Sixth Street Specialty Lending (TSLX) Competitors

Sixth Street Specialty Lending (NYSE:TSLX) and FirstService (NASDAQ:FSV) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, valuation and earnings.

Is TSLX or FSV more profitable?

Sixth Street Specialty Lending has a net margin of 36.59% compared to FirstService's net margin of 2.46%. FirstService's return on equity of 17.49% beat Sixth Street Specialty Lending's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Sixth Street Specialty Lending	36.59%	13.60%	6.22%
FirstService	2.46%	17.49%	4.87%

Do analysts rate TSLX or FSV?

Sixth Street Specialty Lending currently has a consensus price target of $22.81, indicating a potential downside of 6.43%. FirstService has a consensus price target of $208.40, indicating a potential upside of 16.94%. Given FirstService's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe FirstService is more favorable than Sixth Street Specialty Lending.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Sixth Street Specialty Lending	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	6 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00
FirstService	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	3 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.60

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of TSLX or FSV?

70.3% of Sixth Street Specialty Lending shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.4% of FirstService shares are held by institutional investors. 3.2% of Sixth Street Specialty Lending shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has preferable valuation and earnings, TSLX or FSV?

Sixth Street Specialty Lending has higher earnings, but lower revenue than FirstService. Sixth Street Specialty Lending is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than FirstService, 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
Sixth Street Specialty Lending	$482.53M	4.75	$220.02M	$1.89	12.90
FirstService	$5.22B	1.55	$134.38M	$2.89	61.66

Is TSLX or FSV a better dividend stock?

Sixth Street Specialty Lending pays an annual dividend of $1.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.5%. FirstService pays an annual dividend of $1.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Sixth Street Specialty Lending pays out 97.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. FirstService pays out 38.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. FirstService has raised its dividend for 7 consecutive years.

Does the media prefer TSLX or FSV?

In the previous week, Sixth Street Specialty Lending had 1 more articles in the media than FirstService. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Sixth Street Specialty Lending and 4 mentions for FirstService. FirstService's average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat Sixth Street Specialty Lending's score of 0.54 indicating that FirstService is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Sixth Street Specialty Lending	2 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
FirstService	2 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Which has more risk & volatility, TSLX or FSV?

Sixth Street Specialty Lending has a beta of 0.83, meaning that its stock price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, FirstService has a beta of 0.99, meaning that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Sixth Street Specialty Lending beats FirstService on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.