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Bharti Airtel将测试债券买家对债务削减举措的看法

这家无线运营商计划最早在10月8日发行美元永久债券。

新德里:未来几天,国际债券投资者可能有机会入股印度无线运营商Bharti Airtel美国削减开支的努力债务市场迹象显示,投资者对这一举措充满热情。

这家无线运营商计划出售1美元永久债券据一位知情人士透露,该计划最早将在10月8日实施。该公司现有的2025年到期的美元纸币已反弹至104美分的三年高点,此前该公司上个月表示,计划利用该计划的收益来偿还相当一部分债务首次公开募股非洲部门。

Bharti Airtel将测试债券买家对债务削减举措的看法
尽管如此,投资者仍将权衡自2013年以来首次从印度流出的企业债的风险。印度三大无线运营商陷入了残酷的价格战,导致巴蒂电信(Bharti Airtel)和印度电信(Bharti Airtel)的债务不断增加,用户数量下降沃达丰的想法.暴发户的依赖Jio印度评级和研究公司表示,Infocomm一直在提供较低的数据资费,并能够利用日益激烈的竞争。

澳新银行集团(Australia & New Zealand Banking Group)信贷策略主管欧文•加利莫尔(Owen Gallimore)表示:“由于资产出售和股权融资,堕落天使风险已经降低。”“但主要风险在于,债券投资者在购买永续债的风险方面没有得到充分补偿。”

标普全球评级(S&P Global Ratings)预计,Bharti Airtel的杠杆在未来6至9个月将保持较高水平,其负面展望反映出,在此期间有三分之一的可能性会下调该公司评级。它将该公司评级为BBB-的最低投资级。今年早些时候,穆迪投资者服务公司(Moody 's Investors Service)将该公司评级降为垃圾级。

大亨苏尼尔•米塔尔(Sunil Mittal)控制的Bharti Airtel在印度完成配股,并在非洲子公司进行首次公开发行(ipo),从而提高了现金水平,缓解了一些担忧。

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NEW DELHI: International bond investors may get a chance in coming days to weigh in on Indian wireless carrier Bharti Airtel<\/a>\u2019s efforts to pare debt<\/a>, with market signs indicating enthusiasm for the push.

The wireless carrier is planning to sell a dollar
perpetual bond<\/a> -- debt with no set maturity -- as early as Oct. 8, according to a person familiar with the matter. Its existing dollar notes due 2025 have rallied to a three-year high of 104 cents, after the company said last month it plans to retire a substantial part of its debt by utilizing proceeds from the IPO<\/a> of its Africa unit.

\"Bharti<\/figure> Still, investors will be weighing risks in what would be the first corporate dollar perpetual out of India since 2013. India\u2019s three big wireless carriers have been locked in a brutal price war, leading to mounting debts and declines in subscribers for Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea<\/a>. Upstart Reliance Jio<\/a> Infocomm has been offering lower data tariffs and is in position to take advantage of intensifying competition, India Ratings and Research has said.