RWAY
Runway Growth Finance Corp.
RWAY's fundamentals are mixed, but it looks expensive: trading at 42x earnings, about four times its usual 11x. Analysts expect earnings to hold roughly steady.
RWAY Fundamentals
| Metric | Status |
|---|---|
| Weak | |
| Healthy | |
| N/A | |
| N/A |
RWAY's profitability is currently healthy, but its revenue is weak. Free cash flow and net leverage aren't meaningful measures for financial services companies like RWAY.
RWAY PE Valuation
| Level | PE | Price | Vs current |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forward | 5x | $6.66 | — |
| Cheap | 6.4x | $1.02 | -85% |
| Fair | 11x | $1.76 | -74% |
| Expensive | 15x | $2.45 | -63% |
| Current | 42x | $6.66 | — |
Historical ranges are pointers, not guarantees.
RWAY's PE is in its expensive range at 42x. On analysts' estimates for next year's earnings, today's price would be 5.0x, in its cheap range.
RWAY Forward outlook
| Metric | Outlook |
|---|---|
| Strongly improving | |
| Stable | |
| Growth | |
| Strongly weakening | |
| Limited | |
| Moderate |
Analysts expect RWAY's revenue to grow, but its profitability to weaken.
RWAY Earnings Per Share
| Quarter | TTM EPS | YoY |
|---|---|---|
| Forward | $1.34 | +740% |
| Q3 2026 | $0.16 | -89% |
| Q2 2026 | $0.12 | -94% |
| Q1 2026 | -$0.08 | -105% |
| Q4 2025 | $0.93 | -51% |
| Q3 2025 | $1.45 | +41% |
| Q2 2025 | $1.88 | +151% |
| Q1 2025 | $1.64 | +50% |
| Q4 2024 | $1.89 | +73% |
RWAY's earnings per share have fallen from their peak: $0.16 over the past year, against $1.89 in late 2024.
RWAY Quarterly Revenue
| Quarter | Revenue | YoY |
|---|---|---|
| Q2 2022 | $3.2M | -64% |
| Q1 2022 | $5.7M | -49% |
| Q4 2021 | $20.9M | -6.4% |
| Q3 2021 | $13.1M | +7.2% |
| Q2 2021 | $9M | -39% |
| Q1 2021 | $11.3M | +267% |
RWAY's revenue has slid since its 2020 peak: $3M last quarter, down 64% from the same quarter a year ago.
| Quarter | Margin | YoY |
|---|---|---|
| Q2 2022 | -25% | -100 points |
| Q1 2022 | 50% | -33 points |
| Q4 2021 | 92% | -0.6 points |
| Q3 2021 | 78% | -11 points |
| Q2 2021 | 75% | -17 points |
| Q1 2021 | 83% | N/A |
| Q4 2020 | 93% | +36 points |
| Q3 2020 | 89% | N/A |
RWAY's operating margin was −25% last quarter, down 100 points from the same quarter a year ago, near the bottom of its range since 2020.
RWAY Free Cash Flow
| Quarter | Free cash flow | YoY |
|---|---|---|
| Q3 2026 | $150.2M | +63% |
| Q2 2026 | -$194.3M | -$194.1M |
| Q1 2026 | $5.9M | -92% |
| Q4 2025 | $20.6M | +49% |
| Q3 2025 | $92.4M | +257% |
| Q2 2025 | -$297K | +$38.3M |
| Q1 2025 | $73.6M | +7.2% |
| Q4 2024 | $13.9M | +$75.5M |
RWAY's free cash flow was −$18M over the past year, against $180M the year before. Free cash flow isn't a meaningful measure for financial services companies like RWAY.
RWAY Total Shares
| Period | Change % | Net change |
|---|---|---|
| Quarterly | -0.4% | -188K shares |
| 1 year | +16% | +5.7M shares |
| 3 years | +3.4% | +1.4M shares |
| 5 years | +26% | +8.7M shares |
| Available history | +1.2% | +506K shares |
RWAY has 42M diluted shares, up 16% from a year ago.
| Quarter | Spent |
|---|---|
| Q3 2026 | $4.8M |
| Q4 2025 | — |
| Q3 2025 | $4.4M |
| Q4 2024 | $5.8M |
| Q3 2024 | $6.7M |
| Q2 2024 | $12.8M |
| Q1 2024 | $10.6M |
| Q4 2022 | $1.5M |
RWAY Net Leverage
| Quarter | Net Leverage | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Q2 2022 | 5.4x | High |
| Q1 2022 | 3.1x | Elevated |
| Q4 2021 | 1.5x | Healthy |
| Q3 2021 | 1.7x | Healthy |
| Q2 2021 | 2.4x | Moderate |
| Q1 2021 | 2.5x | Moderate |
RWAY's net debt is about 5.4 years of its operating earnings (EBITDA), up from 2.4 years a year ago. Net leverage isn't a meaningful measure for financial services companies like RWAY.
RWAY Weekly Momentum
| Metric | Value | Status |
|---|---|---|
| RSI | 50.9 | Neutral |
| Stochastic | 72.1 | Neutral |
RWAY's weekly RSI is 51 (neutral) and its Stochastic is 72 (neutral).
RWAY PE vs Financial Services Sector
| Metric | RWAY | Sector median | Relative |
|---|---|---|---|
| PE | 42x | 13x | 220% above |
| PE % | 94 | 64 | 30 pts above |
RWAY is trading at 42x earnings, a 220% premium to the Financial Services sector's median of 13x.
RWAY Weekly Moving Averages
| Moving average | MA price | Relative |
|---|---|---|
| 8 week MA | $6.55 | 1.7% above |
| 20 week MA | $6.33 | 5.2% above |
| 50 week MA | $7.06 | 5.7% below |
| 100 week MA | $8.74 | 24% below |
| 200 week MA | $10.4 | 36% below |
RWAY has bounced recently, but its long-term trend is still down: it's above its 8- and 20-week averages, but 36% below its 200-week average.
RWAY Yearly ROI
| Year | Start price | End price | ROI |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | $12.5 | $13.4 | +7.3% |
| 2022 | $13.4 | $12.2 | -9.4% |
| 2023 | $12.2 | $12.6 | +3.6% |
| 2024 | $12.6 | $10.9 | -13% |
| 2025 | $10.9 | $8.93 | -18% |
| 2026 YTD | $8.93 | $6.66 | -25% |
RWAY has finished lower in three of the last five years. It's down 25% so far in 2026.