Showing posts with label stock offering. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stock offering. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Maersk to sell more stock

Maersk has announced they will

...sell up to 250,340 treasury B shares, or about 5.7% of the total share capital, to new and existing institutional investors.

At Tuesday’s closing price of DKK36,900 per B share on NASDAQ OMX Copenhagen, the value of the share issue would be up to DKK9.2bn ($1.75bn).


They say this money could be used for acquisitions, but I certainly hope they set aside a good chunk of it to cover loses, because at the rate they are going

Last month AP Moller Maersk reported an interim loss of $540m and doesn’t expect things to be much better in the second half of the year.


It won't take long to go through a billion dollars.

click here for link to article from Tradewinds