Recent Findings on MVOC and Equity NAV
Based on asset prices as of 17 Jun 2022 –
- 27.7% of a sample of 1492 US BSL CLO deals have a negative equity NAV and 87.0% of a sample of 447 EU CLO deals have a negative equity NAV.
- The latest CLO equity NAV metrics do not look good at all – that said, CLOs are long-term vehicles. If a CLO has a good runway of reinvestment period as well as WAL and legal maturity cushions, managers can potentially take advantage of the market volatility and improve over time the underlying collateral spreads and interest returns that can more than compensate for any credit losses due to trading or defaults.
- At the BB tranche level, 18.3% of US BSL CLO deals have a below 100% MVOC, while 4.5% of EU CLO deals have a below 100% MVOC.
- At the single B tranche level, 65.9 % of US BSL deals with a single B tranche have a below 100% MVOC based on a sample of 308 deals, while 89.2% EU CLO deals have a below 100% MVOC based on a sample of 434 deals.
- Generally speaking, MVOC is one part of the story when it comes to CLO tranche valuation, as market participants also look at whether a deal has an above-average or below-average less than 70 or 80 price bucket at the collateral level, among other factors.
- CLOs are managed vehicles and hence managers’ investment performance is key as they can either add or hurt value by trading on top of credit losses due to default rates.
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