fiscal year and filing date behind each.
Figure	Value	Year	As of
	7.60x	FY2025	Oct 15, 2026
FormulaShare price / earnings per share. Where the filing states no earnings per share this listing can be priced on, which is every 20-F and 40-F filer because theirs is stated per ordinary share, it is market capitalisation / net income: the same multiple, undiluted. As ofThe close on Oct 15, 2026, over the filed figures of FY2025: a price is in this figure, and it moved after the filing. Form10-KFiledMar 11, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001104659-26-026432What we read from itIncome statementFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001104659-26-026432, leaves this page and opens in a new tab
	0.55x	FY2025	Oct 15, 2026
FormulaMarket capitalisation / shareholders equity As ofThe close on Oct 15, 2026, over the filed figures of FY2025: a price is in this figure, and it moved after the filing. Form10-KFiledMar 11, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001104659-26-026432What we read from itBalance sheetFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001104659-26-026432, leaves this page and opens in a new tab
	n/m	FY2025	Oct 15, 2026
n/m Not meaningful for this company, such as a P/E on negative earnings or a bank's EV/EBIT.
Formula(Market capitalisation + total debt - cash) / operating income, or over the filing's own EBIT (income before tax + interest expense) where the filer tags no operating line, as Johnson & Johnson does not in any of its ten filed years. As ofThe close on Oct 15, 2026, over the filed figures of FY2025: a price is in this figure, and it moved after the filing. Form10-KFiledMar 11, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001104659-26-026432What we read from itIncome statementFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001104659-26-026432, leaves this page and opens in a new tabForm10-KFiledMar 11, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001104659-26-026432What we read from itBalance sheetFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001104659-26-026432, leaves this page and opens in a new tab
	n/m	FY2025	Oct 15, 2026
n/m Not meaningful for this company, such as a P/E on negative earnings or a bank's EV/EBIT.
FormulaFree cash flow per share / share price x 100 As ofThe close on Oct 15, 2026, over the filed figures of FY2025: a price is in this figure, and it moved after the filing. Form10-KFiledMar 11, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001104659-26-026432What we read from itCash flow statementFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001104659-26-026432, leaves this page and opens in a new tab
	n/m	FY2025	Mar 11, 2026
n/m Not meaningful for this company, such as a P/E on negative earnings or a bank's EV/EBIT.
FormulaVendor trailing-twelve-month return on invested capital where one is published, which uses after-tax operating profit over total assets less current liabilities. Otherwise our own recompute: NOPAT / (shareholders equity + total debt - cash) x 100, where NOPAT is the filed operating profit after tax, or the filing's own EBIT after tax where the filer tags no operating line. As ofThe filing date of the statements below, for FY2025. Form10-KFiledMar 11, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001104659-26-026432What we read from itIncome statementFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001104659-26-026432, leaves this page and opens in a new tabForm10-KFiledMar 11, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001104659-26-026432What we read from itBalance sheetFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001104659-26-026432, leaves this page and opens in a new tab
	22.1%	FY2025	Oct 15, 2026
FormulaCommon dividends paid in the latest filed year / market capitalisation x 100. n/a where the filing cannot support it: a special or first-year payment, a total that mixes preferred dividends, or a cash-flow statement over 15 months old. As ofThe close on Oct 15, 2026, over the filed figures of FY2025: a price is in this figure, and it moved after the filing. Form10-KFiledMar 11, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001104659-26-026432What we read from itCash flow statementFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001104659-26-026432, leaves this page and opens in a new tab
	n/a	FY2025	Mar 11, 2026
n/a The filed borrowings do not add up to a total we can stand behind: the filer's own liability subtotals leave room for debt we did not read.
FormulaTotal debt / shareholders equity As ofThe filing date of the statements below, for FY2025. Form10-KFiledMar 11, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001104659-26-026432What we read from itBalance sheetFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001104659-26-026432, leaves this page and opens in a new tab
	n/a	FY2025	Mar 11, 2026
n/a Our archived statements for this filer carry no current assets line, so we cannot compute this from source and show you where it came from.
FormulaCurrent assets / current liabilities As ofThe filing date of the statements below, for FY2025. Form10-KFiledMar 11, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001104659-26-026432What we read from itBalance sheetFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001104659-26-026432, leaves this page and opens in a new tab
	2.09x	FY2025	Oct 15, 2026
FormulaMarket capitalisation / revenue As ofThe close on Oct 15, 2026, over the filed figures of FY2025: a price is in this figure, and it moved after the filing. Form10-KFiledMar 11, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001104659-26-026432What we read from itIncome statementFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001104659-26-026432, leaves this page and opens in a new tab
	n/a	FY2025	Oct 15, 2026
n/a This figure compares a year against the one before it, and we hold one filed year for this company.
FormulaPrice to earnings / the annual earnings growth rate, in percentage points As ofThe close on Oct 15, 2026, over the filed figures of FY2025: a price is in this figure, and it moved after the filing. Form10-KFiledMar 11, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001104659-26-026432What we read from itIncome statementFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001104659-26-026432, leaves this page and opens in a new tab
	n/m	FY2025	Oct 15, 2026
n/m Not meaningful for this company, such as a P/E on negative earnings or a bank's EV/EBIT.
Formula1.2 x working capital/assets + 1.4 x retained earnings/assets + 3.3 x EBIT/assets + 0.6 x market value of equity/total liabilities + 1.0 x revenue/assets As ofThe close on Oct 15, 2026, over the filed figures of FY2025: a price is in this figure, and it moved after the filing. Form10-KFiledMar 11, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001104659-26-026432What we read from itIncome statementFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001104659-26-026432, leaves this page and opens in a new tabForm10-KFiledMar 11, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001104659-26-026432What we read from itBalance sheetFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001104659-26-026432, leaves this page and opens in a new tab
	n/m	FY2025	Mar 11, 2026
n/m Not meaningful for this company, such as a P/E on negative earnings or a bank's EV/EBIT.
FormulaAn eight-variable index of year-on-year changes in receivables, gross margin, asset quality, revenue, depreciation, overheads, leverage and accruals As ofThe filing date of the statements below, for FY2025. Form10-KFiledMar 11, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001104659-26-026432What we read from itIncome statementFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001104659-26-026432, leaves this page and opens in a new tabForm10-KFiledMar 11, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001104659-26-026432What we read from itBalance sheetFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001104659-26-026432, leaves this page and opens in a new tabForm10-KFiledMar 11, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001104659-26-026432What we read from itCash flow statementFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001104659-26-026432, leaves this page and opens in a new tab
	n/m	FY2025	Mar 11, 2026
n/m Not meaningful for this company, such as a P/E on negative earnings or a bank's EV/EBIT.
FormulaOne point each for: positive return on assets, positive operating cash flow, rising return on assets, operating cash flow above net income, falling leverage, rising current ratio, no new shares issued, rising gross margin, rising asset turnover. As ofThe filing date of the statements below, for FY2025. Form10-KFiledMar 11, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001104659-26-026432What we read from itIncome statementFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001104659-26-026432, leaves this page and opens in a new tabForm10-KFiledMar 11, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001104659-26-026432What we read from itBalance sheetFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001104659-26-026432, leaves this page and opens in a new tabForm10-KFiledMar 11, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001104659-26-026432What we read from itCash flow statementFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001104659-26-026432, leaves this page and opens in a new tab

The figures are computed from the accounts for fiscal 2025, the newest full year on file. 5 filed fiscal years on record, FY2020 to FY2025, from SEC EDGAR. Prices as of Oct 15, 2026. Ratios recomputed Oct 15, 2026. Two facts, because a recompute is not a fresh quote.

The year and the filing date name the statement each figure’s accounts are read from, and they stand even where the figure itself could not be computed: the line beneath a blank says what that statement did not carry. A figure’s name opens its formula and the filings behind it; a statement that names no SEC filing has no filing date, and reads n/a.

Ten years of filed figures, year by year

Ten years of filed figures

10 fiscal years, FY2015 to FY2025. 5 read from the annual reports Stellus Capital Investment Corporation filed with the SEC, each naming its filing; the rest from statements that name none, which are market data. Amounts in USD, as reported.

Stellus Capital Investment Corporation: revenue, earnings, free cash flow and returns, by fiscal year, with the filing each year was read from
Year	Revenue	Operating income	Net income	EPS, diluted	Free cash flow	Operating margin	Return on equity	Filing
FY2025	97.8M	n/a	27.0M	0.95	n/a	n/a	7.3%	10-K, Mar 11, 20260001104659-26-026432
FY2024	99.9M	n/a	45.8M	1.79	n/a	n/a	12.4%	10-K, Mar 4, 20250001558370-25-002182
FY2023	102.0M	n/a	17.5M	0.80	n/a	n/a	5.5%	10-K, Mar 4, 20240001558370-24-002368
FY2022	73.0M	n/a	14.5M	0.74	n/a	n/a	5.3%	10-K, Feb 28, 20230001558370-23-002415
FY2020	n/a	n/a	20.2M	1.04	n/a	n/a	n/a	10-K, Feb 28, 20230001558370-23-002415
FY2019	46.7M	27.4M	26.4M	1.45	-93.3M	58.7%	9.8%	Market data, supplied Oct 15, 2026accession n/a
FY2018	31.1M	34.9M	26.2M	1.64	-102.4M	112.4%	11.7%	Market data, supplied Oct 15, 2026accession n/a
FY2017	27.3M	18.0M	22.6M	1.52	18.9M	65.9%	10.3%	Market data, supplied Oct 15, 2026accession n/a
FY2016	26.5M	17.3M	23.2M	1.86	8.8M	65.4%	13.6%	Market data, supplied Oct 15, 2026accession n/a
FY2015	10.4M	16.5M	7.7M	0.61	-24.4M	159.4%	4.7%	Market data, supplied Oct 15, 2026accession n/a

Revenue, compound annual growth FY2015 to FY2025: 25.1%
Earnings, compound annual growth FY2015 to FY2025: 13.4%
Earnings per share, compound annual growth FY2015 to FY2025: 4.5%
Free cash flow: Free cash flow was not positive in both 2015 and 2019, so a compound rate across the window is not defined. Both figures are in the table.

Every figure in this section is a line of a filed annual statement or a ratio of two of them. Nothing here is estimated or smoothed. Earnings per share filed before a share split are put on today's share count, and say so. Nothing here is a verdict on the company.

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Risks and guardrails

The accounting screens, the published tests, and the lines you can set to be told.

ComputedCompany statement

Stellus Capital Investment Corporation: accounting screens and published tests, each with its source
Figure	Value, source and document
Beneish M-score Why n/m The Beneish M-Score is built on gross margin, receivables and asset quality indices estimated on non-financial firms. Those inputs are not defined here.	n/m ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 11, 2026, 0001104659-26-026432
Piotroski F-score Why n/m 2 of the nine Piotroski signals are undefined for a capital markets firm: signal 6 (rising current ratio), signal 8 (rising gross margin). We do not publish a partial score under the full score's name.	n/m ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 11, 2026, 0001104659-26-026432
Named tests met	3 of 30 Computed
Beta	0.84 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026

The named tests

Of 30 tests value investors published: 3 met, 12 not met, 15 we could not complete. Counts, never a score: a single figure would have to decide that meeting one investor’s criteria and meeting another’s are worth the same.

Which tests, by name(all 30)

Meets: P/E times P/B (Benjamin Graham); Cheapest quarter on P/E (David Dreman); Cheapest quarter on P/B (David Dreman)
Does not: Large cap, low P/E; Low PEG, low debt (Peter Lynch); High returns and growth; Gross margin, turnover (Robert Novy-Marx); High yield, low payout; Dividends and buybacks; Low beta, profitable; High returns, low debt; Owner earnings yield; High return on tangibles; Low P/S, rising earnings (James O'Shaughnessy); Low P/E, growth, yield (John Neff)
Not measured: Defensive investor (Benjamin Graham); Deep value; Earnings yield and ROIC (Joel Greenblatt); High F-score, low P/B (Joseph Piotroski); Three forensic scores; EV/EBITDA and coverage; ROIC at or above WACC; Near the 52-week low; Z-score and coverage (Edward Altman); Two thirds of NCAV (Benjamin Graham); Book or below, low debt (Walter Schloss); Cash-covered dividend; Tangible book or below; Cash-flow yield and ROIC; Clean books, high ROIC. A test with a figure we could not read is incomplete, never met and never failed.

Figures we could not read(18)

Current Ratio: Our archived statements for this filer carry no current assets line, so we cannot compute this from source and show you where it came from.
Debt to Equity: The filed borrowings do not add up to a total we can stand behind: the filer's own liability subtotals leave room for debt we did not read.
Positive Earnings Streak: We hold 4 profitable filed years in a row; the test needs 10.
Piotroski F-Score: 2 of the nine Piotroski signals are undefined for a capital markets firm: signal 6 (rising current ratio), signal 8 (rising gross margin). We do not publish a partial score under the full score's name.
EV/EBIT: Enterprise value adds debt and subtracts cash. For a financial company both are the business itself, so the resulting multiple has no economic meaning.
Return on Invested Capital: Invested capital is equity plus debt less cash. A financial company's debt and cash are operating positions, so returns measured against that base are not comparable to an operating business.
Altman Z-Score: Altman's Z-Score was estimated on manufacturers and explicitly excludes financial firms. A financial company scores in the distress zone by construction, so the number would be wrong rather than alarming. Not applicable to financials.
Beneish M-Score: The Beneish M-Score is built on gross margin, receivables and asset quality indices estimated on non-financial firms. Those inputs are not defined here.
PEG Ratio: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
Gross Margin: Our archived statements for this filer carry no gross profit line, so there is nothing to compute a gross margin from and trace back to source. That may be because the filer presents no cost of revenue, or because we have not captured the concept. We do not guess which.
EV/EBITDA: Enterprise value adds debt and subtracts cash. For a financial company both are the business itself, so the resulting multiple has no economic meaning.
Interest Coverage: No operating income line is filed for this year.
Free Cash Flow Yield: For a bank, an insurer, a broker or investment firm, or a mortgage trust, operating cash flow swings with the size of the loan, trading and funding book rather than with operating performance, so free cash flow is not the measure of the business. Look at earnings and capital adequacy.
ROIC-WACC Spread: Invested capital is equity plus debt less cash. A financial company's debt and cash are operating positions, so returns measured against that base are not comparable to an operating business.
Price To Ncav: Net current asset value needs current assets, which an unclassified balance sheet does not report.
Owner Earnings Yield: For a bank, an insurer, a broker or investment firm, or a mortgage trust, operating cash flow swings with the size of the loan, trading and funding book rather than with operating performance, so free cash flow is not the measure of the business. Look at earnings and capital adequacy.
Capex To Ocf: For a bank, an insurer, a broker or investment firm, or a mortgage trust, operating cash flow swings with the size of the loan, trading and funding book rather than with operating performance, so free cash flow is not the measure of the business. Look at earnings and capital adequacy.
Dividend Coverage Ratio: For a bank, an insurer, a broker or investment firm, or a mortgage trust, operating cash flow swings with the size of the loan, trading and funding book rather than with operating performance, so free cash flow is not the measure of the business. Look at earnings and capital adequacy.

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Positions declared by the founder: no holding in any company shown here, as of October 3, 2026.

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What this cannot tell you

18 figures could not be read on this company, among them Current Ratio, Debt to Equity, Positive Earnings Streak. Each blank in the table above names the rest, with its reason. 15 named tests come back incomplete because of them, which is neither met nor missed.
We hold 5 filed fiscal years rather than 10, so the run above is shorter than a full decade and is counted as what it is.

And the one that is true of all of it: This is what the numbers say today. It cannot tell you the day one of them stops being true. Nothing here can, because the reasons are not written down.

Running this once is arithmetic on public documents and you are welcome to it. Writing down why you own each company, in your own words and with the numbers that have to stay true for it to hold, and then having those numbers re-checked every night against the newest filed accounts, and against the latest close where a rule watches a price, is Professional, the plan a new account starts on for 30 days, one trial per person. It writes to you the day one breaks, and stays quiet when nothing does. The check runs every night at 23:30 UTC. A filing is picked up the night after it is published.

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ValueScreener · valuescreener.ai · Computed from accounts filed with the SEC by this company, read from EDGAR, and from dated closing prices. On this page a filed figure opens into its formula, its inputs and the statement, fiscal year and filing date it was read from, and a price into the day of its close. A figure that cannot show that trail says so.

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