** Ranpak Holdings PACK.N shares down ~6% in extending
trading after sustainable packaging products firm launches
equity offering
** PACK announces 5 mln share offering, consisting of 4.5
mln shares to be sold by co, the balance offered by certain
existing investors urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nBw7196zla
** Co to use net offering proceeds to repay debt and for
general corp purposes
** Goldman Sachs and Baird jt bookrunners
** PACK has ~75.86 mln shares outstanding and ~66.47 mln of
free float, per Refinitiv data
** Shares have risen for past 9 trading sessions, stretching
YTD gain to 84%. Stock closed on Tues up 0.7% at $24.68
** PACK went public in 2019 after agreeing to reverse merger
with a special-purpose acquisition co (SPAC)
(Lance Tupper is a Reuters market analyst. The views expressed
are his own)
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