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Long-Term Debt
6 Months Ended
Jan. 31, 2017
Debt Disclosure [Abstract]  
Long-Term Debt
11. Long-Term Debt

The Company has a five-year credit agreement, which was entered into on June 30, 2016 and matures on June 30, 2021. The agreement provides for a $500,000 asset-based revolving credit facility and a $100,000 expansion option, subject to certain conditions. Borrowings outstanding on this facility totaled $325,000 at January 31, 2017 and $360,000 at July 31, 2016, and are subject to a variable pricing structure which can result in increases or decreases to the borrowing spread. Depending on the Company’s borrowing availability as a percentage of the revolving credit commitment, pricing spreads can range from 1.25% to 1.75% in the case of loans bearing interest at LIBOR, and from 0.25% to 0.75% for loans bearing interest at the base rate. As of January 31, 2017, the borrowing spread on the LIBOR-based borrowings of $320,000 was 1.50%, resulting in a total rate of approximately 2.27%, and the spread on the base loans of $5,000 was 0.5%, resulting in a total rate of 4.25%. In addition, a 0.25% annual fee is payable quarterly on the unused portion of the credit line under the revolver. As of January 31, 2017, the available and unused credit line under the revolver was $137,561. The revolving credit facility, which is secured by substantially all of the Company’s tangible and intangible assets excluding real property, contains customary limits and restrictions concerning investments, sales of assets, liens on assets, stock repurchases and dividend and other payments depending on adjusted excess cash availability as defined in the agreement and summarized below. The terms of the facility permit prepayment without penalty at any time, subject to customary breakage costs relative to the LIBOR-based loans.

Borrowing availability under the credit agreement is limited to the lesser of the facility total and the monthly calculated borrowing base, which is based on stipulated loan percentages applied to the Company’s eligible trade accounts receivable and eligible inventories plus a defined amount related to certain machinery and equipment. The credit agreement has no financial covenant restrictions for borrowings as long as the Company has adjusted excess availability under the facility that exceeds 10% of the lesser of the line commitment or the borrowing base total, with a floor of $40,000. Adjusted excess availability consists of the calculated borrowing base availability plus eligible cash on deposit as specified in the facility agreement. If the adjusted excess availability is less than the stipulated amount, then the Company must comply with one financial covenant, a trailing twelve-month minimum fixed charge coverage ratio of 1:1. The Company was in compliance with its financial covenant in place at January 31, 2017. As of January 31, 2017, the Company had adjusted excess availability for covenant purposes of $238,536.

 

For the three months ended January 31, 2017, the total LIBOR and base rate interest expense on the facility was $1,826 and the weighted-average interest rate on borrowings from the facility was 2.23%. For the six months ended January 31, 2017, the total LIBOR and base rate interest expense on the facility was $3,704 and the weighted-average interest rate on borrowings from the facility was 2.19%. The Company incurred fees to secure the facility of $7,850 in fiscal 2016, and those fees are being amortized ratably over the five-year term of the agreement, or a shorter period if the credit agreement period is shortened for any reason. The Company recorded charges related to the amortization of these fees, which are recorded in interest expense, of $392 and $785 for the three and six months ended January 31, 2017, respectively, and the unamortized balance of these facility fees was $6,934 at January 31, 2017 and is included in Other long-term assets in the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet.

The carrying value of the Company’s long-term debt at January 31, 2017 approximates fair value as the entire balance is subject to variable market interest rates that the Company believes are market rates for a similarly situated Company. The fair value of debt is largely estimated using level 2 inputs as defined by ASC 820.