** Shares of Bit Digital BTBT.O down 5% premarket at $3.04 after co secures capital raise
** New York-based digital asset miner early Tues announced pricing public offering of $135 mln 4%
5-yr convertible bonds
** Offering size boosted from $100 mln; initial converson price of $4.16 is 30% premium above stock's last close of $3.20
** Co, which has $1 bln market cap, to use net offering proceeds primarily to
purchase cryptocurrency Ethereum ETH=, and possibly for potential investments, acquisitions
** Barclays, Cantor Fitzgerald and
B. Riley Secs are joint bookrunners for offering
** Through Mon, BTBT shares up 9% YTD
** In Jun, BTBT priced $150 mln equity offering at $2 for its pivot to ETH
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All 5 analysts covering BTBT rate the stock "buy" and median PT is $5.50, per LSEG
(Lance Tupper is a Reuters market analyst. The views expressed are his own)
((lance.tupper@tr.com 1-646-279-6380))