Hovnanian Enterprises Announces Refinancing Transaction
September 25 2023 - 8:00AM
Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE: HOV) (the “Company”), a leading
national homebuilder, announced today that it has entered into an
agreement with existing investors to consummate a refinancing
transaction that extends the maturities of over $600 million of the
Company’s secured debt to the fourth quarters of fiscal 2028 and
fiscal 2029. Additionally, it has entered into an agreement with
existing lenders to amend and extend its $125 million secured
revolving credit facility to mature in June 2026.
“This refinancing significantly enhances our
balance sheet and reduces risk,” stated Ara K. Hovnanian, Chairman
of the Board, President, and Chief Executive Officer. “We have
taken significant steps to strengthen our balance sheet, including
reducing our total debt by $668 million since the beginning of
fiscal 2020. This refinancing transaction will extend maturities of
all of our secured debt maturing in fiscal 2026 by a few years,
with minimal impact to annual interest incurred. In addition, we
will extend the maturity of our revolving credit facility by two
years. As we move forward, we will continue to focus on both
growing our land position to increase profitability and further
repairing our balance sheet by growing equity and reducing
debt.”
Transaction Details:
- The Company will issue and sell in
a private placement $225.0 million aggregate principal amount of
new 8.0% Senior Secured 1.125 Lien Notes due 2028 and $430.0
million aggregate principal amount of new 11.75% Senior Secured
1.25 Lien Notes due 2029 (the “New Secured Notes”).
- The Company has called for
redemption all outstanding amounts of each series of its existing
secured notes consisting of 7.75% Senior Secured 1.125 Lien Notes
due 2026, 10.5% Senior Secured 1.25 Lien Notes due 2026, 11.25%
Senior Secured 1.5 Lien Notes due 2026 and 10.0% Senior Secured
1.75 Lien Notes due 2025, in each case conditioned upon receipt of
the proceeds from the sale of the New Secured Notes.
- The Company entered into a Third
Amendment to the Credit Agreement governing its $125 million
secured revolving credit facility which will, among other things,
extend the final scheduled maturity thereof by two years to June
30, 2026, upon effectiveness at closing.
- The transactions are expected to
close on October 5, 2023, upon the satisfaction of customary
closing conditions.
Key Benefits include:
- Increased maturity runway: The
transaction refinances all of the Company’s secured debt maturing
in fiscal 2026 and proactively extends these maturities until the
fourth quarters of fiscal 2028 and fiscal 2029.
- Nominal increase in interest
incurred: Given the recent rise in interest rates, we are pleased
that the transaction will result in almost no increase in annual
interest incurred.
- Extending the revolver maturity:
The transaction extends the maturity of the revolver, which was the
nearest term maturity, from next fiscal year to the third quarter
of fiscal 2026.
ABOUT HOVNANIAN ENTERPRISES,
INC.:
Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc., founded in 1959 by
Kevork S. Hovnanian, is headquartered in Matawan, New Jersey and,
through its subsidiaries, is one of the nation’s largest
homebuilders with operations in Arizona, California, Delaware,
Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, Ohio,
Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia.
The Company’s homes are marketed and sold under the trade name K.
Hovnanian® Homes. Additionally, the Company’s subsidiaries, as
developers of K. Hovnanian’s® Four Seasons communities, make
the Company one of the nation’s largest builders of active
lifestyle communities.
Additional information on Hovnanian Enterprises,
Inc. can be accessed through the “Investor Relations” section of
the Hovnanian Enterprises’ website at http://www.khov.com. To be
added to Hovnanian's investor e-mail list, please send an e-mail to
IR@khov.com or sign up at http://www.khov.com.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
All statements in this press release
that are not historical facts should be considered as
“Forward-Looking Statements” within the meaning of the “Safe
Harbor” provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act
of 1995. Such statements involve known and unknown risks,
uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results,
performance or achievements of the Company to be materially
different from any future results, performance or achievements
expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Such
forward-looking statements include but are not limited to
statements related to the Company’s goals and expectations with
respect to its financial results for future financial periods and
statements regarding demand for homes, mortgage rates, inflation,
supply chain issues, customer incentives and underlying factors.
Although we believe that our plans, intentions and expectations
reflected in, or suggested by, such forward-looking statements are
reasonable, we can give no assurance that such plans, intentions or
expectations will be achieved. By their nature, forward-looking
statements: (i) speak only as of the date they are made, (ii) are
not guarantees of future performance or results and (iii) are
subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult
to predict or quantify. Therefore, actual results could differ
materially and adversely from those forward-looking statements as a
result of a variety of factors. Such risks, uncertainties and other
factors include, but are not limited to, (1) changes in general and
local economic, industry and business conditions and impacts of a
significant homebuilding downturn; (2) shortages in, and price
fluctuations of, raw materials and labor, including due to
geopolitical events, changes in trade policies, including the
imposition of tariffs and duties on homebuilding materials and
products and related trade disputes with and retaliatory measures
taken by other countries; (3) fluctuations in interest rates and
the availability of mortgage financing, including as a result of
bank sector instability; (4) adverse weather and other
environmental conditions and natural disasters; (5) the seasonality
of the Company’s business; (6) the availability and cost of
suitable land and improved lots and sufficient liquidity to invest
in such land and lots; (7) reliance on, and the performance of,
subcontractors; (8) regional and local economic factors, including
dependency on certain sectors of the economy, and employment levels
affecting home prices and sales activity in the markets where the
Company builds homes; (9) increases in cancellations of agreements
of sale; (10) increases in inflation; (11) changes in tax laws
affecting the after-tax costs of owning a home; (12) legal claims
brought against us and not resolved in our favor, such as product
liability litigation, warranty claims and claims made by mortgage
investors; (13) levels of competition; (14) utility shortages and
outages or rate fluctuations; (15) information technology failures
and data security breaches; (16) negative publicity; (17) high
leverage and restrictions on the Company’s operations and
activities imposed by the agreements governing the Company’s
outstanding indebtedness; (18) availability and terms of financing
to the Company; (19) the Company’s sources of liquidity; (20)
changes in credit ratings; (21) government regulation, including
regulations concerning development of land, the home building,
sales and customer financing processes, tax laws and the
environment; (22) operations through unconsolidated joint ventures
with third parties; (23) significant influence of the Company’s
controlling stockholders; (24) availability of net operating loss
carryforwards; (25) loss of key management personnel or failure to
attract qualified personnel; and (26) certain risks, uncertainties
and other factors described in detail in the Company’s Annual
Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2022 and
the Company’s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarterly
periods during fiscal 2023 and subsequent filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission. Except as otherwise required by
applicable securities laws, we undertake no obligation to publicly
update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a
result of new information, future events, changed circumstances or
any other reason.
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Contact: |
J. Larry Sorsby |
Jeffrey T. O’Keefe |
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Executive Vice President & CFO |
Vice President, Investor Relations |
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732-747-7800 |
732-747-7800 |
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