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Financing Arrangements
 12 Months Ended
Nov. 30, 2024
Financing Arrangements [Abstract]  
Financing Arrangements FINANCING ARRANGEMENTS
Our outstanding debt, including finance leases, was as follows at November 30:
(millions)20242023
Short-term borrowings  
Commercial paper$431.3 $269.4 
Other51.8 2.8 
 $483.1 $272.2 
Weighted-average interest rate of short-term borrowings at year-end4.7 %5.5 %
Long-term debt
3.15% notes due 8/15/2024
$— $700.0 
3.25%notes due 11/15/2025(1)
250.0 250.0 
0.90% notes due 2/15/2026
500.0 500.0 
3.40% notes due 8/15/2027(2)
750.0 750.0 
2.50% notes due 4/15/2030(3)
500.0 500.0 
1.85% notes due 2/15/2031
500.0 500.0 
4.95% notes due 4/15/2033(4)
500.0 500.0 
4.70% notes due 10/15/2034(5)
500.0 — 
4.20% notes due 8/15/2047
300.0 300.0 
7.63%–8.12% notes due 2024
— 55.0 
Other, including finance leases119.8 159.1 
Unamortized discounts, premiums, debt issuance costs and fair value adjustments(6)
(61.0)(74.9)
3,858.8 4,139.2 
Less current portion265.2 799.3 
 $3,593.6 $3,339.9 

(1)Interest rate swaps, settled upon the issuance of these notes, effectively set the interest rate on the $250 million notes at a weighted-average fixed rate of 3.45%. Separately, the fixed interest rate on $100 million of the 3.25% notes due in 2025 is effectively converted to a variable rate by interest rate swaps through 2025. Net interest payments are based on USD SOFR plus 1.487% (previously U.S. three-month LIBOR plus 1.22%) with an effective variable rate of 5.92% as of November 30, 2024.
(2)Interest rate swaps, settled upon the issuance of these notes, effectively set the interest rate on the $750 million notes at a weighted-average fixed rate of 3.44%. Separately, the fixed interest rate on $250 million of the 3.40% notes due in 2027 is effectively converted to a
variable rate by interest rate swaps through 2027. Net interest payments are based on USD SOFR plus 0.907% (previously U.S. three-month LIBOR plus 0.685%) with an effective rate of 5.73% as of November 30, 2024.
(3)Interest rate swaps, settled upon the issuance of these notes, effectively set the interest rate on the $500 million notes at a weighted-average fixed rate of 2.62%. Separately, the fixed interest rate on $250 million of the 2.50% notes due in 2030 is effectively converted to a variable rate by interest rate swaps through 2030. Net interest payments are based on USD SOFR plus 0.684% with an effective rate of 5.22% as of November 30, 2024.
(4)Treasury lock agreements, settled upon issuance of these notes, effectively set the interest rate on these $500 million notes at a weighted-average fixed rate of 5.00%.
(5)Treasury lock agreements, settled upon issuance of these notes, effectively set the interest rate on these $500 million notes at a weighted-average fixed rate of 4.68%.
(6)Includes unamortized discounts, premiums, and debt issuance costs of $(26.0) million and $(25.4) million as of November 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively. Includes fair value adjustment associated with interest rate swaps designated as fair value hedges of $(35.0) million and $(49.5) million as of November 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
Maturities of long-term debt, including finance leases, during the fiscal years subsequent to November 30, 2024 are as follows (in millions):
2025$265.2 
2026509.3 
2027759.7 
202810.3 
202918.0 
Thereafter2,357.3 
In October 2024, we issued $500 million aggregate principal amount of 4.70% unsecured senior notes due 2034. Interest is payable semi-annually in April and October each year, beginning on April 15, 2025. As part of the issuance of new debt, we entered and settled treasury locks in a notional amount of $150 million to manage our interest rate risk associated with the issuance of the unsecured senior notes. We designated the treasury lock arrangements as cash flow hedges with the realized gain of $0.9 million to be amortized to interest expense over the life of the underlying debt.
In April 2023, we issued $500 million aggregate principal amount of 4.95% unsecured senior notes due 2033. Interest is payable semi-annually in April and October of each year, beginning on October 15, 2023. As part of the issuance of new debt, we entered and settled treasury locks in a notional amount of $250.0 million to manage our interest rate risk associated with the issuance of the unsecured senior notes. We designated the treasury lock arrangements as cash flow hedges with the realized loss of $2.6 million to be amortized to interest expense over the life of the underlying debt.
We have available credit facilities with domestic and foreign banks for various purposes. Some of these lines are committed lines and others are uncommitted lines and could be withdrawn at various times. Our committed lines include a five-year $1.5 billion revolving credit facility, which will expire in June 2026 and a 364-day $500 million revolving credit facility, which was entered into in August 2024 and expires in August 2025. We previously maintained a 364-day $500 million revolving credit facility that was entered into in June 2023 and expired in June 2024. Upon entering into the June 2023 364-day $500 million revolving credit facility, we simultaneously cancelled the 364-day $500 million revolving credit facility which was entered into in July 2022 and was set to expire in July 2023. In the second quarter of 2023, we amended our five-year revolving credit facility expiring in June 2026 to no longer use LIBOR. The current pricing for the five-year credit facility, on a fully drawn basis, is Term SOFR plus 1.25% (previously LIBOR plus 1.25%). The pricing of that credit facility is based on a credit rating grid that contains a fully drawn maximum pricing of the credit facility equal to Term SOFR plus 1.75% (previously LIBOR plus 1.75%). The current pricing for the 364-day credit facility, on a fully drawn basis, is Term SOFR plus 1.23%. The pricing of that 364-day credit facility is based on a credit rating grid that contains a fully drawn maximum pricing of the credit facility equal to Term SOFR plus 1.60%. These credit facilities require a fee, and commitment fees were $2.3 million, $2.4 million and $2.1 million for 2024, 2023, and 2022, respectively.
These credit facilities support our commercial paper program and, after $431.3 million was used to support issued commercial paper, we have $1,568.7 million of capacity at November 30, 2024. The provisions of these revolving credit facilities restrict subsidiary indebtedness and require us to maintain a minimum interest coverage ratio. As of November 30, 2024, our capacity under both revolving credit facilities was not affected by these covenants. We do not expect that these covenants would limit our access to our revolving credit facilities for the foreseeable future.
In addition, we have several uncommitted lines totaling $326.8 million, which have a total unused capacity at November 30, 2024 of $308.9 million. These lines, by their nature, can be withdrawn based on the lenders’ discretion.
In 2023, we executed a nonrecourse accounts receivable sale program whereby certain eligible U.S. receivables are sold to third party financial institution in exchange for cash. The program provides us with an additional means for managing liquidity. Under the terms of the arrangement, we act as the collecting agent on behalf of the financial institution. We account for the transfer of receivables as a sale at the point control is transferred through derecognition of the receivable on our consolidated balance sheet. The outstanding amount of receivables sold under this program were approximately $106.9 million and $19.6 million as of November 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively. The incremental costs of factoring receivables under this arrangement were insignificant in 2024 and 2023. The proceeds from the sales of receivables are included in cash flows from operating activities on the consolidated cash flow statement. As collecting agent on the sold receivables, we had $9.6 million of cash collected that was not yet remitted to the third party financial institution as of November 30, 2024. This obligation is reported within other accrued liabilities on the consolidated balance sheet as of November 30, 2024 and within cash flows from financing activities on the consolidated cash flow statement.
At November 30, 2024, we had no outstanding guarantees with terms of one year or less. As of November 30, 2024 and 2023, we had outstanding letters of credit of $61.5 million and $62.4 million, respectively. These letters of credit typically act as a guarantee of payment to certain third parties in accordance with specified terms and conditions. The unused portion of our letter of credit facility was $13.7 million at November 30, 2024.