---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000038725-25-000172"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FELE"
cik: "0000038725"
company_name: "FRANKLIN ELECTRIC CO INC"
filed_at: "2025-10-02T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T04:59:18.076111+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Franklin Electric issues $125M 5.01% Senior Notes due 2032 to refinance debt

## Summary
- Issued $125M aggregate principal of 5.01% Senior Notes due September 26, 2032.
- Notes sold under existing Private Shelf Agreements with NYL Investors and PGIM affiliates.
- Proceeds to be used for refinancing existing indebtedness and working capital.
- Notes are unregistered, exempt from Securities Act registration requirements.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000038725-25-000172
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FELE
- cik: 0000038725
- company_name: FRANKLIN ELECTRIC CO INC
- filed_at: 2025-10-02T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 2.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/38725/000003872525000172/0000038725-25-000172-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/38725/000003872525000172/fele-20250926.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000038725-25-000172
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000038725-25-000172.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000038725-25-000172.txt

## Key facts
- Debt Financings
  FRANKLIN ELECTRIC CO INC incurred senior notes of $125 million aggregate principal amount with the purchasers named therein at 5.01% maturing September 26, 2032.
  - Instrument: senior notes
  - Principal: $125 million aggregate principal amount
  - Counterparty: the purchasers named therein
  - Rate: 5.01%
  - Maturity: September 26, 2032
  - Event: incurrence
  source text: On September 26, 2025, pursuant to the Private Shelf Agreements, the Company agreed to issue and the Purchasers agreed to purchase $125 million aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 5.01% Senior Notes due September 26, 2032
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/38725/000003872525000172/0000038725-25-000172-index.htm

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