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PGE SAPGE assumes that its net debt to EBITDA ratio will not exceed 3.5x; the company hopes to improve its rating.
Listed power utility PGE assumes in its strategy until 2035 that the net debt/EBITDA ratio will not exceed 3.5x. The company hopes to raise its investment rating to ‘BBB+,’ the company's representatives said.
"The return on investment must exceed 7.5 percent because that builds the value of the group. We do not rule out any deviations if the investment has secured sources of income for several decades ahead, e.g. through contracts for difference," CEO Dariusz Marzec said during Thursday's strategy presentation.
"We will not exceed the safe debt ratios resulting from loan agreements and the approval of financial institutions," said PGE CEO Dariusz Marzec during Thursday's strategy presentation," he added.
The company's presentation shows that the net debt/EBITDA ratio is not to exceed 3.5x. As stated, in 2030 the debt ratio may amount to 3.1x, and in 2035 it may fall to 2x, compared to 1x in 2024.
The CEO announced that the company will seek to have its rating upgraded from 'BBB' to 'BBB+'.
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