HireRight up as Stone Point, General Atlantic to buy co for $1.65 bln

HireRight Holdings

16/02/2024 13:58

** Shares of employee-screening company HireRight Holdings
 HRT.N  rise 10% to $14.2 premarket
    ** Private equity firms Stone Point Capital and General
Atlantic will buy HRT in a $1.65 bln deal
    ** The firms raised offer price to $14.35/share in cash from
$12.75 for each share they hold
    ** They announced their intention to bid for HRT on Nov. 17
last year
    ** HRT down 4.3% YTD


 (Reporting by Priyanka.G and Jaspreet Singh)
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