Warrior Met Coal Upgraded to “B” by S&P Global Ratings
January 18 2018 - 8:26AM
Business Wire
Warrior Met Coal, Inc. (“Warrior” or the “Company”) (NYSE: HCC)
announced today that Standard & Poor’s (“S&P”) Rating
Services has raised the Company’s corporate credit rating from B-
to B, with a stable outlook. At the same time, S&P raised the
issue-level rating on the Company’s Senior Secured Notes due 2024
from B- to B+ and the recovery rating to 2 from 3. S&P cited
the Company’s strong performance, strong credit metrics and stable
outlook as reasons for its new ratings. The upgrade reflects
S&P’s view about Warrior’s ability to increase production with
its low cost structure and capitalize on robust demand in a
favorable met coal price environment, enabling it to generate
strong margins and cash flows.
Warrior is a large-scale, low-cost U.S. based producer and
exporter of premium hard coking coal (“HCC”) operating highly
efficient longwall operations in its underground mines located in
Alabama. The HCC that Warrior produces from the Blue Creek coal
seam contains very low sulfur and has strong coking properties, and
is of a similar quality to coal referred to as the premium HCC
produced in Australia. The premium nature of Warrior’s HCC makes it
ideally suited as a base feed coal for steel makers and results in
price realizations near the HCC industry average index price.
Warrior sells all of its met coal production to steel producers in
Europe, South America and Asia. For more information about Warrior
Met Coal, please visit www.warriormetcoal.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within
the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended. All statements, other than statements of historical facts,
included in this press release that address activities, events or
developments that the Company expects, believes or anticipates will
or may occur in the future are forward-looking statements,
including statements regarding production growth, ability to
maintain cost structure, demand and the future direction of prices.
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“estimate,” “project,” “target,” “foresee,” “should,” “would,”
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guarantees of future performance and involve risks and
uncertainties. It is possible that the results described in this
press release will not be achieved due to certain factors,
including changes in business, economic and competitive conditions,
regulatory reforms, foreign exchange rate fluctuations,
uncertainties in litigation or investigative proceedings, and the
availability of financing. Information concerning these and other
factors can be found in the Company’s filings with the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), including its
Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-216499) and Form
10-Q for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2017 and other
reports filed from time to time with the SEC. The Company’s filings
with the SEC are available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
Any forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date on
which it is made, and, except as required by law, the Company does
not undertake any obligation to update or revise any
forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information,
future events or otherwise. New factors emerge from time to time,
and it is not possible for the Company to predict all such
factors.
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