Auto ABS

Total initial hard credit enhancement decreased compared with GCAR 2024-3, subordination for class A notes was unchanged at 48.2%.

All AHART 2024-1's assets are backed by a pool of prime-quality auto loans and retail installment sales contracts, which the lender originated either directly or through relationships with franchised motor dealer channels.

The fixed-rate notes are expected to yield 4.90% on the A1 notes through 5.29% on the class D notes.

The current pool has the largest proportion of longer-term loans, at 49.8%. While this is a concern for analysts, the rest of the industry has seen this kind of increase.

The senior tranche will sell a mix of floating and fixed-rate notes, benefiting 22.5% in credit support. The class B notes are covered to a level of 15.0% and the tranche sells all fixed-rate notes.

The note balance can be upsized to $1.2 billion in auto ABS, according to Moody's Ratings, and the pool size can be increased to 26,514 contracts.

Notes benefit from overcollateralization of 2.60% of the initial pool. Subordination and a sequential payment priority will cause enhancement to be built up in the transaction, with overcollateralization reaching 4.5%.

In a potential credit drawback, TALT 2024-B has a residual value setting of 51.3% of the manufacturer's price. It was less than 50% in all the 2023 lease securitizations.

The collateral has subprime credit attributes, the credit quality of the Westlake 2024-3 pool was incrementally better than the 2024-2 transaction, and notably better than the 2023-4 deal.

All the three senior class A notes benefit from 60.95% in total initial hard credit enhancement. A reserve fund representing 1.00% of the total balance helps provide the credit enhancement to the notes.

Subordination is unchanged on the classes A and B notes, and increased to 1.20% on the 2024-5 series notes, from 1.10% on the 2024-4 series.

The 144A deals close within a week of each other and both have eight-year maturities. Series 2024-P3 has four class A tranches compared with 2024-N3's three class As.

The notes benefit from total initial hard credit enhancement that represents 8.0% of the pool balance on the class A notes. Classes B, C, D and N benefit from credit enhancement levels representing 5.40%, 2.20%, 0.50% and 0.25%, respectively.

The transaction has a nine-month revolving period. All of the leases are closed end, where the issuer bears the residual value risk, and more of them can be added during that period.

The concentration of electric vehicles also reached 17.8%, an increase from 15.3% in the 2024-B deal.

It is the third deal from the WOART program for the year, and could be upsized to $1.2 billion.

Total initial credit enhancement includes over-collateralization representing 8.95% of the initial pool balance, which is expected to build to a targeted level of 13.95%.

The transaction's notes have increased excess spread, as well as some structural optimization by the issuer, S&P said, which helps account for lower total initial hard credit enhancement levels for all classes of notes.

Yields are expected to range from 5.44% on the P-1 (Moody's) and A-1+ (S&P Global Ratings) notes to 5.74% on the notes rated Baa1 (Moody's) and A+ (S&P).

Most of the notes, classes A1 through A4, have a total initial hard credit enhancement of 9.19%. Classes B, C and D have initial credit enhancement levels of 6.09%, 2.50% and 125%.