BlueLinx Holdings Inc

13. Lease Commitments

The Company has operating and finance leases for certain of its distribution facilities, office space, land, mobile fleet, and equipment. Many of these leases are non-cancelable and typically have a defined initial lease term, and some provide options to renew at the Company’s election for specified periods of time. The majority of these leases have remaining lease terms ofone to 15 years, some of which includeone or more options to extend the leases forfive years. These leases generally provide for fixed annual rentals. Certain leases include provisions for escalating rent based on, among other things, contractually defined increases and/or changes in the Consumer Price Index (“CPI”). The known changes to lease payments are included in the lease liability at lease commencement. Unknown changes related to CPI are treated as variable lease payments and recognized in the period in which the obligation for those payments was incurred. In addition, a subset of vehicle lease cost is considered variable. Some leases require the Company to pay taxes, insurance, and maintenance expenses associated with the leased assets. The lease agreements do not contain any material residual value guarantees or material restrictive covenants.

The Company determines if an arrangement is a lease at inception and assesses lease classification as either operating or finance at lease inception or modification. Operating lease right-of use (“ROU”) assets and liabilities are presented separately on the consolidated balance sheets. Finance lease ROU assets are included in property and equipment and the finance lease obligations are presented separately in the consolidated balance sheets. When a lease does not provide an implicit interest rate, the Company uses its incremental borrowing rate based on the information available at the commencement date in determining the present value of future payments. The Company has also made an accounting policy election to not separate lease components from non-lease components related to its mobile fleet asset class.

The Company’s finance lease liabilities consist of leases related to real estate, equipment and vehicles. A majority of the Company’s finance leases relate to real estate. During fiscal 2017 and fiscal 2018, the Company entered into real estate financing transactions on certain of its warehouse facilities. These transactions were completed pursuant to sale-leaseback arrangements, and upon their completion, the Company entered into long-term leases on the properties having renewal options. The Company accounted for these transactions in accordance with the ASC 840, Leases, which was the lease accounting standard in effect for the Company at the inception of these arrangements. The Company recorded these transactions as finance lease liabilities on its consolidated balance sheet. Gains on these sale-leaseback transactions were deferred and are being recognized in earnings. As of December 28, 2024 and December 30, 2023, the remaining unrecognized deferred gains related to these transactions were $67.2 million and $70.5 million, respectively, and these deferred gains are being recognized in earnings on a straight-line basis. During fiscal 2024, 2023 and 2022, the Company recognized $3.9 million, $3.9 million, $3.9 million, respectively, of these deferred gains.

The following table presents the assets and liabilities related to the Company’s finance and operating leases as of December 28, 2024 and December 30, 2023:

(1)Finance lease right-of-use assets are presented net of accumulated amortization of $112.3 million and $102.9 million as of December 28, 2024 and December 30, 2023, respectively.

(2) During fiscal 2024, 2023 and 2022, the Company added fleet assets under finance leases of $19.4 million, $19.9 million and $9.1 million, respectively. These additions did not involve cash outlays and therefore are not included in “Property and equipment investments” within cash flows from investing activities on the Company’s consolidated statements of cash flows.

The components of lease expense were as follows:

Cash flow information related to leases was as follows:

Non-cash supplemental cash flow information related to leases was as follows:

(1)Includes operating lease right-of-use assets obtained in acquisition for fiscal year ended December 31, 2022. See Note 2, Business Combination, for further information.

Supplemental balance sheet information for right-of-use assets related to leases was as follows:

The major categories of the Company’s finance lease liabilities as of December 28, 2024 and December 30, 2023 are as follows:

(1)Amounts include $125.1 million and $125.0 million as of December 28, 2024 and December 30, 2023, respectively, for sale-leasebacks of real estate in fiscal 2019 and 2020 that did not qualify for sale treatment for accounting purposes.

Under the short-term lease exception provided within ASC 842, the Company does not record a lease liability or right-of-use asset for any lease that has a lease term of 12 months or less at commencement. Below is a summary of undiscounted finance and operating lease liabilities that have initial terms in excess of one year as of December 28, 2024. The table also includes a reconciliation of the future undiscounted cash flows to the present value of the finance and operating lease liabilities included in the consolidated balance sheets, including options to extend lease terms that are reasonably certain of being exercised.