HCIC
Strong SellSinkerHennessy Capital Investment Corp. VIII · Financial Services · United States · $355M cap · $131K/day traded
$9.98 +0.1% · close 4 Nov · scored 5 Nov
Sinker: Weak business, rich price and weak momentum. Nothing here to keep it afloat.
As of 5 Nov 2026, MoatMap's StockRank for Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VIII (HCIC) is 7/100, ranked against 24,000+ stocks in 35 markets (Quality 22, Value 25, Momentum 30, each scored against its sector).
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ABOUT HENNESSY CAPITAL INVESTMENT CORP. VIII
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Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VIII is a Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) established with the sole purpose of identifying and executing a business combination with a private operating company. The company currently possesses no active operations, and its investment appeal is centered on the management team's ability to identify a high-growth target and successfully complete a de-SPAC transaction.
FINANCIAL SUMMARY (USD)
| Year | 2025 | TTM |
|---|---|---|
| Revenue | — | — |
| EPS | — | — |
| Shares | 32.3M | 24.8M |
| Debt | 16.0K | — |
| Equity | -19.5K | — |
| Op CF | — | — |
| Inv CF | — | — |
| Fin CF | — | — |
Not enough steady price history for a read yet.
How this is worked out
StockRank weighs the business, its price and its trend. The price check reads only the chart: the price side of the Momentum score, in words.
The rules: Still falling is a new 52-week low in the last two weeks, at least 25% below the high. Finding a floor is no new low since. Turning up is 20 or more trading days without a new low, at least 10% off it, and back above a rising 50-day average. In an uptrend is above the 200-day average and within 15% of the high.
In 2,112 US drawdowns since 2001, buying while the price was still falling was followed by a further 20% drop 42% of the time. Waiting for a turn (the Turning up rule above) cut that to 33%, at about 7% higher prices and with no better returns. Part of that cut is simply not buying: 13% of falls never turned, and waiting kept those out. Among turns that were bought, 38% still fell another 20%, and 33% of turns were followed by a new low within six months. The benefit was largest in crashes such as 2008 and 2020.
Rules fixed before any data was fetched. Describes the chart, not a recommendation.
SCORE BREAKDOWN
FUNDAMENTALS
SECTOR PEERS
Closest peers in Financial Services, ranked by industry match, size, and score similarity. Cross-listings of HCIC are excluded.
| Ticker | Company | Mkt Cap | StockRank | Signal |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HCIC | Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VIII(you) | $355M | 7 | Strong Sell |
| ACAA | Averin Capital Acquisition Corp. | $357M | 7 | Strong Sell |
| FVAV | Fortress Value Acquisition Corp. V | $363M | 7 | Strong Sell |
| ARCI | Archimedes Tech SPAC Partners III Co. | $354M | 8 | Strong Sell |
| AACI | Armada Acquisition Corp. III | $343M | 7 | Strong Sell |
| SORN | Soren Acquisition Corp. | $349M | 6 | Strong Sell |
| PTOR | Praetorian Acquisition Corp. | $339M | 7 | Strong Sell |
| HACQ | HCM IV Acquisition Corp. | $374M | 7 | Strong Sell |
| FDMM | Freedom Metals Acquisition Corp. | $368M | 7 | Strong Sell |
| CGCF | Cartesian Growth Corporation IV | $340M | 7 | Strong Sell |
Peer medians: ROE 9.6% · P/E 13.0x · Gross margin 73.0%
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