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Published on 1/5/2005 in the Prospect News Bank Loan Daily.

Analysis of bank loan issuance for December 2004

Total: $28.807 billion in 62 deals

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

Interest rate margin

Less than 200 bps6.8791723.88%
200 bps1.57065.45%
225 bps1.27584.43%
250 bps3.6951512.82%
275 bps0.35551.23%
300 bps4.975817.27%
325 bps0.14030.49%
350 bps0.23550.82%
375 bps and upwards1.19384.14%
Other8.4903029.47%
Total28.80762
Upsized?
Yes3.520512.22%
No25.28710087.78%
Total28.80762
Flex?
Down5.5351319.21%
Up0.64512.24%
No22.6279178.55%
Total28.80762
Issue
Revolver14.3355449.76%
Term1.530145.31%
TLA0.89543.11%
Institutional11.7692740.85%
Second/third/junior lien0.15840.55%
LoC0.12020.42%
Total28.80762
Moody's rating
Ba26.040920.97%
Ba31.04063.61%
B15.0401517.50%
B23.7151712.90%
B30.70032.43%
NR12.2725542.60%
Total28.80762
Use of proceeds
Acquisition5.1351017.83%
Capex0.05010.17%
GCP2.65059.20%
LBO3.210611.14%
Refinance12.7242744.17%
Others/multiple5.0381517.48%
Total28.80762
Industry sector (by SIC code)
Agriculture (0xxx)0.22410.78%
Mining (1xxx)0.30011.04%
Oil and gas (13xx)1.32044.58%
Construction (15xx)0.50011.74%
Manufacturing (2xxx, 3xxx)11.5332440.04%
Transportation (4xxx)1.26544.39%
Communications (48xx)0.65012.26%
Electric, gas, sanitary services (49xx)3.500212.15%
Wholesale (5xxx)3.055810.61%
Finance, insurance, real estate (6xxx)2.16557.52%
Services (7xxx)4.2951114.91%
Total28.80762
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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