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 March 30, 2026, MSDL stock price climbed to $14.11 with 822,578 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 0.20 to the broad based SPY ETF.

MSDL has a market cap of $1.23 billion. This is considered a Small Cap stock.

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

MSDL has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of -22.8%, while the SPY ETF gained +12.7%. In the last 3 month period, MSDL fell short of the market, returning -13.9%, while SPY returned -8.2%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks MSDL has outperformed the stock market by returning -3.4%, while SPY returned -4.3%.

MSDL support price is $13.76 and resistance is $14.27 (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.