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13 Apr 2011
$750 million of rated debt affected
New York, April 13, 2011 -- Moody's Investors Service affirmed The TriZetto Group, Inc.'s
("TriZetto" or the "Company") B1 Corporate Family Rating (CFR) and assigned
B1 ratings to the Company's proposed $750 million of senior
first-lien secured credit facilities. The outlook for ratings
is stable. TriZetto plans to use the net proceeds from the credit
facilities primarily to retire existing debt and pay transaction fees
and expenses. Moody's will withdraw the ratings for various
tranches of TriZetto's existing credit facilities at the close of
the transaction.
Moody's affirmed the following ratings:
Issuer -- TriZetto Group, Inc.
Corporate Family Rating -- B1
Probability of Default Rating -- B2
Moody's assigned the following rating:
$100 million senior secured revolving credit facility due 2016
-- B1 (LGD3, 33%)
$650 million senior secured Term Loan facility due 2018 --
B1 (LGD3, 33%)
The following ratings will be withdrawn:
$65 million senior secured revolving credit facility due 2014 --
B1 (LGD3, 33%)
$71 million senior secured Term Loan A facility due 2014 --
B1 (LGD3, 33%)
$315 million senior secured Term Loan B facility due 2015 --
B1 (LGD3, 33%)
$100 million senior secured Term Loan C facility due 2015 --
B1 (LGD3, 33%)
RATINGS RATIONALE
The affirmation of TriZetto's B1 CFR reflects the Company's
good business execution, evidenced in the sustained revenue and
EBITDA growth and EBITDA margin expansion, including through a weak
capital spending environment during the recession and in the midst of
regulatory uncertainly related to the healthcare reform legislation.
The B1 rating considers TriZetto's moderate leverage, good free
cash flow generation relative to debt, and in Moody's opinion,
the Company's good niche market position as a provider of information
technology (IT) solutions to the U.S. healthcare payers.
The B1 CFR is supported by Moody's expectations of favorable growth trends
in the healthcare IT industry segment, the Company's stable customer
base, its unique investor and customer relationship with the BlueCross
BlueShield of Tennessee and The Regence Group, and a good backlog
of revenues under contract, which provides visibility into revenue
and cash flows. In Moody's view, TriZetto's moderate financial
risk affords the Company some cushion to pursue its expansion strategy,
including small acquisitions, to exploit the additional revenue
opportunity in the healthcare IT industry, which the rating agency
expects to grow rapidly driven by the investments by healthcare payers
in IT solutions to improve productivity.
The B1 rating is constrained by TriZetto's moderate scale in a highly
competitive, though largely fragmented market for healthcare IT
products and services, and the Company's moderate customer revenue
concentration. The rating also reflects the risk that the financial
sponsor's interests may not be aligned with those of debt holders and
that de-leveraging from organic growth could be punctuated by leveraging
events resulting from shareholder bias of the Company's financial policies.
Moody's expects TriZetto's Debt-to-EBITDA leverage
to increase from 4.0x at year-end 2010 to about 4.6x
(incorporating Moody's standard analytical adjustments including 25%
of debt attribution to the preferred stock at intermediate holding company)
at the close the transaction. The increase in leverage primarily
reflects the largely debt-funded acquisition of Gateway EDI,
LLC (Gateway), which the Company completed during 1Q 2011.
Although Moody's believes that the combination with Gateway presents a
large market opportunity connecting healthcare providers via Gateway's
platform to TriZetto's payer customers, the acquisition of Gateway
marks a shift in the Company's customer focus from servicing exclusively
the healthcare plans and administrators to healthcare providers,
and cash flow contribution from the acquisition will come from successful
execution and penetration of new products. The acquisition also
expands TriZetto's competitive scope as healthcare providers are serviced
by several operators with a wide range of IT solutions. Nonetheless,
Moody's considers the incremental effect of the Gateway acquisition on
TriZetto's credit metrics to be moderate and within the expected ranges
for the rating.
The stable outlook considers the potential for improved cash flow generation
driven by revenue growth in mid single-digit percentages and additional
EBITDA margin expansion reflecting operating leverage in the business.
While not anticipated in the near term, TriZetto's ratings could
be downgraded if the Company's balance sheet deteriorates as a result
of financial policies oriented towards shareholders or from large debt-financed
acquisitions. The ratings could experience downward pressure if
TriZetto's operating performance falls short of expectations,
such that Debt-to-EBITDA leverage increases above 5.5x
and free cash flow weakens to low single digit percentages of total debt.
Conversely, upward rating momentum could develop if TriZetto's
business profile strengthens with increasing scale and growing diversity
of revenues from expanded product solutions and good market penetration.
Moody's could raise TriZetto's ratings if it maintains good
competitive position, generates strong cash flow growth driven by
earnings growth, and demonstrates it can accommodate its growth
strategy and fiscal objectives -- including potential debt-financed
shareholder returns -- and still sustain Total Debt/EBITDA (Moody's
adjusted) of less than 4.0x.
For more detailed credit opinion, please refer to moodys.com
website.
The last rating action on TriZetto took place on September 23, 2010,
when Moody's affirmed TriZetto's CFR and maintained a stable
outlook in connection with the Company's plans to amend it existing
credit facility and redeem senior notes. On July 24, 2008
Moody's assigned TriZetto a first-time B1 corporate family rating
and Ba3 ratings to its senior secured credit facilities.
The principal methodologies used in this rating were Global Business and
Consumer Service Industry rating methodology published in October 2010,
and Loss Given Default for Speculative-Grade Non-Financial
Companies in the U.S., Canada and EMEA published in
June 2009.
Headquartered in Greenwood Village, Colorado, TriZetto is
a provider of information technology solutions to the healthcare industry.
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New York
Raj Joshi
Analyst
Corporate Finance Group
Moody's Investors Service
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Alexandra S. Parker
MD - Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance Group
Moody's Investors Service
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Moody's assigns B1 rating to TriZetto's new credit facilities
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