Hercules Technology has declared $5.01 in dividends per share since our IPO in June 2005.

Increasing Shareholder Value since 2005

             $135.7 Million in Historical Dividends Declared Since June 2005 IPO

The historical dividend information provided is for informational purposes only, and is not intended for trading purposes.

As a regulated investment company, Hercules is required to make certain distributions of its taxable income to shareholders. The determination of the tax attributes of the Company's distributions is made annually as of the end of the Company's fiscal year based upon its taxable income for the full year and distributions paid during the full year; therefore, a determination made on a quarterly basis only represents an estimation and may not be fully representative of the actual tax attributes of its distributions for a full year. If the Company had determined the tax attributes of its distributions year-to-date as of September 30, 2009, then approximately $0.92, or 100.0%, would have been from earnings and profits. However, there can be no certainty to shareholders that this determination is representative of what the tax attributes will be from its 2009 distributions to shareholders. Each year a statement on Form 1099-DIV identifying the source of distributions (i.e., paid from ordinary income, paid from net capital gains on the sale of securities, and/or a return of paid-in-capital surplus which is a nontaxable distribution) is mailed to our stockholders.