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MSDL (Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund) Intrinsic Value: Projected FCF : $0.00 (As of May. 30, 2025)


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What is Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund Intrinsic Value: Projected FCF?

Since the intrinsic value calculations based on Discounted Cash Flow Intrinsic Value: DCF (FCF Based), or Discounted Earnings Intrinsic Value: DCF (Earnings Based) cannot be applied to companies without consistent revenue and earnings, GuruFocus developed a valuation model based on normalized Free Cash Flow and Book Value of the company. The details of how we calculate the intrinsic value of stocks are described in detail here.

As of today (2025-05-30), Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund's Intrinsic Value: Projected FCF is $0.00. The stock price of Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund is $19.75. Therefore, Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund's Price-to-Intrinsic-Value-Projected-FCF of today is 0.0.

The historical rank and industry rank for Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund's Intrinsic Value: Projected FCF or its related term are showing as below:

MSDL's Price-to-Projected-FCF is not ranked *
in the Asset Management industry.
Industry Median: 0.84
* Ranked among companies with meaningful Price-to-Projected-FCF only.

Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund Intrinsic Value: Projected FCF Historical Data

The historical data trend for Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund's Intrinsic Value: Projected FCF can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund Intrinsic Value: Projected FCF Chart

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Competitive Comparison of Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund's Intrinsic Value: Projected FCF

For the Asset Management subindustry, Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund's Price-to-Projected-FCF, along with its competitors' market caps and Price-to-Projected-FCF data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund's Price-to-Projected-FCF Distribution in the Asset Management Industry

For the Asset Management industry and Financial Services sector, Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund's Price-to-Projected-FCF distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund's Price-to-Projected-FCF falls into.


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Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund Intrinsic Value: Projected FCF Calculation

Since the intrinsic value calculations based on Discounted Cash Flow Intrinsic Value: DCF (FCF Based), or Discounted Earnings Intrinsic Value: DCF (Earnings Based) cannot be applied to companies without consistent revenue and earnings, GuruFocus developed a valuation model based on normalized Free Cash Flow and Book Value of the company.

The details of how we calculate the intrinsic value of stocks are described in detail here.

This method smooths out the free cash flow over the past 6-7 years, multiplies the results by a growth multiple, and adds a portion of Total Stockholders Equity.

Intrinsic Value: Projected FCF = ( Growth Multiple * Free Cash Flow (6 year avg) + 0.8 * Total Stockholders Equity (most recent) ) / Shares Outstanding (Diluted Average)

In the case of negative Total Stockholders Equity, the following formula is used (see Explanation section below for the reason):

Intrinsic Value: Projected FCF = ( Growth Multiple * Free Cash Flow (6 year avg) + Total Stockholders Equity (most recent) / 0.8 ) / Shares Outstanding (Diluted Average)



Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund  (NYSE:MSDL) Intrinsic Value: Projected FCF Explanation

The growth multiple is capped between 8.35 and 17.74.

Total Stockholders Equity weighting is more art than science and it should always be revisited in more detail when researching a company. Weightings from 0% to 100% to more than 100% are possible. 80% was chosen as a happy median after taking the above ideas into consideration.

Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund's Price-to-Intrinsic-Value-Projected-FCF for today is calculated as

Price-to-Intrinsic-Value-Projected-FCF=Share Price/Intrinsic Value: Projected FCF
=19.75/
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* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.


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Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
1585 Broadway, 23rd Floor, New York, NY, USA, 10036
Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund is a fund whose investment objective is to achieve attractive risk-adjusted returns via current income and to a lesser extent, capital appreciation by investing predominantly in directly originated senior secured term loans issued by U.S. middle-market companies backed by private equity sponsors. It invests predominantly in directly originated senior secured term loans including first lien senior secured term loans including unitranche loans and second lien senior secured term loans, with the balance of the investments expected to be in higher-yielding assets such as mezzanine debt, unsecured debt, equity investments and other opportunistic asset purchases.