DEBT
The Company's long-term debt consisted of the following: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | December 31 |
| ($ in millions) | | 2025 | | 2024 |
| Senior notes due May 1, 2025, 3.844% | | $ | — | | | $ | 500 | |
| Senior notes due December 1, 2027, 3.483% | | 600 | | | 600 | |
| Senior notes due August 16, 2028, 2.043% | | 600 | | | 600 | |
| Senior notes due January 15, 2030, 5.353% | | 500 | | | 500 | |
| Senior notes due May 1, 2030, 4.200% | | 500 | | | 500 | |
| Senior notes due January 15, 2035, 5.749% | | 500 | | | 500 | |
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| Gulf opportunity zone industrial development revenue bonds due December 1, 2028, 4.55% | | 21 | | | 21 | |
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| Finance lease obligations | | — | | | 9 | |
| Less unamortized debt issuance costs | | (21) | | | (27) | |
| Total long-term debt | | $ | 2,700 | | | $ | 3,203 | |
| Less current portion | | — | | | 503 | |
| Long-term debt, net of current portion | | $ | 2,700 | | | $ | 2,700 | |
Debt Facilities - In September 2024, the Company amended its existing $1.5 billion credit facility, increasing the capacity thereunder to $1.7 billion and extending the maturity date for five years from signing (the "Second Amended and Restated Revolving Credit Facility"). The Second Amended and Restated Revolving Credit Facility has a variable interest rate on outstanding borrowings based on the Secured Overnight Financing Rate ("SOFR") plus an interest spread, currently 1.475% based upon the Company's credit rating, which may vary between 1.225% and 2.100%. The commitment fee rate on the Second Amended and Restated Revolving Credit Facility as of December 31, 2025, was 0.200% and may vary between 0.125% and 0.300%. The Second Amended and Restated Revolving Credit Facility includes a letter of credit sub-facility of $300 million.
As of December 31, 2025, the Company had $11 million in issued but undrawn letters of credit and $1,689 million unutilized under the Second Amended and Restated Revolving Credit Facility. The Company had unamortized debt issuance costs associated with its debt facilities of $8 million and $10 million as of December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
The Second Amended and Restated Revolving Credit Facility contains customary affirmative and negative covenants and events of default, as well as a financial covenant based on a maximum total leverage ratio.
In September 2024, the Company's borrowing capacity under its unsecured commercial paper note program increased from $1 billion to $1.7 billion. As of December 31, 2025, the Company had no outstanding debt under the commercial paper program.
Senior Notes - In May 2025, the Company repaid $500 million aggregate principal amount of its 3.844% senior notes upon their maturity. The repayment was funded using a combination of cash on hand and proceeds from the Company’s commercial paper program.
In November 2024, the Company issued $500 million aggregate principal amount of 5.353% senior notes due 2030 and $500 million aggregate principal amount of 5.749% senior notes due 2035. The net proceeds from these senior notes were used for general corporate purposes, including debt repayment (which included repayment of its 3.844% senior notes due 2025 and commercial paper borrowings) and working capital.
The terms of the Company's senior notes limit the Company’s ability and the ability of certain of its subsidiaries to create liens, enter into sale and leaseback transactions, sell assets, and effect consolidations or mergers. Interest on the senior notes is payable semiannually. The Company had unamortized debt issuance costs associated with the senior notes of $13 million and $17 million as of December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
Interest on the Gulf Opportunity Zone Industrial Development Revenue Bonds is payable semiannually.
The agreements governing the Company's debt contain customary affirmative and negative covenants. The Company was in compliance with all debt covenants during the year ended December 31, 2025. Each of the Company's existing and future materially wholly owned domestic subsidiaries, except those that are specifically designated as unrestricted subsidiaries, are and will be guarantors under existing debt facilities, with the exception of the Gulf Opportunity Zone Industrial Development Revenue Bonds.
The estimated fair value of the Company's total long-term debt as of December 31, 2025, was $2,730 million. There was no current portion of long-term debt and no finance lease liabilities as of December 31, 2025. The estimated fair value of the Company's total long-term debt, including the current portion of long-term debt and excluding finance lease liabilities, as of December 31, 2024, was $3,110 million. The estimated fair value of the current portion of the Company's long-term debt, excluding finance lease liabilities, was $497 million as of December 31, 2024. The fair values of the Company's long-term debt were calculated based on recent trades of the Company's debt instruments in inactive markets, which fall within Level 2 under the fair value hierarchy.
As of December 31, 2025, the aggregate amounts of principal payments due on long-term debt within the next five years consisted of $600 million due in 2027, $621 million due in 2028, and $1 billion due in 2030.