Compare Stocks: PPT, ORC, MYI, and MSDL

Comparative Price Performance Over Time

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
MSDL Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund	$15.38	$15.30	$13.66 ▼ $18.17	$1.29B	0.53	495,449 shs	232,777 shs
MYI BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund III	$10.71 -0.1%	$10.89	$10.37 ▼ $11.46	$1.31B	0.63	298,862 shs	245,235 shs
ORC Orchid Island Capital	$6.70 -0.1%	$6.70	$6.31 ▼ $8.40	$1.34B	1.55	4.80 million shs	2.31 million shs
PPT Putnam Premier Income Trust	$3.44	$3.44	$3.37 ▼ $3.77	$331.17M	0.27	130,202 shs	142,066 shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
MSDL Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund	0.00%	-0.45%	+1.94%	+1.65%	-12.91%
MYI BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund III	0.00%	-1.16%	-0.28%	+0.38%	+3.03%
ORC Orchid Island Capital	0.00%	+0.83%	+1.28%	-1.11%	-5.57%
PPT Putnam Premier Income Trust	0.00%	-0.72%	+0.58%	+0.15%	-6.01%

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
MSDL Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund	$15.38	$15.30	$13.66 ▼ $18.17	$1.29B	0.53	495,449 shs	232,777 shs
MYI BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund III	$10.71 -0.1%	$10.89	$10.37 ▼ $11.46	$1.31B	0.63	298,862 shs	245,235 shs
ORC Orchid Island Capital	$6.70 -0.1%	$6.70	$6.31 ▼ $8.40	$1.34B	1.55	4.80 million shs	2.31 million shs
PPT Putnam Premier Income Trust	$3.44	$3.44	$3.37 ▼ $3.77	$331.17M	0.27	130,202 shs	142,066 shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
MSDL Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund	0.00%	-0.45%	+1.94%	+1.65%	-12.91%
MYI BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund III	0.00%	-1.16%	-0.28%	+0.38%	+3.03%
ORC Orchid Island Capital	0.00%	+0.83%	+1.28%	-1.11%	-5.57%
PPT Putnam Premier Income Trust	0.00%	-0.72%	+0.58%	+0.15%	-6.01%

Compare Analyst Forecasts

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
MSDL Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund	2.14	Hold	$15.63	1.59% Upside
MYI BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund III	0.00	N/A	N/A	N/A
ORC Orchid Island Capital	1.67	Reduce	$7.50	11.94% Upside
PPT Putnam Premier Income Trust	0.00	N/A	N/A	N/A

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest PPT, ORC, MYI, and MSDL Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
7/15/2026	ORC Orchid Island Capital	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Upgrade	Sell (D) ➝ Sell (D+)
7/9/2026	ORC Orchid Island Capital	BTIG Research Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Initiated Coverage	Neutral
7/2/2026	MSDL Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund	JPMorgan Chase & Co. Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Neutral	$14.00 ➝ $14.50
6/24/2026	ORC Orchid Island Capital	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Downgrade	Sell (D+) ➝ Sell (D)

(Data available from 8/23/2023 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)

Compare Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
MSDL Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund	$397.29M	3.26	$2.67 per share	5.75	$19.59 per share	0.79
MYI BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund III	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
ORC Orchid Island Capital	$414M	3.23	$0.48 per share	13.99	$7.22 per share	0.93
PPT Putnam Premier Income Trust	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Compare Profitability & Earnings

Company	Net Income	EPS	Trailing P/E Ratio	Forward P/E Ratio	P/E Growth	Net Margins	Return on Equity (ROE)	Return on Assets (ROA)	Next Earnings Date
MSDL Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund	$122.09M	$0.69	22.29	8.36	N/A	15.97%	9.61%	4.28%	11/5/2026 (Estimated)
MYI BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund III	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
ORC Orchid Island Capital	$159.03M	$1.48	4.53	N/A	N/A	N/A	11.87%	1.35%	10/22/2026 (Estimated)
PPT Putnam Premier Income Trust	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Latest PPT, ORC, MYI, and MSDL Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue	Details
8/6/2026	Q2 2026	MSDL Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund	$0.4489	$0.45	+$0.0011	$0.09	$89.99 million	$59.28 million
7/23/2026	Q2 2026	ORC Orchid Island Capital	$0.28	$0.26	-$0.02	$0.44	$74.26 million	$59.97 million

Compare Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	5-Year Annualized Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
MSDL Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund	$1.80	11.70%	N/A	260.87%	N/A
MYI BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund III	$0.39	3.64%	N/A	N/A	N/A
ORC Orchid Island Capital	$1.20	17.91%	-18.27%	81.08%	1 Years
PPT Putnam Premier Income Trust	$0.29	8.43%	N/A	N/A	N/A

Latest PPT, ORC, MYI, and MSDL Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
8/5/2026	PPT Putnam Premier Income Trust	monthly	$0.0260	9.11%	11/20/2026	11/20/2026	11/30/2026
8/5/2026	PPT Putnam Premier Income Trust	monthly	$0.0260	9.11%	10/23/2026	10/23/2026	10/30/2026
8/4/2026	MSDL Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund	quarterly	$0.45	11.64%	9/30/2026	9/30/2026	10/23/2026
6/5/2026	MYI BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund III	monthly	$0.0555	6.16%	9/15/2026	9/15/2026	10/1/2026
8/5/2026	PPT Putnam Premier Income Trust	monthly	$0.0260	9.11%	9/23/2026	9/23/2026	9/30/2026
8/12/2026	ORC Orchid Island Capital	monthly	$0.10	18.1%	8/31/2026	8/31/2026	9/29/2026
6/5/2026	MYI BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund III	monthly	$0.0555	6.15%	8/14/2026	8/14/2026	9/1/2026
7/8/2026	ORC Orchid Island Capital	monthly	$0.10	18.48%	7/31/2026	7/31/2026	8/28/2026
6/5/2026	MYI BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund III	monthly	$0.0555	6.05%	7/15/2026	7/15/2026	8/3/2026
6/9/2026	ORC Orchid Island Capital	monthly	$0.10	17.23%	6/30/2026	6/30/2026	7/30/2026

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Compare Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
MSDL Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund	1.20	1.71	1.71
MYI BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund III	N/A	N/A	N/A
ORC Orchid Island Capital	0.34	509.34	509.34
PPT Putnam Premier Income Trust	N/A	N/A	N/A

Compare Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
MSDL Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund	N/A
MYI BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund III	34.01%
ORC Orchid Island Capital	32.74%
PPT Putnam Premier Income Trust	42.79%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
MSDL Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund	0.31%
MYI BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund III	1.00%
ORC Orchid Island Capital	0.32%
PPT Putnam Premier Income Trust	N/A

Compare Miscellaneous Stats

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
MSDL Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund	N/A	84.11 million	83.84 million	Optionable
MYI BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund III	147,000	122.29 million	121.07 million	Not Optionable
ORC Orchid Island Capital	2,018	199.60 million	198.96 million	Optionable
PPT Putnam Premier Income Trust	N/A	96.27 million	N/A	Not Optionable

PPT, ORC, MYI, and MSDL Headlines

Recent News About These Companies

Putnam Premier Income Trust Announces Monthly Dividend of $0.03 (NYSE:PPT)

August 6, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Putnam Premier Income Trust (NYSE:PPT) Declares Monthly Dividend of $0.03

August 6, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Short Interest in Putnam Premier Income Trust (NYSE:PPT) Expands By 232.3%

July 26, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Putnam Premier Income Trust (NYSE:PPT) Cuts Short Interest on NYSE Composite

March 1, 2026 | kalkinemedia.comK

Franklin Templeton Announces 19(A) Notices for Closed-End Taxable Funds

November 1, 2025 | theglobeandmail.com

Franklin Advisers, Inc. Announces Distributions for Putnam Closed-End Funds for the Months of August, September, October and November 2025

August 8, 2025 | finance.yahoo.com

Putnam Premier Income Trust (PPT) - Investing.com

July 19, 2025 | investing.com

Putnam Premier Income Trust (PPT) - Investing.com UK

July 3, 2025 | uk.investing.com

Putnam Premier Income Trust Common Stock (PPT) Dividend History

April 19, 2025 | nasdaq.com

Putnam Premier Income Trust Common Stock (PPT)

April 10, 2025 | nasdaq.com

Putnam Premier Income Trust declares $0.026 dividend

April 7, 2025 | seekingalpha.com

Putnam Premier Income Trust declares $0.026 dividend

March 7, 2025 | seekingalpha.com

How Are Institutional Transactions Impacting Putnam Premier Income Trust (NYSE:PPT)

February 14, 2025 | kalkinemedia.comK

Putnam Premier Income Trust declares $0.026 dividend

January 8, 2025 | seekingalpha.com

Sit Investment Associates Inc. Expands Stake in Putnam Premier Income Trust

December 12, 2024 | gurufocus.com

Franklin Templeton Announces 19(a) Notices for Closed-End Funds

November 7, 2024 | finance.yahoo.com

Putnam CIC celebrates manufacturing

September 25, 2024 | yahoo.com

SIT Investment Associates Inc's Strategic Acquisition in Putnam Premier Income Trust

September 12, 2024 | finance.yahoo.com

PPT Putnam Premier Income Trust

September 11, 2024 | seekingalpha.com

Putnam Sales Tax Drops

August 10, 2024 | msn.com

Putnam Investments Announces 19(a) Notices for Closed-End Funds

May 8, 2024 | businesswire.com

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PPT, ORC, MYI, and MSDL Company Descriptions

Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund NYSE:MSDL

$15.38 0.00 (0.00%)

As of 08/21/2026 03:58 PM Eastern

Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund is a business development company. It is a non-diversified, externally managed specialty finance company focused on lending to middle-market companies. Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund is based in NEW YORK.

BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund III NYSE:MYI

$10.71 -0.01 (-0.09%)

As of 08/21/2026 03:58 PM Eastern

BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund III, Inc. is a closed ended fixed income mutual fund launched by BlackRock, Inc. It is managed by BlackRock Advisors, LLC. The fund invests in fixed income markets. It invests primarily in a portfolio of long-term investment-grade municipal obligations exempt from federal income taxes. BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund III, Inc. was formed in April 13, 1992 and is domiciled in United States.

Orchid Island Capital NYSE:ORC

$6.70 -0.01 (-0.15%)

As of 08/21/2026 03:58 PM Eastern

Orchid Island Capital, Inc., a specialty finance company, invests in residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) in the United States. The company's RMBS is backed by single-family residential mortgage loans, referred as Agency RMBS. Its portfolio includes traditional pass-through Agency RMBS, such as mortgage pass through certificates and collateralized mortgage obligations; and structured Agency RMBS comprising interest only securities, inverse interest only securities, and principal only securities. The company has elected to be taxed as a real estate investment trust (REIT) for the United States federal income tax purposes. As a result, it would not be subject to corporate income tax on that portion of its net income that is distributed to stockholders, if it annually distributes dividends equal to at least 90% of its REIT taxable income to its stockholders. Orchid Island Capital, Inc. was incorporated in 2010 and is headquartered in Vero Beach, Florida.

Putnam Premier Income Trust NYSE:PPT

$3.44 0.00 (0.00%)

As of 08/21/2026 03:55 PM Eastern

Putnam Premier Income Trust is a closed ended fixed income mutual fund launched and managed by Putnam Investment Management, LLC. The fund is co-managed by Putnam Investments Limited. It invests in the public fixed income markets across the globe. The fund primarily invests in U.S. high-grade and high-yield bonds with an average credit quality of BBB by S&P Corporation. It benchmarks the performance of its portfolio against the Barclays Capital Government Bond Index. Putnam Premier Income Trust was formed on February 29, 1988 and is domiciled in the United States.

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Latest PPT, ORC, MYI, and MSDL Dividends

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PPT, ORC, MYI, and MSDL Headlines

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