Michaels IPO Offering Price Announced
Late Thursday evening, Michaels Companies announced that the initial offering price of the company's IPO on Friday, June 27th will be $17/share.
The price for the Michaels IPO is on the low end of the predicted range of $17-$19 per share that was indicated for the offering in previous SEC filings. Media analysts have been indicating lukewarm interest in the offering from investors due to concerns about the company's heavy debt load - over $3 billion - and reliance on a single product - the Rainbow Loom - for recent growth.
The stock will list on the NASDAQ exchange Friday under the symbol MIK. With $27.9 million shares being sold, the company will have an approximate market value of $3.45 billion, raising about $470 million in the IPO.
Post-IPO, private equity firms Bain Capital and the Blackstone Group will continue to own over 80% of the company. Michaels Companies also filed nearly two dozen SEC statements this evening recording insider ownership of company stock by the company's executives. CEO Chuck Rubin (whose legal name is Carl), was reported as owning 315,353 shares of the company, with an option to purchase a total of nearly 1.85 million more at a price of $13.86 at various points over the next 7 years. This makes Rubin (unsurprisingly) the largest stockholder among company executives, but his holding pales in comparison to the holdings of Bain Capital and Blackstone, totaling roughly 80 million shares each.
Both the market and the crafts industry will be watching with interest to see what happens to the stock over the course of the day tomorrow. Opening price isn't as critical to an IPO's perceived success as closing price on the first day. The much-vaunted Facebook IPO was deemed a disaster after the stock tanked in the hours immediately after its offering on the first day. It has since recovered, but the ghost of the "Facebook IPO disaster" still haunts IPO offers.
I will be watching the market closely over the course of the day and will issue updates on the website and on Twitter and Facebook as warranted.
