Adani Group is 'deeply overleveraged', warns CreditSights
The HinduRichest Indian Gautam Adani's ports-to-power-to-cement conglomerate is "deeply overleveraged" with the group predominantly using debt to invest aggressively across existing as well as new businesses, CreditSights, a Fitch Group unit, said on Tuesday. "Over the past few years, the Adani Group has pursued an aggressive expansion plan that has pressurised its credit metrics and cash flows," CreditSights said. "The Adani Group is increasingly venturing into new and/or unrelated businesses, which are highly capital intensive and raises concerns regarding spreading execution oversight too thin," it added. "While the entrepreneurial vision of Gautam Adani is impressive, it also comes with high key-man risk, as the senior management capability in the group companies in his absence may prove to be inadequate," CreditSights said.