U.S. corporate debt: share by rating 2019 | Statista (2024)

Published by Statista Research Department, Sep 30, 2022

As of January 1, 2019, the majority of corporate debt in the United States was rated BBB or lower, amounting to just under 69 percent of the total outstanding debt for financial and nonfinancial companies. AAA rated debt accounted for 0.9 percent of the total outstanding debt, with no AAA debt having been issued by financial companies.

These figures only include debt rated by S&P Global.

Share of financial and nonfinancial company debt in the United States in 2019, by rating

CharacteristicFinancial companiesNonfinancial companies
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