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Long-term Debt | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2022
Debt Disclosure [Abstract] |
Long-term Debt | Long-term Debt The Company’s total indebtedness as of December 31, 2022 and 2021 consisted of the following:
| December 31,
Debt Instrument (defined below, as applicable) | 2022 |  | 2021
| (Dollars in millions)
6.000% Senior Secured Notes due March 2022 (2022 Notes) | $ | — |  |  | $ | 23.1 |
8.500% Senior Secured Notes due December 2024 (2024 Peabody Notes) | — |  |  | 62.6 |
10.000% Senior Secured Notes due December 2024 (2024 Co-Issuer Notes) | — |  |  | 193.9 |
Senior Secured Term Loan due 2024 (Co-Issuer Term Loans) | — |  |  | 206.0 |
6.375% Senior Secured Notes due March 2025 (2025 Notes) | — |  |  | 334.9 |
Senior Secured Term Loan due 2025, net of original issue discount (Senior Secured Term Loan) | — |  |  | 322.8 |
3.250% Convertible Senior Notes due March 2028 (2028 Convertible Notes) | 320.0 |  |  | — |
Finance lease obligations | 23.6 |  |  | 29.3 |
Less: Debt issuance costs | (9.8) |  |  | (34.8) |
| 333.8 |  |  | 1,137.8 |
Less: Current portion of long-term debt | 13.2 |  |  | 59.6 |
Long-term debt | $ | 320.6 |  |  | $ | 1,078.2 |
As further described below, during 2021, the Company completed a significant debt restructuring to extend maturities on its existing debt and obtain covenant relief. Subsequent to these restructuring activities, the Company utilized various methods allowable or required under its relevant debt agreements to retire all of its senior secured long-term debt by December 31, 2022, as only the the 2028 Convertible Notes, which are further described below, and finance lease obligations remain outstanding. 2021 Debt Restructuring During the first quarter of 2021, the Company completed a series of financing transactions to provide the Company with maturity extensions and covenant relief, while allowing it to maintain near-term operating liquidity. These transactions included a senior notes exchange, a revolving credit facility exchange, various amendments to the Company’s existing debt agreements and a support agreement with the Company’s surety bond providers. These transactions were preceded by an organizational realignment in which the Company formed certain wholly-owned subsidiaries (the Co-Issuers) to indirectly own and conduct the operations of the Company’s Wilpinjong Mine in Australia and the designation of such entities as unrestricted subsidiaries under the Company’s then-existing credit agreement (Credit Agreement) and senior notes’ indenture. The senior notes exchange involved the tender of $398.7 million aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 2022 Notes for aggregate consideration consisting of (a) $193.9 million aggregate principal amount of new 2024 Co-Issuer Notes, (b) $195.1 million aggregate principal amount of new 2024 Peabody Notes issued by the Company and (c) a cash payment of approximately $9.4 million. The exchange was accounted for as a debt modification and as such, no gain or loss was recorded. Concurrently with the senior notes exchange, the Company solicited consents from holders of the 2022 Notes to certain proposed amendments to its existing senior notes’ indenture to (i) eliminate substantially all of the restrictive covenants, certain events of default applicable to the 2022 Notes and certain other provisions contained in their indenture and (ii) release the collateral securing the 2022 Notes and eliminate certain other related provisions. The Company received the requisite consents from holders of the 2022 Notes and entered into a supplemental indenture to reflect such amendments. The Company also restructured $216.0 million of existing revolving loans under the Credit Agreement by (i) paying down $10.0 million aggregate principal amount of such loans, (ii) compelling the Co-Issuers to incur $206.0 million of Co-Issuer Term Loans under a separate credit agreement, (iii) entering into a letter of credit facility (the Company LC Agreement) and (iv) amending the Credit Agreement. Under the Company LC Agreement, the Company obtained a $324.0 million letter of credit facility under which its existing letters of credit under the Credit Agreement were deemed to be issued. Undrawn letters of credit under the Company LC Agreement bear interest at 6.00% per annum and unused commitments are subject to a 0.50% per annum commitment fee. The Company LC Agreement was subsequently amended during 2022 to mandatorily reduce its capacity by approximately $22 million to make allowable certain previously restricted payments for joint venture investments. The amendment creates an investment basket which allows payments of $30.0 million per year specifically limited to investment in renewable energy-related projects. The Company has no contractual commitment for such project investment. Unused portions of the basket carryover from year-to-year, and the total amount of investment will further reduce the credit facility capacity by a like amount, or a minimum of $10.0 million per year, through the maturity of the credit facility. In February 2023, the Company LC Agreement was further amended to reduce its capacity by an additional $65.0 million, accelerate its expiration date to December 31, 2023 from December 31, 2024, and eliminate the prepayment premium due upon any reduction of commitments thereunder prior to July 29, 2023. Under the amended Credit Agreement, there remain no revolving commitments or revolving loans and the first lien net leverage ratio covenant was eliminated. The Company LC Agreement requires that the Company’s restricted subsidiaries maintain minimum aggregate liquidity of $125.0 million at the end of each quarter through December 31, 2024. As such, liquidity attributable to the Co-Issuers, its subsidiaries and other unrestricted subsidiaries is excluded from the calculation. Commitments under the Company LC Agreement are jointly and severally and fully and unconditionally guaranteed on a senior secured basis by substantially all of the Company’s domestic restricted subsidiaries and secured by (a) first priority liens over (1) substantially all of the assets of the Company, except for certain excluded assets, (2) 100% of the capital stock of each domestic restricted subsidiary of the Company, (3) 100% of the capital stock of each first tier foreign subsidiary of the Company or a foreign subsidiary holding company and (4) all intercompany debt owed to the Company, in each case, subject to certain exceptions. The Company LC Agreement contains customary covenants that, among other things, limit the Company’s and its restricted subsidiaries’ ability to incur additional indebtedness, pay dividends on or make distributions in respect of capital stock or make certain other restricted payments or investments, enter into agreements that restrict distributions from restricted subsidiaries, sell or otherwise dispose of assets, enter into transactions with affiliates, create or incur liens, and merge, consolidate or sell all or substantially all of its assets, and place restrictions on the ability of subsidiaries to pay dividends or make other payments to the Company. Completion of the 2021 debt restructuring transactions allowed the Company to finalize the surety transaction support agreement described at Note 20. “Financial Instruments, Guarantees With Off-Balance-Sheet Risk and Other Guarantees.” 2021 Debt Retirements In March 2021, as a requirement of the senior notes exchange, the Company purchased $22.4 million of the 2024 Peabody Notes at 80% of their accreted value, plus accrued and unpaid interest. In June 2021, the Company announced an at-the-market equity offering program pursuant to which, as amended, the Company could offer and sell up to 32.5 million shares of its common stock. The shares are offered and sold pursuant to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-3, which was declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 23, 2021, as supplemented by prospectus supplements dated June 4, 2021, September 17, 2021, and December 17, 2021, relating to the offer and sale of the shares. During the year ended December 31, 2021, the Company sold approximately 24.8 million shares for net cash proceeds of $269.8 million. Such proceeds were utilized, in part, for the retirement of debt as described below. During the year ended December 31, 2021, the Company retired $91.4 million of 2024 Peabody Notes, $117.8 million of 2025 Notes and $61.7 million of its Senior Secured Term Loan primarily through various open market purchases at an aggregate cost of $232.4 million. Also during the year ended December 31, 2021, the Company completed multiple bilateral transactions with note holders in which the Company issued an aggregate 10.0 million shares of its common stock in exchange for $37.3 million aggregate principal amount of the 2022 Notes, $47.2 million aggregate principal amount of the 2025 Notes and $21.6 million aggregate principal amount of the 2024 Peabody Notes. The issuance of shares of common stock in exchange for the 2022 Notes, the 2025 Notes and the 2024 Peabody Notes was made in reliance on the exemption from registration provided in Section 3(a)(9) under the Securities Act of 1933, based in part on representations of holders of the 2022 Notes, the 2025 Notes and the 2024 Peabody Notes, and on the basis that the exchange was completed with existing holders of the Company's securities and no commission or other remuneration was paid or given for soliciting the exchange. The Company’s various debt retirements during 2021 resulted in the realization of net gains from early debt extinguishment of $33.2 million. 2022 Debt Retirements On March 31, 2022, the Company retired the remaining principal balance of 2022 Notes upon maturity for $23.1 million. During the three months ended March 31, 2022, $62.5 million principal amount of the 2024 Peabody Notes was retired using proceeds from the offering of 2028 Convertible Notes, as further described below, and the remaining $0.1 million principal amount was retired through a mandatory repurchase offer required under the terms of their indenture and the Company LC Agreement. Such mandatory repurchase offers were required when the Company made open market repurchases of its debt. In general, the repurchase offers equated to 25% of the principal amount of priority lien debt repurchased in the preceding quarter at a price equal to the weighted average repurchase price paid over that quarter. In addition to the $0.1 million principal amount of 2024 Peabody Notes repurchased through such offers, the Company repurchased $42.2 million of aggregate priority lien obligations under the Company LC Agreement during 2022 at approximately 95%. The repurchases of Company LC Agreement commitments were effected by the posting of $40.1 million of collateral with the administrative agent and did not reduce the availability under the facility. In March 2022, $257.4 million principal amount of the 2025 Notes was retired using proceeds from the offering of 2028 Convertible Notes, as further described below. The remaining 2025 Notes were retired through an open market repurchase of $11.4 million principal amount at 98.00% in September 2022 and, in accordance with the notes’ indenture, a voluntary prepayment of $66.1 million principal amount at 101.59% in December 2022. The Senior Secured Term Loan was retired through various open market purchases of $44.1 million principal amount throughout 2022 at an aggregate cost of $42.1 million, scheduled quarterly principal amortization payments of $3.0 million, and, in accordance with the terms of the Credit Agreement, a voluntary prepayment of $276.2 million principal amount at par in December 2022. The 2024 Co-Issuer Notes and the Co-Issuer Term Loans were subject to mandatory prepayment offers at the end of each six-month period, beginning with June 30, 2021, whereby the Excess Cash Flow (as defined in the 2024 Co-Issuer Notes indenture) generated by the Wilpinjong Mine during each such period could be applied to the principal of such notes and loans on a pro rata basis, provided that the liquidity attributable to the Wilpinjong Mine would not fall below $60.0 million. Such prepayments could be accepted or declined at the option of the debt holders. Based upon the Wilpinjong Mine’s results for the six-month periods ended December 31, 2021 and June 30, 2022 and the resultant mandatory prepayment offers, during 2022, the Company prepaid $18.5 million principal amount of 2024 Co-Issuer Notes at an aggregate cost of $19.2 million and $17.2 million principal amount of Co-Issuer Term Loans at par. Voluntary repurchases of Co-Issuer Term Loans were permissible through various methods, including a modified Dutch auction process in which the Company could solicit acceptable prices from holders. During the year ended December 31, 2022, the Company solicited bids from all holders of Co-Issuer Term Loans at various dates for the repurchase of the remaining outstanding principal amount, resulting in the valid tender and purchase of $185.9 million principal amount at an aggregate cost of $195.8 million. The underlying terms of the 2024 Co-Issuer Notes and Co-Issuer Term Loans required parity between the holders of Co-Issuer Term Loans and holders of the 2024 Co-Issuer Notes with respect to repurchase offers such as those undertaken through the auction processes described above. As such, the Company solicited commensurate bids from all holders of 2024 Co-Issuer Notes at various dates during the year ended December 31, 2022 for the repurchase of the remaining outstanding principal amount, resulting in the valid tender and purchase of $147.3 million principal amount at an aggregate cost of $154.1 million. Subsequent to the modified Dutch auction processes and related transactions, the Company voluntarily prepaid the remaining $28.1 million principal amount of 2024 Co-Issuer Notes and $2.9 million principal amount of Co-Issuer Term Loans at an aggregate cost of $32.8 million, including certain make whole premium amounts. The Company’s various debt retirements during 2022 resulted in the realization of net losses from early debt extinguishment of $34.9 million, excluding the loss recorded in connection with the issuance of 2028 Convertible Notes described below. 3.250% Convertible Senior Notes due 2028 On March 1, 2022, the Company issued $320.0 million in aggregate principal amount of 3.250% Convertible Senior Notes due 2028 (the 2028 Convertible Notes) through a private offering. The 2028 Convertible Notes are senior unsecured obligations of the Company and are governed under an indenture. The Company used the proceeds of the offering of the 2028 Convertible Notes to redeem the remaining $62.5 million of its outstanding 2024 Peabody Notes and, together with available cash, approximately $257.4 million of its outstanding 2025 Notes, and to pay related premiums, fees and expenses relating to the offering of the 2028 Convertible Notes and the redemptions. The Company capitalized $11.2 million of debt issuance costs related to the offering and recognized a loss on early debt extinguishment of $23.0 million during the three months ended March 31, 2022. The 2028 Convertible Notes will mature on March 1, 2028, unless earlier converted, redeemed or repurchased in accordance with their terms. The 2028 Convertible Notes bear interest at a rate of 3.250% per year, payable semi-annually in arrears on March 1 and September 1 of each year. The 2028 Convertible Notes are convertible at the option of the holders only in the following circumstances: (1) during any calendar quarter commencing after the calendar quarter ended June 30, 2022, if the last reported sale price per share of the Company’s common stock exceeds 130% of the conversion price for each of at least 20 trading days during the 30 consecutive trading days ending on, and including, the last trading day of the immediately preceding calendar quarter; (2) during the five consecutive business days immediately after any five consecutive trading day period (such five consecutive trading day period, the Measurement Period) in which the trading price per $1,000 principal amount of 2028 Convertible Notes for each trading day of the Measurement Period was less than 98% of the product of the last reported sale price per share of the Company’s common stock on such trading day and the conversion rate on such trading day; (3) upon the occurrence of certain corporate events or distributions on the Company’s common stock; (4) if the Company calls any 2028 Convertible Notes for redemption; and (5) at any time from, and including, September 1, 2027 until the close of business on the second scheduled trading day immediately before the maturity date. Upon conversion, the Company may satisfy its conversion obligation by paying or delivering, as applicable, cash, shares of the Company’s common stock or a combination of cash and shares of the Company’s common stock, at the Company’s election, in the manner and subject to the terms and conditions provided in the indenture. The initial conversion rate for the 2028 Convertible Notes will be 50.3816 shares of the Company’s common stock per $1,000 principal amount of 2028 Convertible Notes, which represents an initial conversion price of approximately $19.85 per share of the Company’s common stock. The initial conversion price represents a premium of approximately 32.5% to the $14.98 per share closing price of the Company’s common stock on February 24, 2022. The conversion rate is subject to adjustment under certain circumstances in accordance with the terms of the indenture. If certain corporate events described in the indenture occur prior to the maturity date, or the Company delivers a notice of redemption (as described below), the conversion rate will be increased for a holder who elects to convert its 2028 Convertible Notes in connection with such corporate event or notice of redemption, as the case may be, in certain circumstances. The Company may not redeem the 2028 Convertible Notes prior to March 1, 2025. The Company may redeem for cash all or any portion of the 2028 Convertible Notes, at its option, on or after March 1, 2025 and on or before the 40th scheduled trading day immediately before the maturity date, at a cash redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the 2028 Convertible Notes to be redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, the redemption date, but only if the last reported sale price per share of the Company’s common stock exceeds 130% of the conversion price on (1) each of at least 20 trading days, whether or not consecutive, during the 30 consecutive trading days ending on, and including, the trading day immediately before the date the Company sends the related redemption notice; and (2) the trading day immediately before the date the Company sends such notice. However, the Company may not redeem less than all of the outstanding 2028 Convertible Notes unless at least $75 million aggregate principal amount of 2028 Convertible Notes are outstanding and not called for redemption as of the time the Company sends the related redemption notice. No sinking fund is provided for the 2028 Convertible Notes. If the Company undergoes a fundamental change (as defined in the indenture), noteholders may require the Company to repurchase their 2028 Convertible Notes at a cash repurchase price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the 2028 Convertible Notes to be repurchased, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, the fundamental change repurchase date. During the fourth quarter of 2022, the Company’s reported common stock prices prompted the conversion feature of the 2028 Convertible Notes. As a result, the 2028 Convertible Notes are convertible at the option of the holders during the first quarter of 2023. The Company cannot currently satisfy the conversion obligation in cash because the terms of the Credit Agreement generally prohibit the Company from retiring unsecured debt with cash. It is the Company’s current intent and policy to settle any conversions of 2028 Convertible Notes through shares of its common stock. As such, the 2028 Convertible Notes are not classified as a current obligation in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets. Through February 17, 2023, the Company has not received any conversion requests and does not anticipate receiving any conversion requests in the near term as the market value of the 2028 Convertible Notes exceeds their conversion value. As of December 31, 2022, the if-converted value of the 2028 Convertible Notes exceeded the principal amount by $105.8 million. Margin Financing Arrangement In March 2022, the Company entered into a discrete credit agreement which provided for a $150 million unsecured revolving credit facility. The revolving facility was scheduled to mature in April 2025 and bore interest at a rate of 10.0% per annum on drawn amounts. The revolving facility was intended to support the Company’s near-term liquidity requirements, particularly with respect to the cash margin requirements associated with the Company’s coal derivative contracts, which fluctuate depending upon underlying market coal prices. Concurrently with the Credit Agreement, the Company entered into a related agreement for an at-the-market equity offering program for up to $225.0 million of the Company’s common stock. During the three months ended March 31, 2022, the Company borrowed and repaid $225.0 million under the revolving facility using net proceeds of $222.0 million from at-the-market issuances of 10.1 million shares of common stock and available cash. The Company made no additional borrowings and terminated the facility in August 2022. Interest Charges The following table presents the components of the Company’s interest expense related to its indebtedness and financial assurance instruments such as surety bonds and letters of credit. Additionally, the table sets forth the amount of cash paid for interest and the amount of non-cash interest expense primarily related to the amortization of debt issuance costs.
| Year Ended December 31,
| 2022 |  | 2021 |  | 2020
| (Dollars in millions)
Indebtedness | $ | 87.0 |  |  | $ | 132.3 |  |  | $ | 104.4 |
Financial assurance instruments | 53.3 |  |  | 51.1 |  |  | 35.4 |
Interest expense | $ | 140.3 |  |  | $ | 183.4 |  |  | $ | 139.8 |
Cash paid for interest | $ | 118.5 |  |  | $ | 174.9 |  |  | $ | 126.9 |
Non-cash interest expense | $ | 17.7 |  |  | $ | 21.3 |  |  | $ | 16.2 |
Covenant Compliance The Company was compliant with all relevant covenants under its debt agreements at December 31, 2022, including the minimum aggregate liquidity requirement under the Company LC Agreement which requires the Company’s restricted subsidiaries to maintain minimum aggregate liquidity of $125.0 million at the end of each quarter through December 31, 2023. Finance Lease Obligations Refer to Note 11. “Leases” for additional information associated with the Company’s finance leases, which pertain to the financing of mining equipment used in operations.

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