---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-23-061420"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SWK"
cik: "0000093556"
company_name: "STANLEY BLACK & DECKER, INC."
filed_at: "2023-03-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-18T12:35:46.666316+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Stanley Black & Decker issues $750M in two tranches of senior notes

## Summary
- Issued $350M of 6.272% Notes due 2026 and $400M of 6.000% Notes due 2028.
- Notes priced at 100% and 99.893% of principal; interest payable semi-annually.
- Net proceeds for general corporate purposes, including repayment of commercial paper.
- Notes are unsecured; change-of-control repurchase at 101% and customary covenants.
- Underwriters: BofA Securities, Citigroup, J.P. Morgan, Wells Fargo.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-23-061420
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SWK
- cik: 0000093556
- company_name: STANLEY BLACK & DECKER, INC.
- filed_at: 2023-03-06T23:59:59+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/93556/000119312523061420/0001193125-23-061420-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/93556/000119312523061420/d470738d8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  STANLEY BLACK & DECKER, INC. entered into Eleventh Supplemental Indenture with The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. (effective 2023-03-06).
  - Action: entry
  - Agreement: notes offering
  - Counterparty: The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A.
  - Effective: 2023-03-06
  source text: The Notes were issued under an indenture, dated as of November 1, 2002 (the “ Base Indenture ”), between the Company and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. (the “ Trustee ”), as successor trustee to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as supplemented by an eleventh supplemental indenture, dated as of March 6, 2023 (the “ Eleventh Supplemental Indenture ”), between the Company and the Trustee, establishing the terms of the Notes
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/93556/000119312523061420/0001193125-23-061420-index.htm
- Material Agreements
  STANLEY BLACK & DECKER, INC. entered into Underwriting Agreement with BofA Securities, Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, as representatives of the several underwriters named therein valued at $350,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 6.272% Notes due 2026 and $400,000,000 aggr (effective 2023-03-01).
  - Action: entry
  - Agreement: underwriting
  - Counterparty: BofA Securities, Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, as representatives of the several underwriters named therein
  - Value: $350,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 6.272% Notes due 2026 and $400,000,000 aggr
  - Effective: 2023-03-01
  source text: the Company entered into an underwriting agreement, dated March 1, 2023 (the “ Underwriting Agreement ”), between the Company and BofA Securities, Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, as representatives of the several underwriters named therein (the “ Underwriters ”), providing for the issuance and sale by the Company to the Underwriters of the Notes.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/93556/000119312523061420/0001193125-23-061420-index.htm

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