RE: Moodys downgrade to Negative13 Dec 2021 11:10
Well i think they got the numbers wrong...
1) 400 Mill for Archive
2) 100 Mill for lease and loan repayments (lease needs to pay no matter what, loan repayments i believe there is a minimum amount paid according to the MCR reports)\
3) free cash flow - will they increase from current value back to where they have been, ie around 700 Mill cash?
As long as cash stays the same that's 500 Mill reduction without doing anything further next year.
Exceptional spend for the two years seems to be redundancy pay. Dont forget when you make someone redundant you pay the redundancy cost but then you dont have the wages in the ongoing cost so you do start to see some benefits quickly...
I am not worried about the Moody rating based on my understanding above.