Pool (POOL) 8-KEntry into a Material Definitive Agreement

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On September 30, 2024, Pool Corporation (the “Company”) entered into the Third Amended and Restated Credit Agreement (the “Amended Agreement”) by and among Pool Corporation, as U.S. Borrower, SCP Distributors Canada Inc., as Canadian Borrower, SCP International, Inc., as Euro Borrower, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Administrative Agent, and certain other lenders party thereto. The Amended Agreement amends and restates the terms of the Company’s predecessor revolving credit facility principally by increasing its borrowing capacity from $750.0 million to $800.0 million and extending its maturity date from September 25, 2026 to September 30, 2029.

Otherwise, the Amended Agreement retains the core features of the predecessor credit agreement, including:

Revolving and term loan borrowings under the Amended Agreement continue to bear interest at a variable rate based on a one-month term secured overnight financing rate, plus an applicable margin. The Company’s term loan under the Amended Agreement continues to require quarterly amortization payments, with all remaining principal due on the term loan maturity date of September 25, 2026. At September 30, 2024, there was $125.0 million of revolving borrowings outstanding, a $468.8 million term loan, $15.1 million of standby letters of credit outstanding and $659.9 million available for borrowing under the Amended Agreement’s revolving credit facility.

Substantially all of the other terms of the term loan and revolving credit facility in the Amended Agreement remain similar to the predecessor credit agreement. The Amended Agreement continues to require the Company to maintain a maximum average total leverage ratio and a minimum fixed charge coverage ratio consistent with the terms specified in the Company’s predecessor credit agreement. All obligations under the Amended Agreement continue to be guaranteed on an unsecured basis by substantially all of the Company’s existing and future domestic subsidiaries. The Amended Agreement also continues to contain various customary affirmative and negative covenants and events of default. Failure to comply with any of the financial covenants or the occurrence of any other events of default would permit the lenders to, among other things, require immediate payment of all amounts outstanding under the Amended Agreement.

The Company is obligated to pay certain customary fees to the lenders and agents under the Amended Agreement. In the ordinary course of business, the Company and its affiliates have engaged, and may in the future engage, certain parties to the Amended Agreement or their affiliates to provide commercial banking, investment banking and other services for which the Company or its affiliates have paid or will pay customary fees or commissions.

The foregoing description of the Amended Agreement is not intended to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Amended Agreement, which is filed as Exhibit 10.1 to this Form 8-K and is incorporated herein by reference. The Amended Agreement is included as an exhibit to this Form 8-K to provide you with information regarding the terms of the Amended Agreement and is not intended to provide any other factual or disclosure information about the Company or the other parties thereto. The Amended Agreement contains representations, warranties and covenants that the parties thereto made to each other as of specific dates. These representations and warranties may apply standards of materiality in a way that is different from what may be viewed as material to you or other investors and may have been used for the purpose of allocating risk between the parties rather than establishing matters of fact.