** Shares of Corbus Pharmaceuticals CRBP.O down 14.8% premarket at $14 after follow-on priced
** Norwood, Massachusetts-based oncology and obesity firm early Fri sold ~5.8 mln shares, including ~1 mln p
re-funded warrants, for $75 mln gross proceeds
** Offering price of $13 is 20.9% discount to stock's last close
** It intends to use net offering proceeds to fund clinical development of its pipeline and for working capital and other purposes
** Jefferies acting as the bookrunner, per the statement. In the offering prospectus, Jefferies and Piper Sandler were cited as joint bookrunners
** CRBP has ~12.26 mln shares outstanding for about $200 mln market cap
** Through Thurs close, CRBP shares had gained ~77% over the past three months, putting them up 39% YTD
** Earlier this month, co shared early-stage data of CRB-701, its experimental therapy for head and neck cancer that has returned or spread after earlier treatments, at the annual European Society for Medical Oncology
** All 10 analysts covering CRBP are bullish and their median PT is $40, per LSEG data
(Lance Tupper is a Reuters market analyst. The views expressed are his own)
((lance.tupper@tr.com 1-646-279-6380))