{"id":19721,"date":"2012-09-13T00:33:52","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T04:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prefblog.com\/?p=19721"},"modified":"2012-09-13T00:33:52","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T04:33:52","slug":"dbrs-downgrades-tcl-to-pfd-3-negative-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/?p=19721","title":{"rendered":"DBRS Downgrades TCL to Pfd-3, Negative Trend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DBRS <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dbrs.com\/research\/250787\/dbrs-downgrades-transcontinental-to-bbb-and-pfd-3-negative-trends.html\">has announced<\/a> that it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>has today downgraded the Senior Unsecured Debt rating of Transcontinental Inc. (Transcontinental or the Company) to BBB from BBB (high) and its Preferred Shares rating to Pfd-3 from Pfd-3 (high). Both trends remain Negative, and the ratings are removed from Under Review. The downgrade reflects DBRS\u2019s view that Transcontinental\u2019s earnings profile has been structurally affected by a consumer shift to digital forms of media as the Company has struggled to sustain organic revenues and profitability. The Negative trend reflects DBRS\u2019s view that weakening demand, combined with overcapacity, will continue to place pressure on the Company\u2019s revenues, margins and cash flow generation going forward. DBRS\u2019s concern is not based primarily on the Company\u2019s debt level, as Transcontinental has remained prudent in terms of financial management, but rather the Company\u2019s income and cash generating prospects.<br \/><b>&#8230;<\/b><br \/>If the Company\u2019s plans and performance lead to signs of stabilization in organic revenue, and operating income over the near to medium term, the ratings outlook could stabilize. However, a continued and meaningful decline in organic revenue and operating income and\/or key credit metrics over this period could result in a downgrade.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>DBRS&#8217; prior announcement of Review-Negative was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prefblog.com\/?p=19284\">reported on PrefBlog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>TCL is the issuer of TCL.PR.D, a FixedReset 6.75%+416, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prefblog.com\/?p=7954\">announced 2009-9-21<\/a>. It is tracked by HIMIPref&trade; but relegated to the Scraps index on credit concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DBRS has announced that it: has today downgraded the Senior Unsecured Debt rating of Transcontinental Inc. (Transcontinental or the Company) to BBB from BBB (high) and its Preferred Shares rating to Pfd-3 from Pfd-3 (high). &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issue-comments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}