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Market · Philippines · Sun 13 Sept · 1 min read
DigiPlus debt headroom is real; prohibition risk is the ceiling
What happened
5 billion confirms the company has genuine balance sheet capacity to pursue debt-funded growth in a consolidating market. The operative constraint is not leverage availability but the single sentence Moody's buried in the report: a nationwide online gaming prohibition would trigger a multi-notch downgrade.…
Sources: Tavily
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