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MIRA INFORM REPORT
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Report No. : |
516672 |
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Report Date : |
28.06.2018 |
IDENTIFICATION DETAILS
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Name : |
GOLDEN EAR TECHNOLOGY, INC. |
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Registered Office : |
2500 Caves Forest Road Owings Mills Md 21117 |
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Country : |
United States |
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Financials (as on) : |
2017 [Summarized] |
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Date of Incorporation : |
1990 |
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Legal Form : |
Corporation |
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Line of Business : |
Subject designs and manufactures sounding home audio and home theater
loudspeakers for customers in the United States. |
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No. of Employees : |
10 |
RATING & COMMENTS
(Mira Inform has adopted New Rating mechanism w.e.f. 23rd
January 2017)
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MIRA’s Rating : |
A |
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Credit Rating |
Explanation |
Rating Comments |
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A |
Acceptable Risk |
Business dealings permissible with
moderate risk of default |
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Status : |
Satisfactory |
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Payment Behaviour : |
No Complaints |
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Litigation : |
Exist |
NOTES :
Any query related to this report can be made
on e-mail : infodept@mirainform.com
while quoting report number, name and date.
ECGC Country Risk Classification List
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Country Name |
Previous Rating (31.12.2017) |
Current Rating (01.04.2018) |
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United States |
A1 |
A1 |
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Risk Category |
ECGC
Classification |
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Insignificant |
A1 |
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Low Risk |
A2 |
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Moderately Low Risk |
B1 |
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Moderate Risk |
B2 |
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Moderately High Risk |
C1 |
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High Risk |
C2 |
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Very High Risk |
D |
UNITED STATES - ECONOMIC OVERVIEW
The US has the most technologically powerful economy in the world, with a per capita GDP of $59,500. US firms are at or near the forefront in technological advances, especially in computers, pharmaceuticals, and medical, aerospace, and military equipment; however, their advantage has narrowed since the end of World War II. Based on a comparison of GDP measured at purchasing power parity conversion rates, the US economy in 2014, having stood as the largest in the world for more than a century, slipped into second place behind China, which has more than tripled the US growth rate for each year of the past four decades.
In the US, private individuals and business firms make most of the decisions, and the federal and state governments buy needed goods and services predominantly in the private marketplace. US business firms enjoy greater flexibility than their counterparts in Western Europe and Japan in decisions to expand capital plant, to lay off surplus workers, and to develop new products. At the same time, businesses face higher barriers to enter their rivals' home markets than foreign firms face entering US markets.
Long-term problems for the US include stagnation of wages for lower-income families, inadequate investment in deteriorating infrastructure, rapidly rising medical and pension costs of an aging population, energy shortages, and sizable current account and budget deficits.
The onrush of technology has been a driving factor in the gradual development of a "two-tier" labor market in which those at the bottom lack the education and the professional/technical skills of those at the top and, more and more, fail to get comparable pay raises, health insurance coverage, and other benefits. But the globalization of trade, and especially the rise of low-wage producers such as China, has put additional downward pressure on wages and upward pressure on the return to capital. Since 1975, practically all the gains in household income have gone to the top 20% of households. Since 1996, dividends and capital gains have grown faster than wages or any other category of after-tax income.
Imported oil accounts for more than 50% of US consumption and oil has a major impact on the overall health of the economy. Crude oil prices doubled between 2001 and 2006, the year home prices peaked; higher gasoline prices ate into consumers' budgets and many individuals fell behind in their mortgage payments. Oil prices climbed another 50% between 2006 and 2008, and bank foreclosures more than doubled in the same period. Besides dampening the housing market, soaring oil prices caused a drop in the value of the dollar and a deterioration in the US merchandise trade deficit, which peaked at $840 billion in 2008. Because the US economy is energy-intensive, falling oil prices since 2013 have alleviated many of the problems the earlier increases had created.
The sub-prime mortgage crisis, falling home prices, investment bank failures, tight credit, and the global economic downturn pushed the US into a recession by mid-2008. GDP contracted until the third quarter of 2009, the deepest and longest downturn since the Great Depression. To help stabilize financial markets, the US Congress established a $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) in October 2008. The government used some of these funds to purchase equity in US banks and industrial corporations, much of which had been returned to the government by early 2011. In January 2009, Congress passed and former President Barack OBAMA signed a bill providing an additional $787 billion fiscal stimulus to be used over 10 years - two-thirds on additional spending and one-third on tax cuts - to create jobs and to help the economy recover. In 2010 and 2011, the federal budget deficit reached nearly 9% of GDP. In 2012, the Federal Government reduced the growth of spending and the deficit shrank to 7.6% of GDP. US revenues from taxes and other sources are lower, as a percentage of GDP, than those of most other countries.
Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan required major shifts in national resources from civilian to military purposes and contributed to the growth of the budget deficit and public debt. Through FY 2018, the direct costs of the wars will have totaled more than $1.9 trillion, according to US Government figures.
In March 2010, former President OBAMA signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), a health insurance reform that was designed to extend coverage to an additional 32 million Americans by 2016, through private health insurance for the general population and Medicaid for the impoverished. Total spending on healthcare - public plus private - rose from 9.0% of GDP in 1980 to 17.9% in 2010.
In July 2010, the former president signed the DODD-FRANK Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, a law designed to promote financial stability by protecting consumers from financial abuses, ending taxpayer bailouts of financial firms, dealing with troubled banks that are "too big to fail," and improving accountability and transparency in the financial system - in particular, by requiring certain financial derivatives to be traded in markets that are subject to government regulation and oversight.
In December 2012, the Federal Reserve Board (Fed) announced plans to purchase $85 billion per month of mortgage-backed and Treasury securities in an effort to hold down long-term interest rates, and to keep short-term rates near zero until unemployment dropped below 6.5% or inflation rose above 2.5%. The Fed ended its purchases during the summer of 2014, after the unemployment rate dropped to 6.2%, inflation stood at 1.7%, and public debt fell below 74% of GDP. In December 2015, the Fed raised its target for the benchmark federal funds rate by 0.25%, the first increase since the recession began. With continued low growth, the Fed opted to raise rates several times since then, and in December 2017, the target rate stood at 1.5%.
In December 2017, Congress passed and President Donald TRUMP
signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which, among its various provisions, reduces
the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%; lowers the individual tax rate for
those with the highest incomes from 39.6% to 37%, and by lesser percentages for
those at lower income levels; changes many deductions and credits used to
calculate taxable income; and eliminates in 2019 the penalty imposed on
taxpayers who do not obtain the minimum amount of health insurance required
under the ACA. The new taxes took effect on 1 January 2018; the tax cut for corporations are permanent, but those for
individuals are scheduled to expire after 2025. The Joint Committee on Taxation
(JCT) under the Congressional Budget Office estimates that the new law will
reduce tax revenues and increase the federal deficit by about $1.45 trillion
over the 2018-2027 period. This amount would decline if economic growth were to
exceed the JCT’s estimate.
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Source
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Statutory
Information
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Order
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Definitive
Technology The name given in the order is the company´s trade name |
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Address
in the order |
11433 Cronridge Drive, Suite K, Owings Mills, MD
21117 |
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Legal
Name |
GOLDEN EAR TECHNOLOGY, INC. |
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Trade Name |
Definitive Technology |
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ID |
ID |
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ID Details |
D13437397 |
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Creation Date |
1990 |
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Incorporation Date |
02/17/2010 |
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Legal Address |
2500 CAVES FOREST ROAD OWINGS MILLS MD 21117, USA |
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Operative
Address |
1
Viper Way, Vista, CA 92081, USA |
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Telephone
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410-363-7148
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Fax
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410-363-9998
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Legal
Form |
CORPORATION
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E-Mail
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info@definitivetech.com
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Registered
In |
MARYLAND
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Website
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www.definitivetechnology.com
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Contact
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Mr. David E. Peet - Executive Vice President |
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Staff
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10
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Activity
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SIC Code: 3651, Household Audio and Video Equipment
NAICS Code: 334310, Audio and Video Equipment Manufacturing |
Banks
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Name
of Bank |
Reported
Amount |
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BANK
OF AMERICA |
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Description
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-
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History
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History
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The company was founded in 1990. |
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Key
Developments |
NA
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Parent
Company |
As of September 21, 2004, Definitive Technology,
Inc. operates as a subsidiary of: |
Principal
Activity
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General
Description |
Definitive
Technology designs and manufactures sounding home audio and home theater
loudspeakers for customers in the United States. |
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Service/Product
Description |
The company offers
speakers, home theater speaker systems, floor-standing speakers,
on-wall/shelf speakers, bookshelf speakers, sound bars for flat screen
televisions, single speaker surround products, in-wall/in-ceiling speakers,
center channel speakers for multi-channel systems, surround speakers for side
and rear surround applications, subwoofers for music and home cinema systems,
and outdoor speakers; and accessories, such as stands, wall brackets, and
pre-construction kits. |
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Sales
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It offers its products through dealers, retailers,
and online retailers in the United States, Canada, and internationally |
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Operations
Area |
National
and International |
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Imports
From |
THE NETHERLANDS, CHINA and THE UNITED KINGDOM. |
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Export
To |
MEXICO,
COLOMBIA and INDIA |
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Employees
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10
employees |
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Payments
With Suppliers |
No Complaints |
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Comments
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NA
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Comments
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Location
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Headquarters
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1 Viper Way, Vista, CA 92081, USA (The address given in the order is the former
headquarters address). |
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Branches
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No
branches found. |
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Industries
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NA
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Group
Structure and Subsdiary Companies
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Listed at the stock exchange |
NO
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Capital
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NA
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Shareholders
(%) |
As of September 21, 2004, Definitive Technology,
Inc. operates as a subsidiary of: |
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Management
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Mr. David E. Peet - Executive Vice President |
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Subsidiary
Companies |
No subsidiary companies were found. |
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Related
Companies |
No related companies were found. |
Financial
Information
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General
Description |
The company does not make its financial statements
public. The following information has been provided by private sources: |
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Year/Currency
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USD
2017 |
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Sales
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2.450.700
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Money
Flow |
Normal
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Imports
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The company imports from THE NETHERLANDS, CHINA and
THE UNITED KINGDOM. |
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Exports
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The company exports to MEXICO, COLOMBIA and INDIA. |
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Legal
Filings
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Lawsuits
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TBC, Inc. v. DEI Holdings, Inc. et al |
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Trademarks
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POWERMEDIA |
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Patents
Registered |
Configurable noise cancelling system |
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Renewals
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Year
Date Filed |
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UCC
(Uniform Commercial Code) |
No
records found. |
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OFAC
Sanctions List Search |
The company is not listed in the OFAC list. |
Summary
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Summary
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Founded in 1990, Golden Ear Technology, Inc. is an organization
in the Audio and Video Equipment Manufacturing Industry headquartered in
Vista, CA. The company has 10 regular employees and generates
an estimated $2.4 million USD in annual revenue. It operates nationally and internationally, mainly
exporting to Mexico, Colombia and India. It is ACTIVE in business with no
negative records. |
Risk
Information
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Debts
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Controlled
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Payments
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No
complaints |
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Cash
Flow |
Normal
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State
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Active
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Interview
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First
Name |
Michael
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Position
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Sales
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Comments
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He confirmed the name of the company, the address of
the headquarters and location and the date of creation of the company. He was
reluctant to provide further information. |
FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
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Currency |
Unit
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Indian Rupees |
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US Dollar |
1 |
INR 68.52 |
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1 |
INR 90.60 |
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Euro |
1 |
INR 79.87 |
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USD |
1 |
INR 68.90 |
Note :
Above are approximate rates obtained from sources believed to be correct
INFORMATION DETAILS
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Analysis Done by
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VAR |
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Report Prepared
by : |
SYL |
RATING EXPLANATIONS
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Credit Rating |
Explanation |
Rating Comments |
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A++ |
Minimum Risk |
Business dealings permissible with minimum
risk of default |
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A+ |
Low Risk |
Business dealings permissible with low risk
of default |
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A |
Acceptable Risk |
Business dealings permissible with
moderate risk of default |
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B |
Medium Risk |
Business dealings permissible on a regular
monitoring basis |
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C |
Medium High Risk |
Business dealings permissible preferably on
secured basis |
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D |
High Risk |
Business dealing not recommended or on
secured terms only |
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NB |
New Business |
No recommendation can be done due to
business in infancy stage |
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NT |
No Trace |
No recommendation can be done as the business
is not traceable |
NB is stated where there is insufficient information to facilitate rating. However, it is not to be considered as unfavourable.
This score serves as a reference to assess
SC’s credit risk and to set the amount of credit to be extended. It is
calculated from a composite of weighted scores obtained from each of the major
sections of this report. The assessed factors are as follows:
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Financial
condition covering various ratios
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Company
background and operations size
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Promoters
/ Management background
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Payment
record
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Litigation
against the subject
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Industry
scenario / competitor analysis
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Supplier
/ Customer / Banker review (wherever available)
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