Stock Market Absorbs $500+ Million in Secondaries Today (AAWW, DTG, HUB-B, OCFC, SWSI, VECO)

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The market has just absorbed over $500 million worth of stock in secondary offerings today alone.  We have offerings that came from Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAWW), Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group, Inc. (NYSE: DTG), Hubbell Incorporated (NYSE: HUB-B), OceanFirst Financial Corp. (NASDAQ: OCFC), Superior Well Services, Inc. (NASDAQ: SWSI), and Veeco Instruments Inc. (NASDAQ: VECO).

Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAWW) priced its offering of 4,000,000 shares of common stock at $25.75 per share.  Net proceeds are about $98.1 million for general corporate purposes.  Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs were joint book-running managers, and BB&T Capital Markets, Stephens Inc., and CJS Securities were co-managers.

Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group, Inc. (NYSE: DTG) priced its secondary offering of 5,750,000 shares of common stock at $19.25 per share.  Net proceeds are expected to be about $105 million for general corporate purposes.  Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan were the joint book-running managers.

Hubbell Incorporated (NYSE: HUB-B) priced a secondary offering of 2,600,000 shares of its Class B shares at $43.00 per share via Morgan Stanley and J.P. Morgan as joint book-runners. This raised about $106.5 million for debt repayment and other corporate purposes after the acquisition of FCI Americas, Inc.

OceanFirst Financial Corp. (NASDAQ:OCFC) priced its secondary offering of 5,556,000 shares of common stock at $9.00 per share via Sandler O’Neill and Stifel Nicolaus as joint book-running managers and with Keefe Bruyette & Woods and Sterne Agee & Leach as co-managers.  Net proceeds from the offering are about $46.9 million of which a part will be used to repurchase Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock sold to the U.S. Treasury under the Capital Purchase Program of the TARP.

Superior Well Services, Inc. (NASDAQ: SWSI) priced its secondary offering of 6,000,000 shares of common stock at $10.50 per share.  All of the shares were being offered by the company and generated $63 million in gross proceeds to repay a portion of its debt.  BofA Merrill Lynch was the book-running manager of the offering.

Veeco Instruments Inc. (NASDAQ: VECO) has priced its secondary offering of 5,000,000 shares of common stock at $23.75 per share.  The $118.8 million in gross proceeds for general corporate purposes via Citi and J.P. Morgan as joint book-running managers with Canaccord Adams and Piper Jaffray as co-managers.

JON C. OGG

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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