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• The Brazil industrial agriculture producer Adecoagro registered to sell USD300mn of equity to finance their acquisition of Profertil, an Argentina fertilizer company. We view the issuance of equity to fund their acquisition as positive as well as the diversification benefits of acquiring a profitable business that fits well into their existing agriculture business. We also note that Q3 EBITDA from their sugarcane ethanol processing business was up 20% YoY and up 2x sequentially which was far better than one of their main competitors Raizen.
• AGRO 32s were last quoted T+ 471bp, or 8.68% yield,135bp wider than new issue July 2025. The company’s surprise Argentina acquisition at a time when conditions in its primary sugarcane ethanol processing business were challenging caused a lot of the widening, but the effect was exacerbated by the fallout from Brazil’s Braskem and Ambipar bond debacles.
• The concern expressed by the rating agencies was for a 100% leveraged transaction, so we saw the equity shelf filing as positive as well as today’s registration. Ratings are still likely to get downgraded because the company is increasing its exposure to ’CCC’ rated Argentina so bond ratings will likely move closer to the ‘B’ category from at least one of the agencies due to sovereign ceiling limitations.
• The company intends to offer in the next two days USD300mn common shares of which controlling 75% private equity shareholder Tether plans to buy USD200mn. The balance of the USD480mn acquisition cost will be financed with an already arranged term loan and cash on hand.
• We commented on the USD500mn shelf filing December 1st and the positive effect of issuing equity to finance the acquisition: https://mni.marketnews.com/3MwRFos
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