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Table 1: US Industrial Long-Term Debt (Three-Year, 1994-96, medians)
Table 2: US Industrial Long-Term Debt (Three-Year, 1990-92, medians)
Chart 1: Rating at Jan 1. in Calendar Years Prior to Default
Table 3: Rating Classification of New Issuers vs. Loan Originations
Table 4: Time To Default by Rating Category
Table 5: Average Contractual Tenor For Private Bank Loans (years)
Chart 2: Corporate Spreads since 1988

 

Table 1: Other

US Industrial Long-Term Debt (Three-year, 1994-96, medians)

AAA

AA

A

BBB

BB

B

EBIT Interest Coverage(x)

16.05

11.06

6.26

4.11

2.27

1.18

EBITDA Interest Coverage(x)

20.3

14.94

8.51

6.03

3.63

2.27

Funds from Ops/TotDebt(%)

116.4

72.3

47.5

34.7

18.4

10.9

Free Operating Cash Flow/TotDebt

76.8

30.5

18.8

8.4

2.4

1.2

Pretax Return on Capital (%)

31.5

23.6

19.5

15.1

11.9

9.1

Operating Income/Sales (%)

24

19.2

16.1

15.4

15.1

12.6

Long-Term Debt/capital (%)

13.4

21.9

32.7

43.4

53.9

65.9

Total Debt/capitalization (%)

23.6

29.7

38.7

46.8

55.8

68.9

Source: Standard Poor's Corporate Ratings Criteria, 1998, "Key Industrial Financial Ratios".

 

Table 2: Other

US Industrial Long-Term Debt (Three-year, (1990-1992) medians)

AAA

AA

A

BBB

BB

B

Pretax interest cov. (x)

16.7

9.3

4.4

2.3

1.3

0.8

Pretax interest cov. Incl. Rents(x)

6.8

4.8

2.9

1.8

1.2

0.9

EBITDA Interest Coverage(x)

20.1

12.7

6.4

4.0

2.4

1.5

Funds from Ops/TotDebt(%)

128.5

72.7

43.1

27.7

16.1

9.2

Free Operating Cash Flow/TotDebt

34.8

30.6

13.3

4.1

1.3

(1.9)

Pretax Return on Perm. Capital (%)

28.2

19.2

14.9

9.8

10.0

6.1

Operating Income/Sales (%)

21.6

16.0

13.9

12.3

10.3

9.7

Long-Term Debt/capital (%)

11.1

17.0

29.7

40.4

53.0

56.8

Total Debt/capitalization incl. Short-term debt (%)

21.9

26.4

37.2

46.5

59.7

65.9

Total Debt/capitalization incl. Short-term debt (incl. 8 times rents) (%)

33.0

37.8

48.1

58.5

72.7

75.1

source: Standard & Poor's CreditWeek, 10/30/96, "Key Industrial Financial Ratios Show Improvement", p. 90.




Chart 1: Other
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source: Fons, Jerome s., and Kimball, Andrew, June, 1991, "Corporate Bond Defaults and Default Rates 1970-90".


 

Table 3: Other

Rating Classification of New Issuers vs. Loan Originations

Rating Classification of New Issuers(1)

% of Public Debt Outstanding(2)

Investment Grade

54%

71%

Non-Investment Grade

46%

30%

source (1): Standard & Poor's CreditPro (TM), 1998, Study: 1981-1997, "Rating Classification of New Issuers".
source (2): Compustat, 1989-96

 

 

Table 4: Other

Time to default by rating category

Standard & Poor

McDonald

Original rating

Defaults(units)

Avg. Years from original rating

Defaults (units)

Mean time to Default

AAA

3

8

AA

8

7.6

A

23

7.6

BBB

36

6.6

BB

147

5

20

6.0

B

233

3.7

105

4.5

CCC

38

3.2

16

3.3

Totals

488

4.5

source: Standard & Poor's CreditPro (TM), 1998, Study: 1981-1997, "Time to Default by Rating Category". McDonald, Cynthia G., and Van de Gucht, Linda M., July, 1996, "The Default Risk of High-Yield Bonds" .

 

Table 5: Other

Average Contractual Tenor For Private Bank Loans (years)

 


Chart 2: Other
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Chart 3: Other

source: www.FDIC.gov  ,The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation - Division of Research and Statistics. "Historical Statistics on Banking".


 


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