Oaktree Specialty Lending Corporation Stock News

The low ranking of Oaktree Specialty Lending, as a BDC, results from its weak performance metrics and superior sector alternatives at a 25% discount to P/NAV. The stock price of OCSL has declined by 32% during the past 52 weeks, which demonstrates its inferior performance relative to the VanEck BDC Income ETF. The stock's negative momentum and damaged long-term outlook result from the decline i...

The current market environment suggests a potential recession, leading investors to favor durable and income-producing assets. BDCs and REITs are likely to be among the key beneficiaries here. However, with REITs and especially BDCs investors have to be careful in order to avoid falling in a value trap.

Agency mortgage REITs are achieving exceptional price-to-book ratios. You want a high dividend yield? Great. But don't pay a huge premium in the share price. It's a great time for investors to capture some gains in this sector.

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Oaktree Specialty Lending offers an attractive value proposition due to its valuation, portfolio strategy, and yield, despite having a high non-accrual percentage. OSCL cut its dividend by 27.3% last month, improving its dividend coverage profile to 1.15X in Q1 '25. The investment firm, however, has seen a shrinking portfolio due to higher net loan repayments.

The stock market has been ugly (particularly growth stocks), and it could get much worse. Thankfully, however, there is another way. Income investing focuses on big, steady dividend and interest payments, thereby allowing investors to worry far less about price volatility (as long as those big income payments keep coming in). This report shares 5 big safe yield strategies (including a variety o...

As a structural BDC bull I have to admit that the period of BDCs consistently surprising us on the upside has come to an end. Many lower quality BDCs have already cut their dividends to sync their cash flows with less favorable private credit lending environment. I would say that the moment of truth for high quality BDCs is also very close, where we will see how really durable their base divide...

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