Am I wrong to be skeptical of them using this to mask their losses…? Especially since they carry the entity on their balance sheet at “fair value” instead of consolidating…?
$HTGC (Hercules Capital) feels like an exciting short rn (I have small position) - as a venture lender, their portfolio of unprofitable life sciences / tech can’t count on the same cap markets access they’ve historically relied on to get repaid. What really caught me eye was…
An entity called “Hercules Adviser LLC” which they fully own but DONT consolidate… it’s an RIA that manages “external party” $, and recently they’ve been using that external $ to transfer (I.e., pay themselves) for a growing portion of their portfolio…