Sixth Street Specialty Lending (TSLX) Competitors

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

Is FSV or TSLX more profitable?

Sixth Street Specialty Lending has a net margin of 38.67% compared to FirstService's net margin of 2.58%. FirstService's return on equity of 17.15% beat Sixth Street Specialty Lending's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
FirstService	2.58%	17.15%	4.79%
Sixth Street Specialty Lending	38.67%	13.47%	6.17%

Is FSV or TSLX a better dividend stock?

FirstService pays an annual dividend of $1.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Sixth Street Specialty Lending pays an annual dividend of $1.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.1%. FirstService pays out 37.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Sixth Street Specialty Lending pays out 90.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Do analysts prefer FSV or TSLX?

FirstService currently has a consensus target price of $201.67, suggesting a potential upside of 17.60%. Sixth Street Specialty Lending has a consensus target price of $23.07, suggesting a potential upside of 2.09%. Given FirstService's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe FirstService is more favorable than Sixth Street Specialty Lending.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
FirstService	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	4 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.67
Sixth Street Specialty Lending	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	6 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.86

Which has more risk & volatility, FSV or TSLX?

FirstService has a beta of 1.12, indicating that its stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sixth Street Specialty Lending has a beta of 1.08, indicating that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media prefer FSV or TSLX?

In the previous week, FirstService had 6 more articles in the media than Sixth Street Specialty Lending. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for FirstService and 3 mentions for Sixth Street Specialty Lending. FirstService's average media sentiment score of 1.22 beat Sixth Street Specialty Lending's score of 0.85 indicating that FirstService is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
FirstService	6 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Sixth Street Specialty Lending	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in FSV or TSLX?

Sixth Street Specialty Lending received 62 more outperform votes than FirstService when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.78% of users gave Sixth Street Specialty Lending an outperform vote while only 60.18% of users gave FirstService an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
FirstService	Outperform Votes 328 60.18%	Underperform Votes 217 39.82%
Sixth Street Specialty Lending	Outperform Votes 390 66.78%	Underperform Votes 194 33.22%

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

69.3% of FirstService shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.3% of Sixth Street Specialty Lending shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.3% of Sixth Street Specialty Lending shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has better valuation and earnings, FSV or TSLX?

Sixth Street Specialty Lending has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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
FirstService	$5.22B	1.49	$134.38M	$2.97	57.74
Sixth Street Specialty Lending	$252.97M	8.37	$220.02M	$2.03	11.13

Summary

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