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Q4 2014 Earnings Call· Thu, Feb 26, 2015

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Operator

Operator

Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Solar Capital Ltd. Earnings Conference Call for the Quarter and Year Ended 31st of December 2014. My name is Karen, I will be your event operator for today. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this call is being recorded for replay purposes. I would now like to turn the call over to Michael Gross, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Please go ahead, sir.

Michael S. Gross

Analyst

Thank you very much, and good morning. Welcome to Solar Capital Ltd.'s Earnings Call for the Quarter and Year Ended December 31, 2014. I'm joined here today by Bruce Spohler, our Chief Operating Officer; and Richard Peteka, our Chief Financial Officer. Before we begin, Rich, please start off by covering the webcast and forward-looking statements.

Richard L. Peteka

Analyst

Certainly. Thanks, Michael. I'd like to remind everyone that today's call and webcast are being recorded. Please note that they are the property of Solar Capital Ltd. and that any unauthorized broadcasts, in any form, are strictly prohibited. This conference call is being webcast on our website at www.solarcapltd.com. Audio replays of this call will be made available later today as disclosed in our earnings press release. I'd also like to call your attention to the customary disclosures in our press release regarding forward-looking information. Statements made in today's conference call and webcast may constitute forward-looking statements, which relate to future events or our future performance or financial condition. These statements are not guarantees of our future performance, financial condition or results and involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially as a result of a number of factors, including those described from time to time in our filings with the SEC. Solar Capital Ltd. undertakes no duty to update any forward-looking statements, unless required to do so by law. To obtain copies of our latest SEC filings, please visit our website or call us at (212) 993-1670. At this time, I'd like to turn the call back to our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Michael Gross.

Michael S. Gross

Analyst

Thank you, Rich. This month marked our fifth anniversary as a public company. Since our team made its first investment, we have consistently operated in adherence to the core tenets of our management philosophy. We invest for the long-term perspective, we pursue long-term initiatives, we act as partners to our clients in order to maintain their trust and deepen our long-term relationships with them and we are aligned with our fellow shareholders through our long-term ownership of Solar shares. With that in mind, I'd like to take a few minutes to highlight how our long-term perspective has benefited Solar Capital since we went public. At the time of our IPO in February 2010, our pro forma net asset value per share at December 31, 2009, was $21.50 compared to our current NAV per share of $22.05 on December 31, 2014. Over the course of the past 5 years, we've paid out a total of $10.54 per share in dividends. And based on last night's closing stock price, which represents an 11% discount to current net asset value, shareholders who've held our stock since the IPO, have realized a total return of 63% and an IRR annualized of 13%. Since our IPO, we've maintained a conservative approach to growth. On a cost basis, our investment portfolio is only up marginally from its size at the time of our IPO debut. Based solely on investment conditions, we have adjusted leverage and the size of our portfolio. We have not grown our asset base with the aim of increasing the fee stream to the manager. In fact, our fees in 2014 were lower than any other year in our history as a public company. As credit market conditions have changed over the course of this cycle, we have shifted our portfolio to a…

Richard L. Peteka

Analyst

Thank you, Michael. Solar Capital Ltd.'s net asset value at December 31, 2014, was $936.6 million or $22.05 per share compared to $948.7 million or $22.34 per share at September 30. At December 31, our investment portfolio had a fair market value of $1.02 billion in 43 portfolio companies in 23 industries compared to a fair market value of $1.13 billion in 47 portfolio companies in 31 industries at September 30, 2014. For the 3 months ended December 31, gross investment income totaled $32.9 million versus $28.4 million for the 3 months ended September. Expenses totaled $16.2 million for the 3 months compared to $12 million for the 3 months ended September 30. Accordingly, the company's net investment income for the 3 months ended December 31, 2014, totaled $16.8 million or $0.40 per average share versus $16.4 million or $0.39 per average share for the 3 months ended September 30. Net realized and unrealized losses for the fourth quarter 2014 totaled approximately $11.9 million versus the net realized and unrealized loss of $3.6 million for the third quarter 2014. Ultimately, the company had a net increase in net assets resulting from operations of $4.9 million or $0.11 per average share for the 3 months ended December 31. This compares to $12.8 million or $0.30 per average share for the 3 months ended September 30, 2014. At this time, I'd like to turn the call over to our Chief Operating Officer, Bruce Spohler.

Bruce J. Spohler

Analyst

Thank you, Rich. During the fourth quarter of 2014, the high yield and liquid leverage loan markets experienced fund outflows, which resulted in spread widening. Our middle-market business benefited from the weakness in the liquid markets, predominantly in the form of better covenants on new issues. The degradation of secondary trading levels, driven in large part by the decline in oil prices, is not reflective of the financial condition of our portfolio companies. Overall, our issuers are experiencing stable to modest EBITDA growth. Furthermore, we have no direct exposure to the oil and gas sector. At December 31, the weighted average yield on our income-producing investment portfolio, when measured at fair value was 9.9%. The weighted average investment risk, weighting of our total portfolio remained at approximately 2, measured at fair market value, based on our 1 to 4 risk rating scale, with 1 representing the least amount of risk. Our 2 investments on nonaccrual account for less than 1% of the portfolio at fair value, with the other 99-plus percent of our portfolio performing at or above our expectations. At the end of the fourth quarter, our portfolio consisted of 43 companies operating across 28 industries. When measured at fair value, our portfolio was comprised of roughly 59% senior secured loans, 29% Crystal Financial, 7% subordinated debt, 2% preferred equity and 2.5% in other common equity and warrants. When including Crystal Financial's full portfolio, which consists entirely of senior secured loans, approximately 90% of our portfolio is in senior secured investments. At December 31, approximately 88% of our income-producing portfolio was floating rate, including Crystal's full portfolio. Now let me give you a quick update on Crystal. Crystal, which provides asset-based and other secured financing solutions to midmarket companies, had a very strong quarter. At December 31, Crystal had…

Michael S. Gross

Analyst

Thank you, Bruce. Now that we've covered our recent quarter and our path, I'd like to wrap up by discussing our future. We believe that our philosophy of managing the business for the long-term perspective has positioned us well for a successful 2015 and beyond. We believe our current portfolio is the highest quality it's been. Its predominantly senior secured floating rate construction should provide protection if the economic environment declines and/or interest rates rise. With only 2 troubled assets that have a de minimis fair market value and no direct exposure to the oil and gas industry, we are confident in our ability to preserve our book value. With the addition of the ability to provide unitranche loans through our SSLP, our core underwriting business is primed for another strong year of originations. We anticipate the additional cylinder of origination engine, Crystal Financial, and our life science venture lending business to continue to increase their contribution to our earnings. We have ample dry powder, without raising additional equity to fuel our originations business and strategic initiatives as well as to take advantage of any market dislocations that may occur. At year end, we had $145 million in cash and $490 million available on our credit facility subject to borrowing limitations. In conclusion, while our Q1 net investment income will reflect a lower portfolio balance as we reinvest the fourth quarter's heavy repayments, we are excited about our current opportunity set. Our conservative long-term oriented philosophy has positioned us to be on the offensive at the time when others may have to take a defensive approach. We are confident in our ability to cover our dividend and are optimistic about our prospects for increasing it in the future as we use our multi-cylinder [ph] sourcing engine to grow net investment income with a current substantial available capital. At 11:00 this morning, we'll be hosting earnings call for the quarter end 2014 results of Solar Senior Capital or SUNS to report a strong fourth quarter results. Our ability to provide senior secured financing through this vehicle continues to enhance our origination team's ability to meet our clients' capital needs and we continue to see benefit to the value proposition in Solar Capital's deal flow. We appreciate your time this morning. Operator, will you please open up the line for questions?

Operator

Operator

[Operator Instructions] Your first question comes from the line of Greg Mason of KBW. Greg M. Mason - Keefe, Bruyette, & Woods, Inc., Research Division: The biggest issue over the last 18 months has been the significant repayments versus the new originations. You just painted, I think, a pretty favorable outlook for 2015. As we think about that $600 plus million of available capital, how much of that are you guys hoping or anticipating to be able to put to work on a net basis in 2015?

Bruce J. Spohler

Analyst

Yes, I think you're correct. The first part of that equation, Greg, is obviously the repayment activity. And I think in both '13 and '14, we saw an excess of $600 million per year come back. As I mentioned, this quarter, we have less than $5 million of repayments and no visibility on any meaningful repayments for the rest of the year. It doesn't mean we won't see one later in the year, but nothing we see sitting here today. So I think that's a significant part, obviously, of the math. Our origination path, as you know, historically, has been in the $100 million to $150 million a quarter. On average, it's been north of $500 million a year. Q1 can be a light quarter, as we touched on, for this year and I think in prior years as well. But I think we feel extremely well positioned because unlike the prior years, we have multiple growth engines, not only our core sponsor business but, as Michael mentioned, the PIMCO joint venture, Crystal, which obviously joined our platform at the end of 2012, and now life science venture lending platform that we're ramping up. So we feel extremely well positioned. As you know, we find the right opportunities as we did in Q3 of last year, where we had elevated origination level. We'd be happy to deploy all of this capital this year, but we're going to be prudent in doing so. Greg M. Mason - Keefe, Bruyette, & Woods, Inc., Research Division: Great. And then on the joint venture with PIMCO, you said you expect your first investment to be in the second quarter. How do you view kind of the timing of that versus your -- when you originally did the deal? Is this taking longer than expected or in line with expectations? And just kind of the view of once you get that close kind of the ramp-up phase after that first deal is done?

Bruce J. Spohler

Analyst

Yes, I think that, to be honest with you, it's consistent with what we had anticipated. We opened the doors on this at the beginning of Q4, as you know. And the team has been out there getting the word out that we have this product in our arsenal. We touched on before, the strategic benefit of the product is significant. And what I mean by that is, when sponsors are evaluating how to best finance a potential platform investment for themselves, they evaluate multiple financing structures, first lien, second lien, bank debt, mezzanine and unitranche. And so having that product offering gets us invited to more opportunities and gives us more looks, widening out our origination funnel. But at the end of the day, we can't direct which capital structure they decide to go with. And so what I would say is that we've seen more things. [Audio Gap] Second lien investments, we saw in Q4, were directly the result of having had a unitranche, where a sponsor originally considered that as a financing structure. So, so long as it is accretive... [Audio Gap] It's obviously extremely beneficial regardless of which asset gets funded. Having said that, we are actively out there offering the unitranche product on multiple situations and are optimistic that we'll begin to ramp that this year. Greg M. Mason - Keefe, Bruyette, & Woods, Inc., Research Division: Okay, great. And then one final question, DirectBuy, the new nonaccrual. You've got a 53% of par on nonaccrual status. One of your peers has the exact same loan, I believe at 76% at par and still on accrual status. So could you just maybe give us a little commentary on DirectBuy and what at least appears to us to be -- at least a relatively conservative view towards that investment?

Bruce J. Spohler

Analyst

Yes, I think you sum it up correctly. It is a conservative perspective. As you know, this is -- all investments are meaningful to us. But this is in the context of our $1 billion portfolio, somewhat de minimis at just over $8 million at face value. Fair value, obviously is closer to $4 million. I will say that we have a smaller position so we are not on the board the way some of our peers are, and they may, hopefully, have better information. We love their mark to be closer to realizable value, but we are reflecting conservatism.

Operator

Operator

Your next question comes from the line of Rick Shane of JPMorgan. Richard B. Shane - JP Morgan Chase & Co, Research Division: We've seen an interesting dislocation in the market in terms of the BDCs were having reduced access to capital. You guys are well positioned. You're not the only one who's well positioned, but you are well positioned in terms of liquidity versus a number of your peers. Are you seeing this start to impact the competitive landscape in any way? Are you seeing the opportunity to drive better deal terms as some of your peers are more cautious with their capital?

Bruce J. Spohler

Analyst

I think everybody that we respect in the sector is prudent about their capital management, so that they can continue to be in business. What we are seeing is people more willing to share on assets, which does broaden our funnel, obviously, as we are a likely partner in many of these opportunities. So I think from that perspective, we're back to a couple of years ago, to some extent, where people are more willing to club things up: A, to preserve their capital; and B, to provide the issuer multiple capital sources as they look to expand their operations and need more funding.

Michael S. Gross

Analyst

And I think from a pricing structure, I think things have stabilized.

Operator

Operator

The next question comes from the line of Chris York of JMP Securities.

Christopher York - JMP Securities LLC, Research Division

Analyst

Just a follow-up on the DirectBuy question. When did you guys recognize that as a nonaccrual?

Michael S. Gross

Analyst

In Q4.

Christopher York - JMP Securities LLC, Research Division

Analyst

Yes, which month?

Michael S. Gross

Analyst

It took effect -- it went retroactive the entire quarter.

Richard L. Peteka

Analyst

Right, there was no income.

Michael S. Gross

Analyst

There's no income at all from it for the quarter.

Operator

Operator

Your next question comes from the line of Doug Mewhirter of SunTrust.

Douglas Mewhirter - SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc., Research Division

Analyst

A couple of quick questions. First, with the disruption in the liquid markets, have you considered any opportunities to find some mispriced, or pieces of mispriced liquid loans to put some capital to work? I know that's not really your core thing, but sometimes things can get blown out of wack and there might be some opportunities on the trading desk, so to speak?

Michael S. Gross

Analyst

I think a couple of comments to that. One is on -- it doesn't really follow our philosophy of directly underwriting loans. Those would be more of a kind of a trading opportunity, if you will. And to be frank, given where we are on our invested capital, the only beneficiary of a trade of like that is also the asset manager because we're in the catch-up phase of our earnings. And so that's just not something we would do. Also, the liquid market continues to have highly compromise structures and complete lack of covenants.

Bruce J. Spohler

Analyst

One thing I would add, what we have seen is in some of our club year transaction, in fact, the earlier question of one of your peers, people are more willing to maybe allow us to buy a little bit more of an existing position trading amongst club members as they're trying to allocate their capital. So we've seen a little bit of that around the edges.

Douglas Mewhirter - SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc., Research Division

Analyst

Okay, very helpful. Second question, pretty quick question. Your life sciences venture lending, is the average turn -- term of the loan shorter or longer, or about the same as your core business?

Bruce J. Spohler

Analyst

The stated maturity of the loans typically is around 5 years. But they do, unlike our traditional loans, have amortization after a year or 2 period. And so on average, I would say, you probably get back to the same sort of 3-year average life. You just get there differently.

Douglas Mewhirter - SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc., Research Division

Analyst

Okay. Yes, because I heard that there's a little bit more churn in that market, given that the VC funding is so dynamic. My last question, about Crystal, you had it since, again, the end of -- for, I guess, a couple of years now. And it's kind of growing in fits and starts, but you seem to be a little bit more confident in its outlook to grow for the whole year even though quarterly fluctuations can be wide. Is there something changed in their business where you're feeling a little more confident now? The language -- because your language seemed to have shifted versus what -- the way you've talked about that business, say, last year.

Bruce J. Spohler

Analyst

Yes, I would say Crystal's business thrives particularly in periods of greater volatility because what they predominantly offer is certainty of funding amongst other things. And I think that what we saw in Q4 was fewer repayments and portfolio churns. You may recall, 2013, 80%-plus of their portfolio turned. So you're correct, it is a high-velocity portfolio. But the churns slows down in periods of volatility and the origination effort is that much more effective. And so I think it really goes to, as you've seen, the portfolio has grown to just under $500 million. I think if we collectively underwrite additional volatility this year, you'll see growth. If not, you'll see churn. But as you know, their economic model is such that they generate significant fee income as a result of the churn. So we're happy either way, but I think it really goes to one's underlying assumption of volatility.

Operator

Operator

Your next question comes from the line of Andrew Kerai of The BDC Income Fund.

Andrew Kerai

Analyst

I was just wondering maybe if you could give a little bit more color, I guess, on the -- what you're seeing out there in the market in terms of -- so obviously, as you had alluded to, right? Most of the BDC universe is at target leverage given that the majority of the universe is trading below NAV. Growth is likely to slow. I mean have you seen that impacting either the rate, the leverage attachment point or both on your new deals? It just seems like sort of you're gearing up for, as you put it, kind of offense in growth mode. Just wondering if you're seeing any change in dynamic from a pricing and underwriting standpoint?

Bruce J. Spohler

Analyst

Yes, in Q4, we clearly did. You need volume in order to see these impacts. And we did see good volume in Q4 of activity, both at Solar and Solar Senior. And so you saw pricing, I would say, widen out on average, maybe 50 basis points. And more importantly, from where we sit, we saw leverage ratios come in a little bit and structures get a little bit more attractive from our perspective. It's a little bit early to say whether that continued because this has been a slow start to the year, as you often see in the deal business, given the elevated activity in Q4 as people try to drive closings. So we're cautiously optimistic, but I think to Michael's commentary, we're not just relying on the core sponsor business to drive that growth for us. We've created less correlated growth engines in the form of Crystal, which is not dependent on or susceptible to what's going on with the liquid credit markets to the same extent as well as our life science business, which is also a bit of a niche business. And so we tried to diversify our origination efforts, but I think broadly speaking, we do think we're well positioned. We just can't control the level of M&A activity out there.

Andrew Kerai

Analyst

Sure. No, that certainly makes a lot of sense. And then how should we -- just given that you're ramping up, right, to JV with PIMCO, which tends to be sort of a mid-teens type of target IRR for you guys. How should we think about the portfolio yield as we move along in 2015 here?

Michael S. Gross

Analyst

Well, as you saw in Q4, the new originations [ph] were about 9.9? And we think about our growth, I'm glad you brought this up. The JV is low to mid-double digits; life science, is 11-ish percent on an unlevered basis; Crystal, [indiscernible] 11-plus percent returns. So I think we would expect the overall yields and return to go up as those strategies grow.

Andrew Kerai

Analyst

Sure. No, I think that makes sense. And then -- and I think the last question that I had was just on the origination side. So certainly appreciate the color on the repayments coming in. I mean, it seems like from your commentary that I'm not sure if I was reading this correctly, but it seemed like maybe origination levels would be modestly higher compared to 2014? Or is it just that the origination levels themselves on a gross basis might be relatively constant, it's just that the driver of the net portfolio growth is coming from the payout? Just any color on your outlook for gross originations.

Michael S. Gross

Analyst

I think, as you know, we never had been in the habit of projecting originations. So we kind of point to history. So last year, we did about $550 million of originations, $50 million of that was in the life science business. None of it was in the SSLP. So I think we view it, the PIMCO program, as totally incremental and we expect the growth in life science to be more than $50 million this year. So assuming we're in a kind of similar environment to last year, our originations should exceed last year.

Bruce J. Spohler

Analyst

And the net portfolio growth will be significantly benefited, we believe, today by significant reduction of repayments.

Operator

Operator

Your next question comes from the line of Casey Alexander of Gilford Securities.

Casey J. Alexander - Gilford Securities Inc., Research Division

Analyst

You reported for the quarter $11.9 million of realized and unrealized loss. How much was realized versus unrealized?

Richard L. Peteka

Analyst

About 6.7%. That's broken out in our income statement, but it's about 6.7%, on the realized side.

Casey J. Alexander - Gilford Securities Inc., Research Division

Analyst

Yes, it's okay. I'm sorry I missed it. Secondly, you report 88% senior secured. Can you break that into first and second lien?

Bruce J. Spohler

Analyst

What I would say is that when you look through with Crystal's portfolio on a consolidated basis, close to 2/3 of the portfolio is first lien.

Casey J. Alexander - Gilford Securities Inc., Research Division

Analyst

Okay, that's very helpful. And lastly, while you don't have much of any exposure to oil and gas now, that doesn't mean that there might not be opportunities in the future. Have you seen anybody coming to you with recap ideas or things that might carry a good rate with good covenants, and potentially, good equity kickers to it?

Bruce J. Spohler

Analyst

What I would say is we're not taking credit for being smarter than others by not having energy exposure. We've never had any energy exposure in our portfolios because we don't have a team dedicated to the sector, and don't feel that we have the expertise as a lender to focus on the sectors. And that continues to be the case and it's something that we evaluate constantly as to whether we should be adding that expertise. But I think until we feel that we have sector expertise, which obviously recent volatility has proven out is important, if not essential, I think we're going to stay on the sidelines.

Operator

Operator

Your next question comes from the line on Jon Bock of Wells Securities.

Jonathan Gerald Bock - Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Research Division

Analyst

Michael and Bruce, regarding the JV, can you give us a sense of the limiting factors of the speed at which it can be deployed? So if we look at the credit facility or what's in place, are there governors to the pace of growth depending on what you want to do? We understand that it's, particularly for you guys, going to be a target-rich environment. And I'm just wondering how you can maybe expound upon maybe some of the limitations that might govern the speed at which you deploy, what is a very attractive asset?

Michael S. Gross

Analyst

There are no structural limitations at all. Frankly, just finding good solid investments that meet our risk-reward that we're able to win.

Jonathan Gerald Bock - Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Research Division

Analyst

Okay. So then moving on from that, when you offer your unitranche product offering, can you give us a sense of the fee structures -- or excuse me, the upfront fees that are charged as part of that product offering? Would you expect to generate a certain amount of upfront fee income off of that vehicle?

Michael S. Gross

Analyst

As you know, our policy is that we amortize any upfront fees over the life of the loan. So you won't see an upfront benefit from that. And it's no different than existing loan. We get 1 point, 1.5 points, maybe 2 points if we're lucky. 2 points and that would be amortized over 5 or 6 years. So you're not going to see a huge ramp-up in NII because of a paid origination increasing.

Bruce J. Spohler

Analyst

I would just add that the limiting factor is not competing with other unitranche. Generally speaking, there's an ability to club together as we're seeing larger and larger unitranche. What we don't control, however, as I mentioned before, is whether the sponsor elects unitranche versus a first lien, second lien. And unitranche, as you know, has only been around the last couple of years. Not every sponsor likes it depending on the stage of development for their underlying portfolio of companies. So I would actually say that is the biggest determinant. We just can't control whether they're going to select the unitranche versus some other form of capital structure. But as it relates to the credit facility, we have one available, it just hasn't been economically prudent to close it and pay those fees until we start funding into the joint venture.

Jonathan Gerald Bock - Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Research Division

Analyst

Got it. And then one last question, and I apologize if it's been asked in one iteration or another previously. When we look at second lien exposure, I understand that you outline credits that are senior secured, but we and the market, understands that there may, in fact, be a difference between what is a first lien secured loan and what is a second lien secured loan, of which you do have a healthy amount of second lien exposure. I don't want to necessarily want to opine good or bad. I just want to understand that at a point when people automatically associate second lien with risk, heightened risk at that, given where we were in the credit cycle, how do you answer whether or not now is a time to be exposed to such an asset class like second lien debt? Because I know a lot of us would be interested in the answer.

Bruce J. Spohler

Analyst

Sure. Great question. I think if you look at our portfolio on a consolidated basis, whether it's Crystal Capital, which is all first lien assets, whether it's -- how we're going to look to grow out the unitranche, which as you know is dollar one risk first lien as well; life sciences, which is first lien. On a consolidated basis at 12/31, as I mentioned earlier, in excess of 60% of the portfolio is first lien. So then when you get to our second lien exposure, as you know, we don't believe all assets -- or all second lien assets are created equally. And what I mean by that is the predominance of our second lien investments are directly originated underwritten transactions, where we control -- are either the only 1 or 1 of 2 lenders, and we have full covenant packages. There have been a small asset or 2 in the books, where we participated in a secondary transaction -- I'm sorry, or a liquid transaction because it's a business that we've underwritten in the past, such as Asurion or such as TierPoint. But those are small positions. Again, there are things that we've been underwriting for a number of years. The predominance of our second lien investments are directly originated and have full covenants. And we think those are, therefore, higher quality. And I would add, you look at our most significant repayment in Q4 was a business called Tecomet, which was a second lien investment, which totally appreciate from your vantage point, you wouldn't really know the underlying fundamentals. Well, we made that investment in Q4 of 2013, got repaid within 12 months and realized an IRR in excess of 17%. Why? We believe because it was a directly originated second lien transaction.

Operator

Operator

Your next question comes from Mickey Schleien of Ladenburg. Mickey M. Schleien - Ladenburg Thalmann & Co. Inc., Research Division: I realize we're running out of time because of the other call. But just quickly then, spreads look like they were pretty attractive in the fourth quarter. We certainly see that in the SUNS results, but they've tightened dramatically this quarter, so far. So I'd like to get your sense of how you feel about the market today?

Bruce J. Spohler

Analyst

Yes. Again, I think that, Mickey, there hasn't been a lot of activity. I think, in the liquid market as well, but clearly, you can see from secondary trading levels, to your point, spreads have tightened back. But fortunately because we're playing in the direct originated market, we're really not seeing a material shift because I think that Solar Capital, whether it's stretch first or second lien, that's not where you're seeing spreads tighten. Spreads have tightened predominantly in the first lien liquid loan market. So we haven't seen much of a trickle-down effect yet. As you know, it takes a little bit of time to create a trend in this market. Mickey M. Schleien - Ladenburg Thalmann & Co. Inc., Research Division: Right. I wanted to move on to dividend income. Crystal's dividend to Solar was more or less stable quarter-to-quarter. But overall, dividend income was up sharply from the third quarter to fourth quarter. Can you tell me what drove that?

Richard L. Peteka

Analyst

Yes. Mickey, I think the dividends were -- we had a little bit more maybe, but dividend income was pretty stable from Crystal. Mickey M. Schleien - Ladenburg Thalmann & Co. Inc., Research Division: Yes, I said that. I understand. But total income, total dividend income was up sharply from the third quarter to the fourth quarter. So something else paid a large dividend to Solar unless I'm doing the math wrong.

Richard L. Peteka

Analyst

Yes. I mean, we get some dividends from our aircraft. So it could be $1 million there. Hold on, let me take a look. Do you have any other questions like [indiscernible] Mickey M. Schleien - Ladenburg Thalmann & Co. Inc., Research Division: Yes, one is just sort of a fine-tuning question. I saw in the statement of changes in that assets that $2 million from other sources for distributions. Was that a return of capital or something else?

Richard L. Peteka

Analyst

It was due to some timing differences. Mickey, I'll look up the dividends and get back to you offline. I just don't have that detail with me.

Operator

Operator

Your last question comes from Randy Rochman [ph] of Yes [ph].

Unknown Analyst

Analyst

I had 2 questions, but one's already been answered. So the remaining question is the following: given the consistency of the production out of Crystal and the tightening spreads we've seen globally, what do you think the value -- I mean, how much more is Crystal worth than what you guys bought it for?

Michael S. Gross

Analyst

Look, we always carry our values conservatively. Let's put it this way. We would never sell it for anywhere close to what we bought it for or anywhere close to where it's marked today. It's just a great recurring earnings stream for us with a phenomenal management team. And it's a business that -- it's somewhat kind of cyclical. When we do hit a rough spot in the economy, we will see a lot more portfolio growth out of these guys because their capital becomes more needed. So look, we think there's a lot of upside here. We have no intent to ever sell it, so we don't really focus kind of on what the market value is per se.

Unknown Analyst

Analyst

Okay. And then 1 follow-on question. If you add up the unrealized loss mark that the portfolio has incurred for the 99-point-change percent that's all performing, what do you think that aggregates?

Michael S. Gross

Analyst

In dollar, penny per share?

Unknown Analyst

Analyst

Yes, pennies per share.

Michael S. Gross

Analyst

Well, we were down -- our net [ph] was down what for the quarter?

Richard L. Peteka

Analyst

34 to 205, so 29.

Michael S. Gross

Analyst

So we're down...

Richard L. Peteka

Analyst

1%.

Michael S. Gross

Analyst

1%. So essentially, the vast majority of the mark changes were really technical changes, given the choppiness in the market in the fourth quarter. So you saw, not withstanding my comments on Crystal, we did move the value of Crystal down a little bit because we are -- the valuation firm focuses on more on computer [ph] trading. We think those are all kind of temporary marked to marks, given the choppiness of the market and we'll come back into NAV at some future point in time.

Richard L. Peteka

Analyst

And I think the only technical -- fundamental market is the DirectBuy.

Michael S. Gross

Analyst

That's correct.

Richard L. Peteka

Analyst

That's $2.5 million. The rest was all fundamental. Technical, excuse me.

Unknown Analyst

Analyst

I'm just trying to figure out what [indiscernible]. Your originated loan in 98, you're accreting a discount. But now it's -- you're carrying it at 96. We all know it's money good. I'm just trying to figure out what the aggregation of all those 96 to 98s are.

Richard L. Peteka

Analyst

Maybe on the balance sheet on the bottom in the equity section there's a net unrealized there.

Michael S. Gross

Analyst

We can walk you through it offline. I'm happy to do it.

Operator

Operator

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. I would now like to turn the call over to Michael Gross for the time closing remarks. Thank you.

Michael S. Gross

Analyst

Thank you very much. We appreciate all your time, and hopefully, we'll entertain many of you in the next 3 minutes on SUNS call, where we talk about all the positive elements we experienced in the fourth quarter.

Operator

Operator

Thank you for your patience and for your participation in today's conference call. This concludes the presentation. You may now disconnect. Thank you, and have a very good day.