Equus Total Return Closed Fund is an asset management business based in the US. Equus Total Return Closed Fund shares (EQS) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Its last market close was $0.96 – a decrease of 4% over the previous week.
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| Latest market close | $0.96 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $0.87 - $1.53 |
| 50-day moving average | $1.09 |
| 200-day moving average | $1.24 |
| Wall St. target price | N/A |
| PE ratio | N/A |
| Dividend yield | N/A |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $-1.38 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $0.96 from 2025-05-02
| 1 week (2025-04-25) | -4.00% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2025-04-04) | -5.88% |
| 3 months (2025-02-04) | -29.41% |
| 6 months (2024-11-04) | -27.27% |
| 1 year (2024-05-03) | -33.79% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2023-05-03) | -39.24% |
| 3 years (2022-05-03) | 2.47 |
| 5 years (2020-05-01) | 1.18 |
| Revenue TTM | $1.3 million |
|---|---|
| Gross profit TTM | $1.3 million |
| Return on assets TTM | -3.22% |
| Return on equity TTM | -48.27% |
| Profit margin | 0% |
| Book value | $2.17 |
| Market Capitalization | $13 million |
TTM: trailing 12 months
We're not expecting Equus Total Return Closed Fund to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.
Equus Total Return Closed Fund's shares were split on a 110:100 basis on 28 November 2001 . So if you had owned 100 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 110 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Equus Total Return Closed Fund shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 9.1% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Equus Total Return Closed Fund shares which in turn could have impacted Equus Total Return Closed Fund's share price.
Over the last 12 months, Equus Total Return Closed Fund's shares have ranged in value from as little as $0.8705 up to $1.53. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Equus Total Return Closed Fund's is 0.79. This would suggest that Equus Total Return Closed Fund's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).
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.
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