XNPV Nuance

I am trying to calculate the NPV of a loan using monthly payments, but when using XNPV I get some wacky results.

Loan Amount: $11M I/R: 3% (amortizing) Term: 480 months (40 years) Monthly Pmt=39378.29 Loan Proceeds received: 12/31/19 M1 of Payment= 1/31/20

Using the discount rate of the loan (3%): should yield me an NPV equal to the loan, but when I use the XNPV function, my npv is off by $6-7M. If I use the vanilla NPV function, it works. The present value of the payments equals the loan amount.

Why does the XNPV give me such a drastically different answer? Any help would be appreciated, been stumped by a while and really never use XNPV. In theory, they should be the same if the period interval is the same.

Thanks

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Hmmmm...The XIRR for the cash flows is 3.03396488%, which would effectively be the discount rate. And the NPV of 6.985million and your payments is 11 million your notional loan value.

What NPV is saying is that you need ~7 million of dolars today "plus" cash flow to get $11 million dollars of value from the cash flows at the 3% reinvestment rate.

I have to think this through more.

 
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