---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-031208"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SCM"
cik: "0001551901"
company_name: "Stellus Capital Investment Corp"
filed_at: "2025-04-02T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T23:39:46.889265+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Stellus Capital issues $75M of 7.250% Notes due 2030; net proceeds to repay credit facility

## Summary
- Fourth Supplemental Indenture for $75M of 7.250% Notes due 2030 executed on April 1, 2025.
- Interest at 7.250% per year paid semi-annually; first payment on October 1, 2025.
- Notes are unsecured, rank pari passu with existing unsecured debt, structurally subordinated to subsidiary debt.
- Net proceeds to repay Credit Facility borrowings; may be re-borrowed for investments and working capital.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-031208
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SCM
- cik: 0001551901
- company_name: Stellus Capital Investment Corp
- filed_at: 2025-04-02T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 2.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1551901/000110465925031208/0001104659-25-031208-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1551901/000110465925031208/tm2510985d1_8k.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-031208
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-031208.txt

## Key facts
- Debt Financings
  Stellus Capital Investment Corp incurred senior notes of $75.0 million with U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association at 7.250% per year maturing April 1, 2030.
  - Instrument: senior notes
  - Principal: $75.0 million
  - Counterparty: U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association
  - Rate: 7.250% per year
  - Maturity: April 1, 2030
  - Event: incurrence
  source text: On April 1, 2025, in connection with a previously announced public offering, the Company and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (as successor-in-interest to U.S. Bank National Association), as trustee (the “Trustee”), entered into a Fourth Supplemental Indenture (the “Fourth Supplemental Indenture”) to the Base Indenture, dated May 5, 2014, between the Company and the Trustee (together with the Fourth Supplemental Indenture, the “Indenture”). The Fourth Supplemental Indenture relates to the Company’s issuance, offer and sale of $75.0 million in aggregate principal amount of its 7.250% Notes due 2030 (the “Notes”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1551901/000110465925031208/0001104659-25-031208-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.