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Great Elm Group Inc

GEGNASDAQ

SectorFinancials

IndustryAsset Management & Custody Banks

Beta (adjusted)0.72

Intrinsic Value

Insufficient data for a value estimateNot enough reliable inputs to publish a fair value for this company yet.

Market Price $2.16Price as of 1 Oct 2026

Data confidenceNot applicable

Market Cap $64.2M

Enterprise Value $47.2M

Shares Outstanding 30.3M diluted

Moat Rating None

Next Earnings Date11 Nov 2026

Last ex-dividend15 Jun 2026

All prices and values are periodic snapshots, not live quotes. Source dates are shown for reference.

Thesis

Street consensus, scenarios, merits, risks, and invalidation triggers

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Thesis Summary

Great Elm Group, Inc. (GEG) is transitioning into a pure-play alternative asset manager focused on credit and real estate. While the company maintains a highly liquid balance sheet with over $45 million in cash and has been aggressively buying back its own shares, its near-term earnings remain heavily pressured by mark-to-market volatility. Specifically, unrealized losses from its equity stake in Great Elm Capital Corp. (GECC) have overshadowed operational revenue growth. The wind-down of the Great Elm Credit Income Fund has also led to a contraction in fee-paying AUM. Until GEG stabilizes its credit platform, scales its Monomoy real estate vertical, and reduces its earnings sensitivity to GECC's share price, the stock is likely to remain range-bound.

This section is the 12-month view: analyst targets and the probability-weighted scenarios built from them. The intrinsic value at the top of this page answers a different question: what the business is worth today.

Our research · scenarios, merits, risks, and invalidation triggersResearch as of 19 Jun 2026

Scenarios · 12-month scenario targetsAnchored at research date

Bear CaseDownside scenario

Continued credit deterioration in the middle-market space leads to further write-downs at GECC, causing persistent unrealized losses for GEG. Fee-paying AUM continues to contract, and elevated compensation and administrative expenses prevent the company from achieving operational profitability, straining liquidity.

Base CaseCentral scenario

The company successfully stabilizes its fee-paying AUM by expanding the Monomoy industrial REIT platform and sourcing new alternative credit vehicles. Unrealized investment losses subside as BDC sector volatility normalizes, allowing the core asset management fee stream to drive positive adjusted EBITDA. Share repurchases continue to support book value per share.

Bull CaseUpside scenario

The bull case centers on the successful scaling of the consolidated Great Elm Real Estate Ventures platform, catalyzed by the $150 million strategic capital commitment from Kennedy Lewis. This is expected to drive high-margin construction management fees through Monomoy Construction Services and accelerate asset accumulation in Monomoy REIT, while the aggressive $40 million share buyback program meaningfully retires shares at a deep discount to book value.

Scenarios reflect our research view at the research date.

Key Investment Merits

Strong liquidity position with over $45.5 million in cash and cash equivalents as of March 31, 2026.
Active capital return program with an expanded $40 million stock repurchase authorization.
Upside optionality from the CoreWeave-related investment, which has already returned distributions in excess of the original capital.
Growth momentum in the Real Estate vertical, driven by Monomoy's build-to-suit industrial property developments.

Key Investment Risks

High earnings sensitivity to GECC share price volatility, leading to large non-cash unrealized losses.
Contraction in fee-paying AUM due to the wind-down of the Great Elm Credit Income Fund.
Concentration of asset management fees in a limited number of permanent capital vehicles.
Elevated operating expenses, particularly compensation and benefits, relative to the current revenue scale.

Thesis Invalidation Triggers

A severe credit event or systemic failure within GECC's middle-market loan portfolio.
A suspension or material reduction of the share repurchase program.
Inability to raise new capital or launch new funds in the Real Estate or Alternative Credit segments over the next 12 months.

All scenarios are estimates and subject to change. Past performance is not indicative of future results.

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