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Main Street Capital Corporation
$53.151d -1.3%5d -1.0%settled close · 2026-10-19
Mkt cap $4.8B (10/19)β 0.4352w $50–59Shares 90.1MNYSE since 2007Emp. 110HQ Houston, TXmainstcapital.com
The Wheel · put-selling

MAIN on the Wheel

MAIN is not in our put test yet; you can still add it to your Wheel and see its puts.

The Wheel lists cash-secured puts on stocks after a 3% drop, with live quotes, the chance of assignment and each stock’s own history. Free to use; a free account lets you follow stocks, add your own and ask questions.

Decision support, not advice · questions put sellers ask us

The tape, with the calls on it

Who said what, and what MAIN did next

Every dot is a day someone on the record made a call. Hover one to see who. We are not scoring them — the point is that you can see it and judge for yourself.

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Who’s talkingIdea Scout · free

Who’s talking about MAIN

1 longlatest 2026-09-18
DateVoiceStanceVenueThesis
2026-09-18Mark SkousenEditor, Forecasts & Strategies; professor, Chapman UniversityBullishWealthionMain Street Capital is the only stock paying both monthly and quarterly dividends at 7% yield, invests in…
Idea Scout tracks who’s talking across television, podcasts, and interviews — every stance dated to the appearance it came from. Sign up free →
Earnings

Next report: 5 Nov 2026

Confirmed date · consensus EPS 0.93. Reactions below are the next settled session over the prior close.
The options tape

Notable options days

Sessions in the last 120 where MAIN’s settled options volume ran ≥ 2× its trailing 20-session baseline, or delta-dollar flow ran ≥ 2.5× — 9 of 120 sessions qualified.

The qualifying dates are the free record. Close, flow, call/LEAPS mix and the 20-session outcome — for every session below — are member content.
DateCloseRVOL Δ$ flow ($M)Call % LEAPS %+20 sess.
2026-10-19
2026-08-31
2026-08-25
2026-07-21
2026-07-20
2026-07-16
2026-06-22
2026-06-15
2026-05-19
+20 sess. = raw price change over the following 20 sessions — not market-adjusted; the tape tells you where to look, not what happens next.
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