## Reasoning ### Step 1: Calculate Net Debt (S&P Methodology) Under S&P methodology, Net Debt typically includes: - Short-term borrowings - Long-term borrowings - Lease liabilities (S&P typically includes these) - Less: Cash and cash equivalents - S&P treats hybrid capital with intermediate equity content - typically 50% debt / 50% equity for hybrids. Let me consider this. **Debt components (as of 2023-01-01, which is end of fiscal year 2022):** - Long-term borrowings: 19,006M EUR - Short-term borrowings: 709M EUR - Current bank overdrafts: 0M EUR - Noncurrent lease liabilities: 574M EUR - Current lease liabilities: 155M EUR - Hybrid capital: 2,125M EUR → S&P typically treats 50% as debt = 1,062.5M EUR **Total Gross Debt:** 19,006 + 709 + 0 + 574 + 155 + 1,062.5 = 21,506.5M EUR **Less: Cash and cash equivalents:** 6,547M EUR **Net Debt:** 21,506.5 - 6,547 = 14,959.5M EUR ### Step 2: Calculate EBITDA (S&P Methodology) S&P EBITDA = Operating profit + Depreciation & Amortization + adjustments From the income statement for 2022 (period 2022-01-01 to 2023-01-01): - Revenue: 8,299M - Operating Expense: 9,395M - Share of profit of associates/JVs: 120M - Other Gains/Losses: -38M (included in operating expense) - Profit from operating activities: -976M Wait, let me recalculate. The operating profit is stated as -976M EUR. Actually, looking more carefully: - Revenue: 8,299M - Operating Expense: 9,395M (this includes energy transmission charges, employee benefits, D&A, other operating expenses, and other gains/losses) - Share of profit of JVs/associates: 120M - Operating profit = 8,299 - 9,395 + 120 = -976M ✓ **EBITDA = Operating Profit + D&A** = -976 + 1,233 = 257M EUR But S&P might also adjust for: - S&P typically adds back operating lease payments (reclassified as debt). Under IFRS 16, leases are already capitalized, so D&A already includes lease depreciation and interest on leases is in finance costs. So the IFRS 16 EBITDA should already be comparable. - S&P also adjusts hybrid capital interest - the 50% of hybrid coupon treated as debt would have its interest (57M × 50% = 28.5M) added back to EBITDA... Actually, the hybrid distributions are treated as equity distributions in the P&L (profit attributable to hybrid capital owners: 57M). Under S&P, 50% of the hybrid coupon (28.5M) would be treated as interest expense and deducted from EBITDA... Actually no, S&P adds it to interest but if it wasn't in operating expenses to begin with, it doesn't affect EBITDA. Looking at the P&L, the hybrid capital distributions of 57M appear to be allocated from net profit (shown as "Profit Loss Attributable To Hybrid Capital Owners" = 57M). This is not an operating expense, so EBITDA is not affected. **S&P EBITDA ≈ 257M EUR** However, this seems very low. Let me also consider that S&P sometimes excludes share of profit from equity-accounted investments and instead includes dividends received. The dividends received from JVs = 92M (from cash flow statement). S&P adjusted EBITDA = -976 - 120 (remove equity method income) + 92 (add dividends received) + 1,233 (D&A) = 229M EUR ### Step 3: Net Debt / EBITDA Using the basic EBITDA: 14,959.5 / 257 ≈ 58.2x Using S&P adjusted EBITDA: 14,959.5 / 229 ≈ 65.3x These ratios seem extremely high due to the regulatory nature of TenneT where costs are passed through and there's a regulatory lag. Let me reconsider - for regulated utilities, S&P often uses FFO (Funds from Operations) to debt rather than EBITDA. But the question specifically asks for Net Debt/EBITDA. Let me use the simpler calculation: **Net Debt / EBITDA = 14,959.5 / 257 ≈ 58.2** Hmm, but let me reconsider whether S&P would include the full hybrid as equity or 50/50. Given the extremely high ratio, let me also reconsider without hybrid treatment: Without hybrid adjustment: - Gross Debt = 19,006 + 709 + 574 + 155 = 20,444M - Net Debt = 20,444 - 6,547 = 13,897M - Net Debt/EBITDA = 13,897 / 257 ≈ 54.1 The EBITDA is very depressed. Let me double-check: The company had massive energy transmission charges (7,517M) against revenue of 8,299M, leaving very little margin. Going with the S&P approach (50% hybrid as debt): Net Debt / EBITDA ≈ 14,959.5 / 257 ≈ 58.2 58.2