** Ocugen OCGN.O shares down 7.2% premarket to $1.55 after biotech firm's follow-on prices
** Gene therapies developer for blindness diseases announces 15 mln shares at $1.50 for $22.5 mln gross proceeds
** Offering price represents 10.2% discount to stock's last close
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Co intends to use net offering proceeds for general corporate purposes, capex, working capital, and expenses
** Oppenheimer sole bookrunner
** Co last week said in a mid-stage trial its therapy, OCU410, slowed progression of geographic atrophy, a severe form of age-related macular degeneration
** Malvern, Pennsylvania-based OCGN has ~312.3 mln shares outstanding
** Through Tues, OCGN stock up ~24% to begin 2026 and up about 135% over the past 12 months
** All 5 analysts rate the stock "buy"; median PT $8, per LSEG data
(Lance Tupper is a Reuters market analyst. The views expressed are his own)
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