Valens Credit Weekly Insights for October 5, 2016
Each week the Valens Credit team highlights our most interesting insights from across our tools and our analysis. This week interesting insights include:
Credit and Market Mispricings
Most Compelling Credit v Equity Market Mispricings
AN, CYH, NAV, SGMS, THC
Most Compelling Credit Rating Dislocations
BLDR, EXPE, GM, JCP, R, TWTR, UIS, VRX, X, YRCW
Most Compelling CDS Market Mispricings
AVP, AMD, CHK, HNT, NAV, PKD, RIG, SHLD, UIS, X
Most Compelling Bond Market Mispricings
AKS, AMD, ATW, CHK, MDR, TSX:MEG, NAV, RIG, SVU, VRX
Highlighted Top Ideas
NYT – The New York Times Company
RCII – Rent-A-Center, Inc.
TSX:VRX – Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc.
Other Recent Analyses
Consumer Discretionary
TLRD – Tailored Brands, Inc.
Materials
OC – Owens Corning
Quantitative Credit Outlier Report Review
X, CHK, and SHLD top our quantitative outlier report this week.
Aggregate Credit Market and Credit Fundamental Review
IG markets are currently fairly valued, as are HY markets. However, even after XO CDS has normalized in the last several months, it remains substantially above XO iCDS levels. This indicates that the XO market is overstating credit risk.
