MSDL vs. OBDE, BCSF, CVII, TRIN, CION, AACT, FSNB, ENGN, NETD, and SCRM
Should you be buying Morgan Stanley Direct Lending stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Morgan Stanley Direct Lending include Blue Owl Capital Co. III (OBDE), Bain Capital Specialty Finance (BCSF), Churchill Capital Corp VII (CVII), Trinity Capital (TRIN), CION Investment (CION), Ares Acquisition Co. II (AACT), Fusion Acquisition Corp. II (FSNB), enGene (ENGN), Nabors Energy Transition Corp. II (NETD), and Screaming Eagle Acquisition (SCRM). These companies are all part of the "holding & other investment offices" industry.
Blue Owl Capital Co. III (NYSE:OBDE) and Morgan Stanley Direct Lending (NYSE:MSDL) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership and risk.
Blue Owl Capital Co. III currently has a consensus target price of $16.00, indicating a potential downside of 2.91%. Morgan Stanley Direct Lending has a consensus target price of $21.92, indicating a potential downside of 5.33%. Given Morgan Stanley Direct Lending's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Blue Owl Capital Co. III is more favorable than Morgan Stanley Direct Lending.
Morgan Stanley Direct Lending received 4 more outperform votes than Blue Owl Capital Co. III when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Blue Owl Capital Co. III an outperform vote while only 45.45% of users gave Morgan Stanley Direct Lending an outperform vote.
Blue Owl Capital Co. III has a net margin of 63.33% compared to Blue Owl Capital Co. III's net margin of 62.34%. Morgan Stanley Direct Lending's return on equity of 13.62% beat Blue Owl Capital Co. III's return on equity.
In the previous week, Blue Owl Capital Co. III had 2 more articles in the media than Morgan Stanley Direct Lending. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Blue Owl Capital Co. III and 4 mentions for Morgan Stanley Direct Lending. Blue Owl Capital Co. III's average media sentiment score of 0.06 beat Morgan Stanley Direct Lending's score of -0.12 indicating that Morgan Stanley Direct Lending is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Blue Owl Capital Co. III has higher revenue and earnings than Morgan Stanley Direct Lending. Blue Owl Capital Co. III is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Morgan Stanley Direct Lending, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Blue Owl Capital Co. III pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.5%. Morgan Stanley Direct Lending pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.6%. Blue Owl Capital Co. III pays out 61.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Morgan Stanley Direct Lending pays out 64.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Summary
Blue Owl Capital Co. III beats Morgan Stanley Direct Lending on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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