(Updates with offering pricing details)
** Similarweb's SMWB.O shares down 11.2% premarket at
$8.50 as market intelligence software firm's top investor cuts
stake
** Israeli-based co announces pricing 3.5-mln-share
secondary offering by a stockholder at $7.85 for gross proceeds
of ~$27.5 mln
** Offering price represents 18% discount to stock's last
close
** The seller is board director Joshua Alliance, who
currently owns 12.91 mln shares or ~16% stake, per the SEC
prospectus filing
** Next biggest Similarweb investors are Viola Ventures and
Naspers Ltd, both with ~11% stakes, per LSEG data
** Co has ~80.9 mln shares outstanding for ~$774 mln market
cap, and ~58.3 mln shares of public float
** Goldman Sachs and Barclays jt bookrunners for offering
** Through Thurs, SMWB up nearly 80% YTD
** Similarweb went public in 2021 IPO priced at $22
(Lance Tupper is a Reuters market analyst. The views expressed
are his own)
((lance.tupper@thomsonreuters.com
lance.tupper@tr.com 1-646-279-6380))