Aug 7, 2020
Operator
Welcome to the PennantPark Investment Corporation’s Third Fiscal Quarter 2020 Earnings Conference Call. Today’s conference is being recorded.
At this time, all participants have been placed in a listen-only mode. The call will be open for a question-and-answer session following the speaker’s remarks.
[Operator Instructions] It is now my pleasure to turn the call over to Mr. Art Penn, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of PennantPark Investment Corporation.
Mr. Penn, you may begin your conference.
Art Penn
Good morning, everyone. I would like to welcome you to PennantPark Investment Corporation’s third fiscal quarter 2020 earnings conference call.
I am joined today by Aviv Efrat, our Chief Financial Officer. Aviv, please start off by disclosing some general conference call information and included discussion about forward-looking statements.
Aviv Efrat
Thank you, Art. I would like to remind everyone that today’s call is being recorded.
Please note that this call is the property of PennantPark Investment Corporation and that any unauthorized broadcast of this call in any form is strictly prohibited. Audio replay of the call will be available by using the telephone numbers and PIN provided in our earnings press release as well as on our website.
I’d also like to call your attention to the customary Safe Harbor disclosure in our press release regarding forward-looking information. Today’s conference call may also include forward-looking statements and projections and we ask that you refer to our most recent filings with the SEC for important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from these projections.
We do not undertake to update our forward-looking statements unless required by law. To obtain copies of our latest SEC filings, please visit our website at pennantpark.com or call us at 212-905-1000.
At this time, I would like to turn the call back to our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Art Penn.
Art Penn
Thanks, Aviv. First, we hope that you, your families and those you work with are staying healthy.
We are pleased to report that PennantPark continues to operate smoothly and effectively and remains committed to working diligently on behalf of our investors. We are going to spend a few minutes discussing how we fared in the quarter ended June 30, how the portfolio is positioned for upcoming quarters, our capital structure and liquidity, the value proposition of our stock, the financials and then open it up for Q&A.
Despite the challenging economic conditions brought on by the pandemic, we are pleased that we accomplished several key goals this past quarter. We achieved a 7% increase in adjusted NAV as the market stabilized during the quarter.
We also achieved our goals of reducing leverage and increasing liquidity. We are particularly pleased with our announcement of the formation of PennantPark Senior Loan Fund, PSLF, our joint venture with Pantheon, a leading global private markets investor.
The initial $35 million equity investment made by Pantheon is in an existing portfolio of loans at an attractive price of $0.945 on the $1. They plan to invest an additional $30 million of equity over time into the JV at fair market value.
Additionally, our leverage will decrease by about $245 million, which bolsters our balance sheet. The equity from Pantheon into our platform not only validates the value proposition of our existing portfolio, it also helps scale the PennantPark platform to continue to be a leading lending partner in the market and creates additional capital for future investment into the attractive new vintage of loans that we are seeing in the market.
We believe that our rigorous underwriting process and disciplined approach has successfully positioned us to manage through the challenges ahead. We have an excellent team of talented and dedicated professionals, many with decades of experience managing through multiple economic cycles to help ensure the best possible outcome in this type of difficult environment.
Although we never predicted a global pandemic, as you may know, we have been preparing for an eventual recession for some time. Prior to the COVID-19 crisis, we proactively positioned the portfolio as defensively as possible.
Over the past several years, we have generally been moving into first lien secured positions, higher in the capital structure and into a more diversified portfolio. The overall portfolio was constructed to withstand market and economic volatility.
As of June 30, average debt to EBITDA in the portfolio was 4.6x and the average interest coverage ratio, the amount by which cash income exceeds cash interest expense, was 2.9x. We had only one non-accrual on our book out of 86 different names in PNNT.
This represents only 2.5% of the portfolio of cost and 2.3% at market value. We have largely avoided some of the sectors that have been hurt the most by the pandemic, such as retail, restaurants, health clubs, apparel and airlines, although PNNT does have exposure to oil and gas, which we will discuss later.
The portfolio is highly diversified with 86 companies in 30 different industries. Since inception, PNNT has invested $5.9 billion at an average yield of 12%.
This compares to an annualized realized loss ratio of about 24 basis points annually. If we include both realized and unrealized losses, the annualized loss ratio was only 37 basis points annually.
This strong track record includes our energy investments, our primarily subordinated debt investments made prior to the financial crisis, and now some portion of the pandemic. You will recall that in 2007 just as today, PNNT was focused on financing middle-market financial sponsored transactions.
Our performance through the global financial crisis and recession was solid. Prior to the onset of the global financial crisis in September 2008, we initiated investments, which ultimately aggregated $480 million.
Our playbook then is similar to our playbook now. We focused primarily on the existing portfolio to preserve capital, while raising the bar and becoming even more highly selective on new investment.
The investments performed well. Average EBITDA of the underlying portfolio companies fell about 7% to the bottom of the recession.
According to the Bloomberg North American High Yield Index, the average high-yield company EBITDA was down about 42% during that timeframe. As a result we had few defaults and attractive recoveries on that portfolio.
The IRR of those underlying investments was 8% even though they were done prior to the financial crisis and recession. We are proud of this downside case track record.
We have had only 14 companies going non-accrual, out of 254 investments since inception over 13 years ago. Further, we are pleased that even while we have had those non-accruals, we have been able to preserve capital for our shareholders.
Now, let’s turn to the outlook ahead in the coming quarters and how our portfolio is positioned. We have been communicating on a frequent basis with management teams and the private equity sponsor owners of our portfolio companies.
As mentioned previously, we are gratified that our historical focus has protected us from some of the worst hit areas of the economies, such as retail, restaurants, health clubs, apparel and the airlines. We have been pleased with the way our portfolio companies have moved to rapidly adjust cost and have focused on shoring up liquidity.
Looking forward to the quarter ended September 30 and beyond, there remains meaningful uncertainty about the timing and pace of the economic recovery and its impact on the portfolio. Nevertheless, where things stand today, our analysis suggests that the vast majority of the companies in our portfolio have sufficient liquidity to pay their interest payments as they come due in the coming quarters.
With regard to investments in the energy industry, those investments represent 8.3% of the overall portfolio. There is no material update since last quarter.
The quarter was challenging from a pricing perspective and oil prices were briefly negative, but RAM and ETX have suspended all drilling activities and reduced all non-essential capital expenditures expenses in personnel. Revenues and cash flow were materially reduced as the entire industry is conserving liquidity.
While hedges in place were helpful, they only partially mitigate the impact of low oil prices. We are encouraged that with the partial reopening of the economy, oil prices seem to have stabilized around $40 and may trend higher in coming months.
On the positive side, many of our portfolio companies are in industries such as government services, defense contracting, software communication and cyber security, which collectively comprised a substantial portion of the portfolio and are less impacted by COVID. Our focus has been on traditional middle-market companies, where we have benefited from terms, covenants and structures much more attractive to lenders and those of larger companies.
These terms enables us to see potential challenges and portfolio companies and be positioned to assist and protect our capital much sooner in the low to no covenant loans, which are typical of larger borrowers. Due to the covenant protections we have negotiated, we have been able to be at the table quickly with borrowers.
As a result, we have negotiated increased protections, including more equity from sponsors as well as enhanced economics, including amendment fees and increased yield. Inevitably in certain cases, there may need to be a broader restructuring of a capital stack or two.
As we have proven over 13 years in business, we are adept at dealing with and maximizing value over time in these situations. With regard to our financials, I will give some summary highlights and Aviv will go into more detail.
Our net investment income was $0.16 per share above our dividend of $0.12 per share. Our GAAP debt to equity ratio, net of cash was 1.5x.
Regulatory debt to equity ratio, net of cash, which excludes SBIC debt was 1.4x as many of you know in early 2009 in response to the GFC, we started marketing many of our liabilities, our credit facilities and bonds to market to better align our asset and liability values. This reduces the volatility of NAV in times of market volatility such as we have today.
The additional benefit at that time and for the ensuing decade was that a reduced the volatility of our leverage as calculated for regulatory asset coverage test. Last year the SEC guided us that for the regulatory asset coverage purposes, they would prefer we marked liabilities and cost and not market which we now do for that test.
As a result, we will be highlighting both GAAP leverage and regulatory asset coverage leverage with regard to NAV. Our GAAP NAV was $7.82 as of June 30 of approximately 1.4% from the prior quarter, which reflects both the markup of assets, offset by the markup of certain liabilities assuming liabilities were not market to market.
Adjusted NAV would have been $7.46 up approximately 7% from the prior quarter. With regard to leverage we have been targeting a regulatory debt to equity ratio of 1.1x to 1.5x.
Our net regulatory asset coverage ratio of 1.4x was within the range this past quarter. Pro forma for the creation of the PSLFJV with pantheon our net regulatory asset coverage ratio would be 0.9x.
We have ample liquidity to fund a revolver draws and were in compliance with all of our facilities at June 30, we have readily available borrowing capacity and cash liquidity to support our commitments. We have a strong capital structure with diversified funding sources and no near-term maturities, we have $475 million revolving credit facility maturing in 2024 with the syndicated banks, $134 million of SBA debentures maturing in 2026 and $86 million of unsecured notes maturing in 2024, we’ve been consistent dialog with our lenders and are thankful for their support.
Regarding our capital structure, over the last few quarters, we have discussed two initiatives. One of them has been our PSLFJV that is now in place, our other initiative is our application to the SBA, following up on the green light letter we received for our SBIC III.
We are still in process with the SBA spend a minute on our new JV with Pantheon PLSF. Pantheon invested $35 million to take a 28% stake in an SPV that previously existed as a wholly owned subsidiary of PNNT as a result of this JV, the subsidiary and as $245 million credit facility from BMP moved off balance sheet.
The portfolio PSLF is entirely first lien senior secured loans and as a fair value of $356 million, the Pantheon investment value to loans at $94.5 on the dollar, which is a small discount to the June 30 fair value of $96.6 on the dollar. As a result of the transaction is dilutive to NAV by about $2 million or $0.04 per share, the BMP facility moving off balance sheet a par due to the mark-to-market of that credit facility.
The additional impact to GAAP NAV is $8 million or $0.12 a share. As a result of the impact on adjusted NAV is $0.04 a share and the impact on GAAP NAV in $0.16 per share.
$22.5 million of $35 million invested by Pantheon was invested into the SPV, and the other $0.5 million was paid in cash to PNNT. The PNNT and Pantheon investments are split into approximately 70% subordinated debt and 30% equity, the subordinated debt has a LIBOR spread of 800 and a LIBOR floor of 1% target leverage for PLSF is 1.5x debt to equity.
With regard to our stock price, we believe that the share price of PNNT does not accurately reflect the long-term value of the company. As stated earlier the average debt to EBITDA of our underlying portfolio as of June 30 was 4.6x.
Translating this into the language value investors had stock price at PNNT today well below NAV and every company defaulted with the shareholders would own a portfolio of companies at a multiple of about 2x cash flow, even in a recession with potential decline in cash flow value investors should be able to appreciate that attractive low multiple. We continue to review and we will look to selectively make new investments.
Our focus continues to be on companies and structures that are defensive have reasonable leverage covenant projections and attractive returns. The outlook for new financings is attractive, we believe there middle-market lending is a vintage business is upcoming vintage of loans is likely to be the most attractive we have seen since 2009 to 2012 time period leverage levels are lower equity cushion higher yields are higher and the package of protections including covenants are tighter after enjoying about 5 years of light of a late cycle market for middle-market lending it is refreshing to have attractive risk reward available to us.
Let me now turn the call over to Aviv, our CFO, to take us through the financial results.
Aviv Efrat
Thank you, Art. For the quarter ended June 30, net investment income totaled $0.16 per share.
Looking at some of the expense categories base fees, totaled $4.6 million taxes, general and administrative expenses totaled $1.5 million and interest expense totaled $8 million. Additionally, the incentive fee of $1.9 million was fully waived.
Net unrealized gain on our investment was $29 million or $0.44 per share. Net unrealized depreciation on our credit facilities was $0.37 per share.
Our net investment income exceeded our dividend by $0.04 per share. Consequently entity per share went from $7.71 to $7.82 per share.
Adjusted NAV excluding the mark-to-market of our liabilities was $7.46 per share, up 7% from $6.97 per share, the increase in NAV was primarily due to our 2% valuation increase on our investment portfolio. Reminder, our entire portfolio credit facility and senior notes are mark-to-market by on our Board of Directors each quarter using the exit price provided by independent valuation firm’s securities and exchanges or independent broker-dealer quotes when active markets are available under ASC 820 and 825.
In cases where broker dealer quotes are inactive we use independent valuation firms to value the investments, our overall debt portfolio has a weighted average yield of 8.7% on June 30, our portfolio consisted of 86 companies across 30 different industries. The portfolio was invested 59% in first-lien secured loans 18% in second lien secured debt 5% in subordinated debt and 18% in preferred and common equity 94% of the portfolio had a floating rate of which 92% has a LIBOR floor.
The average LIBOR floor is 1%. Now, let me turn the call back to Art.
Art Penn
Thanks, Aviv. To conclude, we want to reiterate our mission, our goal is to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns through income coupled with long-term preservation of capital, everything we do is aligned to that goal.
We try to find less risky middle market companies and if high free cash flow conversion we capture that free cash flow primarily in debt instruments and we pay out those contractual cash flows in the form of dividends to our shareholders. In closing, I would like to thank our extremely talented team of professionals for their commitment and dedication.
Thank you all for your time today and for your continued investment and confidence in us. That concludes our remarks.
At this time, I would like to open up the call for questions.
Operator
Thank you. [Operator Instructions] And we will take our first question from Kyle Joseph with Jefferies.
Please go ahead.
Kyle Joseph
Hey, good afternoon guys. Thanks for having me on and taking my questions.
I just wanted to get a sense, are you touched on this a bit here. Obviously investment activity was light in the quarter.
But given what you guys done with your balance sheet in the increased investment capacity following the JV, how quickly can we expect the new deal environment to ramp. I know you mentioned that it should be an attractive vintage here you know how quickly should we expect a new rate new originations to recover?
Art Penn
Thanks Kyle, look we are only seeing green shoots right now in terms of kind of new flow, we are encouraged by the new flow that we are seeing it’s a very attractive risk-adjusted returns higher, higher yields lower leverage more equity tighter covenants so encouraged and it will be financed through a combination of our existing portfolio of getting refinance for sure our shipping portfolio is going to turn it over time, as well as Q2 careful growth. Yes, our leverage is, is at a nice level, you want to be careful and thoughtful about what we do.
So, a combination of taking advantage of repayments that we will naturally have as well as some careful growth into the future.
Kyle Joseph
Yes, sure. And then so balancing that we got a lot of moving parts in terms of the JV, the rate environment anticipated yield on new investments.
So just balancing that, can you give us a sense for, for the outlook on yields for the portfolio kind of near-term, medium term and then longer term?
Art Penn
Sure. It’s a great question in of course seeing yields on new issues up maybe 100 to 150 in some case, up 200 basis points from where they were and just 5 or 6 months ago.
Importantly with all of that is the credit and the underlying credit we think is, is more conservative and has better capital preservation attribute. So, a typical down the middle of the fairway deal today.
We think it’s probably levered 4x to 4.5x debt to EBITDA and generating in our 600 or 700 kind of kind of LIBOR spread. 6 months ago there might have been 5x to 5.5x debt to EBITDA with a LIBOR spread of 5% to 5.5% over LIBOR.
So the overall package is very attractive today, in addition to having even tighter covenant. Our book is always going to be below 5x we specifically wanted to keep it below 5x.
But this vintage will be very attractive risk-adjusted returns.
Kyle Joseph
Got it. Thanks very much for answering my questions.
Art Penn
Thanks, Kyle.
Operator
And we will take our next question from Robert Dodd with Raymond James. Please go ahead.
Robert Dodd
Hi, guys. So some questions that relates to the JV, and congratulations on that structure.
I mean to the point in the prepared remarks, obviously everything in that JV is going to be first lien that does mean that the pro forma information that JV, the mix of by asset type no industry etcetera on balance sheet is going to skew much more towards much further away from first lien when you had that shifting. So can you give us any color on how you are going to view that approach to the market about whether when they you offsets on first lien are total growth as almost consolidating the JV portfolio in terms of how you think of the currency mix in the portfolio or is the intent to just look at the may be taking up the firstly mix on balance sheet come from where it’s going to stand pro forma to the JV format?
Art Penn
Yes, yes. So to a couple of a couple of comments and now, Robert, and thank you.
First, we are only selling a minority position 28% of that first lien portfolio panting I wanted to invest more and that’s why we took $35 million today and they want to invest potentially up to $30 million in the future. So, we only wanted to sell a minority piece of that of that portfolio which we think is a really good portfolio in that portfolio in and of itself could and should grow over time and then you talk about what’s our balance sheet also has been mostly pivoting towards first lien in the last couple of years and that’s what we are going to continue to do by and large, not to say that if there is a fantastic second lien deal that’s compelling.
We are always thinking about that, but generally we are looking for capital preservation. First and foremost, we do have equity has a chunk of our portfolio that over time, we want to exit kind of the pandemic probably push those plans back a year, but we still have some equity that we think is very promising and should happen here over the coming year or two and until we exit those equity investments.
I think we are going to stay pretty cautious and conservative for the rest of PNNT and then as we exit goes over time we can assess and see where the market is and see what the pro forma mix of investments should be, but I think we are focused on capital preservation and over the next year or two exiting these equity investments. It’s good price as possible.
Robert Dodd
Got it. And on the topic, if that obviously you gave some color in the prepared remarks with them ETX suspended drilling, but obviously oil handsome rebounded somewhat stabilized at 40 I think 45 this week even what would the oil forward curve, how we were not going to need to look like.
We use those to kind of reactivate drilling programs at Ram and ETX and what would the cap would they have sufficient capital if those will be activated obviously has from Macquarie. So, any color you can give all?
Art Penn
Yes on a quarter we are hunkered down there. I think it’s starting $55 or $60 then starts to be a more realistic debate.
And I think to be quite frank, we would look to outside capital or look to exit those investments if and when oil gets back up to those to those levels. What we know.
I think at this point, we are extending the option as long as we can and we think we can extend for quite a while and should oil hit those levels and we hope it doesn’t at some point that might be a good time to have those investments.
Robert Dodd
Got it. And if I can one more, I don’t know if you said, the vast majority companies have the liquidity to pay interest.
Yes, going forward, etcetera obviously vast majority is in. So those why you have done an evaluation and in the not vast majority bucket, how are the discussions going with them.
I mean them more or sponsors of what I mean what’s being done for those where the liquidity situation is still perhaps, there is a gap?
Art Penn
Yes, it’s really thankfully and kind of if you were to ask me rather 3 months ago, if we do every day talking about up NAV for the quarter and very minor non accruals I would have been Sharpton astounded and thrilled and we are here today. And quite frankly BNL or touch whether we are in really good shape.
I mean certainly there are going to be some companies, mostly related to travel related things where there is going to be some issues and it’s kind of case by case with the sponsors, where they put equity in or not, you know how we amend things how we get paid to do that. Do we roll up our sleeves and take control in certain cases that may make the most sense, so case by case it’s name by name, and what the outlook for the particular name is what the sponsor is willing to do or willing to do, but it’s a very, very small thankfully very small piece of the portfolio at this point.
Now the disclaimer is we are not out of the woods yet, right. So, we have to see how the fall goes and what the public health issues are and what the vaccine issues are and all that, those kind of, if you say we are kind of midway through the pandemic, or what do you think we are halfway through in a quarter.
The way through mostly through it, we feel we are feeling pretty good about this portfolio.
Robert Dodd
I appreciate it. Thank you.
Art Penn
Thank you.
Operator
We will take our next question from Paul Johnson with Keefe, Bruyette & Woods. Please go ahead.
Paul Johnson
Hi, guys. Thanks for taking my questions.
I had another question on the JV. I am just curious how do you plan on structuring the JV, do you intend on this being solely an equity investment or possibly bifurcating into debt investment along with the equity investment?
Art Penn
Yes, it is a similar to good question, Paul, similar to our joint venture over at PFLT with Kemper as JV will be split it will be about 70% subordinated debt L plus 800 and below 1% and the rest will be equity.
Paul Johnson
Okay, great. Thanks for that.
And then I guess also on the JV, I realize it probably have definitely this went into your thought process, but just given the higher equity allocation in your portfolio on the balance sheet. I think it’s 18% or so fair value with the formation of the JV, do you expect to have any kind of issue with the limitation in your non-qualified asset bucket?
Art Penn
No, it’s a good question, where we have got plenty of dry powder in that 30% bucket, the amount of foreign investments has committed us so not really an issue and we look, we think the market will see through this JV likely feature all the other JVs and understand the underlying assets are first lien debt. But in terms of the qualifying asset issue few problems.
Paul Johnson
Okay. And then a little bit is on the loan modifications waivers you have been dealing with that the quarter.
Just curious if that’s sort of activity has moderated quite a bit so far, or if you just kind of seeing kind of same level of requests coming in at this time.
Art Penn
Yes, that’s yes, we have seen less over time we in essence, it was more activity going on in that area kind of in April, we are still seeing some and we are still have some of the work or a process on, but the momentum or the pacing of those amendment request has certainly slowed down now as time has gone on
Paul Johnson
Thanks to that. And the last question, it has to do I mean you mentioned just the outlook for potential investments improving potentially entering into a time where there’s going to be some very attractive investments.
I mean as far as how you evaluate the current portfolio. I am curious how do you balance or how do you consider an investment like Ram Energy if, even if the environment today just stayed static and nothing changed obviously still challenged.
I mean do you ever consider the maybe possibly the opportunity cost of holding on to an investment that large versus what could be a pretty attractive areas for new capital to be deployed and I say that I also realize it’s much easier said than done to make a sale on some of these types of asset especially in this environment.
Art Penn
Yes, it’s a great question. We took you down all the time and we of course always weigh the existing portfolio against new loans and we look forward today where we can get an attractive exit opportunity, RAM.
Paul Johnson
Okay. Thanks for answering my questions.
Thanks.
Art Penn
It’s time for the next questions.
Operator
We will take our next question from Rick Shane with JPMorgan. Please go ahead.
Rick Shane
How are you?
Art Penn
Okay.
Rick Shane
If you exited what we talked about on these calls?
Art Penn
I am going to talk about the JV I mean that’s the topic today. Yes, but you are right, I guess I will talk about it.
Rick Shane
Yes. I appreciate that.
All it’s actually a bit for me because I did want to talk about the JV a little bit. You have had a couple of questions on the JV.
You had some questions on sort of reentering the origination market. I am assuming given where the leverage is on the overall portfolio right now, the incremental deployment of capital will be through the JV, is that likely to be in hand.
Art Penn
I think it’s going to be, it could be both, I mean the JV and it’s about on balance sheet PNNT both add-on investments. So, and then I think both the JV and the balance sheet will have repayments.
We are starting to see some repayments happening and of course it is an opportunity to upscale yield on the portfolio.
Rick Shane
Got it. And that actually leads to my final question, given the actual both market structure right now and physical structure in terms of being able to do things like due diligence.
Do you think that your origination channels will change a little bit, would you do more clubs syndicated transactions, simply because there are advantages to collaborative due diligence?
Art Penn
You are putting a couple of different issues together which is a good question. I haven’t thought about it that way, you are putting in the challenge of due diligence question along with kind of diversification club type things, I mean, look, I think I hadn’t really thought about putting the two together, but it’s an interesting way to think about things, certainly due diligence is more challenging today certainly though if we want to get deals done we will figure it out.
How much can we can do on desktop, how much we or our people who we work with can actually do physical due diligence, how much were relying on independent 3rd parties like the sponsor or consultants. You can do everything, almost everything without actually going kicking the tires.
The question is what do you do ultimately to kick the tires and how best to do that. So I don’t think and I think we can get deals done.
I think we can get your has done I think we will we are figuring out how to how to not physically send for people to a factory somewhere. And so I think deals will get done in terms of the bite sizes, you are kind of question is I think alluding to the fact that because you can do full due diligence everyone wants to be more diversified, because you just don’t want to take a big, big by the Thomson then have a big, big hiccup.
I don’t know if that’s really what you are thinking about. But I think the market of at least on diversification right now.
I mean some of the folks who we partner with have come to us and said, we really do want to just have more diversified portfolio. Just as a matter of risk management and managing our portfolios.
I think that’s happened naturally you are regardless of the due diligence question. I don’t know if I answered your question.
Rick, but if I haven’t please to drill in a little bit.
Rick Shane
You absolutely did it. It is interesting and it’s fascinating.
How every business is evolving at this point? So I appreciate you taking the question.
Operator
[Operator Instructions] We will take our next question from [indiscernible], Private Investor. Please go ahead.
Unidentified Analyst
Hi, can you hear me okay?
Art Penn
Yes.
Unidentified Analyst
Thanks for taking the question. So I have one question, one follow-up on the first is, I would assume that many of your portfolio companies had taken advantage of the payment protection program and other statements in the company.
Art Penn
Looks like, we lost him.
Unidentified Analyst
Can you hear me now?
Art Penn
Yes, I can hear you.
Unidentified Analyst
The question is just do you have a sense of how much of your portfolio has benefited from the PPP or other short-term stimulus plans and thus how will they manage through that should those should this program to roll off, which could be quite imminent in this fall or later this year.
Art Penn
Yes. Thank you.
That’s a good question. We say a handful of our companies did participate Triple-T typically, there would be companies that already in an SBIC or they were already in an SBA program.
So they were already kind of part of the SBA world based on what we have seen those funds. Certainly been accretive and helpful and enhance the liquidity.
That said, since most of our companies have been our professional management teams are sponsorship looking through the Triple-T, they are looking at the long-term trends and they are doing what they need to do to bolster the liquidity, either through cost cuts or managing our working capital or capital expenditure programs – capital expenditure programs very tightly. So as I said in the prepared remarks, we are feeling pretty good about the liquidity of the underlying portfolio.
Triple-T included in some portion of those names. So I just to use that as a segue, we haven’t yet seen any Fed Main Street if it means program I think is now up and running, we haven’t yet seen it impact our portfolio.
But we are – our ears to the ground and we are going to see what happens with that program.
Unidentified Analyst
Great, thank you. A quick follow-up on your stock, as you talk about new purpose remarks, it’s a the one could argue that rather than investing in any new deal at maybe 8%, 9%, 10% will you could be investing stock purchase of stock in that capacity?
Art Penn
Yes. If you were to look at it here you are cutting out.
I think you are asking about stock buyback. That’s my influence the you are asking about stock buyback at something that we look at all the time, we have done two stock buybacks in our history of PennantPark one we have completed about a year ago.
So we bought back about 60 million of stock over the course of time today the market cap. That’s a relatively large amount of capital relative to these are market cap of the company.
It’s something we think about all the time in a world where we are focused right now mostly on liquidity making sure that we can get through the pandemic. I think we have kind of put that on hold for a while or at least the next few quarters until we get through the pandemic and then we will pick it up again.
We just want to make sure we have excess liquidity to deal with. Most importantly, our existing portfolio companies get through the pandemic and that’s why my comments about kind of new originations are somewhat muted.
And we just really want to preserve capital at this point, preserve liquidity. Certainly, we do want to look at new deals, but we are very focused on getting through the pandemic in as good fashion as possible.
So I don’t know if that answered your question, your question was a little unclear. It looks like you maybe on the cell phone, but Aaron anything else or did I answer your question?
Unidentified Analyst
No, thanks a lot. Sorry, sorry for the communication to come and I am on the cellphone, so appreciate your time.
Thanks a lot.
Art Penn
Alright. Thank you.
Operator
It appears there are no further questions at this time. Mr.
Penn, I’d like to turn the conference back to you for any additional or closing remarks.
Art Penn
I just want to thank everybody for being on the call today. Reminder that the next time we are doing a call is our 10-K.
So will be a couple of weeks later than normal probably mid-November. Look forward to speaking to people then.
If anybody wants chat between now and then we will be happy to – we are happy to talk to you. Thank you very much for your time today.
Operator
And this concludes today’s call. Thank you for your participation.
You may now disconnect.