Carlyle Secured Lending, Inc. (CGBD)

Financials · NMS

$10.83-2.43% today

Price as at 30 Sept 2026, 16:59 UTC. Quotes are delayed.

Fundamentals

Market cap$726.24M
P/E ratio14.9
Dividend yield14.82%
Revenue growth (YoY)+16.8%
Profit margin19.5%
Return on equity4.4%
52-week range$9.95 to $13.28

Valuation and ratings

Fair value estimate$22.99
Upside to fair value+112.3%
Analyst target (mean)$12.36
Analyst range$10.00 to $14.00
Analysts with price targets7
Consensus viewbuy
Moat score59/100
Overall rating71/100, high quality

Fair value: $22.99 (+112.3%), see how we got there

Carlyle Secured Lending, Inc. trades at $10.83, which is 112% below the $22.99 our fair value estimate puts on the business. On that measure alone it screens as undervalued, though a valuation model is an argument rather than a measurement, and the market is frequently right about why something is cheap.

Our moat model scores it 59 out of 100, which is a moat, but not a deep one. A moat is a structural reason competitors cannot take the profits away, and it matters more to a long holding period than any single quarter's numbers do.

It changes hands at 14.9 times earnings. Be careful reading that in isolation: for a cyclical business a low P/E arrives at the top of the cycle, when profits are peaking and about to fall, which is exactly when the shares look cheapest and are not.

CGBD dividend history

Dividend yield14.82%
Paid, trailing 12 months$1.50 per share
Most recent payment$0.350, ex 30 Sept 2026
5-year growth (p.a.)+2.3%
Consecutive years paid9

Dividends per share by year

YearTotal per sharePayments
2026 (year to date)$1.103
2025$1.654
2024$1.874
2023$1.764
2022$1.644
2021$1.504
2020$1.474
2019$1.744
2018$1.684
2017$1.233

Split-adjusted amounts in the listing currency, grouped by the calendar year of the ex-dividend date, from the filed record. Growth and streak figures compare complete years only.

CGBD earnings and analyst estimates

EPS estimate, next year$1.41
Expected EPS growth+3.8%
Expected revenue growth+0.3%

Recommendation mix, 7 published ratings

3 buy3 hold1 sell

Estimates are the published analyst consensus and move often. An earnings date is scheduled, not certain, and a share tends to reprice most violently on the day itself.

About Carlyle Secured Lending, Inc.

Carlyle Secured Lending, Inc. is business development company specializing in first lien debt, senior secured loans, second lien senior secured loan unsecured debt, mezzanine debt and investments in equities. It specializes in directly investing. It specializes in middle market. It targets healthcare and pharmaceutical, aerospace and defense, high tech industries, business services, software, beverage food and tobacco, hotel gamming and leisure, banking finance insurance and in real estate sector. The fund seeks to invest across United States of America, Luxembourg, Cayman Islands, Cyprus, and United Kingdom. It invests in companies with EBITDA between $25 million and $100 million.

Industry: Asset ManagementHQ: United States

Company profile, industry and headcount are as reported by our data provider and can lag a company's own filings by a reporting period. The annual report is the authority.

CGBD passes 6 of our 30 screens today

Each screen prints the exact criteria it used, and the circumstances in which it is wrong.

Super investor ownership

3 of the funds we track reported a position in their latest SEC 13F filing. Largest first:

A word of warning on reading these figures: a 13F reports the market value of a holding, so a fund that traded nothing at all still appears to have sold when the price fell. We found 102 companies where the standard reading gives the opposite answer. Only the share count is honest.

CGBD peers

The largest companies in the same industry (Asset Management), then in the same sector.

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Common questions

Is Carlyle Secured Lending, Inc. (CGBD) undervalued?

Against our fair value estimate of $22.99, CGBD at $10.83 is 112% below fair value. That is one model's answer, not a recommendation. It is built from normalized earning power with growth capped deliberately low, which understates companies whose value is mostly future growth.

Which funds own CGBD?

3 of the institutions we track reported a position in CGBD in their most recent SEC 13F filing. A 13F is filed up to 45 days after quarter end, so it tells you what a fund held then, not what it holds now.

What is CGBD's P/E ratio?

CGBD trades at 14.9 times earnings. A low P/E is not automatically cheap: on a cyclical company it is usually a warning that earnings are at a peak.

Does Carlyle Secured Lending, Inc. (CGBD) pay a dividend?

Yes. Carlyle Secured Lending, Inc. yields 14.82% at the current share price. It has paid $1.50 per share over the trailing twelve months. It has paid a dividend in each of the last 9 complete calendar years. A dividend is declared by the board and can be cut at any time; a yield is a fact about the current price, not a promise.

Where does SteadyShares get its CGBD data?

Fundamentals for CGBD come from company filings and exchange data, as listed on NMS; institutional ownership comes from SEC 13F filings. The share price shown was last refreshed on 30 Sept 2026, 16:59 UTC and is delayed. Our data quality score for this company is 96/100, which is the share of the inputs behind our scores that were actually available rather than assumed. Metrics we do not hold are left out of the page rather than estimated.

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Data from company filings, exchange quotes and SEC EDGAR 13F disclosures. Quotes are delayed. Metrics we do not have are left out rather than estimated. Educational information, not financial advice.