Main Street Capital CORP (MAIN) EBIT Margin (2021 - 2024)
Main Street Capital's EBIT Margin was 368.83% in Q1 2026, down 30.54 percentage points from 399.37% a year earlier but up 21.61 percentage points from the prior quarter.
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Main Street Capital CORP (MAIN) EBIT Margin (2021 - 2024) Analysis & Trends
On a trailing twelve-month basis, Main Street Capital's EBIT Margin was 367.12% through Mar 31, 2026, down 14.89 percentage points year-over-year; for FY2025, it was 373.95%, up 12.21 percentage points from FY2024.
- EBIT Margin shows a five-year change of +343.61 percentage points (FY2020 to FY2025).
- In earlier years, EBIT Margin was 361.74% in FY2024 (+41.68 pp), 320.06% in FY2023 (-42.27 pp), 362.33% in FY2022 (+318.53 pp) and 43.80% in FY2021 (+13.46 pp).
- Quarterly EBIT Margin has moved between 38.56% (Q3 2022) and 423.98% (Q3 2024) over five years.
- Compared with a year earlier, EBIT Margin has declined for three straight quarters, with an average year-over-year change of +23.94 percentage points over the last eight quarters.
- The best year-over-year quarter for EBIT Margin over five years was Q3 2023 (a gain of 307.84 percentage points); the worst was Q3 2025 (a drop of 47.71 percentage points).
- Per Business Quant data, MAIN's EBIT Margin in the three quarters before Q1 2026 was 347.22% (Q4 2025), 376.27% (Q3 2025) and 377.25% (Q2 2025).
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| Date | Value |
|---|---|
| Mar 31, 2024 | 23.51% |
| Dec 31, 2023 | 21.79% |
| Sep 30, 2023 | 23.71% |
| Jun 30, 2023 | 23.85% |
| Mar 31, 2023 | 44.00% |
| Dec 31, 2022 | 58.41% |
| Sep 30, 2022 | 38.56% |
| Jun 30, 2022 | 38.88% |
| Mar 31, 2022 | 50.85% |
| Dec 31, 2021 | 53.30% |
| Sep 30, 2021 | 40.84% |
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Main Street Capital CORP EBIT Margin 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=ebit-margin&ticker=MAIN&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEYimport requests
url = "https://data.businessquant.com/historic"
params = {"slug": "ebit-margin", "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=ebit-margin&ticker=MAIN&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY");
const data = await res.json();