Company: BXSL
Filing Date: 2025-11-10
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001736035-25-000021
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Company: Blackstone Secured Lending Fund
Filing Date: 2025-11-10
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 8
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, and is recorded within Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations.Valuation of InvestmentsThe Company is required to report its investments, including those for which current market values are not readily available, at fair value.The Company values its investments in accordance with ASC 820, Fair Value Measurements (“ASC 820”), which defines fair value as the amount that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the applicable measurement date, and Rule 2a-5 under the 1940 Act.

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Table of ContentsBlackstone Secured Lending FundNotes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements(Unaudited)(in thousands, except share amounts, per share data, percentages and as otherwise noted)

Under ASC 820, fair value is based on observable market prices or parameters or derived from such prices or parameters when such quotations are readily available. In accordance with Rule 2a-5 under the 1940 Act, fair value means the value of a portfolio investment for which market quotations are not readily available. A market quotation is “readily available” only when it is a quoted price (unadjusted) in active markets for identical instruments that a fund can access at the measurement date, provided that such a quotation is not considered to be readily available if it is not reliable.Where prices or inputs are not available or, in the judgment of the Board of Trustees (the “Board” or the “Board of Trustees”), with assistance of the Advisers, the Audit Committee and independent valuation firm(s), determined to be not reliable, valuation techniques based on the facts and circumstances of the particular investment will be utilized. These valuation approaches involve some level of management estimation and judgment, the degree of which is dependent on the price transparency for the investments or market and the investments’ complexity. In the absence of observable, reliable market prices, the Company values its investments using various valuation methodologies applied on a consistent basis.An enterprise value (“EV”) analysis is generally performed to determine the value of equity investments, control debt investments and non-control debt investments that are credit-impaired, and to determine if debt investments are credit-impaired. The Advisers will generally utilize approaches including the market approach, the income approach or both approaches, as appropriate, when calculating EV. The primary method for determining EV for non-control investments, and control investments without reliable projections, uses a multiple analysis whereby appropriate multiples are applied to the portfolio company’s earnings before interest, taxes,