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PSEC Income Quality Score

Prospect Capital Corporation (PSEC) has an Income Quality Score of 36/100, classified as a Question Mark with high confidence, based on a 10-year income and total-return history.

Prospect Capital Corporation (PSEC) is a business development company (BDC) and is part of the IQ Score universe.

July 2026 snapshotAs of June 30, 2026Lookback: 10-year
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Long-term focused10-year income and total-return analysis
Data-drivenObjective scoring across 7 quality, distribution and risk signals
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IQ Score
36/100
Question MarkHigh confidence
Asset Type
BDC
Exchange
NASDAQ
Trailing Yield (TTM)
22.5%
Rank in BDC Universe
33 of 44
Lookback
10-year
Data as of
June 30, 2026
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This is the public July 2026 snapshot. Public snapshots are delayed and frozen: once released, a month's scores do not change, and current data is reserved for members. The July 2026 snapshot is published as the public launch snapshot.
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PSECProspect Capital Corporation
36Question MarkHigh confidence
Snapshot
2026-06
Data as of
2026-06-30
Lookback
10-year
Asset type
Business Development Company

IQ Score History

Not enough published history yet to draw a trend.

Signals & Drivers

IQ signal scores

Each signal is normalised to 0–100 and combined by weight into the overall IQ Score.

Economic Payout Coverage
21/100
Distribution Cut Score
40/100
Distribution Trend
37/100
Total Return
36/100
Max Drawdown
22/100
Volatility
63/100
Yield Consistency
93/100

What to watch

  • Distributions exceed long-term total return
  • drawdown severe
  • 1–2 years with a material annual distribution decline
  • yield unsupported

Flags & gates

  • Yield Trap
  • Deep Unrecovered Drawdown

Distribution Safety

8Years raised
2Years cut
23Years of data
CutCurrent trend

High confidence (10-year history)

  1. 20040.1Held
  2. 20050.755Raised
  3. 20061.405Raised
  4. 20071.565Raised
  5. 20081.6076Raised
  6. 20091.6276Raised
  7. 20101.114Lower total
  8. 20111.2152Raised
  9. 20121.227Raised
  10. 20131.3219Raised
  11. 20141.3255Held
  12. 20151.0269Lower total
  13. 20160.9996Lower total
  14. 20170.9064Lower total
  15. 20180.72Cut
  16. 20190.72Held
  17. 20200.72Held
  18. 20210.72Held
  19. 20220.72Held
  20. 20230.72Held
  21. 20240.69Lower total
  22. 20250.54Cut
  23. 20260.25Partial year

Distributions per year, from the frozen distribution-stability signal. “Lower total” means the calendar-year sum was smaller than the prior year (often a special-distribution rolloff or timing shift), but did not decline more than the engine's 10% material-decline threshold — see Years Cut above for years that did.

The IQ Score is a research classification of historical income quality. It is not investment advice, not a recommendation and not a prediction of future returns.

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