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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-24-197824"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GPC"
cik: "0000040987"
company_name: "GENUINE PARTS CO"
filed_at: "2024-08-09T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-31T10:35:06.984546+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Genuine Parts issues $750M 4.950% Senior Notes due 2029

## Summary
- $750M of 4.950% Senior Notes due 2029 issued Aug 9, 2024; interest payable Feb 15 & Aug 15.
- Proceeds to repay €1.40% Series J Senior Promissory Notes due Oct 30, 2024 and commercial paper.
- Notes are unsecured, rank equally with other unsecured unsubordinated debt; structurally subordinated to subsidiary debt.
- Make-whole redemption prior to July 15, 2029; thereafter at par. Change of control put at 101%.
- Underwriters: J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, PNC Capital Markets, Santander US Capital Markets.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-24-197824
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GPC
- cik: 0000040987
- company_name: GENUINE PARTS CO
- filed_at: 2024-08-09T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/40987/000119312524197824/0001193125-24-197824-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/40987/000119312524197824/d874573d8k.htm

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