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FSEN (FS Specialty Lending Fund) 5-Year Dividend Growth Rate : 0.00% (As of Dec. 2024)


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What is FS Specialty Lending Fund 5-Year Dividend Growth Rate?

FS Specialty Lending Fund's Dividends per Share for the three months ended in Dec. 2024 was $0.16.

During the past 12 months, FS Specialty Lending Fund's average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 78.30% per year. During the past 3 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 77.80% per year. Please click Growth Rate Calculation Example (GuruFocus) to see how GuruFocus calculates Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT)'s revenue growth rate. You can apply the same method to get the average dividends per share growth rate.

During the past 11 years, the highest 3-Year average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate of FS Specialty Lending Fund was 77.80% per year. The lowest was -50.70% per year. And the median was -25.40% per year.

FS Specialty Lending Fund's Dividend Payout Ratio for the three months ended in Dec. 2024 was 3.22. As of today, FS Specialty Lending Fund's Dividend Yield % is 10.33%.

Warning Sign:

If a company's dividend payout ratio is too high, its dividend may not be sustainable. The dividend payout ratio of FS Specialty Lending Fund is 1.61, which seems too high.

For more information regarding to dividend, please check our Dividend Page.


Competitive Comparison of FS Specialty Lending Fund's 5-Year Dividend Growth Rate

For the Asset Management subindustry, FS Specialty Lending Fund's 5-Year Dividend Growth Rate, along with its competitors' market caps and 5-Year Dividend Growth Rate data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


FS Specialty Lending Fund's 5-Year Dividend Growth Rate Distribution in the Asset Management Industry

For the Asset Management industry and Financial Services sector, FS Specialty Lending Fund's 5-Year Dividend Growth Rate distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where FS Specialty Lending Fund's 5-Year Dividend Growth Rate falls into.


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FS Specialty Lending Fund 5-Year Dividend Growth Rate Calculation

This is the average annual rate that a company has been raising its dividends. The growth rate is calculated with least square regression.

Please click Growth Rate Calculation Example (GuruFocus) to see how GuruFocus calculates Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT)'s revenue growth rate. You can apply the same method to get the average dividends per share growth rate.


FS Specialty Lending Fund  (OTCPK:FSEN) 5-Year Dividend Growth Rate Explanation

1. Dividend Payout Ratio measures the percentage of the company's earnings paid out as dividends.

FS Specialty Lending Fund's Dividend Payout Ratio for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2024 is calculated as

Dividend Payout Ratio=Dividends per Share (Q: Dec. 2024 )/ EPS without NRI (Q: Dec. 2024 )
=0.161/ 0.05
=3.22

During the past 11 years, the highest Dividend Payout Ratio of FS Specialty Lending Fund was 1.61. The lowest was 0.13. And the median was 0.27.

Warning Sign:

If a company's dividend payout ratio is too high, its dividend may not be sustainable. The dividend payout ratio of FS Specialty Lending Fund is 1.61, which seems too high.

2. Dividend Yield % measures how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price.

FS Specialty Lending Fund Recent Full-Year* Dividend History

Amount Ex-date Record Date Pay Date Type Frequency Forex Rate
USD 0.0068002025-01-232025-01-232025-01-24Cash DividendquarterlyUSD:USD 1.000000
USD 0.0753002024-12-192024-12-192025-01-02Cash DividendquarterlyUSD:USD 1.000000
USD 0.0853002024-10-182024-10-182024-10-21Cash DividendquarterlyUSD:USD 1.000000
USD 0.0867002024-07-222024-07-222024-07-23Cash DividendquarterlyUSD:USD 1.000000

* GuruFocus has an internal rule that if the most recent dividend payment frequency is at least 4 times a year, then the full year will be calculated according to the frequency of payment or the one-year time frame, whichever is stricter.
* GuruFocus converts dividend currency to local traded share price currency in order to calculate dividend yield. Please refer to the last column "Forex Rate" in the above table.

FS Specialty Lending Fund's Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as

Dividend Yield %=Most Recent Full Year Dividend/Current Share Price
=0.2541/2.1922
=11.59 %

Current Share Price is $2.1922.
FS Specialty Lending Fund's Dividends per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Today is $0.2541.

During the past 11 years, the highest Dividend Yield of FS Specialty Lending Fund was 5454.55%. The lowest was 0.58%. And the median was 6.32%.

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.


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FS Specialty Lending Fund Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
201 Rouse Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 19112
FS Specialty Lending Fund is a United States-based externally managed, non-diversified, closed-end management investment company. The company's investment objectives are to generate current income and, to a lesser extent, long-term capital appreciation by investing primarily in private and public credit in a broad set of industries, sectors, and sub-sectors. Its investment policy is to invest primarily in a portfolio of secured and unsecured floating and fixed rate loans, bonds, and other types of credit instruments, which, under normal circumstances, will represent at least eighty percent of the Company's total assets.

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