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HCIC

Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VIII Class A Ordinary Shares (HCIC) fair value

Financial Services · Shell Companies · NASDAQ · United States
$9.99+0.05%
Market cap $355MUpdated Oct 17, 2026
Our verdict
Trades 27% above our fair value
Price
$9.99
Model fair valueConfidence: low
about $7.88
Built from weaker models, sales multiples or analyst targets, so treat it as a rough guide.
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Treated as a pre-revenue company. None of the usual models had enough data, so this uses Dividend discount instead.
ACCE opinionHennessy Capital Investment Corp. VIII Class A Ordinary Shares (HCIC)
Fair value
Not available
ACCE price target
$10.00
Rating
Not rated
Horizon
12 months
ACCE price target published on 15 Oct 2026, 00:00 CEST.
Price used: $9.99 at the close on 23 Oct 2026, 22:00 CEST.
Models: Dividend discount.
Fair value: the average of the applicable valuation models (discounted cash flow, multiples, residual income, dividend discount, shareholder yield), each run on the latest financial statements and the market price shown. Opinion columns (fair value, target, rating) are shown apart from the data. Full methodology: acceinvestments.com/data/how-we-value-stocks
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Conflicts of interest: The author holds no personal position in this security. General statement
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Data
ACCE score
27
out of 100
Dividend yield
0.00%

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Overview

ACCE thesis

Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VIII is a special purpose acquisition company, a shell with no operating business and no revenue, so there is no product line to describe; its only asset is the trust cash held against a future merger. The thesis therefore rests on the sponsor's ability to find and close a deal, not on any competitive position or growth engine, and the data provided shows zero revenue growth, zero margins and no earnings multiple to anchor on. The company is not a member of any index, which is consistent with a pre-combination vehicle. The $354M market capitalisation is largely trust cash rather than an earned business value, so the question for a portfolio manager is whether the sponsor's track record and the eventual target justify the premium over trust, not whether the shell itself is cheap. The current score of 27/100 signals weak support on the available metrics, and we see no reason to look deeper unless a specific merger announcement changes the picture.

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Price
$9.99
Model fair valueConfidence: low
about $7.88
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Recent performance

1 week
+0.1%
1 month
+0.0%
3 months
+0.2%
6 months
+1.0%
YTD
no data
1 year
no data

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Recommendation history, last 12 months

DateTypeNewPreviousPrice
15 Oct 2026, 00:00 CESTACCE price target$10.00first publication$10.04

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Investing in shares carries a risk of losing capital. The value of an investment can go down as well as up.

Valuation horizon: 12 months from the publication date.

Conflicts of interest. ACCE Investments is operated by Adrien Chantreuil, who may hold personal positions in the securities analysed. Positions are declared on each security. ACCE receives no payment from the companies analysed or from any intermediary for this analysis.

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Snapshot

Growth7Value23Quality16Momentum60Total27
Valuation
Trailing P/E
no data
Forward P/E
no data
PEG
no data
P/B
0.00x
EV / Revenue
0.0x
Book value/sh
$-0.13
Enterprise value
$355M
Profitability
ROE
0.0%
FCF yield
-0.00%
ROIC
no data
Health and risk
Debt / equity
-0.82
Dividend yield
0.00%
Beta
no data

Price

+1.2% · 1Y

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Answered from Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VIII Class A Ordinary Shares fundamentals + recent valuations. Every number shows its source and date.

This stock Peer Peer median weaker → stronger
ROEbetter than 100% of peers
low 0%0%high 0%
Div yieldbetter than 100% of peers
low 0.0%0.0%high 0.0%

Peers

Prices Oct 23, 2026
CompanyPriceFair valuevs fair valueP/EROEQualityScore
HCIC Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VIII Class A Ordinary Shares$9.99---0.0%1627
BDCI BTC Development Corp. Class A Ordinary Shares$10.16--67.7x0.0%3429
SBXE SilverBox Corp V Class A Ordinary Shares$10.11---0.0%3431
TLNC Talon Capital Corp. Class A Ordinary Shares$10.25---0.0%1728
GIX GigCapital9 Corp. Class A Ordinary Share$10.00---0.0%1627
GIW GigCapital8 Corp. Class A Ordinary Shares$10.17---0.0%1728
ALOV Aldabra 4 Liquidity Opportunity Vehicle Inc. Class A Ordinary Shares$10.00---0.0%1627

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