Issuer Ranking: Credit Stability Characterizes Telecom And Cable Despite Challenges Oct 08
Standard & Poors, October 2008
Abstract
From the perspective of rating changes and the distribution of rating outlooks, stability has been the dominant trend among telecom and cable companies over the past quarter. About 70% of ratings have stable outlooks, with the balance just slightly tilted toward the negative side. Significantly, the ratio of recent upgrades to downgrades has been roughly equal, in marked contrast to the considerably more negative bias for corporate ratings overall. This relative stability, during a time of market and economic upheaval, contrasts with another period of market stress in 2001 and 2002, when downgrades outpaced upgrades by factors of 12x and 27x, respectively. Why such a measure of relative credit stability during these challenging times- At least some of this phenomenon...
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