Feb 13, 2012 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- Cabot Microelectronics Corporation CCMP +0.41% , the world's leading supplier of chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) polishing slurries and a growing CMP pad supplier to the semiconductor industry, today announced that its Board of Directors has declared a special cash dividend of $15 per share, or approximately $345 million in total, payable to shareholders of record on February 23, 2012, that will be paid on March 1, 2012. Approximately half of the special cash dividend, along with related fees, will be funded from the company's available cash balance, and the remainder will be funded from a new five-year secured credit facility, which the company executed today.
Under the terms of the new secured credit facility, the company has arranged a $175 million term loan facility that will be fully drawn to pay the special cash dividend, and a $100 million revolving credit facility, which the company expects to be initially undrawn. The term loan will bear interest at LIBOR plus 150 to 200 basis points and the revolving credit facility provides for a non-use fee of 25 to 35 basis points, both depending upon the company's leverage ratio. The company expects to incur approximately $3 million of financing-related expense through the remainder of its fiscal year 2012, including interest and amortized financing fees.
The company's declaration of the special cash dividend follows the announcement on December 13, 2011 of its new capital management initiative, intended to provide additional value to its stockholders, which includes a leveraged recapitalization with the special cash dividend. At $15 per share, the special cash dividend represents approximately 30 percent of the company's closing stock price today. Pursuant to the rules of the Nasdaq stock market, when a dividend is declared in an amount that exceeds 25 percent of a company's stock price, Nasdaq must determine the date on which that company's shares will begin to trade without the dividend, or ex-dividend. Applying this rule to Cabot Microelectronics' declaration of its special cash dividend, Nasdaq has advised the company that the ex-dividend date has been set as March 2, 2012, which is the first business day following the payable date for the special cash dividend.
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