MULN - Why Is Top Ships (TOPS) Stock Down 59% Today?
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Top Ships (NASDAQ:TOPS) stock is falling hard on Monday after the ocean shipping company announced the pricing of a public offering.
According to a press release, that public stock offering includes 6.75 million units. Each of these units costs $2 to purchase and contains one share of TOPS stock, as well as a Class C warrant. That warrant allows the purchase of another share for an exercise price of $2.
Top Ships is expecting to raise $13.5 million in gross proceeds from the public stock offering. Investors will also note that the warrants are immediately exercisable and have an expiration date of five years after their issuance.
Why Is TOPS Stock Down?
Investors don’t often react well to a public stock offering. The introduction of new stock dilutes the value of shares already held by investors. It also decreases their stake in the company by increasing outstanding shares.
To go along with that, the stock offering prices shares of TOPS stock at $2 each. That’s well below the company’s prior closing price, which was $4.44 on Friday. It’s worth noting TOPS underwent a rally last week that boosted it from $2.12 per share to that previous closing price.
There’s also heavy trading to take into account when looking at the falling price of TOPS stock. As of this writing, more than 15 million shares of the stock have changed hands. That’s well above its daily average trading volume of about 4 million shares.
TOPS stock is down 58.8% as of Monday afternoon.
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On the date of publication, William White did not have (either directly or indirectly) any positions in the securities mentioned in this article. The opinions expressed in this article are those of the writer, subject to the InvestorPlace.com Publishing Guidelines.
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