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Covenant Trends - 6/17/2024

Percentage of Loans that Allow Uncapped Synergies & Cost Savings EBITDA Adjustments, Sponsored vs. Non-Sponsored (LTM) (Past performance is no guarantee of future results.) Contact: Steven Miller smiller@covenantreview.com

Middle Market & Private Credit – 6/17/2024

Default Rate Rises in Fitch’s U.S. Privately Monitored Corporate Ratings Portfolio Click here to learn more. The default rate for Fitch’s corporate portfolio of U.S. Privately Monitored Ratings (PMR) continues to rise despite better-than-expected resilience and growth of the U.S. economy as issuers continue to struggle with elevated interest rates and impending loan maturities…. Login

Where We Are (First of a Series)

Some credit managers, in more desperate bids to put idle cash to work, are offering aggressive terms to smaller businesses. Large cap features such as PIK-toggle and cov-lite provide cushions in balance sheets when pro forma interest or fixed charge coverage ratios sink below 1:1. Over the next several weeks, we’ll revisit private credit market […]

Debtwire Middle-Market – 6/10/2024

Source: VanEck BDC Income ETF, BofA Merrill Lynch US High Yield Effective Yield The blue line in the chart is the current dividend yield of the *VanEck BDC Income ETF (currently at 10.3% as of 7 June, down from the highest level in last 12 months of 11.7% in October 2023) that tracks the overall performance…

Covenant Trends - 6/10/2024

Average Total Deleveraging Required To Meet RP Ratio Test (Past performance is no guarantee of future results.) Contact: Steven Miller smiller@covenantreview.com