JLL Healthcare Capital Markets
Healthcare Perspectives
October 2022
The healthcare sector tenant base is amongst the most creditworthy of any sector
Note: Among constituent bonds of the Bloomberg U.S. Corporate Aggregate and High Yields Indices
Source: JLL Research, JLL Research, Bloomberg Finance L.P.
Key points:
• The healthcare sector offers one of the highest credit qualities of tenancy overall with a median credit rating of A-, considered a high investment grade rating. At this rating level, health systems produce consistently strong operations and cash flow, which are fundamental to meeting their payment obligations, such as rent, in full and on time. Healthcare providers benefit from reliable demand for healthcare services, regardless of economic cycles, and predictable reimbursement from diversified commercial and government sources, which themselves possess high credit qualities. These factors put health systems and physicians in an exceptional position to pay rent, which is typically less than 5% of overall expenses. Few industries can boast the level of certainty with respect to rent collections as the healthcare sector with historically rare credit defaults.
• More than three-quarters of U.S. health systems are not-for-profit or government-backed enterprises, accessing different sources of capital than for profit enterprises. Not-for profit systems rely on cash flow from operations, philanthropy, and new bond issues. In order to access the bond market, not-for-profit hospitals must maintain modest leverage, supported by high cash and investment balances to achieve rating levels, as opposed to for profit corporates with access to private or public equity markets and bond and bank markets, whether investment grade or below investment grade. As a result of this liquidity, hospitals rated A or better exhibit cash and investment holdings of 1.75 times outstanding debt for the median credit rating of A-, a rating level higher than most large corporates closer to BBB on average.
• In a changing and unpredictable economic environment, healthcare providers as tenants are highly valued by landlords, whether in medical office buildings, retail locations or other commercial office buildings. The proof statement for the defensive nature of healthcare tenants and their ability to consistently pay rent was evidenced in 2020, during the first year of the pandemic, with landlords reporting 99% or better collections from healthcare tenants. This reliability of rent payment, allowing landlords to meet their own payment obligations, makes healthcare providers very desirable tenants. The attractiveness of this profile bolsters the argument for medical office as a prime defensive asset class in the face of potential economic uncertainty.
Recent Activity
Closed – Financial Advisory
Anchor Health Properties platform recapitalization by foreign pension separately-managed account advised by StepStone. JLL Securities Mergers & Acquisitions Team acted as exclusive financial advisor to Anchor.
• $200m total equity commitment
• Acquisition of non-controlling common equity interest in platform operating company providing platform balance sheet strength and funding for select future investments
• Anchor’s current capital relationships and related investments not impacted – Anchor will continue to work with those valued partners
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