Oaktree Specialty Lending (OCSL) Competitors

Main Street Capital (NYSE:MAIN) and Oaktree Specialty Lending (NASDAQ:OCSL) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, profitability, dividends, media sentiment and valuation.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in MAIN or OCSL?

Oaktree Specialty Lending received 83 more outperform votes than Main Street Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.02% of users gave Oaktree Specialty Lending an outperform vote while only 56.40% of users gave Main Street Capital an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Main Street Capital	Outperform Votes 401 56.40%	Underperform Votes 310 43.60%
Oaktree Specialty Lending	Outperform Votes 484 59.02%	Underperform Votes 336 40.98%

Which has more volatility & risk, MAIN or OCSL?

Main Street Capital has a beta of 0.86, suggesting that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Oaktree Specialty Lending has a beta of 0.74, suggesting that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Do institutionals & insiders hold more shares of MAIN or OCSL?

20.3% of Main Street Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 36.8% of Oaktree Specialty Lending shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.0% of Main Street Capital shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Oaktree Specialty Lending shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Is MAIN or OCSL a better dividend stock?

Main Street Capital pays an annual dividend of $3.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.3%. Oaktree Specialty Lending pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.1%. Main Street Capital pays out 50.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Oaktree Specialty Lending pays out 1,230.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Main Street Capital has raised its dividend for 4 consecutive years.

Which has better valuation & earnings, MAIN or OCSL?

Main Street Capital has higher revenue and earnings than Oaktree Specialty Lending. Main Street Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Oaktree Specialty Lending, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Main Street Capital	$607.66M	8.32	$428.45M	$5.89	9.64
Oaktree Specialty Lending	-$1.54M	-823.74	$57.90M	$0.13	110.92

Do analysts prefer MAIN or OCSL?

Main Street Capital currently has a consensus price target of $52.80, indicating a potential downside of 7.04%. Oaktree Specialty Lending has a consensus price target of $15.83, indicating a potential upside of 9.80%. Given Oaktree Specialty Lending's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Oaktree Specialty Lending is more favorable than Main Street Capital.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Main Street Capital	0 Sell rating(s)	4 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.20
Oaktree Specialty Lending	0 Sell rating(s)	7 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00

Is MAIN or OCSL more profitable?

Main Street Capital has a net margin of 89.25% compared to Oaktree Specialty Lending's net margin of 14.75%. Main Street Capital's return on equity of 13.83% beat Oaktree Specialty Lending's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Main Street Capital	89.25%	13.83%	7.37%
Oaktree Specialty Lending	14.75%	12.07%	5.57%

Does the media prefer MAIN or OCSL?

In the previous week, Main Street Capital had 16 more articles in the media than Oaktree Specialty Lending. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Main Street Capital and 3 mentions for Oaktree Specialty Lending. Oaktree Specialty Lending's average media sentiment score of 1.75 beat Main Street Capital's score of 0.33 indicating that Oaktree Specialty Lending is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Main Street Capital	3 Very Positive mention(s)	5 Positive mention(s)	9 Neutral mention(s)	2 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
Oaktree Specialty Lending	2 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Very Positive

Summary

Main Street Capital beats Oaktree Specialty Lending on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.