New business is being written on visibly better terms than the company's own recent norm, and the mix shift has just beg
The model's full reasoning — Q3 2018 call → NOWe need answer YES/NO based on transcript. Need determine if management indicates economic terms of newest business have stepped up meaningfully above company's own recent norm, and improvement only begun to flow into reported results because most business in reported numbers still older less favorable terms. We need parse transcript. Company is BDC investing in debt. "newest business" = new investments/deployments. Management discusses deploying capital into new investments at weighted average price $0.89 on dollar, current yield 10.99%. They rotated out of higher dollar priced instruments into greater total return opportunities. They say "This quarter represented the greatest potential for total return on new investments with a weighted average price of $0.89 on the dollar of our capital deployed." They emphasize high current yield and potential price appreciation. But is that "terms of new business have visibly improved versus company's own recent past"? They compare to prior quarters? Slide 18 shows portfolio rotation quarter-by-quarter trailing five quarters. They say "Here you can see how we have rotated out of higher dollar priced instruments into greater total return opportunities... 100% of capital deployed into first lien and/or senior secured instruments during the quarter in each quarter for past five quarters. This quarter represented the greatest potential for total return on new investments with a weighted average price of $0.89 on the dollar of our capital deployed." So new investments at lower price (0.89) means higher yield? Weighted average current yield 10.99%. Is that meaningfully above recent norm? Need see if they state improvement only begun to flow into reported results. They mention NII covers distributions, portfolio growth. But do they say reported results still mostly reflect old terms? Not explicitly. They discuss monetizations and portfolio rotation. They say "we have been actively deploying capital into new opportunities, while continuing to focus on monetizing legacy Full Circle positions." But no statement that better terms are early in numbers. They might imply because new investments made during quarter only small portion? But need management's own words convey both halves. Let's examine.
| Ticker | Company | Call | Date | Call grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CTO | CTO Realty Growth, Inc. | Q2 2023 | 2023-07-28 | B |
| CARS | Cars.com Inc. | Q1 2023 | 2023-05-06 | B |
| BRX | Brixmor Property Group Inc. | Q1 2023 | 2023-05-02 | A |
| CRBG | Corebridge Financial, Inc. | Q4 2022 | 2023-02-22 | B |
| FLR | Fluor Corporation | Q2 2022 | 2022-08-05 | D |
| CRL | Charles River Laboratories International | Q2 2022 | 2022-08-03 | C |
| BRKL | Brookline Bancorp, Inc. | Q2 2022 | 2022-07-30 | B+ |
| INVH | Invitation Homes Inc. | Q2 2022 | 2022-07-28 | B+ |
| MTB | M&T Bank Corporation | Q2 2022 | 2022-07-20 | B+ |
| GFS | GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc. | Q3 2021 | 2021-11-30 | A |
| GNK | Genco Shipping & Trading Limited | Q2 2021 | 2021-08-07 | A |
| ESS | Essex Property Trust, Inc. | Q2 2018 | 2018-08-03 | B+ |
| ALLY | Ally Financial Inc. | Q1 2018 | 2018-04-26 | B+ |
CRL · Q2 2022 → YESThe question is about whether management indicates that the economic terms of the company's newest business have stepped up meaningfully above the company's own recent norm, and that this improvement ...YES Management's comments on Safety Assessment pricing and backlog directly address both required elements: they describe current bookings and backlog at "escalating prices" and "meaningful price increases" that are already achieved on real transactions (not targets or future expectations), while noting that the reported Q2 results are still dominated by older 2022 terms and that the stronger pricing is accelerating into H2 and 2023 bookings.
ESS · Q2 2018 → YESThe question is about whether management indicates that the economic terms of the company's newest business have stepped up meaningfully above the company's own recent norm, and that this improvement ...YES Management describes the loss-to-lease metric rising to 3.
CTO · Q2 2023 → YESThe question is about whether management indicates that the economic terms of the company's newest business have stepped up meaningfully above the company's own recent norm, and that this improvement ...