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Capital Southwest Corporation

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What Do They Do?

Provides customized loans and equity financing to lower middle-market companies, supporting growth, ownership changes and other corporate events.

How Do They Make Money?

It earns interest on loans to portfolio companies and dividends from their stock. Interest is counted when collection is expected, while dividends are counted when portfolio companies declare them.

FY2026 revenue

Who Are Their Customers?

Provides financing directly to lower middle-market companies, partnering with their owners, management teams and financial sponsors.

Do Revenues Turn Into Profits?

Yes. It kept 83 cents of every revenue dollar as net income in FY2026, but spent more cash than it brought in: free cash flow was −$193.8M.

Net income, FY2026
83% of revenue
▲ +60% vs FY2025 ($70.5M, 59%)
Free cash flow, FY2026
−142% of revenue
▼ −11% (Loss) vs FY2025 (−$218.9M, −182%)

How Are They Changing?

Since the FY2026 annual report
Latest quarter: Q1 FY2027, the three months to Jun 30, 2026
Revenue
▲ +7%
vs $32.7M in Q1 FY2026
Net income
▼ −8%
vs $27M in Q1 FY2026

Growing. Revenue grew 3.2x in 4 years, from $43.3M in FY2022 to $136.6M in FY2026, about 33% a year.

Narrower lending focus The older report described debt financing for upper middle-market companies as well as lower middle-market lending, including second-lien loans. The latest report centers on lower middle-market financing and primarily first-lien debt.

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