El otro día se comentaba de qué forma podría afectar TNK a TK.
Esto escribía J Myntzmier (sé que cada día tiene menos seguidores, pero creo que siempre dice cosas interesantes) después de hablar con el management:
Had a chance to directly cross-check with mgt and wanted to follow my own advice and come back here to make sure my info is on the same page.
The guarantees relate to a handful of specific vessels, not the overall credit facilities writ-large. Some of them date back nearly a decade, a few are more transitional, but they have been reported/disclosed in each annual report.
$252M was the balance as of 31 December, which was the peak. One rolled off early-18 another rolls off quite shortly, bringing the present balance to the upper-$100s.
All of the related loans are well covered by assets and since $
TK controls $
TNK, if there was any major concern at any time, $
TK could simply have TNK sell the vessels, repay the facility and if there was any shortfall, TNK would have to make up the difference out of their current liquidity. That's a worst case scenario, but in either example the risk to $
TK is extremely low, they simply provided these few guarantees so the banks would be more comfortable with offering a strong deal.
Finally, when dealing with a guarantee, realize its an absolute value against underlying assets. For the purposes of illustration, let's say there's $200M of guarantees against $250M of assets. If the assets dropped by a wild 30%, historically unprecedented if we consider the curves are already near all-time lows, they would be worth $175M.
The guarantee shortfall in that example would be $25M (i.e. $200M minus $175M of assets). That shortfall would be required to be fully covered by $
TNK itself and $
TK would only become a party if the entire $
TNKoperation went to $0 and all loans were in default. Even then, assuming secured loans were covered by assets, $
TK's liability would be $0.
The number to watch is TNK's D/A, which is roughly 70-75% depending on what valuation numbers you are utilizing.
In my personal opinion, there's no feasible scenario where you're concerned, even remotely, about these guarantees and yet still find $
TNK equity attractive in any sense.