Tag: sustainable leverage

A banker talks about sustainable leverage

Insider gave his thoughts on sustainable leverage for an out of home company yesterday.  He received this feedback from an out of home industry banker: I just read your article on sustainable leverage, which was quite accurate from the bankers perspective.  However, I doubt many banks have different underwriting guidelines […]

Sustainable leverage for your out of home company

Insider thinks a public out of home REIT (e.g. Lamar and Outfront) has a sustainable leverage (Debt/Cashflow) of 3.5-4.0.  A private out of home company which is under no pressure to pay dividends has  a sustainable Debt/Cashflow ratio of 6.0.   Sustainable leverage consists of how much money you can borrow […]