Why Intuitive Machines Stock Just Crashed 14%
Intuitive Machines (NASDAQ: LUNR) stock tumbled 14.2% through 9:45 a.m. ET Wednesday morning after the space company made two disturbing announcements in 24 hours. First, last night after close of trading, Intuitive announced plans to issue and sell up to $73.9 million worth of new common stock in an underwritten public offering (including an overallotment option); and to further sell $10 million in new stock via a private placement (so $83.9 million total). The Fly noted that the company was targeting a share price of between $10.25 and $11.25 for the offering.
This morning, Intuitive Machines "upsized" the offering -- but downsized the price to near the bottom of that price range. In a press release early Wednesday, Intuitive said it could end up selling approximately 10.8 million shares in the public offering, and 952,381 in the private placement -- approximately 11.75 million shares total, yielding $123.4 million in total cash.
One of Intuitive Machines' shareholders will also be selling a small number of shares as part of the transaction, but the company will not receive any of the cash from that sale.
Source Fool.com
