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Sixth Street Specialty Lending (Sixth Street Specialty Lending) Graham Number : $31.57 (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Sixth Street Specialty Lending Graham Number?

Graham Number is a figure that measures a stock's fundamental value by taking into account the company's earnings per share and book value per share. The Graham number is the upper bound of the price range that a defensive investor should pay for the stock. According to the theory, any stock price below the Graham number is considered undervalued, and thus worth investing in.

As of today (2024-04-26), the stock price of Sixth Street Specialty Lending is $21.7324. Sixth Street Specialty Lending's graham number for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $31.57. Therefore, Sixth Street Specialty Lending's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 0.69.

The historical rank and industry rank for Sixth Street Specialty Lending's Graham Number or its related term are showing as below:

TSLX' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.64   Med: 0.71   Max: 0.81
Current: 0.69

During the past 13 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of Sixth Street Specialty Lending was 0.81. The lowest was 0.64. And the median was 0.71.

TSLX's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked better than
60.14% of 1124 companies
in the Asset Management industry
Industry Median: 0.77 vs TSLX: 0.69

Graham Number is a combination of asset valuation and earnings power valuation. It is a very conservative way of valuing a stock.


Sixth Street Specialty Lending Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Sixth Street Specialty Lending's Graham Number can be seen below:

* 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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Sixth Street Specialty Lending Graham Number Chart

Sixth Street Specialty Lending Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Graham Number
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 29.76 31.99 32.51 22.62 31.63

Sixth Street Specialty Lending Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
Graham Number Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 22.29 23.50 29.37 31.51 31.57

Competitive Comparison of Sixth Street Specialty Lending's Graham Number

For the Asset Management subindustry, Sixth Street Specialty Lending's Price-to-Graham-Number, along with its competitors' market caps and Price-to-Graham-Number 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.


Sixth Street Specialty Lending's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the Asset Management Industry

For the Asset Management industry and Financial Services sector, Sixth Street Specialty Lending's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Sixth Street Specialty Lending's Price-to-Graham-Number falls into.



Sixth Street Specialty Lending Graham Number Calculation

Graham Number is a concept based on Ben Graham's conservative valuation of companies.

Sixth Street Specialty Lending's Graham Number for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5* Tangible Book per Share *EPS without NRI)
=sqrt of (22.5*17.037*2.61)
=31.63

Sixth Street Specialty Lending's Graham Number for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5*Tangible Book per Share*EPS without NRI (TTM))
=sqrt of (22.5*17.037*2.6)
=31.57

* 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.


Sixth Street Specialty Lending  (NYSE:TSLX) Graham Number Explanation

Ben Graham actually did not publish a formula like this. But he wrote in The Intelligent Investor (1948 version) regarding to the criteria for purchases:

Current price should not be more than 15 times average earnings of the past three years.

Current price should not be more than 1.5 times the book value last reported. However, a multiplier of earnings below 15 could justify a correspondingly higher multiplier of assets. As a rule of thumb we suggest that the product of the multiplier times the ratio of price to book value should not exceed 22.5. (This figure corresponds to 15 times earnings and 1.5 times book value. It would admit an issue selling at only 9 times earnings and 2.5 times asset value, etc.)

Unlike valuation methods such as DCF or Discounted Earnings, the Graham number does not take growth into the valuation. Unlike the valuation methods based on book value alone, it takes into account the earnings power. Therefore, the Graham Number is a combination of asset valuation and earnings power valuation.

In general, the Graham number is a very conservative way of valuing a stock. It cannot be applied to companies with negative book values.

Sixth Street Specialty Lending's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Dec. 2023 )
=21.7324/31.57
=0.69

* 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.


Be Aware

Please keep these in mind:

1. Graham Number does not take growth into account. Therefore it underestimates the values of the companies that have good earnings growth. We feel that if the earnings per share grows more than 10% a year, Graham Number underestimates the value.
2. Graham Number punishes the companies that have temporarily low earnings. Therefore, an average of earnings makes more sense in the calculation of Graham Number.
3. Graham Numbers underestimates companies that are light with book.


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Sixth Street Specialty Lending (Sixth Street Specialty Lending) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
2100 McKinney Avenue, Suite 1500, Dallas, TX, USA, 75201
Sixth Street Specialty Lending Inc is a specialty finance company focused on providing flexible, fully committed financing solutions to middle market companies located in the united states of america. It partners with companies across a variety of industries and excel at providing creative solutions to companies with complex business models that may have limited access to capital. The company seeks to generate income in U.S.-domiciled middle-market companies through direct originations of interest income from the investments we hold. In addition, we may generate income from dividends on equity investments, capital gains on the sale of investments and various loan origination and other fees.
Executives
P Emery Covington director 2100 MCKINNEY AVENUE, SUITE 1500, DALLAS TX 75201
Hurley Doddy director 301 COMMERCE STREET, SUITE 3300, FORT WORTH TX 76102
Michael Graf officer: Principal Accounting Officer 301 COMMERCE STREET, FORT WORTH TX 76102
Anton Brett officer: Chief Compliance Officer C/O SIXTH STREET PARTNERS, LLC, 2100 MCKINNEY AVENUE, SUITE 1500, DALLAS TX 75201
Steven Pluss officer: Vice President C/O TPG GLOBAL, LLC, 301 COMMERCE STREET, FORT WORTH TX 76102
Joshua Peck officer: Vice President C/O SIXTH STREET PARTNERS, LLC, 2100 MCKINNEY AVENUE, SUITE 1500, DALLAS TX 75201
Jennifer Gordon officer: Chief Compliance Officer C/O TPG GLOBAL, 301 COMMERCE STREET, SUITE 3300, FORT WORTH TX 76102
Ian Simmonds officer: Chief Financial Officer 301 COMMERCE STREET, FORT WORTH TX 76102
Judy S Slotkin director 888 PARK AVENUE, NEW YORK NY 10021
Richard A Higginbotham director FLEETBOSTON FINANCIAL CORP, 100 FEDERAL STREET, BOSTON MA 02110
Joshua Easterly director, officer: Vice President 301 COMMERCE STREET, SUITE 3300, FORT WORTH TX 76102
John Ross director 830 PARK AVENUE, APARTMENT 11B, NEW YORK NY 10021
Kenneth Joseph Burke officer: Chief Compliance Officer 301 COMMERCE STREET, SUITE 3300, FORT WORTH TX 76102
Robert J. Stanley officer: President 301 COMMERCE STREET, FORT WORTH TX 76102
Ronald Tanemura director 1010 36TH AVENUE EAST, SEATTLE WA 98112

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