In today's Morning Views publication we comment on developments of the following high yield issuers: Trivium, Applus, Altice France (SFR), Casino Guichard-Perrachon, International Personal Finance, TeamSystem, Aston Martin, Virgin Media O2, Liberty Global, TalkTalk, Recordati, Tata Motors, Nexans, Italmatch Chemicals, Itelyum Group, Teva
TalkTalk has announced a new funding arrangement of up to £100m of extra liquidity. They have also provided new guidance and we run though our take on the new funding and the new guidance. We then provide an update to our forecasts and what this might mean for M&A possibilities
There is a lot of focus (quite rightly) on TalkTalk’s customer trends as a longer-term indicator of their growth trajectory but the initial Q1 results suggested a wide range of outcomes.However, we now have more detail on this from the company and in this note, we take a deeper dive into the precise customer trends and provide an updated set of forecasts. For BT, we then also assess the potential impact that this might be having on Openreach.
TalkTalk has reported Q1 results – the first time that they have done so. Rising churn appears to be acting as a further drag on customer trends which puts even more weight on the need for their consumer brand relaunch to be a success, albeit we are cautious on the level of impact this will have given constrained resources. The company suggested that they have received some inbound M&A interest and we still see a sale as the most likely ultimate option which we believe should help to support the...
We recently met with James Smith, TalkTalk CEO. With the 1st lien bond now trading at 45 or 2.8x EBITDAaL after a sharp sell off in recent weeks, we believe that the risk-reward now looks attractive with M&A optionality not being priced in and upgrade the first-lien debt to Overweight.
The Europe HY Trade Book for May 2025 includes current trade recommendations drawn from our European HY coverage universe, along with relative-value scatter plots and tables by industry. We also discuss the US tariff situation and key related impacts.
In today's Morning Views publication we comment on developments of the following high yield issuers: Playtech, Scan Global Logistics, Liberty Global, Clarios, TalkTalk, Modulaire, Klockner Pentaplast, EnQuest Plc, Tata Motors, Cirsa, Ineos, Motel One, Ineos Quattro
In this publication, we review the past year and discuss our outlook for the next 12 months. We begin our discussion with the macro factors at play, including GDP forecasts, the geopolitical landscape and our expectations for cost inflation. We also trace the development of primary markets in the European HY space, and give our view on defaults in general as well as for our coverage universe. We then discuss sector trends and expectations, along with earnings development for companies under our ...
In today's Morning Views publication we comment on developments of the following high yield issuers: CeramTec, Guala Closures, Kiloutou, TeamSystem, TI Fluid Systems, Fedrigoni, Odido, House of HR, TalkTalk, Klockner Pentaplast, Profine, PureGym, Picard, Adler Pelzer, Bertrand Franchise, Standard Profil, Recordati, Kantar, Pasubio, Loewen Play, Pfleiderer, Hurtigruten, Motel One, Mahle
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