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Published on 3/19/2024 in the Prospect News High Yield Daily and Prospect News Investment Grade Daily.

S&P snips Alstria Office-REIT

S&P said it lowered its ratings for Alstria Office-REIT AG to BB from BB+ and its senior unsecured bonds to BB+ from BBB-.

“Our downgrade captures the greater-than-anticipated property devaluation Alstria reported for 2023 that weakened the company´s credit metrics. In its recent publication of 2023 financial statements, Alstria reported a property devaluation of around €770 million or around 16% on a like-for-like basis, versus our expectations of around 5%. This led to a pronounced increase of S&P Global Ratings-adjusted debt-to-debt plus equity ratio to about 66%, surpassing the 60% threshold for our BB+ rating,” the agency said in a press release.

S&P said it forecasts Alstria’s debt to EBITDA persisting at about 20x for the next 12 months and that S&P Global Ratings-adjusted ratio of debt-to-debt plus equity will be close to 65%.

The outlook is negative.


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