Donna M. Mitchell

The pool is diversified by brand, but faces staffing and operational pressures prevalent in the restaurant sector. Also, malls comprise 60% of systemwide sales (SWS) for Auntie Anne's and Cinnabon combined.

The deal also includes exchangeable notes, initial over-collateralization of 1.00%—that can build to a target of 100%, and a reserve account funded at about 1.50% of the pre-funded pool balance.

Total initial hard credit enhancements to vary, however, with levels of 8.85% and 6.85% on the class A and B notes, respectively.

On average, the borrowers have a non-zero FICO score of 723, the same as VZMT 2023-6, Fitch said. Accounts with upgrade eligibility account for 56.12% of the pool, slightly lower than the previous deal.

The transaction structure benefits from several forms of credit enhancement to the deal, including advance rates of 55.0%, 66.5% and 76.5% on the classes A, B and C notes, and a rapid amortization trigger event.

Full-term, interest-only loans account for 98.4% of the pool, while just two loans, or 1.6% are financed with an amortizing balloon. Analysts expect a cap rate of 9.19% capitalization rate to the underlying properties.

In one of the deal's positive credit attributes, none of the underlying loans in the collateral have terms longer than 72 months. Such longer-term loans have historically performed worse than shorter-term loans.

The A1 and A2 notes, the two senior notes in the payment priority, have the same level of total hard credit enhancement, 17.6%.

Subprime auto loans will repay the outstanding notes, and the collateral pool includes changes such as 85.67% of originated loans in the current pool, with a cutoff date of September 30, falling within CPS' top five credit tiers.

Rocket Mortgage accounts for the single largest percentage of originators in the pool, while Select Portfolio Servicing will service all of the loans in the pool.

The deal has 76,440 in underlying loans, compared with 46,671 on the 2023-C deal. The average balance per borrower, however, was just $14,657, compared with the $14,430 on the 2023-C deal.

All of the class A notes, of which there are four tranches of notes, have a credit enhancement level of 7.55%, while classes B and C have credit enhancement levels of 5.75% and 2.75%.

Regardless of HAROT 2023-4's issuance amount, which could reach $1.8 billion, all of the notes have total initial hard credit enhancement levels of 2.75%, and a reserve fund of 0.25%.

ACAR 2023-4 pool has a weighted average (WA), non-zero FICO score of 551, noticeably higher than the 535 FICO score of 2023-2.

S&P sets out to rate $83.85 million in several subordinate notes, all of which are secured by auto loans, and which are expected to mature in January 2034.

DriveTime is a longtime issuer, but Bridgecrest Lending Auto Securitization is the first securitization of the sponsor's assets that Bridgecrest Acceptance services.

Home equity investment (HEI) agreements homeowners receive upfront cash payments in exchange for giving an investor a stake in the property and the right to collect returns.

DBRS says 98.2% of the loans have been performing since origination, while just 1.8% of the pool is 30 to 59 days delinquent in payments.

The transaction could be upsized to $1.25 billion, from $1 billion, but the 4.00% overcollateralization level is expected to remain constant through the life of the deal.

Both tranches have the same legal final maturity of Oct. 20, 2033, an initial (OC) of 26.00%, and an initial reserve of 0.50%.