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MIRA INFORM REPORT
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Report No. : |
499653 |
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Report Date : |
27.03.2018 |
IDENTIFICATION DETAILS
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Name : |
STEEL AND PIPES, INC. |
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Registered Office : |
Road #1 Km. 27.5, Bo. Rio Cañas Caguas, PR 00726 |
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Country : |
United States |
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Date of Incorporation : |
03.01.1979 |
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Legal Form : |
Corporation |
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Line of Business : |
· Subject provides services as a retailer of hardware products. · The Company through its stores offers welding products, pipes, valves, fittings, ornamental iron, structural steel, industrial gases, and gate operators. Steel & Pipes offers steel fabrication services. |
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No. of Employees : |
155 |
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 : |
Good |
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Payment Behaviour : |
Regular |
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Litigation : |
Clear |
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 (30.09.2017) |
Current Rating (31.12.2017) |
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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 $57,300. 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 nearly 55% 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, making this 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 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 2014, the direct costs of the wars totaled more than $1.5 trillion, according to US Government figures.
In March 2010, President OBAMA signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, 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 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%. In late 2013, the Fed announced that it would begin scaling back long-term bond purchases to $75 billion per month in January 2014 and further reduce them as conditions warranted; the Fed ended the purchases during the summer of 2014. In 2014, the unemployment rate dropped to 6.2%, and continued to fall to 5.5% by mid-2015, the lowest rate of joblessness since before the global recession began; inflation stood at 1.7%, and public debt as a share of GDP continued to decline, following several years of increases. 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 US GDP growth below 2%, the Fed opted to raise rates three times since then, and in mid-June 2017, the range for the target rate stood at 1% to 1.25%.
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Source
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STATUTORY INFORMATION |
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Legal Name: |
STEEL AND PIPES, INC. |
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Trade Name: |
STEEL AND PIPES, INC. |
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ID: |
42741 |
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Date Created: |
1979 |
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Date Incorporated: |
03-JAN-1979 |
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Legal Address: |
Road #1 Km. 27.5 Bo. Rio Cañas Caguas, PR 00726, USA |
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Operative Address: |
Road #1 Km. 27.5 Bo. Rio Cañas Caguas, PR 00726, USA |
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Telephone: |
(787) 747-9415 / 9416 |
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Fax: |
1-787-747-8986 / 8987 |
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Legal Form: |
CORPORATION |
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Email: |
service@steelandpipes.com |
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Registered in: |
PUERTO RICO |
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Website: |
www.steelandpipes.com |
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Contact: |
FELIPE VIDAL - Director |
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Staff: |
155 |
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Activity: |
NAICS 1: Metal Service Centers and Other Metal Merchant Wholesalers NAICS 2: Ornamental and Architectural Metal Work Manufacturing NAICS 3: Iron and Steel Pipe and Tube Manufacturing from Purchased
Steel NAICS 4: Industrial Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers SIC 1: Steel SIC 2: Ornamental Metalwork SIC 3: Steel Pipe And Tubes SIC 4: Valves And Fittings |
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BanksBANK OF AMERICA |
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HistoryThe company was founded in 1979. |
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PRINCIPAL ACTIVITY Steel & Pipes Inc. provides services as a retailer of hardware
products. |
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Products/Services description: |
The Company through its stores offers welding products, pipes, valves,
fittings, ornamental iron, structural steel, industrial gases, and gate
operators. Steel & Pipes offers steel fabrication services. |
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Brands: |
Steel & Pipes |
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Sales are: |
Retail |
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Clients: |
Private Customers |
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Suppliers: |
Moreda Riviere Trefilerias, S.A. Zhejiang Xianfeng Machinery Co., Ltd. Xian Sino Dragon Imp. Yuh Kang Industrial Co., Ltd. Caribbean Steel & Tube S.A. Aceros Corsa SA De Cv Lamina Desplegada SA De Cv Soldaduras West Arco S A S |
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Operations area: |
National |
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The company imports from |
SPAIN CHINA TAIWAN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC MEXICO COLOMBIA |
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The company exports to |
155 employees |
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The subject employs |
Regular |
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Payments: |
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LOCATION |
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Headquarters : |
Road #1 Km. 27.5 Bo. Rio Cañas Caguas, PR 00726, USA |
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Comments on Address: |
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Branches: |
Río Grande Physical: Bo. Cienaga Baja Carr#3 Km.20.3, Río
Grande, P.R. Bayamón Sur Physical: Plaza Buena Vista Bo. Buena Vista Carr.
167, Km14.6 Bayamón P.R. Bayamón Norte Physical: Ave. 29 Sector El Volcán, Bayamón, P.R. Guayama Physical: Km. 140.4 Carr#3, Guayama, P.R. Manatí Physical: Km. 45.6 Carr#2 Bo. Alegre, Manatí, P.R. Mayagüez Physical: Km.148.4 Carr#2 El Maní, Mayagüez, P.R. Hato Rey Physical: Calle Francia #467, Hato Rey, P.R. Las Piedras Physical: Carr#183 Km. 20.6, Las Piedras, P.R. Quebradillas Physical: Carr#2 Km. 97 Bo. Cocos, Quebradillas,
P.R Ponce Physical: Bo. Pámpano (detrás del Ponce Cash and
Carry) – Edificio #13 (Antiguo Almacén Budweiser), Ponce, P.R. |
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Related Companies: |
STEEL AND PIPES OF FLORIDA LLC 2299 N.W. 77th Terrace, Miami, FL 33147, USA |
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GROUP STRUCTURE AND SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES |
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Listed at the stock exchange: |
NO |
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Capital: |
NA |
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Shareholders: |
The company does not disclose information on shareholders. We were not
able to confirm major holders. |
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Management: |
Felipe Vidal - Director Rafael Medina – Secretary Iliana Bouet – Chief Financial Officer Alberto Vidal - Vice President |
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FINANCIAL INFORMATION |
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The company does not make its financial
statements public. The following information has been provided by private
sources: |
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USD 2016 |
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Revenue |
100 000 000 |
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Cash flow |
Normal |
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LEGAL FILINGS |
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PATENTS |
No records found. |
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GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS |
No records found. |
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CASES |
No records found. |
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TRADEMARKS |
SCORPION ABRASIVES Abrasive compositions used in the manufacture of metal polish Owned by: STEEL AND PIPES, INC. Serial Number: 85693441 SCORPION WELDING Chemicals for welding; Gases for welding; Metal welding flux; Welding
and brazing chemicals Owned by: STEEL AND PIPES, INC. Serial Number: 85693464 SCORPION WELDING Heat stress machines having temperature controlled ceramic heating
elements for heating tubes, pipes and welds Owned by: STEEL AND PIPES, INC. Serial Number: 85693486 SCORPION SECURITY Automated security gates of metal; Holder in the nature of a portable,
flexible arm composed primarily of metal with a pressure… Owned by: STEEL AND PIPES, INC. Serial Number: 85693615 SCORPION GLOVES Disposable latex gloves for laboratory use; Disposable plastic gloves
for laboratory use; Diving gloves; Fire resistant… Owned by: STEEL AND PIPES, INC. Serial Number: 85694471 SCORPION SAFETY FOOTWEAR Protective industrial shoes Owned by: STEEL AND PIPES, INC. Serial Number: 85694501 EZ GARAGE DOORS Metal door hardware, namely, non-powered door actuators; metal door
kick plates; metal door latches; metal door panels;… Owned by: STEEL AND PIPES, INC. Serial Number: 85694692 STORM SECURITY SHUTTERS Exterior metal shutters; Exterior metal shutters for building;
Interior metal shutters; Metal components for metal protective… Owned by: STEEL AND PIPES, INC. Serial Number: 86004305 |
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RENEWAL HISTORY |
Type Document Date of Issuance Payment Receipt [EN] 09-Mar-2018 5:19 p.m. Certificate of Existence [EN] 09-Mar-2018 5:19 p.m. Certificate of Existence 09-Mar-2018 5:19 p.m. Payment Receipt [EN] 02-Jan-2018 10:11 a.m. Certificate of Compliance [EN] 02-Jan-2018 10:11 a.m. Certificate of Compliance 02-Jan-2018 10:11 a.m. Payment Receipt 26-Dec-2017 10:48 a.m. Certificate of Existence [EN] 26-Dec-2017 10:48 a.m. Certificate of Existence 26-Dec-2017 10:48 a.m. |
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OFAC Sanctions List Search |
The company is not listed in the OFAC list. |
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SUMMARY |
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Founded in 1979, Steel And Pipes, Inc. is a mid-sized organization in
the metals service centers industry located in Caguas, PR. It has 155 full time employees and generates an estimated $100 million
in annual revenue. The company operates nationally, mainly importing from Spain, China,
Taiwan, Dominican Republic, Mexico and Colombia. It is ACTIVE in business
with no negative records. |
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RISK INFORMATION |
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DEBTS |
Controlled |
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PAYMENTS |
Regular |
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CASH FLOW |
Normal |
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STATUS |
Active |
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INTERVIEW |
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NAME |
Erika |
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POSITION |
Sales |
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COMMENTS |
She confirmed the name of the company, the address of the headquarters
and location, the date of creation of the company, the number of employees
and the name of the Director. |
FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
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Currency |
Unit
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Indian Rupees |
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US Dollar |
1 |
INR 65.13 |
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1 |
INR 91.96 |
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Euro |
1 |
INR 80.34 |
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USD |
1 |
INR 64.78 |
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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NIY |
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Report Prepared
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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
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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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your request without any risk and responsibility on the part of MIRA INFORM
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