Apollo Investment Corp. Reports Operating Results (10-Q)

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Feb 08, 2010
Apollo Investment Corp. (AINV, Financial) filed Quarterly Report for the period ended 2009-12-31.

Apollo Investment Corp. has a market cap of $1.65 billion; its shares were traded at around $10.06 with a P/E ratio of 7.08 and P/S ratio of 4.38. The dividend yield of Apollo Investment Corp. stocks is 11.13%.AINV is in the portfolios of David Williams of Columbia Value and Restructuring Fund, Paul Tudor Jones of The Tudor Group, Chuck Royce of ROYCE & ASSOCIATES, Murray Stahl of Horizon Asset Management.

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At December 31, 2009, 63% or $1.6 billion of our income-bearing investment portfolio is fixed rate debt and 37% or $0.9 billion is floating rate debt, measured at fair value. At December 31, 2008, 70% or $1.6 billion of our income-bearing investment portfolio was fixed rate debt and 30% or $0.7 billion was floating rate debt.

Net operating expenses totaled $34.2 million and $100.5 million, respectively, for the three and nine months ended December 31, 2009, of which $26.4 million and $77.6 million, respectively, were base management fees and performance-based incentive fees and $5.0 million and $14.5 million, respectively, were interest and other credit facility expenses. Of these net operating expenses, general and administrative expenses totaled $2.8 million and $8.4 million, respectively, for the three and nine months ended December 31, 2009. Net operating expenses totaled $43.9 million and $135.6 million, respectively, for the three and nine months ended December 31, 2008, of which $27.9 million and $86.0 million, respectively, were base management fees and performance-based incentive fees and $13.7 million and $42.0 million, respectively, were interest and other credit facility expenses. Of these net operating expenses, general and administrative expenses totaled $2.3 million and $7.7 million, respectively, for the three and nine months ended December 31, 2008. Net expenses consist of base investment advisory and management fees, insurance expenses, administrative services fees, legal fees, directors fees, audit and tax services expenses, and other general and administrative expenses. The decrease in net expenses for the three and nine month periods ended December 31, 2009 versus the three and nine month periods ended December 31, 2008 was primarily related to the decrease in the weighted average interest expense on our revolving credit facility. This decrease in weighted average interest expense is due primarily to average LIBOR decreasing by approximately 200 basis points. For the three and nine months ended December 31, 2009, accrued excise tax expenses totaled $1.2 million. For the three and nine months ended December 31, 2008, accrued excise tax expenses totaled $0.9 million.

The Companys net investment income totaled $50.2 million and $150.9 million or $0.30 and $0.99 per average share, respectively, for the three and nine months ended December 31, 2009. For the three and nine months ended December 31, 2008, net investment income totaled $52.8 million and $155.6 million or $0.37 and $1.12 per average share, respectively.

The Company had investment sales and prepayments totaling $66.6 million and $167.1 million, respectively, for the three and nine months ended December 31, 2009. For the three and nine months ended December 31, 2008, investment sales and prepayments totaled $144.3 million and $254.7 million, respectively. Net realized losses for the three and nine months ended December 31, 2009 were $152.0 million and $253.4 million, respectively. For the three and nine months ended December 31, 2008, net realized losses totaled $3.6 million and $63.4 million, respectively.

For the three and nine months ended December 31, 2009, the Company had a net increase in net assets resulting from operations of $79.5 million and $273.2 million, respectively. For the three and nine months ended December 31, 2008, the Company had a net decrease in net assets resulting from operations of $475.5 million and $641.7 million, respectively. The earnings per average share were $0.48 and $1.78 for the three and nine months ended December 31, 2009, respectively. For the three and nine months ended December 31, 2008, the loss per average share was $3.34 and $4.63, respectively.

The Companys liquidity and capital resources are generated and generally available through periodic follow-on equity offerings, through its senior secured, multi-currency $1.56 billion revolving credit facility (see note 12 within the Notes to Financial Statements), through investments in special purpose entities in which we hold and finance particular investments on a non-recourse basis, as well as from cash flows from operations, investment sales of liquid assets and prepayments of senior and subordinated loans and income earned from investments and cash equivalents. At December 31, 2009, the Company had $948 million in borrowings outstanding and $611 million of unused capacity. In the future, the Company may raise additional equity or debt capital off its shelf registration, among other considerations. The primary use of funds will be investments in portfolio companies, cash distributions to our stockholders, reductions in debt outstanding and other general corporate purposes. On December 15, 2009, the Company closed on its most recent follow-on public equity offering of 11.5 million shares of common stock at $9.82 per share raising approximately $107.8 million in net proceeds.

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