** First Watch Restaurant Group's FWRG.O shares down 1.5% at $17.67 on Thurs as private equity firm Advent International divests remaining 8.7% stake
** Florida-based daytime dining chain late Weds launched s
econdary offering of ~5.3 mln shares with
Citigroup as sole underwriter
** Offering priced at $17.94, thefly.com reported, matching the stock's last close
** FWRG has ~61 mln shares outstanding, the filing shows
** Advent last offloaded 4.4 mln shares in Sept
unregistered block priced at $17.80, which was handled by BofA
** FWRG
shares on Weds rose nearly 2% following 11% gain on Tues after co's Q3 rev and adj EBITDA surpassed analysts' expectations
** With the move on the session, shares down 5% YTD
** Avg rating among 11 analysts is "buy" and median PT is $22, per LSEG data
** Separately, Advent on Weds also divested its remaining holdings in insurance IT firm CCC Intelligent Solutions CCC.O via a $291 mln secondary offering
(Lance Tupper is a Reuters market analyst. The views expressed are his own)
((lance.tupper@thomsonreuters.com))