TSLX vs. USA, GAB, TY, FSCO, MUC, OXLC, PFLT, PUYI, AGM, and RONI
Should you be buying Sixth Street Specialty Lending stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sixth Street Specialty Lending include Liberty All-Star Equity Fund (USA), The Gabelli Equity Trust (GAB), Tri-Continental (TY), FS Credit Opportunities (FSCO), BlackRock MuniHoldings California Quality Fund (MUC), Oxford Lane Capital (OXLC), PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (PFLT), Highest Performances (PUYI), Federal Agricultural Mortgage (AGM), and Rice Acquisition Corp. II (RONI).
Liberty All-Star Equity Fund (NYSE:USA) and Sixth Street Specialty Lending (NYSE:TSLX) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, risk, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking and media sentiment.
Sixth Street Specialty Lending received 56 more outperform votes than Liberty All-Star Equity Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.87% of users gave Liberty All-Star Equity Fund an outperform vote while only 66.26% of users gave Sixth Street Specialty Lending an outperform vote.
Sixth Street Specialty Lending has a consensus price target of $22.60, indicating a potential upside of 8.19%. Given Liberty All-Star Equity Fund's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Sixth Street Specialty Lending is more favorable than Liberty All-Star Equity Fund.
10.0% of Liberty All-Star Equity Fund shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.3% of Sixth Street Specialty Lending shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Liberty All-Star Equity Fund shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.3% of Sixth Street Specialty Lending shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Liberty All-Star Equity Fund has a beta of 1.17, suggesting that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sixth Street Specialty Lending has a beta of 1.03, suggesting that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Sixth Street Specialty Lending had 6 more articles in the media than Liberty All-Star Equity Fund. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Sixth Street Specialty Lending and 5 mentions for Liberty All-Star Equity Fund. Liberty All-Star Equity Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.10 beat Sixth Street Specialty Lending's score of -0.03 indicating that Sixth Street Specialty Lending is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Sixth Street Specialty Lending has higher revenue and earnings than Liberty All-Star Equity Fund.
Liberty All-Star Equity Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.66 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.8%. Sixth Street Specialty Lending pays an annual dividend of $1.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.7%. Sixth Street Specialty Lending pays out 74.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Liberty All-Star Equity Fund has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Sixth Street Specialty Lending has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years.
Sixth Street Specialty Lending has a net margin of 47.16% compared to Sixth Street Specialty Lending's net margin of 0.00%. Liberty All-Star Equity Fund's return on equity of 13.98% beat Sixth Street Specialty Lending's return on equity.
Summary
Sixth Street Specialty Lending beats Liberty All-Star Equity Fund on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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