America’s Car-Mart skids on pricing stock offering

America's CAR-MART

19/09/2024 13:59

(Updates with pricing details)
    ** Shares of America’s Car-Mart  CRMT.O  down 13.8% at
$43.06 premarket as follow-on offering prices
    ** CRMT set to open at lowest levels since Mar 2020, if
losses hold
    ** Automotive retailer early Thurs announces 1.7 mln shares
at $43, equating to ~$73 mln gross proceeds, with Jefferies as
sole bookrunner
    ** Offering size increased from $65 mln targeted, prices at
13.9% discount to stock's Weds close
    ** Co intends to use net proceeds to pay down its revolver,
any remaining for general purposes
    ** Co has 6.4 mln shares outstanding for ~$320 mln market
cap
    ** On Sept 4, CRMT fell ~16% to close at $50.34 after co
posted 5% yr/yr drop in rev in fiscal Q1 to $348 mln on decrease
in units sold, and qtrly loss of 15 cents/sh vs LSEG estimate of
66 cents/sh profit
    ** Through Weds, CRMT down 34% YTD vs Nasdaq's  .IXIC  17%
advance

 (Lance Tupper is a Reuters market analyst. The views expressed
are his own)
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