Tesla Sold Shares at Steepest Discount It’s Ever Given Investors
Bloomberg
Published Feb 14, 2020 09:19AM ET
Updated Feb 14, 2020 09:39AM ET
(Bloomberg) -- Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) investors who got in on the Thursday’s share sale received of the steepest discount it has offered in its 10-year history as a public company.
The electric car-maker’s $2 billion secondary offering priced at $767 per share, 4.60% below Thursday’s closing price. That discount is over 10 times larger than Tesla’s last secondary offering in May, and quintuples the average discount given across its seven prior share sales.
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An 83% run-up this year before the offering launched might have contributed to the more buyer-friendly pricing terms, not to mention recent news of product recalls and fresh regulatory scrutiny. But Elon Musk probably isn’t losing any sleep over the matter, as the price per share was still more than double any of the company’s prior equity raises.
Six of Tesla’s previous secondary offerings -- conducted between 2011 and 2019 -- priced at discounts below 1.0%. The bullish bidding helped Tesla fuel a decade of unparalleled price appreciation.
Shares fell 3% in pre-market trading to about $780, above Thursday’s offering price.
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