Qurate Retail Announces Semi-Annual Interest Payment and Regular Additional Distribution on 4.0% Senior Exchangeable Debentures Due 2029
May 16 2022 - 3:15PM
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Qurate Retail, Inc. ("Qurate Retail") (Nasdaq: QRTEA, QRTEB,
QRTEP) today announced the payment of a semi-annual interest
payment and a regular additional distribution to the holders as of
May 1, 2022 of the 4.0% Senior Exchangeable Debentures due 2029
(the "Debentures") issued by its wholly-owned subsidiary, Liberty
Interactive LLC (“LI LLC”). The amount of the interest payment is
$20.00 per $1,000 original principal amount of Debentures (a
“Debenture”), and the amount of the additional distribution is
$0.3930 per Debenture.
Under the Indenture for the Debentures, the original principal
amount of the Debentures is reduced by an amount equal to each
Extraordinary Additional Distribution made to holders of the
Debentures. Thereafter, the adjusted principal amount is further
reduced on each successive semi-annual interest payment date to the
extent necessary to cause the semi-annual interest payment to
represent the payment of an annualized yield of 4.0% of the
adjusted principal amount. This latter adjustment, to the extent it
is made by reason of a particular Extraordinary Additional
Distribution that results in an adjustment to the principal amount
of the Debentures, takes effect on the second succeeding interest
payment date after the payment of that Extraordinary Additional
Distribution.
To date, there has been one Extraordinary Additional
Distribution to holders of the Debentures. On August 7, 2013, LI
LLC made an Extraordinary Additional Distribution of $63.0960 per
$1,000 original principal amount of the Debentures arising from the
merger transaction between Sprint Nextel Corporation and SoftBank
Corp.
Adjustments to the principal amount of the Debentures do not
affect the amount of the semi-annual interest payments received by
holders of the Debentures, which will continue to be a rate equal
to 4.0% per annum of the original principal amount of the
Debentures. Below is a detail of the amount of the semi-annual
interest payment being made on the Debentures announced today, its
allocation between payment of interest and repayment of principal
and the revised adjusted principal amount resulting from such
payment, per $1,000 original principal amount of the
Debentures:
May 15, 2022 Beginning Adjusted
Principal
Total Payment
Interest
Additional Payment of
Principal
May 15, 2022 Ending Adjusted
Principal
$913.3827
$20.0000
$18.2677
$1.7323
$911.6504
LI LLC is also making a regular additional distribution of
$0.3930 per Debenture, attributable to the quarterly cash dividends
paid by Lumen Technologies, Inc. of $0.25 per share on both
December 10, 2021 and March 18, 2022. The regular additional
distribution will not result in an adjustment to the adjusted
principal amount of the Debentures.
The semi-annual interest payment and regular additional
distribution are expected to be paid on May 16, 2022 to holders of
record of the Debentures on May 1, 2022.
On April 1, 2020, T-Mobile US, Inc. completed its acquisition of
Sprint Corporation (“TMUS/S Acquisition”) for 0.10256 shares of
T-Mobile US, Inc. for every share of Sprint Corporation. Following
the TMUS/S Acquisition, the reference shares attributable to each
$1,000 original principal amount of Debentures consist of 0.3309
shares of common stock of T-Mobile US, Inc. (Nasdaq: TMUS) and
0.7860 shares of common stock of Lumen Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:
LUMN).
About Qurate Retail, Inc.
Qurate Retail, Inc. is a Fortune 500 company comprised of seven
leading retail brands – QVC®, HSN®, Zulily®, Ballard Designs®,
Frontgate®, Garnet Hill®, and Grandin Road® (collectively, “Qurate
Retail Group℠”). Qurate Retail Group is the largest player in video
commerce (“vCommerce”), which includes video-driven shopping across
linear TV, ecommerce sites, digital streaming and social platforms.
The retailer reaches more than 200 million homes worldwide via 14
television networks and reaches millions more via multiple
streaming services, social pages, mobile apps, websites, print
catalogs, and in-store destinations. Qurate Retail, Inc. also holds
various minority interests and green energy investments.
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