Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund
MSDL Financial Asset Management
Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $397.3 million, down 4.52% from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue fell 10.8%, EPS fell 78.1%, free cash flow grew 331.9% and total debt fell 3.33%, each against the same quarter a year earlier.
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Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund (MSDL) Altman Z-score
Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund's Altman Z-score for fiscal 2025 cannot be worked out: not meaningful for banks, insurers and REITs.
Altman Z-score, annual
Annual newest first
| Period | Altman Z-score | Change (points) |
|---|
How fiscal 2025’s score is made up
| Component | This year | Year before | Result | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Working capital / total assets | 0.01 | — | 0.02 | |
| Retained earnings / total assets | (0.01) | — | −0.01 | |
| EBIT / total assets | 0.08 | — | 0.26 | |
| Market value of equity / total liabilities | 0.66 | — | 0.40 | |
| Sales / total assets | 0.10 | — | 0.10 | |
| Altman Z-score | n/a — not meaningful for banks, insurers and REITs | — | ||
| Z″ Variant for non-manufacturing and asset-light companies (drops the sales/assets term, uses book equity) | n/a — not meaningful for banks, insurers and REITs | — | ||
How the Altman Z-score works
Z = 1.2 × working capital ÷ total assets + 1.4 × retained earnings ÷ total assets + 3.3 × EBIT ÷ total assets + 0.6 × market value of equity ÷ total liabilities + 1.0 × revenue ÷ total assets (Altman, 1968). The market value of equity is the close on the last trading day of the fiscal year times weighted basic shares.
Z″ = 6.56 × working capital ÷ total assets + 3.26 × retained earnings ÷ total assets + 6.72 × EBIT ÷ total assets + 1.05 × book equity ÷ total liabilities (Altman, Hartzell and Peck, 1995), the variant for non-manufacturing and asset-light companies.
| Zone | Z | Z″ |
|---|---|---|
| Safe zone | above 2.99 | above 2.60 |
| Grey zone | 1.81–2.99 | 1.10–2.60 |
| Distress zone | below 1.81 | below 1.10 |
Not worked out for banks, insurers and REITs, whose balance sheets the model does not describe, nor when a figure is missing or there is no share price in the week to the fiscal year end.
Altman Z-score against peers
| Company | Altman Z-score |
|---|---|
| OCSL Oaktree Specialty Lending Corp. compare | — |
| MSDL Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund | — |
| GSBD Goldman Sachs BDC, Inc. compare | — |
| RPC Ridgepost Capital, Inc. compare | — |
| CSWC Capital Southwest Corporation compare | — |
| PSEC Prospect Capital Corporation compare | — |
| KBDC Kayne Anderson BDC, Inc. compare | — |
| BBDC BARINGS BDC, INC. compare | — |
| VRTS Virtus Investment Partners, Inc. compare | — |
What Altman Z-score is
The Altman Z-Score weighs working capital, retained earnings, operating profit, market value and sales against assets and debts to gauge the risk of distress.
1.2 × working capital ÷ total assets + 1.4 × retained earnings ÷ total assets + 3.3 × EBIT ÷ total assets + 0.6 × market value of equity ÷ total liabilities + 1.0 × revenue ÷ total assets