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Note 4 - Debt
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2016
Notes to Financial Statements  
Debt Disclosure [Text Block]
4.     
        
Debt
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The Company’s debt is comprised of the following components:
 
 
 
 
As of
 
 
 
September 30,
 
 
December 31,
 
(in thousands)
 
2016
 
 
2015
 
Asset-based revolving credit facility due June 30, 2019
  $ 163,516     $ 145,800  
Industrial revenue bond due April 1, 2018
    1,825       2,690  
Total debt
    165,341       148,490  
Less current amount
    (1,825 )     (2,690 )
Total long-term debt
  $ 163,516     $ 145,800  
 
The Company’s existing asset-based credit facility (the ABL Credit Facility) is collateralized by the Company’s accounts receivable and inventory. The ABL Credit Facility consists of a revolving credit line of $365 million. Revolver borrowings are limited to the lesser of a borrowing base, comprised of eligible receivables and inventories, or $365 million in the aggregate. The ABL Credit Facility matures on June 30, 2019.
 
The ABL Credit Facility requires the Company to comply with various covenants, the most significant of which include: (i) until maturity of the ABL Credit Facility, if any commitments or obligations are outstanding and the Company’s availability is less than the greater of $30 million or 10.0% of the aggregate amount of revolver commitments ($36.5 million at September 30, 2016), then the Company must maintain a ratio of EBITDA minus certain capital expenditures and cash taxes paid to fixed charges of at least 1.00 to 1.00 for the most recent twelve fiscal month period; (ii) limitations on dividend payments and common stock repurchases; and (iii) restrictions on additional indebtedness. The Company has the option to borrow under its revolver based on the agent’s base rate plus a premium ranging from 0.00% to 0.25% or the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) plus a premium ranging from 1.25% to 3.00%.
 
As of September 30, 2016, the Company was in compliance with its covenants and had approximately $86.1 million of availability under the ABL Credit Facility.   
 
As of September 30, 2016, $2.2 million of bank financing fees were included in “Prepaid expenses and other” and “Other long-term assets” on the accompanying Consolidated Balance Sheets. The financing fees are being amortized over the five-year term of the ABL Credit facility and are included in “Interest and other expense on debt” on the accompanying Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income.
 
As part of the Chicago Tube and Iron (CTI) acquisition in July 2011, the Company assumed approximately $5.9 million of Industrial Revenue Bond (IRB) indebtedness issued through the Stanly County, North Carolina Industrial Revenue and Pollution Control Authority. The bond matures in April 2018, with the option to provide principal payments annually on April 1st. On April 1, 2016, the Company paid an optional principal payment of $865 thousand. Since the IRB is remarketed annually, it is included in “Current portion of long-term debt” on the accompanying Consolidated Balance Sheets. Interest is payable monthly, with a variable rate that resets weekly. As a security for payment of the bonds, the Company obtained a direct pay letter of credit issued by JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. The letter of credit reduces annually by the principal reduction amount. The interest rate at September 30, 2016 was 1.1% for the IRB debt.
 
CTI entered into an interest rate swap agreement to reduce the impact of changes in interest rates on the above IRB. At September 30, 2016, the effect of the swap agreement on the bond was to fix the rate at 3.46%. The swap agreement matures in April 2018, and is reduced annually by the amount of the optional principal payments on the bond. The Company is exposed to credit loss in the event of nonperformance by the other parties to the interest rate swap agreement. However, the Company does not anticipate nonperformance by the counterparties.