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Outokumpu : Risk of rating downgrade at Moody’s in our view

Outokumpu’s outlook for Q3 is poor on the basis notably of expected lower deliveries in Europe and decreasing ferrochrome price. - Assuming, at end-September 2019, a gross debt of about EUR 1.4bn, debt adjustments of about +EUR 700m (Moody’s methodology), and an adjusted LTM Ebitda of about EUR 290m (EUR 203m expected in 9M-19 by our equity analyst + EUR 89m reported in Q4-18), we calculate an adjusted gross leverage of about 7.2x, which is way above the 4.5x criteria for the B1 i...
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Outokumpu Oyj

Outokumpu is organized into the following five business areas: Coil Europe, Middle East and Africa, which consists of stainless operations as well as ferrochrome production in Europe; Coil Americas, which produces standard austenitic and ferritic grades as well as tailored products; APAC, which includes cold rolling facility and coil and plate service center in China, as well as a coil service center in Australia; Quarto Plate, which is comprised of the quarto plate production facilities in Sweden and in the U.S.; as well as Long Products, in which its products are used in a range of applications such as springs, wires, surgical equipment, automotive parts and construction.

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Oddo BHF
Oddo BHF

​Oddo Securities provides securities brokerage and research services. The company offers equity, economic, and derivatives research and credit analysis services. It focuses on insurance, automotive, building materials, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, information technology, and agri-food industries.

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