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Debt
 12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2024
Debt Disclosure [Abstract]  
Debt Debt
The following is a summary of outstanding debt, net of unamortized issuance costs and original issue discount, at December 31, (in millions):
20242023
4.000% senior notes due 2024 (1)
$— $198 
4.875% senior notes due 2025
— 498 
3.900% senior notes due 2025 (2)
47 47 
4.200% senior notes due 2026
1,233 1,980 
6.375% senior notes due 2027
486 488 
6.625% senior notes due 2029
477 486 
6.375% senior notes due 2030
741 — 
6.625% senior notes due 2032
494 — 
5.375% senior notes due 2036
417 417 
5.500% senior notes due 2046
658 658 
Revolving credit facility (1) (2)
40 131 
Other debt2 1 
Total debt4,595 4,904 
Short-term debt and current portion of long-term debt(87)(329)
Long-term debt$4,508 $4,575 
(1)Included in short-term debt and current portion of long-term debt at December 31, 2023.
(2)Included in short-term debt and current portion of long-term debt at December 31, 2024.

Senior Notes

In November 2024, the Company completed a registered public offering and sale of $750 million of aggregate principal amount of 6.375% senior notes due 2030 (the “2030 Notes”) and $500 million of aggregate principal amount of 6.625% senior notes due 2032 (the “2032 Notes”) (collectively the “Notes”) and received proceeds of approximately $1.24 billion, net of fees and expenses paid. The Notes were issued pursuant to an Indenture, dated as of November 19, 2014, between the Company (formerly known as “Newell Rubbermaid Inc.”) and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (formerly known as “U.S. Bank National Association”), as trustee (the “Trustee”), as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture relating to the 2030 Notes, dated November 13, 2024 (the “First Supplemental Indenture”), by and between the Company and the Trustee, and the Second Supplemental Indenture relating to the 2032 Notes, dated November 13, 2024 (the “Second Supplemental Indenture” and, collectively with the First Supplemental Indenture, the “Supplemental Indentures”), by and between the Company and the Trustee. The Supplemental Indentures provide, among other things, that the Notes are senior unsecured obligations of the Company and include covenants that limit the ability of the Company and its subsidiaries to incur or guarantee additional debt, create or permit certain liens, redeem or repurchase certain debt, consummate certain asset sales, make certain loans and investments, consolidate, merge, or sell all or substantially all of the Company and its subsidiaries assets, enter into certain transactions with affiliates and pay distributions on, or redeem or repurchase the Company’s capital stock, subject in each case to certain qualifications and exceptions, including the termination of certain of these covenants upon the Notes receiving investment grade credit ratings. The Company used the proceeds of the offering to fully redeem its outstanding 4.875% senior notes due 2025 and to redeem in part its outstanding 4.200% senior notes due 2026.

In November 2024, the Company fully redeemed its 4.875% notes due 2025 at a redemption price equal to 100% of the outstanding aggregate principal amount of the notes, plus accrued unpaid interest to the date of the redemption. The total consideration was approximately $511 million. The Company also partially redeemed $750 million of the outstanding aggregate amount of the 4.200% senior notes due 2026 at a redemption price of 101.006%. The total consideration, including accrued unpaid interest to the date of its redemption was approximately $764 million. As a result of the aforementioned redemptions, the Company recorded a total loss on debt extinguishment of $13 million.

In December 2024, the Company repaid the outstanding aggregate principal amount of its 4.000% senior notes, plus accrued and unpaid interest upon maturity for total consideration of $205 million.
Rating Downgrades

In February 2024, Moody’s Corporation (“Moody’s”) and S&P Global Inc. (“S&P”) downgraded the Company’s senior unsecured debt rating to “Ba3” and “BB-”, respectively. As a result, the Company’s outstanding senior notes aggregating to approximately $3.1 billion at that time (the “Coupon-Step Notes”) were subject to an interest rate increase of 25 basis points for each downgrade, or 50 basis points in the aggregate. The change to the interest rate due to the Moody’s and S&P downgrades collectively increased the Company’s interest expense by approximately $16 million on an annualized basis at the time of the downgrades (approximately $12 million in 2024). The partial redemption of the 4.200% senior notes due 2026 during the fourth quarter of 2024 decreased the aggregate amount of the Coupon-Step Notes to $2.3 billion, resulting in a reduction of the Company’s annualized interest expense impact of the February 2024 Moody’s and S&P downgrades by approximately $4 million, reducing the aggregate annualized impact of the downgrades to approximately $12 million beginning in 2025.

Revolving Credit Facility

At December 31, 2023, the Company maintained a $1.5 billion senior unsecured revolving credit facility (the “Credit Revolver”) maturing in August 2027. On March 27, 2023, the Company entered into an amendment (the “First Amendment”) to (i) include non-cash expenses resulting from grants of stock awards among the items that may be added to Consolidated Net Income when calculating Consolidated Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization (“EBITDA”), as defined in the First Amendment, and (ii) lower the Interest Coverage Ratio, as defined in the First Amendment, for the fiscal quarters ending on June 30, 2023, September 30, 2023, December 31, 2023 and March 31, 2024.

On February 7, 2024, the Company, certain of its subsidiaries, as subsidiary borrowers, and certain of its subsidiaries, as subsidiary guarantors, entered into a second amendment to the Credit Revolver agreement (the “Second Amendment”). The Second Amendment, among other things, (i) reduced the commitments of the lenders from $1.5 billion to $1.0 billion, (ii) replaced the Company’s existing financial covenants with new financial covenants testing the Company’s Collateral Coverage Ratio and Total Net Leverage Ratio (each further defined in the Second Amendment), (iii) required the Company and certain of the Company’s domestic and foreign subsidiaries (collectively, the “Guarantors”) to guarantee all obligations under the Credit Revolver including, without limitation, obligations in respect of extensions of credit to any of the borrowers, certain hedging obligations, certain cash management obligations, and certain supply chain financing obligations, and (iv) required the Company and the other Guarantors to grant a lien and security interest in certain of its assets consisting of eligible accounts receivable, eligible inventory, eligible equipment and eligible intellectual property, and all products and proceeds of the foregoing, subject to certain limitations. See Footnote 1 for further information with respect to the Company’s Supplier Finance Programs.

The Credit Revolver provides for the issuance of up to $150 million of letters of credit, so long as there is sufficient availability for borrowing under the Credit Revolver. At December 31, 2024, the Company had $40 million of outstanding borrowings under the Credit Revolver and approximately $35 million of outstanding standby letters of credit issued against the Credit Revolver, with a net availability of approximately $925 million. Availability under the Credit Revolver is subject to change in accordance with the terms thereof, including in response to changes to the Company’s pledged collateral value or outstanding borrowings and letters of credit under the Credit Revolver.

Future Debt Maturities

The Company’s debt maturities for the five years following December 31, 2024 and thereafter are as follows (in millions):

20252026202720282029ThereafterTotal
$87$1,235$500$2$500$2,336$4,660

Other

The indentures governing the Company’s senior notes contain usual and customary nonfinancial covenants, as well as additional covenants contained in the 2030 Notes and 2032 Notes, such as described above. The Company’s borrowing arrangements other than the senior notes contain usual and customary nonfinancial covenants and certain financial covenants, including minimum collateral coverage and net leverage ratios.
Weighted average interest rates for the years ended December 31, are as follows:
202420232022
Total debt5.8%5.2%4.3%
Short-term debt8.0%6.9%4.0%

At December 31, 2024 and 2023, unamortized deferred debt issue costs were $32 million and $24 million, respectively. These costs are included in total debt and are being amortized over the respective terms of the underlying debt.

The fair values of the Company’s senior notes are based on quoted market prices and are as follows at December 31, (in millions):
20242023
Fair ValueBook ValueFair ValueBook Value
Senior notes$4,624 $4,553 $4,633 $4,772 

The carrying amounts of all other significant debt approximates fair value.