** Shares of lithium battery supplier Dragonfly Energy DFLI.O down 27.5% to $1.38 premarket after $25 mln follow-on offering prices at steep discount
** Reno, Nevada-based firm DFLI announces 20 mln shares at $1.25, about 34% discount to stock's last close
** Co intends to use net proceeds for working capital and general purposes, including repayment of $4 mln under term loan agreement, and investments in next-gen battery technologies
** Canaccord Genuity sole bookrunner for offering
** DFLI has ~61.8 mln shares outstanding as of Oct 3, per the prospectus, giving co roughly $117 mln market cap through Fri
** Shares had more than tripled in past two sessions, leaving them down 32% YTD through Fri
** DFLI went public in Oct 2022 after it completed merger with SPAC Chardan NexTech Acquisition 2 Corp
** All 3 analysts covering DFLI rate the stock "buy" with median PT of $1, per LSEG
(Lance Tupper is a Reuters market analyst. The views expressed are his own)
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