Key points

  • Prospect Capital Corp chief executive Barry John F reported buying $2.13 million of common stock on November 10th, 2026. The purchase covered 1,410,633 shares and arrived in a single Form 4 filing.
  • The entire transaction printed at one price, $1.5077 per share. There is no spread between a low and a high execution on this report, which is consistent with a single fill or a block handled at one level.
  • The stock last traded at $1.46, below the price the chief executive paid. That gap is small in absolute terms but meaningful on a stock that trades near the dollar and a half mark.
  • Prospect Capital Corp carries a market capitalization of $813,204,352. Measured against that figure, a $2.13 million open market purchase by one officer is a visible line item rather than a rounding error.

Barry John F, chief executive officer of Prospect Capital Corp, reported an open market purchase of 1,410,633 shares of the company's common stock on November 10th, 2026. The dollar value of the buy was $2.13 million, executed at $1.5077 per share.

The purchase was disclosed in one filing. Prospect Capital Corp sits in the Financial Services sector and the shares last changed hands at $1.46.

What the filing shows

The record is straightforward. One insider, one filing, one price. The reported range runs from $1.5077 to $1.5077, meaning every share in the report was acquired at the same level rather than scaled in across a session at different prices.

The share count is the part worth holding onto. At 1,410,633 shares, this is a size that moves the needle on an officer's personal position in a stock priced near a dollar and a half, even though the headline dollar figure of $2.13 million is modest next to transactions seen in larger financial names.

Where the stock sits

The last price of $1.46 is below the $1.5077 the chief executive paid on November 10th, 2026. Insiders do not get a better entry than anyone else on an open market buy, and this one is currently underwater on its reported cost.

For a company with a market capitalization of $813,204,352, small moves in the quoted price translate into large swings in the share count any given dollar amount buys. That is part of why the share figure, rather than the dollar figure, is the cleaner way to read a purchase like this one.

The chart above frames the November 10th, 2026 purchase against the last twelve months of trading. Readers can judge for themselves whether $1.5077 sits high, low, or in the middle of that span.

What the insiders did

Only one buyer appears in this report: Barry John F, in the chief executive role. There is no cluster of directors or officers filing alongside him in the data reviewed here, and there is no institutional buyer attached to this transaction.

Single buyer reports and cluster reports read differently. A cluster suggests several people with access to the same internal information reached the same conclusion in the same window. A single buy, even a large one from the top of the organization, is one person's decision. Both are worth logging, but they are not the same signal.

What that leaves

The verified facts are these. A chief executive put $2.13 million into his own company's common stock on November 10th, 2026, acquiring 1,410,633 shares at $1.5077 each, in one filing, at a company valued at $813,204,352. The shares have since traded at $1.46.

Form 4 filings record what happened, not why. Nothing in the document explains the purchase, and readers should resist filling that gap with a story the filing does not support. Officers buy for reasons that range from conviction to planned personal allocation, and the paperwork does not distinguish between them.

What this report does establish is direction and size. The chief executive of Prospect Capital Corp was a buyer, not a seller, and the size was large enough in share terms to register. Anyone tracking the name will want to watch whether further filings follow from Barry John F or from other officers and directors in the weeks ahead.

Sources: SEC Form 4 filings retrieved via EDGAR and reviewed by InsiderBuying.com, covering transactions reported on November 10th, 2026.

Informational only, not investment advice.