Allison Transmission Holdings Inc Debt Disclosure
NOTE 8. DEBT
Long-term debt and maturities are as follows (dollars in millions):
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December 31, 2025 |
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December 31, 2024 |
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Long-term debt: |
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Senior Notes, fixed 4.75%, due 2027 |
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$ |
400 |
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$ |
400 |
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Senior Notes, fixed 5.875%, due 2029 |
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500 |
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500 |
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Senior Notes, fixed 3.75%, due 2031 |
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1,000 |
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1,000 |
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Senior Secured Credit Facility Term Loan, variable, due 2031 |
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509 |
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514 |
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Senior Notes, fixed 5.875%, due 2033 |
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500 |
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— |
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Total long-term debt |
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$ |
2,909 |
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$ |
2,414 |
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Less: current maturities of long-term debt |
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5 |
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5 |
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deferred financing costs, net (see Note 2) |
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19 |
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14 |
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Total long-term debt, net |
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$ |
2,885 |
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$ |
2,395 |
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Principal payments required on long-term debt during the next five years are as follows (dollars in millions):
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2026 |
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2027 |
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2028 |
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2029 |
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2030 |
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Payments |
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$ |
5 |
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$ |
405 |
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$ |
5 |
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$ |
505 |
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$ |
5 |
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As of December 31, 2025, the Company had $2,909 million of indebtedness associated with Allison Transmission, Inc.’s (“ATI”), the Company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, 4.75% Senior Notes due October 2027 (“4.75% Senior Notes”), ATI’s 5.875% Senior Notes due June 2029 (“5.875% Senior Notes 2029”), ATI’s 3.75% Senior Notes due January 2031 (“3.75% Senior Notes”), 5.875% Senior Notes due December 2033 ("5.875% Senior Notes 2033”), and together with the 4.75% Senior Notes, 5.875% Senior Notes 2029 and 3.75% Senior Notes, the “Senior Notes”) and the Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of March 29, 2019, as amended (the “Credit Agreement”), governing ATI’s term loan facility in the amount of $509 million due March 2031 (“Term Loan”) and ATI’s revolving credit facility with commitments in the amount of $750 million due March 2029 (“Revolving Credit Facility”, and together with the Term Loan, the “Senior Secured Credit Facility”).
The fair value of the Company’s long-term debt obligations as of December 31, 2025 was $2,858 million. The fair value is based on quoted Level 2 market prices of the Company’s debt as of December 31, 2025. The difference between the fair value and carrying value of the long-term debt is driven primarily by trends in the financial markets.
Senior Secured Credit Facility
The borrowings under the Senior Secured Credit Facility are collateralized by a lien on substantially all assets of the Company, ATI and certain existing and future U.S. subsidiary guarantors, as provided in the Credit Agreement. Interest on the Term Loan, as of December 31, 2025, is either (a) 1.75% over a SOFR rate on deposits in U.S. dollars for one-, three- or six-month periods (or a twelve-month period if, at the time of the borrowing, consented to by all relevant lenders and the administrative agent) ("Term SOFR"), or (b) 0.75% over the greater of the prime lending rate as quoted by the administrative agent, the Term SOFR rate for an interest period of one month plus 1.00% and the federal funds effective rate published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York plus 0.50%, subject to a 1.00% floor (the "Base Rate"). As of December 31, 2025, the Company elected to pay the lowest all-in rate of Term SOFR plus the applicable margin, or 5.50%, on the Term Loan. The Credit Agreement requires minimum quarterly principal payments on the Term Loan, as well as prepayments from certain net cash proceeds of non-ordinary course asset sales and casualty and condemnation events, the incurrence of certain debt and from a percentage of excess cash flow, if applicable. The minimum required quarterly principal payment on the Term Loan through its maturity date of March 2031 is $1 million. As of December 31, 2025, there had been no payments required for certain net cash proceeds of non-ordinary course asset sales and casualty and condemnation events. The remaining principal balance is due upon maturity.
The Senior Secured Credit Facility also provides a Revolving Credit Facility, net of an allowance for up to $75 million in outstanding letters of credit commitments. Throughout the year ended December 31, 2025, the Company made no withdrawals on the Revolving Credit Facility. As of December 31, 2025, the Company had $745 million available under the Revolving Credit Facility, net of $5 million in letters of credit. Borrowings under the Revolving Credit Facility bear interest at a variable base rate plus an applicable margin based on the Company’s first lien net leverage ratio. When the Company’s first lien net leverage ratio is above 4.00x, interest on the Revolving Credit Facility is (a) 0.75% over the Base Rate or (b) 1.75% over the Term SOFR rate; when the Company’s first lien net leverage ratio is equal to or less than 4.00x and above 3.50x, interest on the Revolving Credit Facility is (i) 0.50% over the Base Rate or (ii) 1.50% over the Term SOFR rate; and when the Company’s first lien net leverage ratio is equal to or below 3.50x, interest on the Revolving Credit Facility is (y) 0.25% over the Base Rate or (z) 1.25% over the Term SOFR rate. As of December 31, 2025, the applicable margin for the Revolving Credit Facility was 1.25%. In addition, there is an annual commitment fee, based on the Company’s first lien net leverage ratio, on the average unused revolving credit borrowings available under the Revolving Credit Facility. As of December 31, 2025, the commitment fee was 0.25%. Borrowings under the Revolving Credit Facility are payable at the option of the Company throughout the term of the Revolving Credit Facility with the balance due at the end of the term.
The Senior Secured Credit Facility requires the Company to maintain a specified maximum first lien net leverage ratio of 5.50x when revolving loan commitments remain outstanding on the Revolving Credit Facility at the end of a fiscal quarter. As of December 31, 2025, the Company had no amounts outstanding under the Revolving Credit Facility; however, the Company would have been in compliance with the maximum first lien net leverage ratio, achieving a (0.87x) ratio. Additionally, within the terms of the Senior Secured Credit Facility, a first lien net leverage ratio at or below 4.00x results in the elimination of excess cash flow payments on the Senior Secured Credit Facility for the applicable year.
In addition, the Credit Agreement, among other things, includes customary restrictions (subject to certain exceptions) on the Company’s ability to incur certain indebtedness, grant certain liens, make certain investments, engage in acquisitions, consolidations and mergers, declare or pay certain dividends or repurchase shares of the Company’s common stock. As of December 31, 2025, the Company was in compliance with all covenants under the Credit Agreement.
Senior Notes
In November 2025, ATI completed an offering of $500 million of the 5.875% Senior Notes due December 2033. The 5.875% Senior Notes 2033 were offered in a private placement exempt from registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. On June 11, 2025, the Company entered into a Stock Purchase Agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) with Dana Incorporated (“Dana”) to acquire its off-highway business (the "Acquisition"). The net proceeds from the offering will be used to pay for a portion of the Acquisition. As a result of the offering, the Company recorded $6 million as deferred financing fees in the Consolidated Balance Sheet as of December 31, 2025. See "Note 24. Acquisition” for additional details regarding the Acquisition.
Each series of the Senior Notes is unsecured and is guaranteed by each of ATI’s domestic subsidiaries that is a borrower under or guarantees the Senior Secured Credit Facility and is unconditionally guaranteed, jointly and severally, by any of ATI’s future domestic subsidiaries that are borrowers under or guarantee the Senior Secured Credit Facility. None of ATI’s domestic subsidiaries currently guarantee its obligations under the Senior Secured Credit Facility, and therefore none of ATI’s domestic subsidiaries currently guarantee any series of the Senior Notes. The indentures governing the Senior Notes contain negative covenants restricting or limiting the Company’s ability to, among other things: incur or guarantee additional indebtedness, incur liens, pay dividends on, redeem or repurchase the Company’s capital stock, make certain investments, permit payment or dividend restrictions on certain of the Company’s subsidiaries, sell assets, engage in certain transactions with affiliates, and consolidate or merge or sell all or substantially all of the Company’s assets. As of December 31, 2025, the Company was in compliance with all covenants under the indentures governing the Senior Notes.
ATI may from time to time seek to retire its Senior Notes through cash purchases, exchanges for equity securities, open market purchases, privately negotiated transactions, contractual redemptions or otherwise. Such repurchases or exchanges, if any, will depend on prevailing market conditions, liquidity requirements, contractual restrictions and other factors and will be in accordance with the respective indenture governing such notes. The amounts involved may be material. Some or all of the 4.75% Senior Notes, the 5.875% Senior Notes 2029 and the 3.75% Senior Notes may be redeemed at any time at redemption prices specified in the indentures governing such notes. Prior to December 1, 2028, ATI may redeem some or all of the 5.875% Senior Notes 2033 by paying a price equal to 100.00% of the principal amount being redeemed, plus an “applicable premium”. At any time on or after December 1, 2028, ATI may redeem some or all of the 5.875% Senior Notes 2033 at redemption prices specified in the indenture governing such notes.
Historical Timeline
| Fiscal Year | Filed | |
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| 2025 | Feb 24, 2026 | Showing above |
| 2024 | Feb 13, 2025 | |
| 2023 | Feb 14, 2024 | |
| 2022 | Feb 16, 2023 | |
| 2021 | Feb 17, 2022 | |
| 2020 | Feb 18, 2021 | |
| 2019 | Feb 27, 2020 | |
| 2018 | Feb 26, 2019 | |
| 2017 | Feb 15, 2018 | |
| 2016 | Feb 24, 2017 | |
| 2015 | Feb 19, 2016 | |
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