Gladstone Investment Corporation (GAIN)
ValueMarkers Composite Index
88% below intrinsic value ($124)
Gladstone Investment Corporation (GAIN) — VMCI valuation read
Headline read on GAIN: VMCI of 55/100 versus a Financial Services sector median of 50. The 5-point above-median position is what makes Gladstone Investment Corporation a relative-value candidate in the mid-cap cohort, before any pillar-level review.
Form 4 filings on GAIN: zero in the trailing 30 days. The absence of insider transactions is itself a data point, just a low-information one. The thesis runs on financials and price action until that changes.
**Investor frame.** Three reads on GAIN: value (GAIN trades at 15.0x earnings, 17% below the Financial Services median of 18.0x), quality (ROIC of 11.0% sits 1.0pp above the Financial Services median (10.0%)), and risk (net debt to EBITDA of -2.3x leaves covenant headroom). The value read also implies an EV/EBITDA gap of +4.0x against the Financial Services 12.0x baseline.
GAIN fell 2.1% over the trailing 7 days, with a -11.3% read on a 30-day basis.
Gladstone Investment Corporation is business development company, specializes in lower middle market, mature stage, buyouts; refinancing existing debt; senior debt securities such as senior loans, senior term loans, lines of credit, and senior notes; senior subordinated debt securities such as senior subordinated loans and senior subordinated notes; junior subordinated debt securities such as subordinated notes and mezzanine loans; limited liability company interests, and warrants or options. The fund does not invest in start-ups. The fund seeks to invest in manufacturing, consumer products and business/consumer services sector. It seeks to invest in small and mid-sized companies based in the United States. The fund prefers to make debt investments between $5 million and $30 million and equity investments between $10 million and $40 million in companies. The fund seeks to invest in companies with revenue between $20 million and $100 million. The fund invests in companies with EBITDA from $3 million to $20 million. It seeks minority equity ownership and prefers to hold a board seat in its portfolio companies. It also prefers to take majority stake in its portfolio companies. The fund typically holds the investments for seven years and exits via sale or recapitalization, initial public offering, or sale to third party.
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