According to Bloomberg, GTC plans to sell bonds in the amount up to PLN 800m (USD 278.7m). Bank Pekao and Bank BPH were chosen as the managers of the issue. The bond issue is still subject to supervisory board members approval.
Our view: We see this news in-line with recent indications of GTC, that they plan to increase it leverage to 60% from current level of 40%. GTC can leverage 100% of assets following the completion and use the equity for further expansion thus providing GTC with enough proceeds for their projects in the pipeline. GTC’s cost of financing should be locked around 6% p.a. for 5-10 years. We can expect higher leverage and lower cost of debt than we are currently using to have also positive effect on our valuation. Our quick estimate for increase in our valuation is at least PLN 1/share.