** Public sector software provider Tyler Technologies TYL.N shares down 1.4% at $320 in premarket trading after planned capital raise news
** Plano, Texas-based firm early Mon announces private offering of $1 bln 5-yr convertible bonds (CBs)
** It intends to use some proceeds to fund cost of capped calls, derivative transactions used to reduce potential dilution, and up to $350 mln to repurchase its shares to facilitate hedging by investors in the CBs
** Remaining proceeds earmarked for general corp purposes
** TYL has $13.7 bln market cap
** Through Fri close, shares down ~29% YTD vs S&P 500 Tech sector's .SPLRCT nearly 16% advance
** 19 of 23 analysts rate the stock "strong buy" or "buy", 4 "hold"; median PT $435, per LSEG data
(Lance Tupper is a Reuters market analyst. The views expressed are his own)
((lance.tupper@tr.com 1-646-279-6380))