Carlyle Secured Lending (CGBD) Stock Price, News & Analysis

3 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Carlyle Secured Lending in the last twelve months. There are currently 2 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" CGBD shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in CGBD, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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3 Wall Street analysts have issued twelve-month price targets for Carlyle Secured Lending's stock. Their CGBD share price targets range from $15.00 to $17.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $16.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 4.2%.
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Carlyle Secured Lending's stock was trading at $14.96 at the beginning of 2024. Since then, CGBD stock has increased by 11.6% and is now trading at $16.70.
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Carlyle Secured Lending saw a decline in short interest in the month of March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 367,000 shares, a decline of 30.7% from the March 15th total of 529,700 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 203,200 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 1.8 days. Currently, 0.8% of the company's shares are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, May 7th 2024.
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Carlyle Secured Lending will be holding an earnings conference call on Wednesday, May 8th at 11:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link.

Carlyle Secured Lending, Inc. (NASDAQ:CGBD) released its quarterly earnings data on Monday, February, 26th. The company reported $0.52 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.51 by $0.01. The business earned $62.69 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $42.86 million. Carlyle Secured Lending had a net margin of 38.19% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 12.80%. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $0.48 earnings per share.

Carlyle Secured Lending declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, February 20th. Investors of record on Friday, March 29th will be paid a dividend of $0.48 per share on Wednesday, April 17th. This represents a $1.92 annualized dividend and a yield of 11.50%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, March 27th. This is an increase from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.44.
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Carlyle Secured Lending (NASDAQ:CGBD) pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 9.71%. CGBD has a dividend yield higher than 75% of all dividend-paying stocks, making it a leading dividend payer. The dividend payout ratio is 94.67%. Payout ratios above 75% are not desirable because they may not be sustainable. Based on EPS estimates, CGBD will have a dividend payout ratio of 84.21% in the coming year. This indicates that the company may not be able to sustain their current dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Carlyle Secured Lending (NASDAQ:CGBD) stock in their portfolio include Virtus Private Credit Strategy ETF (VPC).VanEck BDC Income ETF (BIZD).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Carlyle Secured Lending investors own include Energy Transfer (ET), Hercules Capital (HTGC), Ares Capital (ARCC), Annaly Capital Management (NLY), New Residential Investment (NRZ), AGNC Investment (AGNC), Prospect Capital (PSEC), AT&T (T), TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC (TPVG) and Oxford Lane Capital (OXLC).

Carlyle Secured Lending (CGBD) raised $171 million in an initial public offering on Wednesday, June 14th 2017. The company issued 9,000,000 shares at $18.50-$19.50 per share. BofA Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Citigroup, Keefe, Bruyette & Woods (A Stifel Company) and Wells Fargo Securities served as the underwriters for the IPO and HSBC and Mizuho Securities were co-managers.

Carlyle Secured Lending's stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.51%) and Hennion & Walsh Asset Management Inc. (0.16%). Insiders that own company stock include Alexander Popov, Aren C Leekong, John G Nestor, Jonathan Pearl, Mark David Jenkins and Thomas M Hennigan.
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