Company: ASTE
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000792987-25-000013
Chunk: 68

Company: ASTEC INDUSTRIES INC
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 68
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Corporate and Other Operations

Corporate and Other operations had net expenses of $46.9 million for 2024 compared to $43.1 million for 2023, an increase of $3.8 million or 8.8%. The increase in expenses was primarily driven by higher general and administrative expenses, primarily associated with personnel-related costs of $5.7 million, which includes the recovery of share-based compensation expense in the prior year that did not recur for awards that were forfeited or modified in conjunction with the termination of our previous CEO and the limited overhead restructuring action implemented in February 2023 of $2.6 million, and increased technology and support costs of $2.8 million. These increases were partially offset by decreased employee incentive compensation costs of $2.1 million.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

Our primary sources of liquidity and capital resources are cash and cash equivalents on hand, borrowing capacity under a $250.0 million revolving credit facility and cash flows from operations. As of December 31, 2024, our total liquidity was $228.1 million, consisting of $88.3 million of cash and cash equivalents available for operating purposes and $139.8 million available for additional borrowings under our revolving credit facility, to the extent our compliance with financial covenants permits such 

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borrowings. Our foreign subsidiaries held $31.6 million of cash and cash equivalents available for operating purposes which is considered to be indefinitely invested in those jurisdictions. 

Our future cash requirements primarily include working capital needs, debt service obligations, capital expenditures, vendor hosted software arrangements including the related implementation costs, unrecognized tax benefits and operating lease payments. In addition, our variable cash uses may include the payment of our quarterly cash dividend, financing other strategic initiatives of our business, including, but not limited to, our strategic transformation initiatives, strategic acquisitions and share repurchases under our share repurchase authorization. We believe that our current working capital, cash flows generated from future operations and available capacity under our revolving credit facility will be sufficient to meet working capital and capital expenditure requirements for our existing business for at least the next 12 months.

On December 19, 2022, we entered into a new credit agreement (the "Credit Agreement") with Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as administrative agent, and the lenders party thereto, which replaced the previously existing credit facility with a borrowing capacity of $150.0 million and a maturity date of December 29, 2023. The Credit Agreement provides