Company: NMFCZ
Filing Date: 2025-11-03
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001496099-25-000035
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Company: New Mountain Finance Corp
Filing Date: 2025-11-03
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 8
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We monitor the performance and financial trends of our portfolio companies on at least a quarterly basis. We attempt to identify any developments within the portfolio company, the industry or the macroeconomic environment that may alter any material element of our original investment strategy. Our portfolio monitoring procedures are designed to provide a simple yet comprehensive analysis of our portfolio companies based on their operating performance and underlying business characteristics, which in turn forms the basis of its Risk Rating (as defined below).

We use an investment risk rating system to characterize and monitor the credit profile and expected level of returns on each investment in the portfolio. As such, we assign each investment a composite score (“Risk Rating”) based on two metrics – 1) Operating Performance and 2) Business Characteristics:

•Operating Performance assesses the health of the investment in context of its financial performance and the market environment it faces. The metric is expressed in Tiers of “4” to “1”, with “4” being the best and “1” being the worst:

◦Tier 4 – Business performance is in-line with or above expectations

◦Tier 3 – Moderate business underperformance and/or moderate market headwinds

◦Tier 2 – Significant business underperformance and/or significant market headwinds

◦Tier 1 – Severe business underperformance and/or severe market headwinds

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•Business Characteristics assesses the health of the investment in context of the underlying portfolio company’s business and credit quality, the underlying portfolio company’s current balance sheet, and the level of support from the equity sponsor. The metric is expressed as on a qualitative scale of “A” to “C”, with “A” being the best and “C” being the worst.

The Risk Rating for each investment is a composite of these two metrics. The Risk Rating is expressed in categories of Green, Yellow, Orange and Red, with Green reflecting an investment that is in-line with or above expectations and Red reflecting an investment performing materially below expectations. The mapping of the composite scores to these categories are below:

•Green – 4C, 3B, 2A, 4B, 3A, and 4A (e.g., Tier 4 for Operating Performance and C for Business Characteristics)

•Yellow – 3C, 2B, and 1A

•Orange – 2C and 1B

•Red – 1C 

The following table shows the Risk Rating of our portfolio companies as of September 30, 2025:

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