'R' (regulatory intervention) indicates that an obligor is under regulatory supervision owing to its financial condition. Export PDF Export CSV Email . On June 18, 2020, S&P Global Ratings lowered its long-term issuer credit rating on Lewisville, Texas-based ASP MCS Acquisition Corp. (MCS) to 'D' from 'CCC' after the company missed its June 15 interest payment on its secured term loan due 2024. The company was acquired by an unrated company. With its highly developed financing markets, the U.S. also has a considerably higher share of speculative-grade companies than other regions--it accounted for 52.6% of speculative-grade companies globally at the beginning of 2020. For example, the share of speculative-grade ratings increased in the U.S. beginning in 2002. to 'D' from 'CCC-'. Earlier on Feb. 13, 2020, we withdrew the ratings at the issuer's request. Often these are issuer-weighted averages. On Sept. 28, 2020, S&P Global Ratings raised the issuer credit rating to 'CCC-' from 'SD' following the debt exchange. The issuer was facing a rise in additional loan loss provision, which was attributed to the large nonperforming loans. This caused high liquidity constraints for Hertz. On April 7, 2020, S&P Global Ratings lowered its long-term issuer credit rating on Texas-based exploration and production (E&P) company Gavilan Resources LLC to 'D' from 'CCC-'. The company's credit quality deteriorated with the pressure on airlines' cash flows and liquidity due to the coronavirus pandemic. On Aug. 14, 2020, S&P Global Ratings lowered its long-term issuer credit rating on Texas-based midstream energy company Martin Midstream Partners L.P. to 'SD' from 'CC' after the issuer announced the completion of the distressed exchange of US$364.5 million senior unsecured notes due in 2021. Europe: On May 27, 2020, S&P Global Ratings lowered its issuer credit rating on Chile-based Latam Airlines Group S.A. to 'D' from 'CCC-' after the issuer volunteered a reorganization process under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code in the U.S. We consider that the debt restructuring under Chapter 11 constitutes a default. On July 2, 2020, S&P Global Ratings lowered its long-term issuer credit rating on California-based specialty apparel retailer Tailored Brands Inc. to 'D' from 'CCC+', reflecting interest payment default on its senior notes due 2022. On May 27, 2020, we withdrew all the ratings on Extraction Oil & Gas Inc., including the 'D' issuer credit rating, at the company's request. On Oct. 15, 2020, S&P Global Ratings lowered its long-term issuer credit rating on Spain-based private gaming service provider Codere S.A. to 'SD' from 'CCC' after the scheme of arrangement was approved by the courts, after 99.6% of creditors participating in the scheme voted in favor. Europe followed with 42 defaults, emerging markets with 28, and the other developed region (Australia, Canada, Japan, and New Zealand) with 10. Similarly, if it defaulted in the middle of 1991, it would be included in the column representing transitions to 'D' in the 1991 one-year transition matrix. Affected debt amounts also rose (see chart 15). We considered the transaction as distressed given the company's weak operating performance, negative cash flow generation, and near-term debt maturities. An obligor is considered in default unless S&P Global Ratings believes that such payments will be made within five business days of the due date in the absence of a stated grace period, or within the earlier of the stated grace period or 30 calendar days. On May 6, 2020, Techniplas LLC filed for Chapter 11 protection under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code with a bondholders' offer of US$105 million, which involves exchanging equity for debt. On Sept. 28, 2020, S&P Global Ratings raised the issuer credit rating to 'CCC+' from 'D' after the issuer emerged from bankruptcy with a new capital structure comprising a priority exit facility due 2023. For example, in the average one-year global transition matrix in table 33, each cell's weighted standard deviation is calculated from the series of that particular cell in each of the 40 cohorts beginning with the 1981 cohort and ending with the 2020 cohort. Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): February 13, 2023. On Oct. 1, 2020, S&P Global Ratings lowered the issuer credit rating to 'CCC-' from 'CCC+' on liquidity concerns, as audience attendance remained weak after reopening and major release dates were delayed. On May 14, 2020, we withdrew the ratings on the issuer. *Or Dec. 31, 1980, whichever is later. On July 7, 2020, we lowered the issuer credit rating on Forum to 'CC' from 'CCC-' following the issuer's announcement to exchange its remaining $328 million of 6.25% senior unsecured notes due October 2021. On Nov. 25, 2020, S&P Global Ratings withdrew its rating at the issuer's request. Although defaulters that are not rated (NR) are not always captured in the default rate calculations for the year of default, we do capture them in the longer-term cumulative default rate statistics, which are tied back to the year in which defaulters were last rated. In 2019, the issuer derived about 41% of its revenue from the food service segment and about 32% from the retail segment. Additional information about our ratings fees is available at www.standardandpoors.com/usratingsfees. On June 18, SMLP announced it repurchased approximately $90 million of its 2022 senior unsecured notes and 2025 senior unsecured notes for approximately $50 million in cash. For example, if an entity was rated 'A' on Jan. 1, 2020, and was downgraded to 'BBB' in the middle of the year and then upgraded to 'A' later in the year (with no other subsequent rating changes), this entity would be included only in the percentage of issuers that began the year as 'A' that ended the year as 'A'. For example, for the entire pool of defaulters in this study (1981-2020), the average times to default for issuers originally rated in the 'A' and 'B' categories were 14.1 years and 5.1 years, respectively, from the initial rating (or from Dec. 31, 1980, the start date of the study), whereas issuers in the 'CCC' rating category or lower had an average time to default of only 2.2 years. Defaults arise disproportionately from low rating categories, and this holds true over longer time horizons (see table 14). Moody's Default and Ratings Analytics team publishes Moody's default studies, ratings transitions and ratings performance studies for corporates, financial institutions, sovereign and sub-sovereign, public finance and infrastructure sectors. Issuers rated 'AAA' were still rated 'AAA' one year later 87.1% of the time, while issuers rated in the 'CCC'/'C' category retained those ratings just 43.1% of the time. On Feb. 28, 2020, S&P Global Ratings lowered its long-term issuer credit rating on Pennsylvania-based pet food distributor PFS Holding Corp. (PFS) to 'SD' from 'CCC-' after the issuer missed interest payments on its US$ 280 million first-lien bank loan due on Feb. 18, 2020. S&P Global Ratings assigned initial ratings to 622 issuers in 2020, down from 650 issuers in 2019 and 875 in 2018. Speculative-grade-rated issuers account for more than 60% of total issuers in eight of the 13 industries we track. Earlier, on March 3, 2020, we lowered our long-term issuer credit rating to 'CCC-' from 'BB' after the issuer announced the financial statement discrepancies and asked its lenders to support an informal standstill request. On Nov. 18, 2020, S&P Global Ratings lowered the issuer credit ratings to 'D' from 'CCC-' after the issuer missed interest payments due on Oct. 15, 2020, and announced that it had entered into a restructuring support agreement, which it intended to file for bankruptcy. On Jan. 8, 2021, S&P Global Ratings withdrew its issuer credit rating at the company's request. Counterparty credit ratings, corporate credit ratings, and sovereign credit ratings are all forms of issuer credit ratings. IssuanceEconomist For 2019's offerings of US$-denominated corporate bonds, On April 15, 2020, S&P Global Ratings lowered its long-term issuer credit rating on Luxembourg-based telecom service provider Intelsat S.A. to 'SD' from 'CCC+' after the issuer failed to pay semiannual interest payments on unsecured debt. On Nov. 3, 2020, S&P Global Ratings raised the issuer credit rating to 'CCC+' from 'SD' on the basis of increased liquidity. /ratings/en/research/articles/210407-default-transition-and-recovery-2020-annual-global-corporate-default-and-rating-transition-study-11900573 On May 27, 2020, S&P Global Ratings withdrew its ratings on the issuer. The Content should not be relied on and is not a substitute for the skill, judgment and experience of the user, its management, employees, advisors and/or clients when making investment and other business decisions. On Aug. 26, 2020, S&P Global Ratings lowered its long-term issuer credit rating on Virginia-based travel assistance provider KCIBT Holdings L.P. to 'SD' from 'CCC+' after the issuer deferred a cash interest payment on its second lien-term loan. Multiplying 92.81% by 96.77% results in a 89.82% survival rate to the end of the third year, which results in a three-year average cumulative default rate of 10.18%. The issuer was expected to reduce the outstanding debt amount by about US$290 million. The latest step in this effort is the plan put forth by House Democrats in mid-January. We used the same method to form static pools for 1983-2020. On Aug. 26, 2020, S&P Global Ratings raised the issuer credit rating to 'B-' from 'SD'. This appendix provides summaries of the events leading up to each default and, in some cases, events following the default. A key consideration when analyzing transition matrices that present averages computed over multiple static pools is that the standard deviations associated with each transition point in the matrix are large relative to the averages (outside of stability rates). On April 12, 2020, Pace Industries Inc. filed for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. On Aug. 18, 2020, S&P Global Ratings withdrew its ratings on the issuer. Uploaded by Dimitris Vrachoritis. On July 10, 2020, S&P Global Ratings lowered its long-term issuer credit rating on Florida-based consumer products manufacturer and seller Tupperware Brands Corp. to 'SD' from 'CC' after the issuer completed a distressed exchange, for about US$97.6 million of its US$ 600 million, where noteholders received less than par value. Other sectors, such as consumer services, have had more frequent default cycles, both during and between economic cycles. We viewed the repurchases as distressed and tantamount to a default given lenders participating in the repurchase received substantially less than the original promise of the term loan. The rating action followed the issuer's exchange of its senior secured notes due 2027 for the new notes, including the PIK of the four quarterly principal and interest payments in the next 12 months, which are repaid pro rata during the remaining term of the notes. The local currency senior unsecured rating is the preferred debt rating used for the proxy because it is usually consistent with the issuer credit rating. The global corporate default tally has increased to 17 after two issuers defaulted since our last report. On Feb. 28, 2020, S&P Global Ratings raised the long-term issuer ratings on Calfrac to 'CCC-' from 'SD' after it completed a debt exchange, which reduced the debt by US$98 million. In years with lower-than-average default rates, often more than 90% of defaulters were initially rated speculative grade, as reflected in the rating path observed for defaulters in the trailing 12 quarters (see chart 10). The downgrade followed BLY's conversion of the June 2020 and December 2020 interest payments due on its senior secured notes to payment-in-kind (PIK) interest from cash interest. ( 2007 ), we approximate the issuers' industry distress if the median stock returns of the firms in the same industry are less than -30%. On Aug. 21, 2020, S&P Global Ratings lowered its long-term issuer credit rating on North American building materials supplier and manufacturer Northwest Hardwoods Inc. to 'SD' from 'CCC-' after the issuer elected not to pay interest on its 2021 senior secured notes. Ratings stability decreased in 2020, to 69.2%, largely the result of the downgrade rate of 18.5%, which was the highest since 2009. S&P Global Ratings considers the repurchase to be distressed and tantamount to default given the holders received less than the original promise on the securities and that the offer was made to avoid a default and cross acceleration of Noble's unsecured debt. On April 21, 2020, S&P Global Ratings lowered the long-term issuer credit ratings on New Jersey-based advertising agency Engine Holding LLC to 'D' from 'CCC-' after the issuer entered into a forbearance agreement with its lenders on its failure to pay the debt interest and principal payments for the first quarter of 2020. On Dec. 2, 2020, S&P Global Ratings lowered its long-term issuer credit rating on U.K.-based payroll software provider Zellis Holdings Ltd. to 'SD' from 'CCC+'. to 'D' from 'CC' after the issuer completed a distressed debt exchange for both its US$115 million notes due in April 2021 and US$370 million notes due in April 2022. Earlier, on April 22, 2020, we lowered our issuer credit rating on Takko to 'CCC+' from 'B-', reflecting our view that the group's ability to service its financial commitments could be further strained. In 2021, we rated over $6 trillion of issuance and served more than 1,100 issuers who accessed the markets for the first time. S&Ps opinions, analyses and rating acknowledgment decisions (described below) are not recommendations to purchase, hold, or sell any securities or to make any investment decisions, and do not address the suitability of any security. Therefore, every update revises results back to the same starting date of Dec. 31, 1980, so as to avoid continuity problems. Earlier, on April 20, 2020, we lowered our issuer credit rating on Valaris to 'CCC-' from 'CCC+' following the collapse in oil prices that led to a sharp drop in demand for all oilfield services, and the offshore activity that was expected to be weak over at least the next two years, given the higher cost, higher operating risk, and longer payback periods for offshore projects relative to onshore plays. All rating changes that occur in between are ignored. On Oct. 19, 2020, S&P Global Ratings lowered its long-term issuer credit rating on California-based health care provider Alliance HealthCare Services to 'SD' from 'B-' after the issuer completed a distressed exchange of its second-lien debt. Post the transaction, the company will have new senior secured three-and-half-year US$171.4 million notes due in 2024 and five-year US$251 million notes due in 2025. The issuer has long struggled to adapt to the business model in a challenging domestic department store space, which shrank further because of the coronavirus pandemic. Earlier, in 2004, S&P Global Ratings withdrew its ratings on the company. Low demand, weak macroeconomic performance, and the pandemic led to weakening liquidity and performance. On June 2, 2020, S&P Global Ratings lowered its issuer credit rating on U.K.-based offshore drilling contractor Noble Corp. PLC to 'SD' from 'CCC-'as the company paid off 85% of its two seller loans (unrated) in exchange for a discount to the outstanding balance, effectively repurchasing both loans at about 85% of par value. Esma50 165 2229 TRV 2 22. In fact, only four sectors had default rates in 2020 that were lower than their long-term averages (aerospace/automotive/capital goods/metal, forest and building products/homebuilders, financial institutions, and insurance) (see chart 2). On Aug. 19, 2020, we raised our issuer credit rating on Forum to 'CCC+' from 'SD' following the completion of its debt exchange for the majority of its 6.25% senior unsecured notes due 2021. Earlier, on March 2, 2020, we lowered our issuer credit ratings on LSC to 'CC' from 'CCC+' after the issuer entered into a forbearance agreement for failing to comply with its consolidated leverage and interest ratio credit agreements covenants. In addition, at the same share price, SAS offset SEK1,500 million of subordinated perpetual capital securities with about 1,164 million of common shares. Moody's Seasoned Baa Corporate Bond Yield-Moody's Seasoned Aaa Corporate Bond Yield. Our data on defaulted corporate issuers globally shows that defaults among speculative-grade entities tend to be clustered in the third year after the initial rating, particularly in the 'B' rating category (see chart 9). The company will continue its operation with operating cash flow liquidity and another US$50 million from debtors. Moody's Default and Ratings Analytics team publishes Moody's default studies, ratings transitions and ratings performance studies for corporates, financial institutions, sovereign and sub-sovereign, public finance and infrastructure sectors. As in most recovery periods, defaults fell relative to the prior year, with the S&P Global Ratings global speculative-grade corporate default rate falling below 2% for only the eighth time in the past 41 . On Dec. 8, 2020, S&P Global Ratings raised the issuer credit rating to 'CCC+' following debt repurchases. On April 24, 2020, S&P Global Ratings withdrew its ratings at the issuer's request. PGS was also in talks with lenders to secure a new capital structure. On July 28, 2020, S&P Global Ratings lowered its long-term issuer credit rating on Delaware-based promotional products supplier CB Poly Investments LLC to 'SD' from 'B-' after the issuer completed a distressed exchange of its second-lien debt due in August 2024. In 2020, the share of new speculative-grade issuers rated 'B-' and lower reached 56.8%. On Dec. 9, 2020, S&P Global Ratings withdrew its 'D' issuer credit rating at the issuer's request. Four other sectors' speculative-grade proportions are greater than 70%, and telecommunications reached nearly 68% at the end of 2020. On Dec. 22, 2020, S&P Global Ratings lowered the rating to 'D' following the debt restructuring. This does not necessarily indicate a default event, but during the period of regulatory supervision, the regulators may have the power to favor one class of obligations over others or pay some obligations and not others. On Sept. 18, 2020, we placed the issuer credit ratings on CreditWatch with negative implications after Argentina's central bank tightened foreign exchange accessing regulations. On Aug. 6, 2020, S&P Global Ratings lowered its long-term issuer credit rating on Switzerland-based offshore drilling contractor Transocean Ltd. to 'SD' from 'CCC' after the issuer opted for an exchange of US$356 million due in 2023 for US$ 213 million new debt at a higher interest rate. Later, on May 15, 2020, S&P Global Ratings withdrew its ratings at the issuer's request. The company extended the maturity on its revolving credit facility of US$135 million by one week. That was below the . On Dec. 22, 2020, S&P Global Ratings raised its issuer credit rating to 'CCC+' from 'SD'. At that point, LetterOne owned 89.7% of 2023 notes. The issuer's operation was suffering from weak crude oil prices and depressed demand. We deem 'D', 'SD', and 'R' issuer ratings to be defaults for the purposes of this study. S&P reserves the right to disseminate its opinions and analyses. Speculative-grade bond spreads in the U.S. widened to 991 basis points (bps) on March 23, but finished the year at 434 bps. On Oct. 5, 2020, S&P Global Ratings raised the issuer credit rating to 'CCC+' from 'SD'. We subsequently withdrew the issuer credit ratings at the issuer's request. As is the case globally, the proportion of speculative-grade ratings reached an all-time high in the U.S. as well, at 57.8%.
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