Equus Total Return, Inc. (EQS)Financial Services | Asset Management | Houston, United States | NYSE
1.44 USD
+0.02
(1.408%)
⇧
(April 17, 2026, 3:34 p.m.
EDT)
After hours: 1.44 Short-term: ★☆☆☆☆ | Long-term: ★★☆☆☆ | Dividends: ☆☆☆☆☆ |
Hot Take | April 18, 2026, 6:10 p.m. EDT
EQS presents a severe structural disconnect where a battered equity price (trading at 0.76x book) masks deep fundamental rot, including negative ROE of -44.7% and a debt-to-equity ratio exceeding 700%. While the asset management shell attempts to pivot via BDC exit talks and Williston Basin drilling operations, the complete absence of a dividend history renders the equity yield irrelevant, and the forecast model's highly significant Ljung-Box p-value confirms that price movements are non-random and heavily driven by negative momentum rather than value. This is a classic value trap with no short-term momentum catalyst and no long-term safety margin. |
| Model | MAE |
|---|---|
| AutoTheta ✓ | 0.087401 |
| MSTL | 0.088683 |
| AutoARIMA | 0.089751 |
| AutoETS | 0.089752 |
Forecast horizon: 45 days | Selected: AutoTheta
| Forecast Reliability | |
|---|---|
| Score | 29% |
| H-stat | 52.06 |
| Ljung-Box p | 0.000 |
| Jarque-Bera p | 0.020 |
| Excess Kurtosis | -0.70 |
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Sector | Financial Services |
| Ex Dividend Date | 2009-08-20 |
| Last Dividend Date | 2009-03-04 |
| Debt to Equity Ratio | 12.812 |
| Revenue per Share | 0.1 |
| Market Cap | 20,112,044 |
| Website | https://www.equuscap.com |
| Date | Dividend | Yield % |
|---|---|---|
| 2009-03-05 | 0.108000 | 3.323077 |
| 2008-11-13 | 0.158000 | 3.017733 |
| 2008-08-21 | 0.158000 | 2.356020 |
| 2008-05-22 | 0.158000 | 2.365925 |
| 2008-02-27 | 0.158000 | 2.542612 |
| 2007-11-15 | 0.125000 | 2.283366 |
| 2007-08-17 | 0.125000 | 2.028355 |
| 2007-05-17 | 0.125000 | 1.636124 |
| 2007-02-22 | 0.125000 | 1.744129 |
| 2006-11-03 | 0.125000 | 1.893744 |
| 2006-02-09 | 2.500000 | 38.229592 |
| 2004-12-06 | 0.570000 | 11.775715 |
| 2003-11-25 | 0.720000 | 15.403752 |
| 2000-11-16 | 0.545455 | 11.902402 |
| 1999-11-10 | 3.863636 | 70.651913 |
| 1998-11-12 | 0.590909 | 9.721636 |
| 1997-11-26 | 0.454545 | 6.113634 |
| 1996-12-12 | 0.618182 | 12.673714 |
| 1996-11-13 | 0.004545 | 0.094210 |
| 1995-11-13 | 1.818182 | 43.085293 |
| 1994-12-09 | 0.227273 | 6.390202 |
| 1993-12-13 | 0.618182 | 17.224742 |
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| 52 Week Change | 0.3584906 |
| Address1 | 700 Louisiana Street |
| Address2 | 41st Floor |
| All Time High | 26.25 |
| All Time Low | 0.74 |
| Ask | 1.45 |
| Ask Size | 200 |
| Average Daily Volume10 Day | 6,460 |
| Average Daily Volume3 Month | 6,446 |
| Average Volume | 6,446 |
| Average Volume10Days | 6,460 |
| Bid | 1.35 |
| Bid Size | 200 |
| Book Value | 1.898 |
| City | Houston |
| Compensation As Of Epoch Date | 1,767,139,200 |
| Country | United States |
| Crypto Tradeable | 0 |
| Currency | USD |
| Current Price | 1.44 |
| Current Ratio | 0.844 |
| Custom Price Alert Confidence | HIGH |
| Date Short Interest | 1,774,915,200 |
| Day High | 1.4966 |
| Day Low | 1.375 |
| Debt To Equity | 12.812 |
| Display Name | Equus Total Return |
| Earnings Timestamp End | 1,755,892,800 |
| Earnings Timestamp Start | 1,755,547,200 |
| Ebitda Margins | 0.0 |
| Enterprise To Revenue | 16.098 |
| Enterprise Value | 22,102,042 |
| Eps Trailing Twelve Months | -1.03 |
| Esg Populated | 0 |
| Ex Dividend Date | 1,250,812,800 |
| Exchange | NYQ |
| Exchange Data Delayed By | 0 |
| Exchange Timezone Name | America/New_York |
| Exchange Timezone Short Name | EDT |
| Fax | 212-671-1534 |
| Fifty Day Average | 1.5162 |
| Fifty Day Average Change | -0.07619989 |
| Fifty Day Average Change Percent | -0.05025715 |
| Fifty Two Week Change Percent | 35.84906 |
| Fifty Two Week High | 2.49 |
| Fifty Two Week High Change | -1.05 |
| Fifty Two Week High Change Percent | -0.42168674 |
| Fifty Two Week Low | 0.74 |
| Fifty Two Week Low Change | 0.70000005 |
| Fifty Two Week Low Change Percent | 0.945946 |
| Fifty Two Week Range | 0.74 - 2.49 |
| Financial Currency | USD |
| First Trade Date Milliseconds | 716,218,200,000 |
| Float Shares | 5,831,375 |
| Free Cashflow | -1,831,000 |
| Full Exchange Name | NYSE |
| Gmt Off Set Milliseconds | -14,400,000 |
| Gross Margins | 1.0 |
| Gross Profits | 1,373,000 |
| Has Pre Post Market Data | 1 |
| Held Percent Insiders | 0.56813 |
| Held Percent Institutions | 0.01069 |
| Implied Shares Outstanding | 13,966,696 |
| Industry | Asset Management |
| Industry Disp | Asset Management |
| Industry Key | asset-management |
| Is Earnings Date Estimate | 1 |
| Language | en-US |
| Last Dividend Date | 1,236,211,200 |
| Last Dividend Value | 0.108 |
| Last Fiscal Year End | 1,767,139,200 |
| Last Split Date | 1,006,992,000 |
| Last Split Factor | 110:100 |
| Long Business Summary | Equus Total Return, Inc. is a business development company (BDC) specializing in leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, corporate partnerships/joint ventures, growth and expansion capital, acquisition financing, roll-up acquisition strategies, operational turnarounds, recapitalizations of existing businesses, special situations, equity and equity-oriented securities issued by privately owned companies, debt securities including subordinate debt, debt convertible into common or preferred stock, or debt combined with warrants and common and preferred stock, and preferred equity financing. It invests in middle market companies and acts as a lead investor. It invests in technology, telecommunication, financial services, natural resource and industrial manufacturing and services. It invests in companies engaged in the alternative energy, real estate, healthcare, education, e-learning, leisure and entertainment, and foreign investment sector in the United States, China, India, and Europe. It investments include common and preferred stock, debt convertible into common or preferred stock, debt combined with warrants and options, and other rights to acquire common or preferred stock. It seeks to invest in companies between $1 million and $25 million with revenues between $5 million and $150 million with EBITDA between $2 million and $50 million. It seeks to take control and non-control equity positions. Equus Total Return, Inc. was founded in 1991 and is based in Houston, Texas with additional office in Vancouver, Canada. |
| Long Name | Equus Total Return, Inc. |
| Market | us_market |
| Market Cap | 20,112,044 |
| Market State | CLOSED |
| Max Age | 86,400 |
| Message Board Id | finmb_20247 |
| Most Recent Quarter | 1,767,139,200 |
| Net Income To Common | -14,164,000 |
| Next Fiscal Year End | 1,798,675,200 |
| Non Diluted Market Cap | 20,112,042 |
| Open | 1.4509 |
| Operating Cashflow | -2,129,000 |
| Operating Margins | -1.1832299 |
| Payout Ratio | 0.0 |
| Phone | 1-800-856-0901 |
| Post Market Change | 0.0 |
| Post Market Change Percent | 0.0 |
| Post Market Price | 1.44 |
| Post Market Time | 1,776,456,259 |
| Previous Close | 1.42 |
| Price Hint | 4 |
| Price To Book | 0.7586934 |
| Price To Sales Trailing12 Months | 14.648248 |
| Profit Margins | 0.0 |
| Quick Ratio | 0.844 |
| Quote Source Name | Nasdaq Real Time Price |
| Quote Type | EQUITY |
| Recommendation Key | none |
| Region | US |
| Regular Market Change | 0.0200001 |
| Regular Market Change Percent | 1.40846 |
| Regular Market Day High | 1.4966 |
| Regular Market Day Low | 1.375 |
| Regular Market Day Range | 1.375 - 1.4966 |
| Regular Market Open | 1.4509 |
| Regular Market Previous Close | 1.42 |
| Regular Market Price | 1.44 |
| Regular Market Time | 1,776,454,463 |
| Regular Market Volume | 13,690 |
| Return On Assets | -0.07326 |
| Return On Equity | -0.61476004 |
| Revenue Growth | -0.012 |
| Revenue Per Share | 0.1 |
| Sand P52 Week Change | 0.38150132 |
| Sector | Financial Services |
| Sector Disp | Financial Services |
| Sector Key | financial-services |
| Shares Outstanding | 13,966,696 |
| Shares Percent Shares Out | 0.0011999999 |
| Shares Short | 16,839 |
| Shares Short Previous Month Date | 1,772,150,400 |
| Shares Short Prior Month | 14,081 |
| Short Name | Equus Total Return, Inc. |
| Short Percent Of Float | 0.0017 |
| Short Ratio | 2.11 |
| Source Interval | 15 |
| State | TX |
| Symbol | EQS |
| Total Cash | 133,000 |
| Total Cash Per Share | 0.01 |
| Total Debt | 2,123,000 |
| Total Revenue | 1,373,000 |
| Tradeable | 0 |
| Trailing Annual Dividend Rate | 0.0 |
| Trailing Annual Dividend Yield | 0.0 |
| Trailing Eps | -1.03 |
| Trailing Peg Ratio | None |
| Triggerable | 1 |
| Two Hundred Day Average | 1.7252 |
| Two Hundred Day Average Change | -0.2852 |
| Two Hundred Day Average Change Percent | -0.16531417 |
| Type Disp | Equity |
| Volume | 13,690 |
| Website | https://www.equuscap.com |
| Zip | 77,002 |