Boston, MA 09/26/2014 (wallstreetpr) – A day after the solar energy systems company, SolarCity Corp (NASDAQ:SCTY) disclosed its intention to raise $500 million through the issue of convertible senior notes due in 2019, it has announced the pricing of it. The issue would be privately placed to the eligible institutional investors as applicable under the law.
Prices Notes
SolarCity Corp (NASDAQ:SCTY) stated that the senior convertible notes would carry an interest rate of 1.625% a year and the interest would be paid to its holders twice in a year, i.e. on May 1 and November 1 of every year, its statement revealed. The senior convertible notes would mature on November 1 in 2019 unless the company opts to convert or buyback them earlier.
SolarCity also disclosed the initial conversion rate for the senior notes. Accordingly every note of $1000 principal amount would be converted into 11.9720 shares. This meant that the note holders would be paying an initial conversion price of about $83.53 a share. This meant that the holders would be paying a premium of 32.5% over the September 24 closing price of $63.04. SolarCity Corp (NASDAQ:SCTY) indicated that the notes would be converted at the note holders’ option till the prescribed time stipulated in the offer document before the maturity date, and that conversion would be settled only in shares.
Issue Size
The solar energy systems company said that the initial purchasers of the convertible senior notes would also be provided with a 13-day option to acquire a maximum of $75 million value of the notes. This indicates that it would retain a maximum of 15% oversubscription from the issue size of $500 million. If the institutional investors preferred to opt for additional notes, the maximum amount to be raised from them would increase to $575 million gross.
SolarCity, which hopes to complete the sale before the current month ends, said that the net proceeds would be about $488.1 million from the issue, excluding an oversubscription amount. SolarCity Corp (NASDAQ:SCTY) said that it would use about $57.6 million from the net proceeds to pay the cost of the capped call transactions and the rest would be used for general corporate purposes, such as capital expenditures, working capital and possible acquisitions.
