Q3 2024 · median valuation gap

50.5bps -13%

As of 30 September 2024, the median gap between the highest and lowest fair value reported for the same private loan by different lenders was 50.5 basis points, measured across 702 loans held by 77 managers, from Schedules of Investments filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (Kanonstone, Q3 2024).

as of 30 September 2024 · CC BY 4.0 · source: SEC EDGAR

the panel behind the figure

Loans measured
702
Managers reporting
77
Vehicles
125
Assets covered
$112bn
Source filings
125
Reconciled to balance sheet
50 / 139

The Q3 2024 reading is built from 125 SEC filings covering 125 funds and $112bn of private loans, as of 30 September 2024.

How Q3 2024 compares with Q2 2024

The median gap narrowed from 58 basis points in Q2 2024 to 50.5 basis points in Q3 2024, a change of -13% measured on a panel that went from 653 to 702 loans over the same period (Kanonstone, from public SEC filings, as of 30 September 2024).

A year earlier, in Q3 2023, the same measure stood at 130.9 basis points across 530 loans.

Where the 702 loans sat in Q3 2024

the median says where the middle is; the tail says what is at stake

219

within 25 bps

$19.1bn

121

25 to 50 bps

$13.2bn

110

50 to 100 bps

$20bn

125

100 to 200 bps

$34.2bn

76

200 to 500 bps

$14.3bn

51

more than 500 bps

$11.2bn

Of the 702 loans measured in Q3 2024, 219 were valued within 25 basis points of each other, 76 were between 200 and 500 basis points apart, and 51 were more than 500 basis points apart, as of 30 September 2024.

In Q3 2024, 23% of the private credit Kanonstone tracks — $25.5bn across 127 loans — sat in loans where two lenders reported values more than 200 basis points apart on 30 September 2024, from public SEC filings.

the gap between lenders on the same loan · median across every loan we hold

50.5basis pointsQ3 24

Tap or hover any quarter to read it. The thin line under each bar is how many loans it rests on — the early quarters carry a third of today’s panel, so their level is not comparable. The long fall across this chart is coverage widening, not lenders converging. The move that is real is the last one: 47.6 bps in Q3 25 to 83.7 today, on a panel that barely grew.

One loan, 878 basis points apart, in Q3 2024

the same tranche, the same reporting date, two filings

98.95¢

Golub Capital Direct Lending Corp

Golub

107.73¢

Blackstone Private Credit Fund

Blackstone

As of 30 September 2024, Bamboo US BidCo LLC, a $666m private loan held by 17 funds across 6 managers, was reported at 98.95 cents on the dollar by Golub Capital Direct Lending Corp and 107.73 cents by Blackstone Private Credit Fund — a gap of 878 basis points — each figure taken from the funds' own filings with the SEC.

How the Q3 2024 figure was built

the limitations are published with the same weight as the finding

For Q3 2024, 50 of 139 funds reconciled their Schedule of Investments to their own balance sheet within 0.5% and were therefore publishable, covering $134.3bn of $560.7bn of reported assets as of 30 September 2024.

The reported all-in rate is held out of the matching key and used as an independent check; it dropped 20.5% of candidate loan groups in Q3 2024, and the groups that survived it still showed a 43 basis point median gap as of 30 September 2024.

The Kanonstone index measures the distance between fair values that lenders published; it is not a rating, not a forecast, and not a valuation produced by Kanonstone — the Q3 2024 figure of 50.5 basis points as of 30 September 2024 is a median of differences between numbers other people filed.

Cite this

this reading is fixed as of its date · if a filer amends a filing, the figure is corrected and the correction is dated

ready to publish

The median gap narrowed from 58 basis points in Q2 2024 to 50.5 basis points in Q3 2024, a change of -13% measured on a panel that went from 653 to 702 loans over the same period (Kanonstone, from public SEC filings, as of 30 September 2024).

formal citation

Kanonstone (2024). Private Credit Valuation Dispersion Index, Q3 2024 (as of 30 September 2024). https://kanonstone.com/quarterly/2024-q3

the series in one sentence

Across 12 quarters from Q2 2023 to Q1 2026, the median co-lender valuation gap has ranged from 47.9 to 176.8 basis points, measured from Schedules of Investments filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (Kanonstone, as of 30 September 2024).

machine-readable

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