MSDL Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Morgan Stanley Direct Lending | NYSE:MSDL)

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.

Morgan Stanley Direct Lending trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol MSDL.

As of January 9, 2026, MSDL stock price climbed to $16.62 with 580,559 million shares trading.

MSDL has a beta of 0.49, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. MSDL has a correlation of 0.23 to the broad based SPY ETF.

MSDL has a market cap of $1.44 billion. This is considered a Small Cap stock.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that MSDL belongs to (by Net Assets): BIZD, PBDC, FBDC, PCR.

MSDL has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of -9.3%, while SPY returned +19.0%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in MSDL shares. However, MSDL has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +5.0% and +0.9%, while SPY returned +3.7% and +0.5%, respectively. This indicates MSDL has been having a stronger performance recently.

MSDL support price is $16.32 and resistance is $16.76 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that MSDL shares will trade within this expected range on the day.