How to buy Sixth Street Specialty Lending stock

Sixth Street Specialty Lending, Inc is an asset management business based in the US. Sixth Street Specialty Lending shares (TSLX) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars.

How to buy shares in Sixth Street Specialty Lending

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2. Open and fund your brokerage account. Complete an application with your personal and financial details, like your ID and bank information. Fund your account with a bank transfer, credit card or debit card.
3. Search for Sixth Street Specialty Lending. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: TSLX. Research its history to confirm it's a solid investment against your financial goals.
4. Purchase now or later. Buy today with a market order or use a limit order to delay your purchase until Sixth Street Specialty Lending reaches your desired price. To spread out your purchase, look into dollar-cost averaging, which smooths out buying at consistent intervals and amounts.
5. Decide on how many to buy. Weigh your budget against a diversified portfolio that can minimize risk through the market's ups and downs. You may be able to buy a fractional share of Sixth Street Specialty Lending, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Sixth Street Specialty Lending. Optimize your portfolio by tracking how your stock — and even the business — performs with an eye on the long term. You may be eligible for dividends and shareholder voting rights on directors and management that can affect your stock.

Sixth Street Specialty Lending share price

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Sixth Street Specialty Lending shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2021-02-23.

52-week range	USD$10.1468 - USD$22.6
50-day moving average	USD$21.1221
200-day moving average	USD$19.1013
Wall St. target price	USD$22.77
PE ratio	8.1887
Dividend yield	USD$1.8 (8.37%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$2.65

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Sixth Street Specialty Lending financials

Revenue TTM	USD$270 million
Operating margin TTM	71.16%
Gross profit TTM	USD$270 million
Return on assets TTM	5.2%
Return on equity TTM	15.62%
Profit margin	65.96%
Book value	$17.158
Market capitalisation	USD$1.5 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Sixth Street Specialty Lending shares

There are currently 787,732 Sixth Street Specialty Lending shares held short by investors – that's known as Sixth Street Specialty Lending's "short interest". This figure is 18.1% down from 962,089 last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Sixth Street Specialty Lending shares can be evaluated.

Sixth Street Specialty Lending's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Sixth Street Specialty Lending's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Sixth Street Specialty Lending shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Sixth Street Specialty Lending shares traded daily (recently around 272571.62629758). Sixth Street Specialty Lending's SIR currently stands at 2.89. In other words for every 100,000 Sixth Street Specialty Lending shares traded daily on the market, roughly 2890 shares are currently held short.

However Sixth Street Specialty Lending's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Sixth Street Specialty Lending shares, or, against the total number of tradable Sixth Street Specialty Lending shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Sixth Street Specialty Lending's short interest could be expressed as 0.01% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Sixth Street Specialty Lending shares in existence, roughly 10 shares are currently held short) or 0.0121% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Sixth Street Specialty Lending shares, roughly 12 shares are currently held short).

Such a low SIR usually points to an optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Sixth Street Specialty Lending.

Find out more about how you can short Sixth Street Specialty Lending stock.

Have Sixth Street Specialty Lending's shares ever split?

Sixth Street Specialty Lending's shares were split on a 66:1 basis on 3 December 2013. So if you had owned 1 share the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 66 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Sixth Street Specialty Lending shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 98.5% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Sixth Street Specialty Lending shares which in turn could have impacted Sixth Street Specialty Lending's share price.

Sixth Street Specialty Lending share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Sixth Street Specialty Lending's shares have ranged in value from as little as $10.1468 up to $22.6. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Sixth Street Specialty Lending's is 1.1974. This would suggest that Sixth Street Specialty Lending's shares are a little bit more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a slightly higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).

Sixth Street Specialty Lending overview

Sixth Street Specialty Lending, Inc. is a business development company. The fund provides senior secured loans (first-lien, second-lien, and unitranche), mezzanine debt, non-control structured equity, and common equity with a focus on co-investments for organic growth, acquisitions, market or product expansion, restructuring initiatives, recapitalizations, and refinancing. The fund invests in business services, software & technology, healthcare, energy, consumer & retail, manufacturing, industrials, royalty related businesses, education, and specialty finance. It seeks to finance middle market companies principally located in the United States. The fund invests in companies with enterprise value between $50 million and $1 billion or more and EBITDA between $10 million and $250 million. The transaction size is between $15 million and $350 million. The fund invests across the spectrum of the capital structure and can arrange syndicated transactions of up to $500 million and hold sizeable positions within its credits.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Sixth Street Specialty Lending is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 0.387% of Sixth Street Specialty Lending shares are held by insiders and 58.018% by institutions.

• When does the fiscal year end for Sixth Street Specialty Lending?

  Sixth Street Specialty Lending's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is Sixth Street Specialty Lending based?

  Sixth Street Specialty Lending's address is: 345 California Street, San Francisco, CA, United States, 94104

• What is Sixth Street Specialty Lending's ISIN number?

  Sixth Street Specialty Lending's international securities identification number is: US83012A1097

• What is Sixth Street Specialty Lending's CUSIP number?

  Sixth Street Specialty Lending's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 87265K102