- The Scotts Miracle-Gro Firm (NYSE: NYSE:)
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The investigation considerations misrepresentations or omissions concerning Scotts’ debt covenants. In or round 2021, Scotts touted that the Firm beat inside targets and had “net leverage of 5.9 times debt-to-EBITDA comfortably within covenant maximum of 6.25 times.” The Firm additional claimed it was “optimistic we will remain within the bounds of our bank covenants” and “[did] not see leverage compliance issues going forward” and that it was “tracking to do even better” than its steering, which the Firm later acknowledged was “really, really important for us to avoid covenant hell.”
In reality, Scotts stock far exceeded shopper demand and was solely in compliance with its debt covenants via purposely channel stuffing and accounting units. It was additionally near violating its debt covenants and wanted to have an “exceptional year” to stay in compliance. In its fiscal fourth quarter of 2022, Scotts modified the way it calculated EBITDA with the intention to keep inside its debt covenants, as EBITDA was the principle metric to calculate the Firm’s compliance.
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