Standard & Poor's and Fitch assign bond credit ratings of AAA, AA, A, BBB, BB, B, CCC, CC, C, D. Currently there are only two companies in the United States with an AAA credit rating: Microsoft and Johnson & Johnson. [5]

2024年2月12日 · AA+ is the second-highest bond rating assigned by rating agency S&P, while Aa1 is the equivalent of Moody's.

2024年11月22日 · AA+ and AAA are the highest credit ratings provided by Standard and Poor's and Fitch. AAA is the highest score and AA+ comes right after it with both signifying a very low risk of default.

Fitch’s credit rating scale for issuers and issues is expressed using the categories ‘AAA’ to ‘BBB’ (investment grade) and ‘BB’ to ‘D’ (speculative grade) with an additional +/- for AA through CCC levels indicating relative differences of probability of default or recovery for issues.

AAA - An obligor rated ‘AAA’ has EXTREMELY STRONG capacity to meet its financial commitments. ‘AAA’ is the highest Issuer Credit Rating assigned by Standard & Poor’s.

2024年10月25日 · Bond ratings indicate a bond's credit quality, helping investors assess default risk. The three major bond ratings agencies are Moody's, Standard & Poor's, and Fitch Ratings. Investment-grade...

2011年8月20日 · There are 3 major rating agencies that evaluate thousands of issuers and their municipal bonds. The agencies are Standard and Poor’s (S&P), Moody’s, and Fitch. The ratings agencies assign ratings such as AAA and other ratings we’ll discuss below.

2023年11月9日 · Investment grade bonds contain “AAA” to “BBB-" ratings from Standard and Poor's and Fitch, and "Aaa" to "Baa3" ratings from Moody’s. Investment-grade bonds usually see bond yields increase...

Typically, ratings are expressed as letter grades that range, for example, from ‘AAA’ to ‘D’ to communicate the agency’s opinion of relative level of credit risk. As part of its ratings analysis, S&P Global Ratings evaluates available current and historical information and assesses the potential impact of foreseeable future events.

Moody’s credit ratings represent a rank-ordering of creditworthi-ness, or expected loss. Expected loss is a function of the probability of default and the expected severity of loss given a default. Ratings are forward looking in that the rank ordering is designed to hold across multiple horizons.