** Fluence Energy's FLNC.O stock down 10.6% at $23.00
premarket after secondary offering launched
** Renewable energy storage provider late Tues announced 18
mln shares to be sold by controlling stockholders
** AES AES.N and Siemens SIEGn.DE selling ~7.1 mln
shares each, and Qatar Investment Authority offloading ~3.8 mln,
per SEC prospectus filing
** JP Morgan, Barclays and Morgan Stanley jt bookrunners for
offering
** Fluence had ~118.9 mln Class A shares and ~58.6 mln Class
B shares outstanding as of Sept 30
** FLNC shares last Weds jumped ~24% after co reported
surprise qtrly profit of 2 cents/sh and topline beat of $673 mln
** YTD, shares up 50% through Tues
(Lance Tupper is a Reuters market analyst. The views expressed
are his own)
((lance.tupper@thomsonreuters.com
lance.tupper@tr.com 1-646-279-6380))