NOTE 12. Notes and Contracts Payable:

 

 

December 31,

 

 

2025

 

 

2024

 

 

(dollars in millions)

 

5.45% senior unsecured notes due September 30, 2034, effective interest rate of
   
5.49%

 

$

450.0

 

 

$

450.0

 

2.40% senior unsecured notes due August 15, 2031, effective interest rate of 2.44%

 

 

650.0

 

 

 

650.0

 

4.00% senior unsecured notes due May 15, 2030, effective interest rate of 4.05%

 

 

450.0

 

 

 

450.0

 

Other notes and contracts payable with maturities through 2029, weighted
   -average interest rates of
3.99% and 3.77%

 

 

7.8

 

 

 

11.0

 

 

 

1,557.8

 

 

 

1,561.0

 

Unamortized discounts and debt issuance costs

 

 

(12.4

)

 

 

(14.4

)

 

$

1,545.4

 

 

$

1,546.6

 

The Company maintains a senior unsecured credit agreement with JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., in its capacity as administrative agent, and the lenders party thereto that provides for a $900.0 million revolving credit facility. The credit agreement includes an expansion option that permits the Company, subject to satisfaction of certain conditions, to increase the revolving commitments and/or add term loan tranches in an aggregate amount not to exceed $450.0 million. The obligations of the Company under the credit agreement are neither secured nor guaranteed. Proceeds from borrowings made from time to time under the credit agreement may be used for general corporate purposes. Unless terminated earlier, the credit agreement will terminate on May 17, 2028. At December 31, 2025, the Company had no outstanding borrowings under the facility.

At the Company’s election, borrowings of revolving loans under the credit agreement bear interest at (a) the Alternate Base Rate plus the applicable spread, (b) the Adjusted Term SOFR Rate plus the applicable spread, or (c) the Adjusted Daily Simple SOFR plus the applicable spread (in each case as defined in the credit agreement). The Company may select interest periods of one, three or six months for Adjusted Term SOFR Rate borrowings of loans. The applicable spread varies depending upon the Debt Rating assigned by Moody’s Investor Service, Inc., Standard & Poor's Rating Services and/or Fitch Ratings Inc. The minimum applicable spread for Alternate Base Rate borrowings is 0.125% and the maximum is 0.75%. The minimum applicable spread for Adjusted Term SOFR Rate and Adjusted Daily Simple SOFR borrowings is 1.125% and the maximum is 1.75%. The Alternate Base Rate is subject to a floor of 1.00% and the Adjusted Term SOFR Rate and the Adjusted Daily Simple SOFR are each subject to a floor of 0.00%. The rate of interest on any term loans incurred in connection with the expansion option will be established at or about the time such loans are made and may differ from the rate of interest on revolving loans.

The credit agreement includes representations and warranties, reporting covenants, affirmative covenants, negative covenants, financial covenants and events of default customary for financings of this type. Upon the occurrence of an event of default the lenders may accelerate the loans. Upon the occurrence of certain insolvency and bankruptcy events of default the loans will automatically accelerate. As of December 31, 2025, the Company was in compliance with the financial covenants under the credit agreement.

The aggregate annual maturities for notes and contracts payable for the next five years and thereafter are summarized as follows:

 

Year

 

Annual maturities

 

 

(in millions)

 

2026

 

$

3.4

 

2027

 

 

2.2

 

2028

 

 

2.0

 

2029

 

 

0.2

 

2030

 

 

450.0

 

Thereafter

 

 

1,100.0

 

 

$

1,557.8

 

 

Historical Timeline

Fiscal YearFiled
2025Feb 18, 2026Showing above
2024Feb 21, 2025
2023Feb 21, 2024
2022Feb 15, 2023
2021Feb 17, 2022
2020Feb 17, 2021
2019Feb 18, 2020
2018Feb 20, 2019
2017Feb 16, 2018
2016Feb 17, 2017
2015Feb 19, 2016

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