profit from every $100 of sales.
$0$100
Great Elm Capital
$4.91+4.91% today
-37.1% in 1 year
1-year low $4.681-year high $7.90
Trading close to its lowest price of the past year.
The essentials
Four questions every investor asks, answered in one line each.
more sales each year, on average, 2023 to 2024.
0%20% a year
You pay $18.88 for every $1 of profit it makes in a year.
CheapExpensive
It holds more cash than debt.
No debt5 years
Money in, money out
What Great Elm Capital sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from -$14.8 million in 2022 to -$23.5 million in 2025, with -$31.8 million of profit last year.
SalesProfit
Great Elm Capital vs. similar companies
Great Elm Capital grows the slowest of these 5 and is priced in the middle for its profits.
| Company | Profit from $100 of sales | Sales growth a year | Price per $1 of profit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Great Elm Capital | 18.9× · Fair price | ||
 BlackRock | 34.0× · Expensive | ||
 Blackstone | 49.1× · Expensive | ||
 Investor | 8.5× · Cheap | ||
 Brookfield | 70.0× · Very expensive |
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads Great Elm Capital's last five years, its segments, earnings, insiders and peers, and writes the bull case, the bear case and what the price expects.
Run the AI analysisFull statementsIncome, balance sheet and cash flow, year by year
Income statement
| In millions of USD | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| -15 | 32 | 10 | -23 | |
| – | – | – | – | |
| – | – | – | – | |
| – | – | – | – | |
| -16 | 25 | 4 | -32 | |
| -2.49 | 3.33 | 0.36 | -2.57 | |
| – | – | – | – | |
| – | – | – | – | |
| 105.6% | 79.6% | 35.5% | 135.4% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of USD | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 310 | 247 | 342 | 341 |
| Cash | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Total debt | 153 | 140 | 190 | 189 |
| Total liabilities | 225 | 148 | 206 | 228 |
| 85 | 99 | 136 | 113 | |
| 6 | 8 | 10 | 12 | |
| – | – | – | – | |
| -18.4% | 25.7% | 2.6% | -28.1% |
Cash flow
| In millions of USD | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| -42 | 26 | -83 | -3 | |
| – | – | – | – | |
| -42 | 26 | -83 | -3 | |
| Dividends paid | 13 | 11 | 15 | 19 |
| – | – | – | – | |
| – | – | – | – |
Valuation
- 18.9×
- 4.2×
- –
- 0.8×
- 6.7×
- –
- –
- -123.3%
- 5.3%
- 24.3%
Profitability
- –
- 284.4%
- 35.5%
- 284.4%
- -11.9%
- -2.0%
- -26.4%
- -11.7%
- -11.9%
- –
Growth
- −68.6%
- −89.2%
- +96.6%
- −6.2%
- +32.0%
Financial health
- -5.1×
- 1.57
- 59.8%
- -2.1×
- –
- –
- -0.04
How it ranks in Financial Services
Each dot is where the company stands among every company over $300M in the sector. Further right is better.
Bottom 3%of 768
Bottom 32%of 881
Bottom 1%of 880
What analysts expect
- Average price target
- $11.00
- Range
- $11.00 – $11.00
These targets were collected on May 20, 2026 and our analyst feed has not updated since, so we no longer compare them with today's price.
Recent earnings
Our results feed has not updated since May 21, 2026. Results reported after that are not in this table yet.
| Date | EPS | Expected | Surprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 2026 | 0.36 | 0.32 | +14.3% |
| Mar 2, 2026 | 0.31 | 0.32 | −3.1% |
| Nov 4, 2025 | 0.20 | 0.24 | −16.7% |
| Aug 5, 2025 | 0.51 | 0.44 | +15.9% |
| May 5, 2025 | 0.40 | 0.39 | +2.6% |
| Mar 10, 2025 | 0.20 | 0.35 | −42.9% |
| Oct 31, 2024 | 0.39 | 0.36 | +8.3% |
| Aug 1, 2024 | 0.32 | 0.33 | −3.0% |
24.3%of the share price, paid each year
On $1,000 invested$243a year at today's yield, before tax
−6.2%2020 to 2025
Raised1 yearin a row, in our data
Paid per share, each year
$0.97 in 2016 → $1.48 in 2025
How safe it looks
424.3% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earnsNews
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Our insider feed has not updated since May 26, 2026. Trades filed after that are not listed yet.
No insider trades on file.
The seven classic investing rulebooks
0/7Passes 0 of 7. Each bar is how well the company fits that investor's published rules, from 0 to 100; 60 or more counts as a pass.
Warren Buffett
26No pass
Benjamin Graham
50No pass
Philip Fisher
35No pass
Peter Lynch
32No pass
Joel Greenblatt
14No pass
Charlie Munger
44No pass
Terry Smith
39No pass
Questions about Great Elm Capital
Is Great Elm Capital a good stock to buy?
A strong, very profitable business at a fair price. 0 of the 7 famous investors' published rulebooks we apply pass it. Whether it suits you depends on your goals and the price you pay; invest-like never tells anyone to buy or sell. The AI analysis lays out the case for and against. Read the Great Elm Capital AI analysis
What does Great Elm Capital do?
Great Elm Capital Corp. is a business development company which specializes in loan and mezzanine, middle market investments. It invests in the debt instruments of middle market companies. It is in Asset Management.
Does Great Elm Capital pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 24.3% a year. In 2025 it paid out $19.2 million in dividends.
Is Great Elm Capital stock halal?
No. Great Elm Capital does not pass our halal screen: its debt is 282% of its market value, at or above the 33% limit. How we check
How has Great Elm Capital stock done over the past year?
Down 37.1% over the past twelve months, to $4.91. It traded between $4.68 and $7.90 and is 37.8% below its high.
Who are Great Elm Capital's competitors?
The largest listed companies in the same industry are BlackRock, Blackstone, Investor and Brookfield. The peers table on this page compares their profit, growth and price with Great Elm Capital's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 13, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.