Focus of Article:
The focus of this article is to analyze Oaktree Specialty Lending’s (OCSL) results for the fiscal fourth quarter of 2018 and compare the company’s performance over the trailing twelve months (“TTM”). First, this article analyzes OCSL’s income statement (technically speaking the company’s “consolidated statement of operations”) for the three months ended 12/31/2017, 3/31/2018, 6/30/2018, and 9/30/2018. This includes an analysis of OCSL’s net investment income (“NII”) and earnings per share (“EPS”) (also known as “net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations”). This also includes a comparison