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Debt Disclosure [Abstract] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Debt | Debt consisted of the following as of May 31, 2025 and August 31, 2024 (in thousands):
As of May 31, 2025, the Company’s senior secured revolving credit facilities provided for $800 million and C$15 million in revolving loans maturing in . The credit facility included a $50 million sublimit for letters of credit, a $25 million sublimit for swing line loans, and a $50 million sublimit for multicurrency borrowings. On June 16, 2025, the Company and certain of its subsidiaries entered into the Sixth Amendment (the “Sixth Amendment”) to its Third Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of April 6, 2016, by and among the Company, as the U.S. Borrower, Schnitzer Steel Canada, Ltd., as the Canadian Borrower, the subsidiaries of the Company party thereto (the “Guarantors”), Bank of America N.A., as administrative agent and the other lenders party thereto (as amended prior to the Sixth Amendment, the “Existing Credit Agreement”, the Existing Credit Agreement, as amended pursuant to the Sixth Amendment, the “Amended Credit Agreement”). The Sixth Amendment makes certain modifications to the Existing Credit Agreement, including amendments that, among other things, reduce the aggregate amount of revolving commitments available under the Amended Credit Agreement from $800 million to $625 million, reduce the sublimit for multicurrency borrowings from $50 million to $39 million, and extend for two additional fiscal quarters the suspension of the maintenance covenant previously requiring compliance with a minimum permitted fixed charge coverage ratio, as described below. The applicable interest rates under the facility are based, at the Company’s option, on either the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (“SOFR”) (or the Term Canadian Overnight Repo Rate Average “CORRA” for C$ loans), plus a spread of between 1.50% and 2.50%, with the amount of the spread based on a pricing grid tied to the Company’s ratio of consolidated net funded debt to EBITDA (as defined by the Amended Credit Agreement), or the greater of (a) the prime rate, (b) the federal funds rate plus 0.50% or (c) the daily rate equal to Term SOFR plus 1.00%, in each case, plus a spread of between 0.50% and 1.50% based on a pricing grid tied to the Company’s consolidated net funded debt to EBITDA ratio. In addition, commitment fees are payable on the unused portion of the credit facilities at rates between 0.175% and 0.350% based on a pricing grid tied to the Company’s ratio of consolidated net funded debt to EBITDA. As of May 31, 2025 and August 31, 2024, borrowings outstanding under the credit facilities were $435 million and $394 million, respectively. The weighted average interest rate on amounts outstanding under the credit facilities was 7.0% and 8.0% as of May 31, 2025 and August 31, 2024, respectively. The credit agreement contains various representations and warranties, events of default, and financial and other customary covenants which limit (subject to certain exceptions) the Company’s ability to, among other things, incur or suffer to exist certain liens, make investments, incur or guaranty additional indebtedness, enter into consolidations, mergers, acquisitions, and sales of assets, make distributions and other restricted payments, change the nature of the business, engage in transactions with affiliates, and enter into restrictive agreements, including agreements that restrict the ability of the subsidiaries to make distributions. The financial covenants under the Amended Credit Agreement include (a) a consolidated fixed charge coverage ratio of no less than 1.50 to 1.00, defined as the four-quarter rolling sum of consolidated EBITDA less defined maintenance capital expenditures and certain environmental expenditures divided by consolidated fixed charges, and (b) a consolidated leverage ratio of no more than 0.55 to 1.00, defined as consolidated funded indebtedness divided by the sum of consolidated net worth and consolidated funded indebtedness. For the fiscal quarters ending May 31, 2024 through May 31, 2026, the consolidated fixed charge coverage ratio has been temporarily replaced with (i) a minimum consolidated interest coverage ratio of 2.00 to 1.00 for the fiscal quarter ending May 31, 2024, and 1.25 to 1.00 for each of the fiscal quarters ending February 28, 2025 and February 28, 2026, and (ii) a minimum consolidated asset coverage ratio of no less than 1.00 to 1.00 for each fiscal quarter through the remaining term of the Amended Credit Agreement. The Company’s obligations under the credit agreement are guaranteed by substantially all of its subsidiaries. The credit facilities and the related guarantees are secured by senior first priority liens on certain of the Company’s and its subsidiaries’ assets, including equipment, inventory, accounts receivable and most other personal property and equity interests held by the Company and the Guarantors in their respective subsidiaries. As of May 31, 2025, the Company was in compliance with the applicable financial covenants under the Amended Credit Agreement. While the Company expects to remain in compliance with the financial covenants under the credit agreement, the Company may not be able to do so in the event market conditions do not improve, or other factors have a significant adverse impact on its results of operations and financial position. If the Company does not maintain compliance with its financial covenants and is unable to obtain an amendment or waiver from its lenders, a breach of a financial covenant would constitute an event of default and allow the lenders to exercise remedies under the agreements, the most severe of which is the termination of the credit facility under the Amended Credit Agreement and acceleration of the amounts owed under the agreement. |