What happened
Shares of Energy Fuels (UUUU -0.34%) entered 2021 on a down note today, falling 7.5% through the closing bell. The drop came in response to a Form 8-K filing that Energy Fuels made with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)...last week.
Specifically, Energy Fuels made the filing around 5:10 p.m. last week after close of trading for the day, for the week, and for the year, too, for that matter.
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So what
Monday, therefore, was the first chance investors got to react to Energy Fuels' announcement that "in connection with its Controlled Equity Offering Sales Agreement with Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC and Roth Capital Partners," it plans to sell "up to an additional $35 million of common shares."
To raise the targeted $35 million, Energy Fuels would need to issue and sell about 8.9 million new shares priced "at-the-market." And because Energy Fuels only has about 115 million shares currently outstanding, issuing all these new shares would result in current shareholders being diluted out of about 7.2% of their ownership stake in the company.
Now what
It's therefore probably no coincidence that Energy Fuels stock declined by a little more than 7% today. Shareholders are viewing their shares as less valuable because they will probably soon represent a smaller ownership interest in the company.
There is a plus side to this deal, however. Thirty-five million new dollars in Energy Fuels' bank account will more than double the money in the company's cash war chest, dwarfing the mere $9 million in debt on the company's books. If Energy Fuels saw a need for more cash and decided to sell these shares...well, it seems to me that selling after a 126% run-up in share price over the past 12 months makes now a pretty good time to do just that.
