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OCSL Income Quality Score

Oaktree Specialty Lending Corporation (OCSL) has an Income Quality Score of 57/100, classified as a Question Mark with high confidence, based on a 10-year income and total-return history.

Oaktree Specialty Lending Corporation (OCSL) is a business development company (BDC) and is part of the IQ Score universe.

July 2026 snapshotAs of June 30, 2026Lookback: 10-year
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Long-term focused10-year income and total-return analysis
Data-drivenObjective scoring across 7 quality, distribution and risk signals
Clear classificationFriends to own. Foes to avoid.
IQ Score
57/100
Question MarkHigh confidence
Asset Type
BDC
Exchange
NASDAQ
Trailing Yield (TTM)
12.9%
Rank in BDC Universe
14 of 44
Lookback
10-year
Data as of
June 30, 2026
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This is the public July 2026 snapshot. Public snapshots are delayed and frozen: once released, a month's scores do not change, and current data is reserved for members. The July 2026 snapshot is published as the public launch snapshot.
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OCSLOaktree Specialty Lending Corporation
57Question MarkHigh confidence
Snapshot
2026-06
Data as of
2026-06-30
Lookback
10-year
Asset type
Business Development Company

IQ Score History

Not enough published history yet to draw a trend.

Signals & Drivers

IQ signal scores

Each signal is normalised to 0–100 and combined by weight into the overall IQ Score.

Economic Payout Coverage
77/100
Distribution Cut Score
40/100
Distribution Trend
27/100
Total Return
58/100
Max Drawdown
47/100
Volatility
65/100
Yield Consistency
61/100

What is working

  • Economic return covers long-term payout

What to watch

  • 1–2 years with a material annual distribution decline

Distribution Safety

7Years raised
2Years cut
19Years of data
CutCurrent trend

High confidence (10-year history)

  1. 20081.01Held
  2. 20090.77Lower total
  3. 20101.1466Raised
  4. 20111.1726Raised
  5. 20121.1496Lower total
  6. 20131.1038Lower total
  7. 20141.0332Lower total
  8. 20150.6917Lower total
  9. 20160.72Raised
  10. 20170.41Cut
  11. 20180.37Lower total
  12. 20190.38Held
  13. 20200.405Raised
  14. 20210.55Raised
  15. 20220.815Raised
  16. 20232.27Raised
  17. 20242.2Lower total
  18. 20251.69Cut
  19. 20260.74Partial year

Distributions per year, from the frozen distribution-stability signal. “Lower total” means the calendar-year sum was smaller than the prior year (often a special-distribution rolloff or timing shift), but did not decline more than the engine's 10% material-decline threshold — see Years Cut above for years that did.

The IQ Score is a research classification of historical income quality. It is not investment advice, not a recommendation and not a prediction of future returns.

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