Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund
General ticker "MSDL" information:
- Sector: Financials
- Industry: Financial - Conglomerates
- Capitalization: $1.4B (TTM average)
Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund follows the US Stock Market performance with the rate: 0.3%.
Estimated limits based on current volatility of 0.9%: low 14.53$, high 14.80$
Factors to consider:
- Company pays dividends (quarterly): last record date 2026-06-30, amount 0.45$ (Y12.22%)
- Top business risk factors: Interest rate risk, Market volatility, BDC constraints, Advisor dependency, Portfolio company exit failure
- Price in estimated range
- Earnings for 6 months up through Q2 exceed our estimates
Stock Forecast*
* forecast is subjective and experimental, should not be used for any investment decisions
Long term estimates were made for the period from 2025-12-31 to 2027-12-31
- 2025-12-31 to 2026-12-31 estimated range: [10.09$, 18.52$]
- 2026-12-31 to 2027-12-31 estimated range: [8.74$, 16.36$]
Financial Metrics affecting the MSDL estimates:
- Positive: with PPE of 8.4 at the end of fiscal year the price was neutral
- Positive: 8.77 < Operating cash flow per share per price, % of 10.29
- Positive: Operating profit margin, % of 66.69 > 33.79
- Positive: Inventory ratio change, % of 0 <= 0
- Negative: 4.56 < Interest expense per share per price, % of 9.28
- Positive: Industry inventory ratio change (median), % of 0 <= 0
- Negative: Investing cash flow per share per price, % of 0 <= 2.08
- Negative: negative Industry operating cash flow (median)
- Negative: negative Industry operating income (median)
Short-term MSDL quotes
Long-term MSDL plot with estimates
Financial data
| YTD | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 | 2025-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating Revenue | $328.13MM | $332.52MM | $386.99MM |
| Operating Expenses | $95.60MM | $114.52MM | $128.90MM |
| Operating Income | $232.53MM | $218.00MM | $258.09MM |
| Non-Operating Income | $0.00MM | $0.00MM | $-136.00MM |
| Interest Expense | $112.88MM | $122.93MM | $136.13MM |
| Income(Loss) | $232.53MM | $218.00MM | $122.09MM |
| Taxes | $1.52MM | $2.44MM | $0.00MM |
| Net Income(Loss)* | $231.01MM | $215.56MM | $122.09MM |
| Stockholders Equity | $1,721.15MM | $1,842.16MM | $1,748.09MM |
| Assets | $3,306.73MM | $3,912.02MM | $3,920.10MM |
| Operating Cash Flow | $-83.82MM | $-373.54MM | $150.90MM |
| Financing Cash Flow | $72.31MM | $376.19MM | $-132.90MM |
| Earnings Per Share** | $2.62 | $2.41 | $1.40 |
* Profit(Loss) attributable to entity.
** EPS are Split Adjusted, recent splits may be reflected with a delay.