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What credit metrics does a leveraged finance banker look at, and what does each one tell you?

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Two families. Leverage (balance-sheet risk): total debt / EBITDA, net debt / EBITDA (nets off cash), and secured or first-lien leverage — how many 'turns' of EBITDA each layer of the structure…

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