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Agency mortgage REITs are achieving exceptional price-to-book ratios. You want a high dividend yield? Great. But don't pay a huge premium in the share price. It's a great time for investors to capture some gains in this sector.

Oaktree Specialty Lending offers an attractive value proposition due to its valuation, portfolio strategy, and yield, despite having a high non-accrual percentage. OSCL cut its dividend by 27.3% last month, improving its dividend coverage profile to 1.15X in Q1 '25. The investment firm, however, has seen a shrinking portfolio due to higher net loan repayments.

The stock market has been ugly (particularly growth stocks), and it could get much worse. Thankfully, however, there is another way. Income investing focuses on big, steady dividend and interest payments, thereby allowing investors to worry far less about price volatility (as long as those big income payments keep coming in). This report shares 5 big safe yield strategies (including a variety of top income ideas), and then concludes with an important takeaway about succeeding in this market.

Yield to maturity is crucial in baby bond analysis. Yield to call can also be relevant when call risk is more relevant. We're starting with a hypothetical for demonstrating a key point, then we'll look at two baby bonds as they are trading today. Market inefficiencies can arise from liquidity issues, creating trading opportunities between similar preferred shares or baby bonds.

Oaktree Specialty Lending Corporation faced a decline in net asset value and net investment income due to investment write-downs and high non-accruals. The company cut its dividend by 27% to address the deteriorating dividend coverage, raising concerns about its ability to re-rate higher in 2025. Despite the dividend cut, Oaktree Specialty Lending's stock is expected to continue selling at a discount to net asset value due to ongoing credit issues.

We take a look at the action in business development companies through the first week of February and highlight some of the key themes we are watching. BDCs underperformed this week with a total return of around -1%, diverging from other income sectors buoyed by rising Treasuries. Market reaction to earnings highlights a focus on income over total NAV return, as seen with ARCC and GBDC's recent performance.

In a November 2024 article, I made a case that we will see Oaktree Specialty Lending cutting its dividend quite soon. This has now happened. The base dividend has dropped by ~27%. The base dividend coverage stands now at 136%, which implies a significant margin of safety for the FWD 10.3% yield.

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 04, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Oaktree Specialty Lending Corporation (NASDAQ: OCSL) (“Oaktree Specialty Lending” or the “Company”), a specialty finance company, today announced its financial results for the fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2024.

The New Year is a good time to review your portfolio and acquire some new investments. Tax-loss selling in December often leads to opportunities in January. I started rotating out of U.S. tech stocks and into non-tech & foreign stocks last year. That includes many high-yield stocks.

High-yield dividend stocks can be powerful income machines, but can also be risky. This means that investors should use extra caution when investing in these sorts of stocks. We discuss two 14%+ yielding yields, one that is worth buying and one that is not.