FLC

Flaherty & Crumrine Total Return Fund Inc.
NYSEUSDEQUITY Financial Services DELAYED
Last price
15.53
▲ 0.13 (0.84%)
MARKET · —

Price

1D — H — L — Range — Vol —
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Open
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Prev close
15.40
Day high
15.76
Day low
15.33
Volume
78.15K
Market cap
$162.39M
P/E (TTM)
8.68
52W range
15.33 – 18.09

Trailing performance

Price return · vs SPY
Returnvs SPY
1W
-0.51% -2.5%
1M
-5.65% -6.8%
3M
-8.00% -12.5%
6M
-7.01% -25.2%
YTD
-11.26% -25.5%
1Y
-13.05% -29.5%
3Y
+13.44% -68.8%
5Y
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Price return only. Dividends are not reinvested, so total return on a dividend payer will be higher than shown.

Unusual options activity

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Nothing crossed the thresholds in the expiries we scanned.
That is the normal state — most contracts trade well inside their existing open interest.
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Contracts trading at or above their open interest, ranked by notional and where the print landed.

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Insider net activity

6m · Form 4 rollup
Net shares
0
Net selling
Buy transactions
0
0 shares
Sell transactions
0
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Net transactions
0
Buys less sells
Sell : buy shares
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Not enough filings
Insider-held shares
0
Total on file

Fundamentals

TTM · reported
Market cap$162.39M
Enterprise value—
Revenue (TTM)$20.98M
Gross profit$20.98M
EBITDA—
Net income$18.72M
EPS (TTM)$1.79
Free cash flow$8.37M
Total cash—
Total debt$118.50M
Book value / share$18.69
Shares outstanding10.46M
Float—
Short % of float292.88%
Dividend yield8.01%
Beta (5Y)0.67

Valuation & profitability ratios

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Trailing P/E8.68
Forward P/E—
PEG ratio—
Price / sales—
Price / book0.83
EV / revenue—
EV / EBITDA—
Gross margin100.00%
Operating margin87.78%
Profit margin89.21%
Return on equity9.72%
Return on assets3.66%
Debt / equity60.62
Current ratio0.93
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Fourteen ratios including P/E, PEG, EV/EBITDA, margins and return on equity.

Financial statements

As reported · 5 years · 2 quarters
Blank means not reported, not zero
Line item20252024202320222021YoY
Total revenue $17.01M$35.56M$2.93M-$35.88M— -52.2%
Operating revenue $17.01M$35.56M$2.93M-$35.88M— -52.2%
Selling, general & admin $839.74K$956.73K$804.76K$835.92K— -12.2%
Total operating expense $862.35K$981.77K$825.19K$862.63K— -12.2%
Pre-tax income $16.15M$34.58M$2.11M-$36.74M— -53.3%
Net income $16.15M$34.58M$2.11M-$36.74M— -53.3%
Net income to common $16.15M$34.58M$2.11M-$36.74M— -53.3%
Basic EPS —3.310.19-3.521.74 —
Diluted EPS —3.310.19-3.521.74 —
Basic shares —10.45M11.08M10.44M10.01M —
Diluted shares —10.45M11.08M10.44M10.01M —

Options analytics

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Put / call volume
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Put / call open interest
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Positioning, not flow
Max pain
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ATM implied vol
—
Nearest strike to spot
Skew (10% OTM)
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Call volume
0
Contracts, this expiry
Put volume
0
Contracts, this expiry
Heaviest call OI
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Heaviest put OI
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Max pain is the strike at which the largest dollar value of open contracts expires worthless. It describes current positioning; it is not a forecast and it moves as open interest changes.

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Put/call ratios, max pain, implied volatility skew and where open interest is concentrated.

Earnings

History & consensus estimates
Forward consensus
PeriodEPSAnalystsRevenueGrowth
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Next quarter — — $0 —
Current year — — $0 —
Next year — — $0 —

Analyst targets & ownership

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Mean target—
High target—
Low target—
Implied upside—
Analyst count—
ConsensusNONE
Strong buy / Buy— / —
Hold—
Sell / Strong sell— / —
Held by insiders0.00%
Held by institutions34.59%
Institutions holding54
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Price targets, consensus spread, insider and institutional ownership.

Moving averages & technicals

Computed from 2Y daily closes
SMA 10
15.66
-0.82% from price
SMA 20
15.91
-2.37% from price
SMA 50
16.37
-5.15% from price
SMA 100
16.59
-6.41% from price
SMA 200
16.97
-8.47% from price
EMA 12
15.73
-1.24% from price
EMA 26
15.98
-2.80% from price
EMA 50
16.24
-4.36% from price
RSI (14)
31.5
Neutral
MACD (12,26,9)
-0.25
Hist -0.02
ATR (14)
0.21
1.32% of price
Realised vol 30D
10.1%
Annualised
Bollinger upper
16.47
20, 2σ
Bollinger lower
15.35
20, 2σ
50 / 200 cross
Death
16.37 vs 16.97
Trend bias
Below 200
-8.47%

Options chain

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Expiry
Spot 15.53
Calls
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Puts
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Every listed expiry, both sides of the book, with volume, open interest and implied volatility.

Risk profile

Daily returns · 1Y window
Beta vs SPY
0.32
Less volatile than market
Correlation to SPY
0.50
Loosely linked
Realised vol 30D
10.1%
Annualised
Market vol 1Y
13.0%
SPY, annualised
Max drawdown 1Y
-14.5%
Peak to trough
Max drawdown 5Y
-48.2%
Peak to trough
ATR 14
0.21
1.32% of price
Beta (reported)
0.67
5Y monthly, from filing

Short interest

Semi-monthly exchange report · lags by ~2 weeks
Shares short
30.63K
Prior 4.50K
Change vs prior
+580.7%
Shorts adding
% of float
292.88%
Heavily shorted
% of shares out
0.29%
Against total outstanding
Days to cover
1.3
Liquid
Float
—
Freely tradeable shares

Exchanges publish short interest twice a month with a settlement lag, so this is roughly two weeks behind. Days to cover divides shares short by average daily volume — it estimates how long covering would take, not whether it will happen.

Dividends & splits

Declared · from the issuer
Forward rate$1.24 / yr
Forward yield8.01%
5-year avg yield7.27%
Payout ratio67.42%
Ex-dividend dateOct 23, 2026
Next pay dateApr 30, 2019
Last split—
Split date—

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