Insider buying last 90 days
No open-market insider purchases were filed for OCSL in the last 90 days.
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Oaktree Specialty Lending (OCSL) Stock Analysis & Forecast
Oct 12 close
$11.82+0.22 (+1.9%)
Gekko Brief
Oct 12 closeOaktree Specialty Lending closed at $11.82 on 12 October 2026, +1.9% on the day. The price sits between the 50-day ($12.54) and 200-day ($12.16) moving averages, inside a 52-week range of $10.63 to $14.31. The GekkoIndex reads 66.5, in the Accumulation zone, down 3.1 points over five sessions. Gekko Fair Value is $12.52, so the price is 5.6% below it.
The next earnings report is due on 17 November 2026, 36 days away. Over the last 8 reports the company beat the earnings estimate 3 times, with an average move of 2.3% across the report. Seasonally, the next 20 trading days from this point averaged +4.7% over the last 5 years, rising in 3 of them.
4 firms rate the stock: 0 buy, 4 hold and 0 sell, with a consensus target of $12.50. A typical daily move is about 2%, and a typical 20-day move about 3.5%. On the swing-trade checklist, 4 items read supportive and 0 read as a headwind.
A plain summary of the figures as of the Oct 12, 2026 close.
Oaktree Specialty Lending price vs fair value
Close $11.82200-day averageGekko Fair Value $12.52
Oaktree Specialty Lending quick facts
- Market cap
- $1.04B
- P/E ratio
- 24.3
- Forward P/E
- 8.9
- EPS, TTM
- $0.48
- Revenue, TTM
- $292.2M
- Profit margin
- 14.4%
- Dividend yield
- 12.70%
- Beta
- 0.59
- Volume
- 963,841 avg 477,137
- 1-year return
- −5.9%
- Typical daily move
- ±2%
- Typical 20-day move
- ±3.5%
- 50-day average
- $12.54
- 200-day average
- $12.16
- Next earnings
- Nov 17
- Shares outstanding
- 88.09M
Oaktree Specialty Lending swing-trade checklist
Oaktree Specialty Lending scores 4 supportive, 1 mixed and 0 headwinds across the 5 checklist items with data.
Six things swing traders check before a 20-day hold, read from the latest data.
4 supportive1 mixed0 headwinds
- Trendmixed
Averages disagree
Close $11.82 sits between the 50-day ($12.54) and 200-day ($12.16) averages, or the averages disagree.
See the chart - GekkoIndexsupportive
66.5, Accumulation
Reading 66.5 is in the Accumulation zone.
See the GekkoIndex - Fair valuesupportive
5.6% below
Price is 5.6% below Gekko Fair Value (more than 5% below).
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No data
No insider, Congress or unusual options activity in the window.
See smart money - Earnings risksupportive
Reports in 36 days
Next report Nov 17, 2026, 36 days away — outside a typical 20-trading-day hold.
See earnings - Seasonalitysupportive
+4.7% on average
From this point in the calendar, the next 20 trading days averaged +4.7% over 5 years, rising in 3 of them.
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Oaktree Specialty Lending stock chart and price history
Oaktree Specialty Lending closed at $11.82 on Oct 12, 2026, −5.9% over the past year, inside a 52-week range of $10.63 to $14.31.
Close50-day average200-day averageVolume
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Performance Breakdown
- 1 month
- −6.7%
- 3 months
- −2.7%
- 6 months
- −1.8%
- 1 year
- −5.9%
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About Oaktree Specialty Lending
Oaktree Specialty Lending operates as a business development company that supplies financing to middle-market businesses. It offers a wide mix of funding types, from short-term bridge loans to secured debt at different priority levels, unsecured loans, mezzanine debt, and preferred equity. These funds typically back corporate growth, private equity-led acquisitions, and management buyouts, with activity spread across sectors such as education, general business services, retail and consumer goods, healthcare, manufacturing, food and restaurants, construction and engineering, and media and advertising.
Its investments usually fall between five million and seventy five million dollars, often built as one-stop, first-lien, or second-lien debt and sometimes paired with an equity stake. Target companies generally carry an enterprise value of twenty million to one hundred fifty million dollars and generate operating cash flow of three million to fifty million dollars, though the firm is able to underwrite transactions as large as one hundred million dollars. It focuses on North America and typically takes the lead investor position in the companies it finances.
Shares of Oaktree Specialty Lending are listed on the NASDAQ under the ticker OCSL.
- Listed
- NASDAQ
- Sector
- Miscellaneous
- Industry
- Investment trusts/Mutual funds
- Website
- oaktreespecialtylending.com
Oaktree Specialty Lending GekkoIndex: the smart money zone
Oaktree Specialty Lending’s GekkoIndex — Gekko’s 0 to 100 smart money score — reads 66.5, in the Accumulation zone, down 3.1 points over five sessions.
66.5Accumulation
Down 3.1 points over five sessions.
Reading for Oct 12, 2026
What followed past readings in each zone
| Zone | Readings | 5 days | 20 days | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buying | 69 | +0.8% | +1.5% | ||
| Accumulation (current zone) | 308 | −0.1% | −0.6% | ||
| Neutral | 289 | −0.8% | −2.8% | ||
| Distribution | 10 | −3.7% | −5.5% | ||
| Selling | 6 | Too few readings yet | |||
Average OCSL share-price change over the trading days after each daily reading in its GekkoIndex history. Across every stock Gekko tracks, Accumulation readings averaged +2.2% over 20 days. Past behaviour doesn’t guarantee future results.
Accumulation zone: Institutional interest building. About the five zones →
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Is Oaktree Specialty Lending stock overvalued? Gekko Fair Value
Oaktree Specialty Lending trades 5.6% below Gekko Fair Value of $12.52, so the shares are undervalued on Gekko’s estimate.
Gekko’s own estimate of what Oaktree Specialty Lending shares are worth, recalculated every trading day.
$12.52
Gekko Fair Value, Oct 10, 2026
5.6% Undervalued
At the end of Aug 2026 the price was 6.7% above the estimate.
Gekko Fair ValueShare price, month end
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Oaktree Specialty Lending insider and Congress trading
No open-market insider purchases were filed for Oaktree Specialty Lending, and no Congress trades were disclosed, in the last 90 days.
Plus buybacks, unusual options and fund positions, each dated to when it became public.
Congress trades last 90 days
No trades in OCSL were disclosed by members of Congress in the last 90 days.
From congressional disclosures, which report amounts as ranges.
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Buybacks
Oaktree Specialty Lending has been buying back its own shares.
- Bought back, quarter ended Jun 30, 2026
- $1.08M
- As a share of market cap
- 0.10%
- Trailing four quarters
- $4.53M
From company filings.
Oaktree Specialty Lending earnings: next date and track record
Oaktree Specialty Lending reports on Nov 17, 2026 (36 days away), and beat the EPS estimate in 3 of its last 8 reports.
Next earnings report
Nov 17, 2026
36 days away
- EPS estimate
- $0.34
- Revenue estimate
- $69.82M
3 of 8reports beat the EPS estimate
±2.3%average move across the report
1 of 8reports followed by a gain
Share-price move across each report
Last earnings call, Aug 5, 2026 AI summary
- What they said
- OCSL reported Q3 fiscal 2026 adjusted NII of $32.2M ($0.37/share), down slightly from $33.7M ($0.38/share) in Q2. Non-accruals declined to 1.8% of debt portfolio at fair value, down 80bps sequentially and 140bps year-over-year, with 5 non-accrual exits in two quarters. Thrasio repaid ~$25M (~80% of loans). Net leverage stood at 1.02x with ~$700M liquidity available.
- Guidance
- Management plans to address $350M in unsecured notes maturing January 2027 over coming quarters. Conservative leverage below target range midpoint and ample liquidity position OCSL to deploy capital into evolving private credit markets. Board declared $0.33/share total dividend for Q3.
| Reported | EPS | Revenue | Move |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 2026 | $0.37 est $0.36 | $69.43M est $69.40M | +4.9% |
| May 5, 2026 | $0.38 est $0.37 | $69.74M est $74.35M | −3.0% |
| Feb 4, 2026 | $0.06 est $0.38 | $74.48M est $74.75M | −0.1% |
| Nov 18, 2025 | $0.40 est $0.39 | $84.26M est $76.51M | −0.1% |
| Aug 5, 2025 | $0.37 est $0.45 | $61.84M est $76.51M | −1.1% |
| May 1, 2025 | $0.45 est $0.51 | −$12.00M est $86.42M | −5.6% |
| Feb 4, 2025 | $0.54 est $0.54 | $78.42M est $89.68M | −1.1% |
| Nov 19, 2024 | $0.55 est $0.56 | $36.47M est $97.24M | −2.9% |
“Move” is the close of the first session after the report compared with the close of the last session before it, so it reads the same whether the company reported before the open or after the close.
Oaktree Specialty Lending stock forecast and analyst price targets
Analysts’ average 12-month price target for Oaktree Specialty Lending is $12.50, +5.8% from the last close, from 4 firms rating the stock in the last 90 days.
$12.50consensus 12-month target, +5.8% from the last close
Now $11.82Avg $12.50
Low $12High $13.50
Each firm’s latest rating in the last 90 days: 4 firms.
Latest analyst actions
| Date | Firm | Target | vs price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7 | Oppenheimer | $13 | +10.0% |
| Aug 7 | B. Riley Securities | $12.50 | +5.8% |
| Aug 6 | KBW | $13.50 | +14.2% |
| Aug 6 | Wells Fargo | $12 | +1.5% |
−0.6%average 20-day move after past Accumulation readings
+4.7%average move over the next 20 trading days in the last 5 years
±2%typical daily move, from the 14-day average range
Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions. These are analyst targets and historical base rates, which don’t guarantee future results.
Oaktree Specialty Lending seasonality: the next 20 trading days
Over the next 20 trading days from Oct 10, Oaktree Specialty Lending averaged +4.7% across the last 5 years, rising in 3 of them.
Next 20 trading days, by year
Average move and hit rate
| Window | Average | Years higher |
|---|---|---|
| Next 5 trading days | +2.6% | 5 of 5 |
| Next 10 trading days | +3.2% | 3 of 5 |
| Next 15 trading days | +4.1% | 3 of 5 |
| Next 20 trading days | +4.7% | 3 of 5 |
| Next 30 trading days | +5.0% | 4 of 5 |
For scale, OCSL’s typical 20-trading-day move in either direction is about 3.5%.
Oaktree Specialty Lending market cap and key statistics
Oaktree Specialty Lending’s market cap is $1.04B, with a P/E ratio of 24.3 and revenue of $292.2M over the last twelve months.
Valuation
- Market cap
- $1.04B
- P/E ratio
- 24.3
- Forward P/E
- 8.9
- EPS, TTM
- $0.48
- Gekko Fair Value
- $12.52
Trading
- Volume
- 963,841
- Avg volume, 20 days
- 477,137
- 52-week high
- $14.31
- 52-week low
- $10.63
- Shares outstanding
- 88.09M
Financials
- Revenue, TTM
- $292.2M
- Profit margin
- 14.4%
- Return on equity
- 2.9%
- Quarterly earnings growth, YoY
- −19.3%
Risk and income
- Beta
- 0.59
- Typical daily move
- ±2%
- Typical 20-day move
- ±3.5%
- Dividend yield
- 12.70%
Oaktree Specialty Lending peers
Oaktree Specialty Lending’s 6 largest industry peers by market value, with today’s move, GekkoIndex zone and gap to Gekko Fair Value.
| Stock | GekkoIndex zone | vs Fair Value |
|---|---|---|
| TPLTexas Pacific Land | Neutral | 0.2% below |
| VNOMViper Energy | Neutral | 9.2% below |
| BXSLBlackstone Secured Lending Fund | Accumulation | 2.7% below |
| WTWisdomTree | Accumulation | 9.3% below |
| BSMBlack Stone Minerals | Neutral | 31.7% below |
| FSKFS KKR Capital | Accumulation | 7.9% below |
A peer links to its own page where one exists.
Oaktree Specialty Lending stock FAQ
What is Oaktree Specialty Lending’s market cap?
Oaktree Specialty Lending’s market cap is $1.04B at the Oct 12, 2026 close of $11.82, with 88.09M shares outstanding. The shares trade on a P/E ratio of 24.3.
What is the Oaktree Specialty Lending stock forecast?
The consensus analyst 12-month price target for Oaktree Specialty Lending is $12.50, +5.8% from the last close. Of the 4 firms that rated the stock in the last 90 days, 0 rate it a buy, 4 a hold and 0 a sell. Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions of its own.
Is Oaktree Specialty Lending stock overvalued or undervalued?
On Gekko’s estimate Oaktree Specialty Lending is undervalued: the Oct 12, 2026 close of $11.82 is 5.6% below Gekko Fair Value of $12.52. Gekko Fair Value is recalculated every trading day, and a gap inside 5% either way counts as about fair value.
When does Oaktree Specialty Lending report earnings next?
Oaktree Specialty Lending is expected to report on Nov 17, 2026 (36 days away). Analysts expect earnings of $0.34 per share on revenue of $69.82M. Oaktree Specialty Lending beat the earnings estimate in 3 of its last 8 reports, moving 2.3% on average across the report.
What is Oaktree Specialty Lending’s 52-week high and low?
Oaktree Specialty Lending’s 52-week high is $14.31 and its 52-week low is $10.63; it closed at $11.82 on Oct 12, 2026, −5.9% over the past year. Over the last five years the shares peaked at $23.43 on Jan 13, 2022.
Is Oaktree Specialty Lending stock a buy right now?
Gekko describes the data; it does not make buy or sell recommendations. On the swing-trade checklist, 4 of the 5 items with data read as supportive (gekkoindex, fair value, earnings risk and seasonality), 1 as mixed (trend). The checklist is a description of current data, not a recommendation.
How this page works
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