Main Street Capital CORP (MAIN) Dividend Yield (2022 - 2026)
Main Street Capital's Dividend Yield was 7.21% in Q2 2026, up 0.93 percentage points from 6.28% a year earlier and up 0.19 percentage points from the prior quarter.
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Main Street Capital CORP (MAIN) Dividend Yield (2022 - 2026) Analysis & Trends
For FY2025, Dividend Yield at Main Street Capital came in at 6.25%, up 0.07 percentage points from FY2024.
- Dividend Yield shows a five-year change of -0.35 percentage points (FY2020 to FY2025).
- In earlier years, Dividend Yield was 6.19% in FY2024 (-1.22 pp), 7.41% in FY2023 (+0.71 pp), 6.70% in FY2022 (+1.64 pp) and 5.06% in FY2021 (-1.55 pp).
- The Q2 2026 figure marks the highest quarterly Dividend Yield since Q4 2023.
- Compared with a year earlier, Dividend Yield has increased for three straight quarters, with an average year-over-year change of -0.31 percentage points over the last eight quarters.
- The best year-over-year quarter for Dividend Yield over five years was Q2 2026 (a gain of 0.93 percentage points); the worst was Q4 2024 (a drop of 1.22 percentage points).
- Per Business Quant data, MAIN's Dividend Yield in the three quarters before Q2 2026 was 7.01% (Q1 2026), 6.25% (Q4 2025) and 5.90% (Q3 2025).
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| Date | Value |
|---|---|
| Jun 30, 2026 | 7.21% |
| Mar 31, 2026 | 7.01% |
| Dec 31, 2025 | 6.25% |
| Sep 30, 2025 | 5.90% |
| Jun 30, 2025 | 6.28% |
| Mar 31, 2025 | 6.50% |
| Dec 31, 2024 | 6.19% |
| Sep 30, 2024 | 7.09% |
| Jun 30, 2024 | 6.95% |
| Mar 31, 2024 | 7.20% |
| Dec 31, 2023 | 7.41% |
| Sep 30, 2023 | 7.30% |
| Jun 30, 2023 | 6.95% |
| Mar 31, 2023 | 6.58% |
| Dec 31, 2022 | 6.70% |
| Sep 30, 2022 | 7.38% |
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Main Street Capital CORP Dividend Yield API
Pull this series into your own models, spreadsheets and apps with the Business Quant
Historical Metrics API. The request below matches the chart above — change the
frequency, period or values and it follows. Swap YOUR_API_KEY for your own key.
https://data.businessquant.com/historic?slug=dividend-yield&ticker=MAIN&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEYimport requests
url = "https://data.businessquant.com/historic"
params = {"slug": "dividend-yield", "ticker": "MAIN", "period": "max", "api_key": "YOUR_API_KEY"}
data = requests.get(url, params=params).json()const res = await fetch("https://data.businessquant.com/historic?slug=dividend-yield&ticker=MAIN&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY");
const data = await res.json();