QXO to raise $620 million through private placement, stock rises

Jul. 22, 2024 8:19 AM ETQXO, Inc. (QXO) StockBy: Sinchita Mitra, SA News Editor17 Comments
  • QXO (NASDAQ:QXO) said it is looking to raise $620M through a private placement.
  • The private offering will consist of an aggregate 67.83M shares at $9.14 apiece.
  • The new placement, includes a $150M investment from Affinity Partners.
  • After the close of this placement, the firm will have no debt and cash of $5B.
  • Shares in the company were up 5.1% in premarket trade.

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kp962
29 Jul. 2024, 7:14 PM
Trump is selling DJT shares with the help of his son-in-law may be.
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Selling shares privately for under 10 bucks. Watch out retail investors.
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The Real Cavalier
24 Jul. 2024, 1:29 PM
Based on the new shares outstanding with the capital raises this company now has a $40 billion market cap? Is that right? $4B in cash and no business?
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Adjuster
24 Jul. 2024, 4:50 PM
@The Real Cavalier 890 million shares diluted with warrants issued...so easy math from there. So...more like $110b at today's ending price. Truly dislocated and will burn a lot of investors.
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RM05443
30 Jul. 2024, 1:01 PM
@Adjuster What do you think is fair value here? Seems not bad at $12
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MIKE_2233
24 Jul. 2024, 11:47 AM
OMG, these retail buyers today have no clue what will happen to them in the next 15 days upon registration for insiders to unload !!!

They are buying something with 660,000 shares today, BUT LOOK AT THE FOLLOWING COMPANY STATEMENT made for the private placement:

"On a fully diluted basis, following the closing and giving effect to the conversion of the Company’s 1.0 million outstanding shares of preferred stock and the exercise of the 219.0 million outstanding warrants issued with its preferred stock (assuming cash exercise), as well as the exercise of the pre-funded warrants sold in the prior private placement financing, the Company will have approximately 889.4 million outstanding shares of common stock."

OMG, when the dumping is all over, this will be heading down to the $10 area !!!!
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SSKR72
30 Jul. 2024, 12:46 PM
@MIKE_2233 bravo for the prediction. Is it a good trade here at $10 with $5 billion cash in hand and no debt
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@SSKR72 do you seriously trust Jacobs enough after this swindle job to buy his ever more diluted stock?
82988
23 Jul. 2024, 4:33 PM
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Typical SPAC, don't bother to invest until some real meat in this company
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MIKE_2233
23 Jul. 2024, 3:22 PM
I said the following one month ago and it still hold true right now, but now there are EVEN MORE SHARES TO BE DUMPED after this second private offering:

As spelled out in the deal … “the Purchase Agreements provide certain registration rights, pursuant to which the Company has agreed to register the resale of the Shares and the Warrant Shares. The Company is required to use commercially reasonable efforts to file a registration statement with the SEC covering the resale by the Investors of their Shares and the Warrant Shares within 15 business days following the closing of the Private Placement.”

It is AMAZING that the stock price is still this high because retail investors are piling in right now. They will suffer soon.

This will play out in one of 2 ways.

First, it will steadily decline, up until the closing during the first half of July, down towards $10 area.

Or, if retail buyers keep buying and hold the price from having that decline … then, since there is no lockup period, 15 days after the closing, the buyers will dump those 382.9 million shares they bought at $9.14, FOR HUGE PROFITS and thus drive the stock down bigtime !!!
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The Real Cavalier
23 Jul. 2024, 4:08 PM
@MIKE_2233 No options in this stock. Really can't sell it short. $40 million market cap which is microcap land. 50k shares traded per day which is tiny. Its just a small potatoes spec up and down. Yes, the stock should decline IF the new shareholders sell when the lock ups expire. Can't really see the stock staying up if they do like you say.

This is like a SPAC. Its a pile of cash in search of an acquisition.

Read the company's website. Here is a quote from the strategy section...

QXO plans to become a tech-forward leader in the $800 billion building products distribution industry, with the goal of generating outsized shareholder value. The company is targeting tens of billions of dollars of annual revenue in the next decade through accretive acquisitions and organic growth.
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RM05443
30 Jul. 2024, 1:01 PM
@MIKE_2233 This was a great call
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Trevor Day
22 Jul. 2024, 6:41 PM
J Kush (DJT's son in law) now on the Board lololololol.
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NoOne11
23 Jul. 2024, 2:06 PM
@Trevor Day that makes the stock a Nono
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Luis Hernandez
22 Jul. 2024, 6:23 PM
The price has been quite speculative and bound for confusion. I guess it will continue to crash into the $10-$20 range. We'll see I guess
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Adjuster
22 Jul. 2024, 9:58 AM
How can the market price this at $60 when they keep issuing at $9-10 for the same common share?
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The Real Cavalier
22 Jul. 2024, 12:22 PM
@Adjuster You raise a great point. Its a Brad Jacobs deal. You may know him from his days rolling up the waste industry and then on to logistics through XPO and now GXO. Hence the name QXO.

I don't get it either. We must be missing something.

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