9/18/12 TICC Capital (TICC)

$100m (+15m) sen unsec cb coming tonight from BARC. Terms: 5yr, 7-7.5% up 10-15%, full pctns. UOP = gcp/sfv investment. Small $440m tech BDC w/$439 total inv (70% sen/sec, 29% CLO debt/eqty). LTM ebitda = 28, fcf = -38m, PF cash = 256m, debt 321m. Larger PSEC & AINV = comps (although both rated). 5yr PSEC 6.375% L+550, 6 yr 5.75% L+590 & AINV 5.75% L+430 (using 20 vol). We’ll use L+750 for TICC. No gamma in sector & even worse w/TICC as ADV = 95k. Saying this a lot w/these small deals of late; this is not a model trade but we’ll run it anyway. We’ll use 20% & blend 1% brw. Theo = 102.7. PSEC came +10% & xpar +8% & 9% respectively. ARCC & AINV = sector favs with o/r’s Small deal helps but we like PSEC & ARCCC more. AVOID

 

Business development company investing primarily in corporate debt of small and mid size companies

PF cash = 256m

PF Debt = $321m

LTM EBITDA = $28m

LTM FCF = -38m

Debt/cap 47%

Mkt cap = 434m

Very small biz dev co. Investment total $439m & concentrated in tech co. Nearly 70% of portfolio is senior secured debt. Issued $33m of stock & closed $120m CLO trans recently. Together with convert proceeds, added liquidity will allow expansion of portfolio. Rest of debt is a $101m CLO done in 8/11. Have no revolver & debt is not rated. Pay large dividend to maintain RIC status.

Our assigned spread L+750

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