---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000818479-25-000042"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "XRAY"
cik: "0000818479"
company_name: "DENTSPLY SIRONA Inc."
filed_at: "2025-03-19T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-24T12:40:01.678557+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Dentsply Sirona enters $435M bridge loan agreement, borrows full amount to repay commercial paper

## Summary
- Bridge loan facility of $435M, 364-day maturity, borrowed in full at closing on March 19, 2025.
- Proceeds to repay outstanding commercial paper and for general corporate purposes.
- Interest rate: Term SOFR plus 0.875%-1.375% margin based on credit rating, with step-ups after 90, 180, and 270 days.
- Duration fees of 0.50%, 0.75%, and 1.00% payable if principal remains outstanding after 90, 180, and 270 days.
- Covenants include leverage and interest coverage ratios; mandatory prepayment on debt/equity issuances or asset sales.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000818479-25-000042
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: XRAY
- cik: 0000818479
- company_name: DENTSPLY SIRONA Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-03-19T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 2.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/818479/000081847925000042/0000818479-25-000042-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/818479/000081847925000042/xray-20250319.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000818479-25-000042.txt

## Key facts
- Debt Financings
  DENTSPLY SIRONA Inc. incurred term loan of $435 million with Goldman Sachs Bank USA at floating rate per annum equal to, at the Company's option, (i) the forward-looki maturing March 18, 2026.
  - Instrument: term loan
  - Principal: $435 million
  - Counterparty: Goldman Sachs Bank USA
  - Rate: floating rate per annum equal to, at the Company's option, (i) the forward-looki
  - Maturity: March 18, 2026
  - Event: incurrence
  source text: with respect to a 364-day $435 million term loan (the “Bridge Loan Facility”). The Company borrowed the entire amount of the Bridge Loan Facility at the closing.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/818479/000081847925000042/0000818479-25-000042-index.htm

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