Compare · GOF vs MAIN
GOF vs MAIN
Side-by-side comparison of Guggenheim Strategic Opportunities Fund (GOF) and Main Street Capital Corporation (MAIN): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.
Summary
- Both GOF and MAIN operate in Finance/Investors Services (Finance), so they compete in similar markets.
- MAIN is the larger of the two at $4.72B, about 4.7x GOF ($1.01B).
- Over the past year, GOF is down 25.2% and MAIN is down 8.7% - MAIN leads by 16.5 points.
- MAIN has hit the wire 10 times in the past 4 weeks while GOF has been quiet.
- MAIN has more recent analyst coverage (12 ratings vs 0 for GOF).
- Company
- Guggenheim Strategic Opportunities Fund
- Main Street Capital Corporation
- Price
- $11.05+0.18%
- $51.69+1.94%
- Market cap
- $1.01B
- $4.72B
- 1M return
- -3.28%
- -9.86%
- 1Y return
- -25.23%
- -8.72%
- Industry
- Finance/Investors Services
- Finance/Investors Services
- Exchange
- NYSE
- NYSE
- IPO
- 2007
- News (4w)
- 0
- 10
- Recent ratings
- 0
- 12
Guggenheim Strategic Opportunities Fund
Guggenheim Strategic Opportunities Fund is a closed-ended balanced mutual fund launched and managed by Guggenheim Funds Investment Advisors, LLC. The fund is co-managed by Guggenheim Partners Investment Management LLC. It invests in public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. For its equity portion, the fund invests directly and through derivatives such as writing covered call and put options to invest in the stocks of companies operating across diversified sectors. It invests in the value stocks of companies of all capitalizations. The fund employs a combination of quantitative and qualitative analysis to create its portfolio. For the fixed income component of its portfolio, it seeks to invest in securities such as corporate bonds, loans, loan participations, structured finance investments, U.S. government and agency securities that are not rated below below CCC by S&P or Caa2 by Moody's. For the equity part of the portfolio the fund benchmarks S&P 500 Index and for the fixed income part it benchmarks Barclays Aggregate Bond Index. It was formerly known as Claymore/Guggenheim Strategic Opportunities Fund. Guggenheim Strategic Opportunities Fund was formed on November 13, 2006 and is domiciled in the United States.
Main Street Capital Corporation
Main Street Capital Corporation is a private equity firm specializes in equity capital to lower middle market companies. The firm also provides debt capital to middle market companies for acquisitions, management buyouts, growth financings, recapitalizations and refinancing. The firm seeks to partner with entrepreneurs, business owners and management teams and generally provides "one stop" financing alternatives within its lower middle market portfolio. The firm typically invests in lower middle market companies generally with annual revenues between $10 million and $150 million. The firm's middle market debt investments are made in businesses that are generally larger in size than its lower middle market portfolio companies. It makes majority and minority equity investments. Main Street Capital Corporation was founded in 2007 and is based in Houston, Texas.
Latest GOF
- SEC Form APP NTC filed by Guggenheim Strategic Opportunities Fund
- Trustee Lydon Thomas F Jr bought $99,730 worth of shares (8,710 units at $11.45) (SEC Form 4)
- SEC Form APP WDG filed by Guggenheim Strategic Opportunities Fund
- SEC Form 4 filed by Barnes Randall C
- TRUSTEE Barnes Randall C bought $2,506 worth of shares (220 units at $11.39), increasing direct ownership by 4% to 6,451 units (SEC Form 4)
- TRUSTEE Barnes Randall C bought $48,446 worth of shares (4,180 units at $11.59), increasing direct ownership by 204% to 6,231 units (SEC Form 4)
- SEC Form N-CSRS filed by Guggenheim Strategic Opportunities Fund
- Trustee Nyberg Ronald bought $4,998 worth of shares (412 units at $12.13), increasing direct ownership by 9% to 5,010 units (SEC Form 4)
- Guggenheim Strategic Opportunities Fund filed SEC Form 8-K: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement, Termination of a Material Definitive Agreement, Financial Statements and Exhibits
- SEC Form 424B3 filed by Guggenheim Strategic Opportunities Fund
Latest MAIN
- PRESIDENT, CIO AND SMD Magdol David L. acquired $6,740 worth of shares (133 units at $50.67), increasing direct ownership by 0.03% to 440,688 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director Lane Brian E. acquired $13,381 worth of shares (265 units at $50.52), increasing direct ownership by 0.51% to 52,261 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director Shive Dunia A acquired $5,486 worth of shares (109 units at $50.45), increasing direct ownership by 0.40% to 27,147 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director Jackson John Earl acquired $18,239 worth of shares (361 units at $50.52), increasing direct ownership by 0.42% to 84,403 units (SEC Form 4)
- VP, CAO & Assistant Treasurer Mchugh Ryan acquired $3,859 worth of shares (76 units at $50.69), increasing direct ownership by 0.38% to 19,865 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director Griffin Jon Kevin acquired $14,210 worth of shares (282 units at $50.47), increasing direct ownership by 0.38% to 73,787 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director Solcher Stephen B acquired $10,492 worth of shares (208 units at $50.45), increasing direct ownership by 0.40% to 51,982 units (SEC Form 4)
- CEO, SMD Hyzak Dwayne L. acquired $23,138 worth of shares (456 units at $50.69), increasing direct ownership by 0.09% to 506,848 units (SEC Form 4)
- EVP, GC, SECRETARY Beauvais Jason B acquired $5,593 worth of shares (110 units at $50.69), increasing direct ownership by 0.05% to 203,015 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director Foster Vincent D received a gift of 71,000 shares, acquired $79,185 worth of shares (1,562 units at $50.69) and gifted 71,000 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 4% to 1,672,857 units (SEC Form 4)