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Struggling is different from failing, and if trading at 92 in the current environment, it's probably okay, albeit not the best. But price is the wrong metric to look at, look at yield to maturity and if you have time yield to worst.

Overall, since this is for an internship,  just put together a few pages outlining what the company does (try to cover the basics, suppliers/customers/main cost items), the market it operates in (price environment, regulation, competition etc) and identifiy 3-5 risks (could be labour shortage since you mentioned dental company, or competition etc) and 3-5 benefits (aging population is always a good one for healthcare adjacent names). 

Oh and the first thing is, put together a tidy cap structure that outlines EBITDA and leverage, and asses if it's a sound debt stack for the type of company (e.g a stable healthcare co can take on more debt, while for a commodity chemical co at top of the cycle you'd want very low leverage).

Then move to financials and focus on cash generation in particular. If you need to put together a model just keep it high level and spend most of your time in coming up with defesinble assumptions, which don't need to be overly complicated.

FInally put together a reccomendation. Just weigh up prosand cons vs the return you'd get, but again keep it simple, if you can compare it vs other bonds (and their yield) fine but don't try to be too fancy.

G'luck.

 

key questions is whether a) in liquidation, what's the remaining asset value - are / how much are you "covered" from an LTV perspective b) Can company make coupon payments c) what's your IRR / YTM

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Take a more holistic approach. Look at a debt instrument's fair value / cost. Anything below 90% would be considered "stressed" and anything below 75% would generally be entering highly stressed territory (general rule of thumb). Case study could include evaluating different scenarios:

  • If the lender does nothing and the portco continues to perform poorly, what could the lender recover on its investment a year from now
  • If the debtor defaults and the lender exercises its rights, how much could they recover today
  • If a restructuring advisor comes in for a year to stabilize the business and the lender follows the unbiased viewpoint of the independent advisor on forward projections while holding on to the loan, what is the lender's recovery a year from now
  • If the company enters bankruptcy, what is the sr. secured lender's recovery? Keep in mind that a DIP lender could come in and receive super priority status, priming the lien of the sr. secured lender as of the filing date, meaning they are not at the top of the list for receiving payment under a waterfall. Furthermore, depending on how long the bankruptcy drags on, the greater the administrative expenses are that are burning cash flow and potentially exposing the lender's recoverability
    • On the flipside in bankruptcy, when a plan of reorganization is being drafted, there could be negotiations on a debt-for-equity exchange that the lender could partially receive, which could achieve considerable upside upon emergence from bankruptcy if the business is positioned for significant growth after the debtor's financial and/or operational issues are resolved.

I could go on with dozens of scenarios, but these are some high level thoughts for a case study. 

 

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