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Published on 4/4/2005 in the Prospect News Bank Loan Daily.

Analysis of bank loan issuance for March

Total: $27.708 billion in 68 deals

Columns are amount in billions of dollars, count of deals, percentage of total in dollars.

Interest rate margin

Less than 200 bps8.3102529.99%
200 bps3.4981112.62%
225 bps1.72576.23%
250 bps1.86086.71%
275 bps2.002167.23%
300 bps0.83353.00%
325 bps0.88753.20%
350 bps0.73342.64%
375 bps and upwards2.570229.28%
Other5.2903319.09%
Total27.70868
Upsized?
Yes0.19820.71%
No27.05813197.65%
Downsized0.45331.63%
Total27.70868
Flex?
Down1.76786.38%
No25.94012893.62%
Total27.70868
Issue
Revolver8.9955932.46%
Term0.72562.62%
TLA4.7322017.08%
Institutional10.3562737.38%
Second/third/junior lien1.974187.12%
Delayed draw0.30011.08%
LoC0.62552.26%
Total27.70868
Moody's rating
Ba20.70022.53%
Ba32.35078.48%
B12.8721910.37%
B23.0751211.10%
B31.49085.38%
Caa10.14010.51%
NR17.0818761.65%
Total27.70868
Use of proceeds
Acquisition5.252718.95%
Capex0.62822.27%
Dividend/recap2.7751010.01%
GCP2.28568.25%
LBO2.950710.65%
Refinance11.6883142.18%
Multiple2.13057.69%
Total27.70868
Industry sector (by SIC code)
Agriculture (0xxx)1.30024.69%
Mining (1xxx)0.83033.00%
Oil and gas (13xx)0.77532.80%
Manufacturing (2xxx, 3xxx)8.8092231.79%
Transportation (4xxx)0.89353.22%
Communications (48xx)2.75759.95%
Electric, gas, sanitary services (49xx)2.44358.82%
Wholesale, retail (5xxx)2.33588.43%
Finance, insurance, real estate (6xxx)0.95333.44%
Services (7xxx)6.6121223.86%
Total27.70868
Criteria

* The tables include dollar-denominated deals offered in the United States reported to Prospect News.

* Deals must be $75 million or bigger for inclusion.

* All loans are leveraged: either the interest rate margin is 150 bps or higher or they are rated speculative-grade by Moody's Investors Service or Standard & Poor's.

* Includes amended and restated loans where the maturity or size is changed but not repricings.

* Offerings are included in the time period in which the bank meeting was held (if available), otherwise the earlier of settlement date or date reported to Prospect News.

* Numeric totals are for the number of deals. Where individual tranches have different features (e.g. interest rate, flex), breakdown is by tranches, otherwise breakdown is by number of deals (e.g. use of proceeds, industry sector).


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