AVANOS MEDICAL, INC.AVNS
AVANOS MEDICAL, INC. Debt Disclosure
Debt
As of December 31, 2025 and 2024, our debt balances were as follows (in millions):
| Weighted- Average Interest Rate | Maturity | As of December 31, | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 2025 | 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Revolving Credit Facility | 5.94% | 2027 | $ | — | $ | 25.0 | |||||||||||||||||
| Term Loan Facility | 5.79% | 2027 | 100.8 | 110.2 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 100.8 | 135.2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Unamortized debt issuance costs | (0.3) | (0.5) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Current portion of long-term debt | (10.2) | (9.4) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Total Long-Term Debt, net | $ | 90.3 | $ | 125.3 | |||||||||||||||||||
On June 24, 2022, we entered into a credit agreement (the “Credit Agreement”) with certain lenders which established credit facilities in an aggregate principal amount of $500.0 million, consisting of a five-year senior secured term loan of $125.0 million (the “Term Loan Facility”) and a five-year senior secured revolving credit facility allowing borrowings of up to $375.0 million, with a letter of credit sub-facility in an amount of $75.0 million (the “Revolving Credit Facility”). All obligations under the Credit Agreement and certain hedging agreements and cash management arrangements thereunder are: (i) guaranteed by each of the Company’s direct and indirect, existing and future, material wholly owned domestic subsidiaries (“Guarantors”) and (ii) secured by a first priority lien on substantially all the assets of the Company and the Guarantors. The Credit Agreement contains an accordion feature that allows us to incur incremental term loans under the Term Loan Facility or under new term loan facilities or to increase the amount of the commitments under the Revolving Credit Facility, including through the establishment of one or more tranches under the Revolving Credit Facility. The Credit Agreement will mature on June 24, 2027.
Borrowings under the Term Loan Facility and Revolving Credit Facility bear interest at our option at either: (i) an adjusted term secured overnight financing rate (“SOFR”), plus a margin ranging between 1.50% to 2.00% per annum, depending on our consolidated total leverage ratio; (ii) an adjusted daily simple SOFR rate, plus a margin ranging between 1.50% to 2.00% per annum, depending on our consolidated total leverage ratio; or (iii) a base rate (calculated as the greatest of (a) the prime rate, (b) the NYFRB rate (being the greater of the federal funds effective rate or the overnight bank funding rate) plus 0.50%, and (c) the one month adjusted term SOFR rate plus 1.00%, plus a margin ranging between 0.50% to 1.00% per annum, depending on our consolidated total leverage ratio. The unused portion of the Revolving Credit Facility will be subject to a commitment fee ranging between 0.20% to 0.25% per annum, depending on our consolidated total leverage ratio. Unamortized debt discount
and issuance costs are being amortized to interest expense over the life of the Term Loan Facility using the interest method, resulting in an effective interest rate of 5.6% as of December 31, 2025.
Debt Payments
The Credit Agreement requires quarterly principal installment payments on the Term Loan Facility of 10% of the total principal borrowed for the first eight quarters following funding and then quarterly installment payments of 20% of the total principal borrowed, at which time the remaining unpaid principal amount of the Term Loan Facility is due and payable by the Company upon the maturity date of June 24, 2027. The current portion of the Term Loan Facility is $10.2 million. Interest is payable quarterly. We are permitted to prepay all or a portion of the Term Loan Facility and the Revolving Credit Facility at any time without premium or penalty. Interest is payable at the same rates set forth above for the Revolving Credit Facility.
During the year ended December 31, 2025, we repaid $9.4 million of the Term Loan Facility. During the year ended December 31, 2025, we repaid $25.0 million of the Revolving Credit Facility. As of December 31, 2025, we had letters of credit outstanding of $4.1 million.
As of December 31, 2025, the aggregate amounts of long-term debt that will mature during each of the next four years are as follows (in millions):
| Amount | ||||||||
| 2026 | $ | 10.2 | ||||||
| 2027 | 90.6 | |||||||
| 2028 | — | |||||||
| 2029 | — | |||||||
| Total | $ | 100.8 | ||||||
Debt Covenants
The Credit Agreement requires compliance with certain customary operational and financial covenants. In addition, we are subject to covenants in the Credit Agreement that, among other things, limit our ability and the ability of certain of our subsidiaries to:
•incur additional indebtedness, guarantee indebtedness or issue disqualified stock or preferred stock;
•pay dividends on, repurchase or make distributions in respect of our capital stock or prepay certain subordinated indebtedness;
•make certain investments or acquisitions;
•sell, transfer or otherwise convey certain assets;
•create liens;
•enter into agreements restricting certain subsidiaries’ ability to pay dividends or make other intercompany transfers;
•consolidate, merge, sell or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of our and our subsidiaries’ assets; and
•enter into transactions with affiliates.
Pursuant to the restrictive covenants that limit our ability to pay dividends, we have the ability to pay dividends, repurchase stock and make investments up to an “Available Amount,” as defined in the credit agreement, provided that we are in compliance with all required covenants, there are no events of default and upon meeting certain financial ratios.
The Credit Agreement also includes financial covenants which require us not to exceed a certain consolidated net secured leverage ratio and to maintain a consolidated interest coverage ratio above a certain level. These financial covenants are tested quarterly. As of December 31, 2025, we were in compliance with all of our debt covenants.
As of December 31, 2025, our repayment requirements in the next five years includes any balance remaining on our Revolving Credit Facility and Term Loan Facility, which are due on June 24, 2027.
Historical Timeline
| Fiscal Year | Filed | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Feb 24, 2026 | Showing above |
| 2024 | Feb 26, 2025 | |
| 2023 | Feb 21, 2024 | |
| 2022 | Feb 21, 2023 | |
| 2021 | Feb 23, 2022 | |
| 2020 | Feb 19, 2021 | |
| 2019 | Feb 25, 2020 | |
| 2018 | Feb 26, 2019 | |
| 2017 | Feb 27, 2018 | |
| 2016 | Feb 27, 2017 | |
| 2015 | Feb 29, 2016 | |
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