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Financing Arrangements and Long-term Debt
9 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2019
Debt Disclosure [Abstract]  
Financing Arrangements and Long-term Debt

6. FINANCING ARRANGEMENTS AND LONG-TERM DEBT

Spire, Spire Missouri and Spire Alabama have a syndicated revolving credit facility pursuant to a loan agreement with 11 banks, expiring October 31, 2023. The loan agreement has an aggregate credit commitment of $975.0, including sublimits of $300.0 for Spire, $475.0 for Spire Missouri, and $200.0 for Spire Alabama. These sublimits may be reallocated from time to time among the three borrowers within the $975.0 aggregate commitment, with commitments fees applied for each borrower relative to its credit rating. Spire may use its line to provide for the funding needs of various subsidiaries. The agreement also contains financial covenants limiting each borrower’s consolidated total debt, including short-term debt, to no more than 70% of its total capitalization. As defined in the line of credit, on June 30, 2019, total debt was 50% of total capitalization for the consolidated Company, 47% for Spire Missouri, and 37% for Spire Alabama. There were no borrowings against this credit facility as of June 30, 2019, September 30, 2018, or June 30, 2018.

Spire has a commercial paper program (“CP Program”) pursuant to which Spire may issue short-term, unsecured commercial paper notes. Amounts available under the CP Program may be borrowed, repaid and re-borrowed from time to time, with the aggregate face or principal amount of the notes outstanding under the CP Program at any time not to exceed $975.0. The notes may have maturities of up to 365 days from date of issue.

Information about Spire’s consolidated short-term borrowings and about Spire Missouri’s and Spire Alabama’s borrowings from Spire is presented in the following table. As of June 30, 2019, $398.0 of Spire’s short-term borrowings were used to support lending to the Utilities.

 

 

Spire Commercial

Paper

Borrowings

 

Spire Missouri Borrowings from Spire

 

Spire Alabama Borrowings from Spire

Nine Months Ended June 30, 2019

 

 

 

 

 

 

Weighted average borrowings outstanding

 

$557.6

 

$288.4

 

$100.0

Weighted average interest rate

 

2.8%

 

2.8%

 

2.8%

Range of borrowings outstanding

 

$363.0 – $689.3

 

$178.4 – $404.9

 

$43.8 – $169.2

As of June 30, 2019

 

 

 

 

 

 

Borrowings outstanding

 

$434.0

 

$281.5

 

$79.6

Weighted average interest rate

 

2.7%

 

2.7%

 

2.7%

As of September 30, 2018

 

 

 

 

 

 

Borrowings outstanding

 

$553.6

 

$345.3

 

$142.5

Weighted average interest rate

 

2.4%

 

2.3%

 

2.3%

As of June 30, 2018

 

 

 

 

 

 

Borrowings outstanding

 

$191.0

 

$128.6

 

$69.6

Weighted average interest rate

 

2.5%

 

2.5%

 

2.5%

The long-term debt agreements of Spire, Spire Missouri and Spire Alabama contain customary covenants and default provisions. As of June 30, 2019, there were no events of default under these covenants.

Interest expense shown on Spire’s consolidated statements of income and Spire Missouri’s statements of comprehensive income is net of the capitalized interest amounts shown in the following table.

 

 

Three Months Ended

June 30,

 

 

Nine Months Ended

June 30,

 

 

 

2019

 

 

2018

 

 

2019

 

 

2018

 

Spire

 

$

2.0

 

 

$

0.7

 

 

$

4.6

 

 

$

1.7

 

Spire Missouri

 

 

0.5

 

 

 

0.3

 

 

 

1.4

 

 

 

0.7

 

In October 2018, the Company settled a $10.0 non-interest-bearing note.

In December 2018, Spire Missouri entered into a new loan agreement providing for a term loan of $100.0, which was fully funded on December 3, 2018, and which matures on December 1, 2021, subject to optional prepayment by Spire Missouri. Borrowings under the loan agreement bear interest at a rate determined by reference to the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR), plus a margin based on Spire Missouri’s senior debt rating as determined by Standard & Poor’s Rating Services or Moody’s Investors Services, Inc.

On January 15, 2019, Spire Alabama entered into the Second Supplement to Master Note Purchase Agreement with certain institutional investors. Pursuant to the terms of that supplement, Spire Alabama issued and sold to those institutional investors in a private placement $90.0 of 4.64% Series 2019A Senior Notes due January 15, 2049. The notes bear interest from the date of issuance, payable semi-annually on the 15th day of July and January of each year, commencing on July 15, 2019. The notes are senior unsecured obligations of Spire Alabama, rank equal in right to payment with all its other senior unsecured indebtedness, and have make-whole and par call options. Spire Alabama used the proceeds to repay short-term debt and for general corporate purposes.