PARIS (S&P Global Ratings) May 28, 2020--S&P Global Ratings today said that the expected negative effects on Icade S.A.'s office rental and development revenue growth and consolidated ratios this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic should be moderated by the company's robust first-quarter rental performance, resilient health care branch (mostly short-term care clinics), and comfortable financial cushion. Overall, we believe Icade's credit metrics should remain compatible with our current 'BBB+/A-2' ratings, with a stable outlook. EBITDA to interest coverage should remain in the 5.1x-5.3x range in 2020-2021, which is well above our 4x minimum ratio expectation for maintaining the rating. Similarly, we forecast debt to debt plus equity will increase to 44.0%-47.0% in 2020-2021, from 41.9% in 2019, but remain