In last trading session, Oaktree Specialty Lending Corp (NASDAQ:OCSL) saw 0.89 million shares changing hands with its beta currently measuring 0.74. Company’s recent per share price level of $14.26 trading at -$0.42 or -2.86% at ring of the bell on the day assigns it a market valuation of $1.26B. That closing price of OCSL’s stock is at a discount of -28.89% from its 52-week high price of $18.38 and is indicating a premium of 12.34% from its 52-week low price of $12.50. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 0.63 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 627.20K if we extend that period to 3-months.
For Oaktree Specialty Lending Corp (OCSL), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 2.71. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 1 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 0 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 1 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight. The company is expected to be making an EPS of 0.45 in the current quarter.
Oaktree Specialty Lending Corp (NASDAQ:OCSL) trade information
Oaktree Specialty Lending Corp’s shares saw a change of -21.60% in year-to-date performance and have moved -1.04% in past 5-day. Oaktree Specialty Lending Corp (NASDAQ:OCSL) showed a performance of 4.16% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 1.19 million shares which calculate 2.33 days to cover the short interests.
Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 17.5 to the stock, which implies a rise of 18.51% to its current value. Analysts have been projecting 17 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 18. It follows that stock’s current price would drop -19.21% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a loss of -19.21% for stock’s current value.
Oaktree Specialty Lending Corp (OCSL) estimates and forecasts
This year revenue growth is estimated to fall -15.33% from the last financial year’s standing.
5 industry analysts have given their estimates about the company’s current quarter revenue by setting an average figure of 79.14M for the same. And 5 analysts are in estimates of company making revenue of 79.63M in the next quarter. Company posted 94.97M and 94.69M of sales in current and next quarters respectively a year earlier.
OCSL Dividends
Oaktree Specialty Lending Corp is more likely to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-May-01 and investors are confident in the company announcing better current-quarter dividends despite the fact that it has been facing issues arising out of mounting debt. With an annual yield of 13.44%, the share has a forward dividend of 1.92 which implies that company’s dividend yield remained growing in trailing twelve months while having a 5 year average dividend yield of 9.95%.
Oaktree Specialty Lending Corp (NASDAQ:OCSL)’s Major holders
Insiders are in possession of 0.30% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 38.29 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 38.40%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 38.29% institutions for Oaktree Specialty Lending Corp that are currently holding shares of the company. MORGAN STANLEY is the top institutional holder at OCSL for having 2.29 million shares of worth $43.04 million. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 2.796 of the company’s outstanding shares.
The second largest institutional holder is VAN ECK ASSOCIATES CORP, which was holding about 1.89 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 2.3039 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $35.46 million.
On the other hand, VanEck ETF Trust-VanEck BDC Income ETF and Invesco Exch-Trd Fd. TRT II-Invesco KBW High Dividend Yield Financial are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Jun 30, 2025, the former fund manager was holding 1.8 shares of worth $25.69 million or 2.05% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 664.95 shares on May 31, 2025, making its stake of worth around $9.48 million in the company or a holder of 0.75% of company’s stock.
