AMKR - Valens Credit Report - 2024 06 11
Cash bond markets are slightly overstating credit risk with a YTW of 6.137% relative to an Intrinsic YTW of 5.506%, while CDS markets are accurately stating credit risk with a CDS of 82bps relative to an Intrinsic CDS of 77bps. Meanwhile, Moody's is overstating AMKR's fundamental credit risk, with its Ba3 credit rating four notches lower than Valens' IG4+ (Baa2) rating.Incentives Dictate Behavior™ analysis highlights mostly negative signals for credit holders. That said, as a positive, management members have low change-in-control compensation relative to their average compensation, indicating they are unlikely to pursue a takeover or accept a sale of the company, decreasing event risk for creditors.
Earnings Call Forensics™ of AMKR's Q1 2024 (04/29/2024) call highlights that management is confident when saying they are tripling the
Amkor Technology is a provider of outsourced semiconductor packaging and test services, which include semiconductor wafer bump, wafer probe, wafer back-grind, package design, packaging, system-level and final test and drop shipment services. The company's Advanced Products include flip chip chip scale packages, wafer-level packages and flip chip ball grid array packages, while its Mainstream Products include leadframe packages, substrate-based wirebond packages and micro-electro-mechanical systems packages. The company provides its services to integrated device manufacturers, fabless semiconductor companies and contract foundries.
In 2009, just as the dust was settling from the last major equity and credit market crises, we launched a boutique research firm with the intention of breaking Wall Street’s biases and broken incentives:
- GAAP and IFRS have failed to provide rules for reliable financial statement reporting
- Stock analyst recommendations are not grounded in disciplined financial analysis
- Credit agencies have been set up to grossly fail in their responsibilities to investors and the public markets
- Utter lack of willingness of major research firms to employ the the most advanced forensic analysis available
We sought to provide investors and company analysts with a source of information that changed all that.
Many years later, our business model remains because little has changed on Wall Street.
- Corporate credit ratings remain years behind the fundamental underpinnings of company performance
- Stock analysts continue to make recommendations with deeply inherent biases
- Research firms have failed to break down the walls between credit, equity, and macroeconomic research
- The governing accounting bodies have created more leeway for mis-estimates and mis-classifications as financials have become unwieldy and overwhelming
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