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Long-Term Debt
 12 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2025
Debt Disclosure [Abstract]  
Long-term Debt [Text Block] LONG-TERM DEBT
The Company’s long-term debt at March 31, 2025 and 2024 consisted of the following:
March 31,
20252024
Senior bank term loans$620,000 $620,000 
Less: current portion— — 
Less: unamortized debt issuance costs(2,082)(2,636)
Long-term debt$617,918 $617,364 
As discussed in Note 7, the Company has a bank credit agreement that includes a $275 million five-year term loan and a $345 million seven-year term loan. Both term loans were fully funded at closing, require no amortization, and are repayable without penalty prior to maturity. Under the credit agreement, both term loans bear interest at a variable rate benchmarked to the SOFR plus a margin that is based on the Company’s credit measures.
As discussed in Note 10, the Company had receive-floating/pay-fixed interest rate swap agreements in place with respect to the prior term loans through December 20, 2023 for the five-year term loan and through December 20, 2025 for the seven-year term loan. These agreements were terminated concurrently with the repayment of the prior term loans and replaced with new interest rate swap agreements that will continue to convert a portion of the variable benchmark rate to a fixed rate on each term loan through their respective maturity dates. The proceeds for the fair value of the terminated interest rate swap agreements, approximately $11.8 million, were recognized in accumulated other comprehensive income and are being amortized into earnings as a reduction of interest expense through their original maturity dates. With the swap agreements in place, the effective interest rates on the swapped portions of the five-year and seven-year term loans were 5.50% and 5.65% at March 31, 2025, respectively. The weighted average effective interest rates, when taking into consideration both the swapped and unswapped interest payments for all outstanding long-term debt, were 5.96% and 6.16% at March 31, 2025 for the five-year and seven-year term loans, respectively. Changes in the effective interest rates could result from a change in interest rates on the unhedged interest payments or a change in the Company’s credit measures that impact the applicable credit spreads specified in the underlying loan agreement.
Disclosures about the fair value of long-term debt are provided in Note 11.