Boston, MA 08/08/2014 (wallstreetpr) – Oil and natural gas company, RSP Permian Inc (NYSE:RSPP) announced pricing of its public issue of common shares. The sale of shares was done by both the company, as well as, some stockholders. Therefore, the company would not be getting the entire amount and would get part of it only while the rest would go to the selling stockholder.
Pricing Of Shares
RSP Permian Inc (NYSE:RSPP) disclosed that it had priced $25.65 a share for the fully underwritten public issue of ten million shares. While the company was selling 4.167 million shares, some stockholders were offloading about 5.833 million shares to the public.
Both the company and the selling shareholders have given 30-day option to the underwriters to acquire an additional 1.5 million shares. The public issue would close on August 12 subject to conditions.
While the issue from the company side would increase the outstanding shares, sale of shares from the stakeholders would not increase the total number of the company’s shares.
Net Proceeds
RSP Permian Inc (NYSE:RSPP) said that it would get net proceeds of $102.3 million from the public issue, and that it would use it to repay the debts under the revolving credit facility. However, the company indicated that it was not averse to borrowing the repaid money anytime since it may require them to fund part of several pending acquisitions.
Raymond James, RBC Capital Markets, Tudor, Holt& Co., UBS Investment Bank, and Barclays were the joint book-running managers of the public issue.
2Q Conference Call
RSP Permian Inc (NYSE:RSPP) has scheduled to announce its financial results for the second quarter on August 11 before the market opens. The company will hold a conference call at 11.00 a.m. eastern time to discuss the results with analysts’ and investors.
On average, Wall Street analysts’ expect the company to report earnings of 26 cents a share on revenue of $69.9 million for the second quarter.
Stock Price
Though the public issue of share was priced at $25.65 a share, it fell to $25.16 during the regular trading session on Thursday before closing marginally higher than the issue price at $25.74.
