Morgan Stanley Direct Lending (MSDL) Competitors

Blue Owl Capital Co. III (NYSE:OBDE) and Morgan Stanley Direct Lending (NYSE:MSDL) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, community ranking and media sentiment.

Do analysts prefer OBDE or MSDL?

Morgan Stanley Direct Lending has a consensus target price of $20.50, suggesting a potential upside of 6.38%. Given Morgan Stanley Direct Lending's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Morgan Stanley Direct Lending is more favorable than Blue Owl Capital Co. III.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Blue Owl Capital Co. III	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00
Morgan Stanley Direct Lending	0 Sell rating(s)	5 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.17

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in OBDE or MSDL?

Morgan Stanley Direct Lending received 7 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 38.10% of users gave Morgan Stanley Direct Lending an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Blue Owl Capital Co. III	Outperform Votes 1 100.00%	Underperform Votes No Votes
Morgan Stanley Direct Lending	Outperform Votes 8 38.10%	Underperform Votes 13 61.90%

Is OBDE or MSDL a better dividend stock?

Blue Owl Capital Co. III pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.9%. Morgan Stanley Direct Lending pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.4%. Blue Owl Capital Co. III pays out 79.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Morgan Stanley Direct Lending pays out 82.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Which has preferable earnings and valuation, OBDE or MSDL?

Blue Owl Capital Co. III has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Morgan Stanley Direct Lending. Morgan Stanley Direct Lending is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Blue Owl Capital Co. III, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Blue Owl Capital Co. III	$244.17M	7.14	$271.96M	$1.76	8.03
Morgan Stanley Direct Lending	$253.06M	6.74	$231.01M	$2.43	7.93

Does the media favor OBDE or MSDL?

In the previous week, Morgan Stanley Direct Lending had 7 more articles in the media than Blue Owl Capital Co. III. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Morgan Stanley Direct Lending and 0 mentions for Blue Owl Capital Co. III. Morgan Stanley Direct Lending's average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat Blue Owl Capital Co. III's score of 0.00 indicating that Morgan Stanley Direct Lending is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Blue Owl Capital Co. III	Neutral
Morgan Stanley Direct Lending	Positive

Is OBDE or MSDL more profitable?

Morgan Stanley Direct Lending has a net margin of 54.89% compared to Blue Owl Capital Co. III's net margin of 45.35%. Morgan Stanley Direct Lending's return on equity of 12.69% beat Blue Owl Capital Co. III's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Blue Owl Capital Co. III	45.35%	11.52%	5.22%
Morgan Stanley Direct Lending	54.89%	12.69%	6.52%

Summary

Morgan Stanley Direct Lending beats Blue Owl Capital Co. III on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.