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E*Trade Offering Priced at 23% Discount

Mayank Mehta
19 Jun, 2009
New York City

    E*Trade public offering managed to raise more than earlier expected after it prices its offering at 23% discount to yesterday price. The stock in the early trading drops another 15%.

[R]10:15 AM New York – E*Trade public offering managed to raise more than earlier expected after it prices its offering at 23% discount to yesterday price. The stock in the early trading drops another 15%.[/R]

E*Trade Financial Corp priced its 435 million shares offering at $1.10 a share for gross proceeds before the fees and expenses of $478.50 million. The offering is expected to close on June 24.

The company priced the offering at 23% discount to yesterday’s closing price and stock in early trading fell 15.4% to $1.21.

The company also granted an option to underwriters for 65 million shares to cover over-allotment.

The largest stock holder in the company, citadel Investment Group LLC purchased 90.9 million additional shares and will increase its holding in the company to 17%.

After the completion of the offering, the conversion price of Class A convertible debentures due 2019 will be $1.034 and for Class B convertible debentures due 2019 will be $1.55 a share.

The company in a press release said that it intends to commence the exchange on June 22.

JP Morgan Securities and Sadler O’Neill & Partners are book-running managers and E*Trade Securities is co-manager of this offering.

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