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Equus Total Return, Inc. (EQS)

Financial Services | Asset Management | Houston, United States | NYSE
1.22 USD +0.02 (1.650%) ⇧ (July 13, 2026, 4 p.m. EDT)
After hours: 1.22

Short-term:★★⯪☆☆Long-term:★☆☆☆☆Dividends:☆☆☆☆☆
Hot Take | July 11, 2026, 3:11 a.m. EDT

The investment case for this asset is fundamentally broken due to severe operational distress and a lack of capital preservation. The company is generating negative free cash flow and operating losses, while its balance sheet is dangerously leveraged with debt significantly exceeding equity. Despite a recent uptick in price, the underlying business is deteriorating with shrinking revenues and negative returns on both assets and equity. The presence of an activist investor highlights the severity of governance and strategic issues, yet the lack of a dividend and the multi-year price decline suggest the market has already priced out the core business risks. With no income generation and a trajectory of value destruction, there is no rational basis for a long-term hold or a short-term speculative entry without significant catalysts that are not currently evident in the data.

Model Selection — Backtest MAE (log-scale, lower is better)
ModelMAE
MSTL ✓0.099166
AutoTheta0.106731
MSTL_1260.109325
AutoETS0.111890
AutoARIMA0.112347
MSTL_63_1260.122959
MSTL_630.158284

Forecast horizon: 60 days | Selected: MSTL

Forecast Reliability
Score 45%
H-stat 0.87
Ljung-Box p 0.000
Jarque-Bera p 0.508
Excess Kurtosis -0.71
Attribute Value
Sector Financial Services
Ex Dividend Date 2009-08-20
Last Dividend Date 2009-03-04
Debt to Equity Ratio 10.664
Revenue per Share 0.098
Market Cap 17,039,370
Beta 0.15
Website https://www.equuscap.com

Dividend Data

Dividend History
Date Dividend Yield %
2009-03-05 0.108000 3.323077
2008-11-13 0.158000 2.925926
2008-08-21 0.158000 2.222222
2008-05-22 0.158000 2.182321
2008-02-27 0.158000 2.293179
2007-11-15 0.125000 2.012882
2007-08-17 0.125000 1.753156
2007-05-17 0.125000 1.388889
2007-02-22 0.125000 1.460280
2006-11-03 0.125000 1.562500
2006-02-09 2.500000 31.055900
2004-12-06 0.570000 7.279694
2003-11-25 0.720000 8.866995
2000-11-16 0.545455 6.274515
1999-11-10 3.863636 35.051544
1998-11-12 0.590909 3.561644
1997-11-26 0.454545 2.162160
1996-12-12 0.618182 4.387098
1996-11-13 0.004545 0.031247
1995-11-13 1.818182 14.285715
1994-12-09 0.227273 1.851854
1993-12-13 0.618182 4.900902
Additional Data
exDividendDate 2009-08-21
trailingAnnualDividendRate 0.0
trailingAnnualDividendYield 0.0
lastDividendValue 0.108
lastDividendDate 2009-03-05

Info Dump

Attribute Value
52 Week Change -0.14893615
Address1 700 Louisiana Street
Address2 41st Floor
All Time High 26.25
All Time Low 0.74
Ask 0.0
Ask Size 100
Average Daily Volume10 Day 11,180
Average Daily Volume3 Month 15,121
Average Volume 15,121
Average Volume10Days 11,180
Beta 0.146
Bid 0.0
Bid Size 1,100
Book Value 1.499
City Houston
Compensation As Of Epoch Date 1,767,139,200
Country United States
Crypto Tradeable 0
Currency USD
Current Price 1.22
Current Ratio 0.844
Custom Price Alert Confidence HIGH
Date Short Interest 1,782,777,600
Day High 1.22
Day Low 1.195
Debt To Equity 10.664
Display Name Equus Total Return
Earnings Growth -0.04
Earnings Quarterly Growth 0.043
Earnings Timestamp End 1,755,892,800
Earnings Timestamp Start 1,755,547,200
Ebitda Margins 0.0
Enterprise To Revenue 14.171
Enterprise Value 19,131,370
Eps Trailing Twelve Months -1.04
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 1.2842
Fifty Day Average Change -0.064199924
Fifty Day Average Change Percent -0.049992155
Fifty Two Week Change Percent -14.893616
Fifty Two Week High 2.49
Fifty Two Week High Change -1.27
Fifty Two Week High Change Percent -0.51004016
Fifty Two Week Low 1.07
Fifty Two Week Low Change 0.14999998
Fifty Two Week Low Change Percent 0.14018689
Fifty Two Week Range 1.07 - 2.49
Financial Currency USD
First Trade Date Milliseconds 716,218,200,000
Float Shares 5,752,044
Free Cashflow -385,375
Full Exchange Name NYSE
Gmt Off Set Milliseconds -14,400,000
Gross Margins 1.0
Gross Profits 1,350,000
Has Pre Post Market Data 1
Held Percent Insiders 0.58816004
Held Percent Institutions 0.00898
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 17,039,370
Market State PREPRE
Max Age 86,400
Message Board Id finmb_20247
Most Recent Quarter 1,774,915,200
Net Income To Common -13,995,000
Next Fiscal Year End 1,798,675,200
Non Diluted Market Cap 16,762,828
Open 1.2
Operating Cashflow -528,000
Operating Margins -2.4127
Payout Ratio 0.0
Phone 1-800-856-0901
Post Market Change 0.0
Post Market Change Percent 0.0
Post Market Price 1.22
Post Market Time 1,783,979,450
Previous Close 1.2002
Price Hint 4
Price To Book 0.813876
Price To Sales Trailing12 Months 12.621756
Profit Margins 0.0
Quick Ratio 0.844
Quote Source Name Delayed Quote
Quote Type EQUITY
Recommendation Key none
Region US
Regular Market Change 0.0198001
Regular Market Change Percent 1.64973
Regular Market Day High 1.22
Regular Market Day Low 1.195
Regular Market Day Range 1.195 - 1.22
Regular Market Open 1.2
Regular Market Previous Close 1.2002
Regular Market Price 1.22
Regular Market Time 1,783,972,803
Regular Market Volume 4,103
Return On Assets -0.05312
Return On Equity -0.50773996
Revenue Growth -0.068
Revenue Per Share 0.098
Sand P52 Week Change 0.20847368
Sector Financial Services
Sector Disp Financial Services
Sector Key financial-services
Shares Outstanding 13,966,696
Shares Percent Shares Out 0.0014
Shares Short 19,567
Shares Short Previous Month Date 1,780,012,800
Shares Short Prior Month 13,785
Short Name Equus Total Return, Inc.
Short Percent Of Float 0.002
Short Ratio 0.79
Source Interval 15
State TX
Symbol EQS
Total Cash 140,000
Total Cash Per Share 0.01
Total Debt 2,232,000
Total Revenue 1,350,000
Tradeable 0
Trailing Annual Dividend Rate 0.0
Trailing Annual Dividend Yield 0.0
Trailing Eps -1.04
Trailing Peg Ratio None
Triggerable 1
Two Hundred Day Average 1.5728
Two Hundred Day Average Change -0.3528
Two Hundred Day Average Change Percent -0.22431333
Type Disp Equity
Volume 4,103
Website https://www.equuscap.com
Zip 77,002