Insider buying last 90 days
No open-market insider purchases were filed for TSLX in the last 90 days.
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Sixth Street Specialty Lending (TSLX) Stock Analysis & Forecast
Oct 12 close
$17.19−0.16 (−0.9%)
Gekko Brief
AI summaryOct 12 closeThis week's attention on TSLX centers on its upcoming earnings, now set for 3 November 2026, alongside continued analyst commentary. One piece highlights an average analyst price target of $19.83 and notes the company "recently surpassed quarterly earnings and revenue estimates," while another argues the stock's 1.11x P/NAV premium is not justified relative to other externally managed BDCs. A compilation of recent 8-K filings also references dividend declarations, leadership changes, and stock issuance approvals below NAV.
TSLX closed at $17.19, down 0.9% on the day, sitting below both its 50-day average of $18.26 and its 200-day average of $18.55, with the 50-day also below the 200-day. The GekkoIndex reads 65.2, placing the stock in the Accumulation zone, while the price sits 8.9% below Gekko Fair Value of $18.86.
Earnings arrive on 3 November, 21 days out, falling inside the typical 20-trading-day holding window referenced for swing positions; the prior quarter's reaction was a decline of 9.4% following an EPS miss against estimate. No insider, Congress, or unusual options activity appears in the current windows. Analyst sentiment includes 6 buy ratings and 1 hold among 7 firms, with a consensus target of $19.77 implying 15% upside. Seasonality over the next 20 trading days has averaged a gain of 4.8% across 5 years, rising in 4 of them.
Written by AI from the Oct 12, 2026 close and checked automatically against the figures on this page.
Sixth Street Specialty Lending price vs fair value
Close $17.19200-day averageGekko Fair Value $18.86
Sixth Street Specialty Lending quick facts
- Market cap
- $1.63B
- P/E ratio
- 18.9
- Forward P/E
- 10.2
- EPS, TTM
- $0.93
- Revenue, TTM
- $408.9M
- Profit margin
- 21.8%
- Dividend yield
- 11.00%
- Beta
- 0.66
- Volume
- 396,922 avg 498,809
- 1-year return
- −18.3%
- Typical daily move
- ±2.3%
- Typical 20-day move
- ±3.2%
- 50-day average
- $18.26
- 200-day average
- $18.55
- Next earnings
- Nov 3 before open
- Shares outstanding
- 95.34M
Sixth Street Specialty Lending swing-trade checklist
Sixth Street Specialty Lending scores 3 supportive, 0 mixed and 2 headwinds across the 5 checklist items with data.
Six things swing traders check before a 20-day hold, read from the latest data.
3 supportive0 mixed2 headwinds
- Trendheadwind
Below 50 and 200-day
Close $17.19 is below the 50-day ($18.26) and 200-day ($18.55) averages, and the 50-day is below the 200-day.
See the chart - GekkoIndexsupportive
65.2, Accumulation
Reading 65.2 is in the Accumulation zone.
See the GekkoIndex - Fair valuesupportive
8.9% below
Price is 8.9% below Gekko Fair Value (more than 5% below).
See fair value - Smart moneyno data
No data
No insider, Congress or unusual options activity in the window.
See smart money - Earnings riskheadwind
Reports in 22 days
Reports on Nov 3, 2026, 22 days away — inside a typical 20-trading-day hold.
See earnings - Seasonalitysupportive
+4.8% on average
From this point in the calendar, the next 20 trading days averaged +4.8% over 5 years, rising in 4 of them.
See seasonality
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Sixth Street Specialty Lending stock chart and price history
Sixth Street Specialty Lending closed at $17.19 on Oct 12, 2026, −18.3% over the past year, inside a 52-week range of $16.04 to $23.19.
Close50-day average200-day averageVolume
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Performance Breakdown
- 1 month
- −3.9%
- 3 months
- +0.2%
- 6 months
- −5.9%
- 1 year
- −18.3%
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About Sixth Street Specialty Lending
Sixth Street Specialty Lending works as a business development company that channels money into other firms rather than selling goods to everyday consumers. It lends through senior secured debt, such as first-lien, second-lien and unitranche arrangements, and also writes unsecured and mezzanine loans while putting money into corporate bonds, stock positions, structured instruments and common equity, often teaming up with co-investors. These commitments generally help businesses grow, acquire other companies, branch into new markets, reorganize, recapitalize or refinance existing debt.
Its lending and investing touch many corners of the economy, among them business services, software, healthcare, energy, consumer goods and retail, manufacturing, industrials, education, specialty finance and companies built around royalty income. The firms it backs are mostly mid-sized and located in the United States, usually carrying enterprise values from fifty million to over a billion dollars and EBITDA between ten million and two hundred fifty million dollars. A single deal can range from fifteen million up to three hundred fifty million dollars, and the firm is able to put together syndicated deals worth as much as half a billion dollars while keeping meaningful ownership in the credit positions it holds.
Shares of Sixth Street Specialty Lending are listed on the NYSE under the ticker TSLX.
- Listed
- NYSE
- Sector
- Miscellaneous
- Industry
- Investment trusts/Mutual funds
- Website
- sixthstreetspecialtylending.com
Sixth Street Specialty Lending GekkoIndex: the smart money zone
Sixth Street Specialty Lending’s GekkoIndex — Gekko’s 0 to 100 smart money score — reads 65.2, in the Accumulation zone, down 0.1 points over five sessions.
65.2Accumulation
Down 0.1 points over five sessions.
Reading for Oct 12, 2026
What followed past readings in each zone
| Zone | Readings | 5 days | 20 days | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buying | 43 | −0.4% | −0.2% | ||
| Accumulation (current zone) | 231 | +0.4% | +0.9% | ||
| Neutral | 372 | −0.4% | −1.2% | ||
| Distribution | 27 | −0.2% | −1.1% | ||
| Selling | 9 | Too few readings yet | |||
Average TSLX 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 Sixth Street Specialty Lending stock overvalued? Gekko Fair Value
Sixth Street Specialty Lending trades 8.9% below Gekko Fair Value of $18.86, so the shares are undervalued on Gekko’s estimate.
Gekko’s own estimate of what Sixth Street Specialty Lending shares are worth, recalculated every trading day.
$18.86
Gekko Fair Value, Oct 10, 2026
8.9% Undervalued
At the end of Aug 2026 the price was 1.0% below the estimate.
Gekko Fair ValueShare price, month end
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Sixth Street Specialty Lending insider and Congress trading
No open-market insider purchases were filed for Sixth Street 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 TSLX were disclosed by members of Congress in the last 90 days.
From congressional disclosures, which report amounts as ranges.
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Buybacks
Sixth Street Specialty Lending has been buying back its own shares.
- Bought back, quarter ended Jun 30, 2026
- $500K
- As a share of market cap
- 0.03%
From company filings.
Sixth Street Specialty Lending earnings: next date and track record
Sixth Street Specialty Lending reports on Nov 3, 2026, before the open (22 days away), and beat the EPS estimate in 6 of its last 8 reports.
Next earnings report
Nov 3, 2026
Expected before the open, 22 days away
- EPS estimate
- $0.44
- Revenue estimate
- $97.50M
6 of 8reports beat the EPS estimate
±3.3%average move across the report
3 of 8reports followed by a gain
Share-price move across each report
Last earnings call, May 5, 2026 AI summary
- What they said
- TSLX reported Q1 2026 net investment income of $0.42/share (9.9% annualized ROE) but posted a net loss of $0.27/share driven by unrealized losses. NAV declined 4.3% to $16.24, with $0.58/share attributable to market-driven fair value adjustments from credit spread widening (48bps first-lien, 256bps second-lien) and lower equity valuations. Management emphasized losses are noncash and reversible, with underlying portfolio health intact.
- Guidance
- Management expects unrealized credit spread-driven losses to reverse over time. No specific earnings targets provided, but leadership expressed confidence in capitalizing on evolving market opportunities with a strong balance sheet.
| Reported | EPS | Revenue | Move |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 2026 | $0.42 est $0.50 | $93.40M est $103.1M | −9.4% |
| Feb 12, 2026 | $0.52 est $0.50 | $108.2M est $104.4M | −4.4% |
| Nov 4, 2025 | $0.53 est $0.52 | $81.14M est $107.1M | −3.5% |
| Jul 30, 2025 | $0.56 est $0.53 | $112.5M est $108.3M | +1.7% |
| Apr 30, 2025 | $0.58 est $0.56 | $113.9M est $116.7M | −1.5% |
| Apr 29, 2025 | $0.62 est $0.55 | $113.9M est $116.7M | −1.2% |
| Feb 13, 2025 | $0.61 est $0.57 | $122.3M est $119.1M | +3.4% |
| Nov 5, 2024 | $0.57 est $0.58 | $109.0M est $117.6M | +1.0% |
“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.
Sixth Street Specialty Lending stock forecast and analyst price targets
Analysts’ average 12-month price target for Sixth Street Specialty Lending is $19.77, +15.0% from the last close, from 7 firms rating the stock in the last 90 days.
$19.77consensus 12-month target, +15.0% from the last close
Now $17.19Avg $19.77
Low $17.50High $20
Each firm’s latest rating in the last 90 days: 7 firms.
Latest analyst actions
| Date | Firm | Target | vs price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 21 | Bank of America Securities | $19.50 | +13.4% |
| Aug 19 | J.P. Morgan | $17.50 | +1.8% |
| Aug 10 | KBW | $19.50 | +13.4% |
| Aug 7 | Oppenheimer | $20 | +16.3% |
| Aug 6 | RBC Capital | $20 | +16.3% |
+0.9%average 20-day move after past Accumulation readings
+4.8%average move over the next 20 trading days in the last 5 years
±2.3%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.
Sixth Street Specialty Lending seasonality: the next 20 trading days
Over the next 20 trading days from Oct 10, Sixth Street Specialty Lending averaged +4.8% across the last 5 years, rising in 4 of them.
Next 20 trading days, by year
Average move and hit rate
| Window | Average | Years higher |
|---|---|---|
| Next 5 trading days | +2.7% | 5 of 5 |
| Next 10 trading days | +3.1% | 4 of 5 |
| Next 15 trading days | +3.9% | 4 of 5 |
| Next 20 trading days | +4.8% | 4 of 5 |
| Next 30 trading days | +5.1% | 5 of 5 |
For scale, TSLX’s typical 20-trading-day move in either direction is about 3.2%.
Sixth Street Specialty Lending market cap and key statistics
Sixth Street Specialty Lending’s market cap is $1.63B, with a P/E ratio of 18.9 and revenue of $408.9M over the last twelve months.
Valuation
- Market cap
- $1.63B
- P/E ratio
- 18.9
- Forward P/E
- 10.2
- EPS, TTM
- $0.93
- Gekko Fair Value
- $18.86
Trading
- Volume
- 396,922
- Avg volume, 20 days
- 498,809
- 52-week high
- $23.19
- 52-week low
- $16.04
- Shares outstanding
- 95.34M
Financials
- Revenue, TTM
- $408.9M
- Profit margin
- 21.8%
- Return on equity
- 5.6%
- Quarterly earnings growth, YoY
- −32.1%
Risk and income
- Beta
- 0.66
- Typical daily move
- ±2.3%
- Typical 20-day move
- ±3.2%
- Dividend yield
- 11.00%
Sixth Street Specialty Lending stock news this week
Coverage of Sixth Street Specialty Lending this week reads neutral: 1 positive, 4 neutral and 1 negative headlines.
- TSLX 8-K Filings - Sixth Street Specialty Lending, Inc. SEC 8-KStock Titan, Oct 11
- Sixth Street Specialty Lending, Inc. $TSLX Stock Position Trimmed by Sound Income Strategies LLCMarketBeat, Oct 9
- Sixth Street Specialty Lending Q3 2026 Earnings Date and EstimatesMarketBeat, Oct 9
- Sixth Street Specialty Lending, Inc. (NYSE:TSLX) Stock Has Average Price Target of $19.83MarketBeat, Oct 8
- Sixth Street Specialty Lending: The 1.11x P/NAV Premium Doesn't Add Up (NYSE:TSLX)Seeking Alpha, Oct 6
- Price to earnings forward of Sixth Street Specialty Lending, Inc. – HAM:1T6TradingView, Oct 6
Sixth Street Specialty Lending peers
Sixth Street 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.
Sixth Street Specialty Lending stock FAQ
What is Sixth Street Specialty Lending’s market cap?
Sixth Street Specialty Lending’s market cap is $1.63B at the Oct 12, 2026 close of $17.19, with 95.34M shares outstanding. The shares trade on a P/E ratio of 18.9.
What is the Sixth Street Specialty Lending stock forecast?
The consensus analyst 12-month price target for Sixth Street Specialty Lending is $19.77, +15.0% from the last close. Of the 7 firms that rated the stock in the last 90 days, 6 rate it a buy, 1 a hold and 0 a sell. Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions of its own.
Is Sixth Street Specialty Lending stock overvalued or undervalued?
On Gekko’s estimate Sixth Street Specialty Lending is undervalued: the Oct 12, 2026 close of $17.19 is 8.9% below Gekko Fair Value of $18.86. Gekko Fair Value is recalculated every trading day, and a gap inside 5% either way counts as about fair value.
When does Sixth Street Specialty Lending report earnings next?
Sixth Street Specialty Lending is expected to report on Nov 3, 2026, before the market opens (22 days away). Analysts expect earnings of $0.44 per share on revenue of $97.50M. Sixth Street Specialty Lending beat the earnings estimate in 6 of its last 8 reports, moving 3.3% on average across the report.
What is Sixth Street Specialty Lending’s 52-week high and low?
Sixth Street Specialty Lending’s 52-week high is $23.19 and its 52-week low is $16.04; it closed at $17.19 on Oct 12, 2026, −18.3% over the past year. Over the last five years the shares peaked at $25.17 on Jul 18, 2025.
Is Sixth Street Specialty Lending stock a buy right now?
Gekko describes the data; it does not make buy or sell recommendations. On the swing-trade checklist, 3 of the 5 items with data read as supportive (gekkoindex, fair value and seasonality) and 2 as headwinds (trend and earnings risk). The checklist is a description of current data, not a recommendation.
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