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Long-term Debt
 12 Months Ended
Dec. 30, 2023
Debt Disclosure [Abstract]  
Long-term Debt Long-term Debt
Long-term debt consists of the following:
In thousandsAs of
December 30, 2023		As of
December 31, 2022
2025 Notes, due May 15, 2025$302,497 $402,497 
Term Loan A, due June 13, 2028
146,250 150,000 
Revolving Loans, due June 13, 2028
— — 
Long-term debt before unamortized discount and issuance costs
448,747 552,497 
Unamortized discount and issuance costs - 2025 Notes(2,497)(5,696)
Unamortized discount and issuance costs - Term Loan A
(1,066)(570)
Long-term debt less debt discount and issuance costs
445,184 546,231 
Less current maturities(7,500)— 
Long-term debt - noncurrent portion437,684 546,231 
Finance lease obligations16,067 21,294 
Less current maturities(2,980)(4,137)
Long-term debt and finance lease obligations, less current portion, discount, and issuance costs
$450,771 $563,388 
2025 Notes
In May 2020, we completed the issuance of $402.5 million in aggregate principal amount of 2.50% convertible senior notes due on May 15, 2025 (the “2025 Notes”), pursuant to an indenture between the Company and U.S. Bank, dated as of May 12, 2020 (the “Indenture”). The 2025 Notes were sold only to persons reasonably believed to be qualified institutional buyers in reliance on Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). The 2025 Notes pay interest semi-annually in arrears on May 15 and November 15 of each year, commencing on November 15, 2020, at an annual rate of 2.50%.
We received proceeds from the offering of $390.9 million, net of $11.6 million in underwriter fees and other issuance costs. We used $294.3 million of the net proceeds from the offering to repay all outstanding amounts under the revolving credit facility and $75.0 million to partially repay the first lien term loan in an aggregate principal amount of $420.0 million (the “term loan”). The remainder of the net proceeds are being used for general corporate purposes.
Prior to February 15, 2025, the 2025 Notes are convertible at the option of the holder only under the following circumstances:
(i) during any calendar quarter commencing after the calendar quarter ending on September 30, 2020 (and only during such calendar quarter), if the Last Reported Sale Price (as defined in the Indenture) per share of the Company’s common stock exceeds 130% of the Conversion Price (as defined in the Indenture) for each of at least 20 Trading Days (as defined in the Indenture), whether or not consecutive, during the 30 consecutive Trading Days ending on, and including, the last Trading Day of the immediately preceding calendar quarter;
(ii) during the five consecutive business days immediately after any ten consecutive Trading Day period (such ten consecutive trading day period, the “measurement period”) in which the Trading Price (as defined in the Indenture) per $1,000 principal amount of the 2025 Notes for each Trading Day of the measurement period was less than 98% of the product of the Last Reported Sale Price per share of the Company’s common stock on such Trading Day and the conversion rate (as described below) on such Trading Day;
(iii) upon the occurrence of certain corporate events or distributions on the Company’s common stock, as described in the Indenture; or
(iv) if the Company calls such Notes for redemption.
On or after February 15, 2025 until 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the second Scheduled Trading Day (as defined in the Indenture) immediately before the maturity date, the 2025 Notes will be convertible at the option of the holder at any time.
The 2025 Notes are initially convertible at a conversion rate of 32.0783 shares of common stock per $1,000 principal amount of 2025 Notes, which is equivalent to an initial conversion price of approximately $31.17 per share of common stock. The conversion rate will be subject to adjustment upon the occurrence of certain specified events
including, but not limited to: issuance of stock dividends, splits and combinations; distribution of rights, options and warrants; spin-offs and other distributed property; cash dividends or distributions; tender offers or exchange offers; and certain other corporate transactions. The Company can choose to settle upon conversion in cash, shares or a combination. Based on the initial conversion rate, the 2025 Notes were convertible into 12.9 million shares of our common stock and we reserved for the possible issuance of 16.5 million shares, which is the maximum amount that could be issued upon conversion. As of December 30, 2023, the 2025 Notes are convertible into 9.7 million shares of our common stock and a maximum of 12.4 million shares of our common stock. See Note 14. “Earnings Per Share” for the treatment of earnings per share in relation to the 2025 Notes. The holders of our term loan would have preference over the holders of the 2025 Notes in the event of a liquidation.
The Company adopted ASU 2020-06 as of January 3, 2021. ASU 2020-06 eliminates the cash conversion and the beneficial conversion feature models. Under the new convertible debt framework, the Company eliminated the equity components and increased the debt balance. Refer to Note 1. “Description of Business and Basis of Presentation” for further discussion of the adoption of ASU 2020-06. As a result of adopting ASU 2020-06, our effective interest rate decreased from 9.1% as of January 2, 2021 to 3.2% starting in the first quarter of 2021.
On November 14, 2023, the Company repurchased $100.0 million aggregate principal amount of the 2025 Notes for an aggregate cash repurchase price of $99.3 million. The repurchase of the 2025 Notes was accounted for as an extinguishment of debt and resulted in a loss on extinguishment of debt of $0.6 million on its Consolidated Statement of Operations during fiscal year ended December 30, 2023, which includes a write-off of related deferred issuance costs of $0.9 million and third-party fees of $0.4 million. After giving effect to the repurchase, $302.5 million principal amount remains outstanding from an initial issued principal balance of $402.5 million. An immaterial amount of the principal balance of the 2025 Notes was converted during fiscal year 2022.
We recognized the following in Interest expense, net related to the 2025 Notes:
In thousandsFiscal Year 2023Fiscal Year 2022Fiscal Year 2021
Contractual interest expense$9,747 $10,062 $10,063 
Amortization of issuance costs$2,293 $2,283 $2,213 
As of December 30, 2023, the remaining period for the unamortized debt issuance costs balance related to the 2025 Notes was approximately one year.
As of December 30, 2023, the stock price conditions under which the 2025 Notes can be converted at the holders’ option were not met.
Credit Agreement
Reference is made to (i) that certain Second Joinder and Restatement Agreement, dated as of June 13, 2023 (the “Second Restatement Agreement”), by and among the New Lenders party thereto, the Letter of Credit Issuers party thereto, Nautilus Acquisition Holdings, Inc. (“Holdings”), a Delaware corporation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, NVI, the subsidiaries of NVI party thereto, as guarantors, Bank of America, N.A. in its capacity as administrative agent and as collateral agent and (ii) the Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of June 13, 2023 (the “Credit Agreement”).
On June 13, 2023 (the “Second Restatement Effective Date”), the Second Restatement Agreement amended and restated the Joinder and Amendment and Restatement Agreement, dated as of July 18, 2019 (as amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified prior to the Second Restatement Agreement, the “Original Credit Agreement”) to, among other things, (i) establish new Term Loan A to repay all principal, interest, fees and other amounts outstanding (other than contingent obligations) under the Original Credit Agreement immediately prior to the Second Restatement Effective Date, (ii) establish new Revolving Loans, (iii) provide for a Secured Overnight Financing Rate as administered by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (or a successor administrator) (“SOFR”)-based rate, with a credit spread adjustment of 10 basis points for all Interest Periods and a SOFR floor of 0.00% per annum, and (iv) as set forth below, modify the Applicable Margins used to calculate the rate of interest payable with respect to the Term Loan A and Revolving Loans (collectively, the “Loans”).
The Credit Agreement, as amended by the Second Restatement Agreement, provides that the Loans mature on the fifth anniversary of the Second Restatement Effective Date, subject to a springing maturity date, which is 91 days before the maturity date of the Company’s 2025 Notes if Minimum Liquidity is less than the sum of the redemption value of such convertible notes on that date plus $25.0 million (the “Maturity Date”). Commencing on the last day of the first full fiscal quarter ended after the Second Restatement Effective Date, the Term Loan A will amortize in equal calendar quarterly installments at a rate of 5.00% per calendar year. The $114.4 million balance (assuming the springing maturity date does not occur) will be payable on the Maturity Date.
The new Applicable Margins were initially (i) 1.75% for the Loans that are Term SOFR Loans and (ii) 0.75% for the Loans that are Alternative Base Rate (“ABR”) Loans. Following the delivery of the financial statements for the period ending on September 30, 2023, the Applicable Margins for the Loans will instead be based on NVI’s total leverage ratio as follows: (a) if NVI’s consolidated total debt to consolidated EBITDA ratio is greater than 2.50 to 1.00, the Applicable Margin will be 2.25% for Term SOFR Loans and 1.25% for ABR Loans, (b) if NVI’s consolidated total debt to consolidated EBITDA ratio is less than or equal to 2.50 to 1.00 but greater than 1.75 to 1.00, the Applicable Margin will be 2.00% for Term SOFR Loans and 1.00% for ABR Loans, (c) if NVI’s consolidated total debt to consolidated EBITDA ratio is less than or equal to 1.75 to 1.00 but greater than 0.75 to 1.00, the Applicable Margin will be 1.75% for Term SOFR Loans and 0.75% for ABR Loans, (d) if NVI’s consolidated total debt to consolidated EBITDA ratio is less than or equal to 0.75 to 1.00, the Applicable Margin will be 1.50% for Term SOFR Loans and 0.50% for ABR Loans.
In connection with the Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, we deferred $2.0 million of debt issuance costs related to the Revolving Loans in Other assets and $0.9 million of debt issuance costs related to the Term Loan A in Long-term debt and finance lease obligations, less current portion and debt discount on our Consolidated Balance Sheets. We will amortize these costs over the term of the amended credit agreement. We wrote off previously unamortized debt issuance costs of $0.2 million in Interest expense (income), net during fiscal year 2023 related to lenders who were parties to the Original Credit Agreement but are not parties to the Second Restatement Agreement. We recognized $0.2 million of other refinancing fees in Interest expense (income), net during fiscal year 2023.
The Second Restatement Agreement contains customary affirmative covenants, negative covenants, and events of default substantially comparable to the Original Credit Agreement.
The Second Restatement Agreement also contains covenants that, among other things, limit NVI’s ability to incur additional debt, create liens against assets, make acquisitions, pay dividends or distributions on its stock, merge or consolidate with another entity and transfer or sell assets. We were in compliance with all covenants related to our long-term debt as of December 30, 2023.
During the second quarter of 2021, the Company partially prepaid $117.4 million of term loan principal and wrote off associated deferred debt issuance costs of $0.7 million. During the fourth quarter of 2021, the Company partially prepaid $50.0 million of term loan principal and wrote off associated deferred debt issuance costs of $0.3 million. The borrowing capacity remaining as of December 30, 2023 was $293.6 million due to a reduction of $6.4 million for letters of credit outstanding.
Scheduled annual maturities of debt are as follows:
Fiscal YearIn thousands
2024$5,625 
2025311,872 
20267,500 
20277,500 
2028116,250 
Thereafter— 
$448,747