Adani’s Empire Is ‘Deeply Overleveraged,’ CreditSights Warns
- Aggressive expansion putting pressure on credit, cash flow
- Strong bank, government ties a ‘comfort’ to analysts, though
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Indian billionaire Gautam Adani’s ports-to-power conglomerate is “deeply overleveraged,” with the group investing aggressively across existing as well as new businesses, predominantly funded with debt, CreditSights, a Fitch Group unit, said in a report.
The aggressive expansion pursued by the Adani Group, led by Asia’s richest person, has put pressure on its credit metrics and cash flow, CreditSights said in the report Tuesday, adding that “in the worst-case scenario” it may spiral into a debt trap and possibly a default.