Another Share Offering at Dollar General

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By Paul Ausick Updated Published
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Discount retailer Dollar General Corp. (NYSE: DG) said this morning that it will sell 30 million shares in a secondary offering and that all the shares on offer are being sold by existing shareholders. The company will not receive any proceeds from the sale. The underwriters have received from the selling shareholders an option to purchase up to 4.5 million additional shares.

The chief beneficiary of the offering will be KKR & Co. (NYSE: KKR) through its Bucks Holding affiliate. Last September KKR and Bucks Holding sold 29.6 million shares of Dollar General stock, and the company repurchased another 4.7 million shares in a $250 million buyback. Bucks Holding’s stake in the company will drop from 16.5% to 7.5%, not including the underwriter’s option, and 6.5% including the option.

Among other sellers are five of Dollar General’s executive officers, none of whom owns more than 1% of the company’s stock before the offering.

No date or offering price has been set for the sale.

Dollar General’s shares closed at $52.22 last night in a 52-week range of $39.73 to $56.04. Shares are down about 2.5% in premarket trading this morning, at $50.91.

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Paul Ausick has been writing for a673b.bigscoots-temp.com for more than a decade. He has written extensively on investing in the energy, defense, and technology sectors. In a previous life, he wrote technical documentation and managed a marketing communications group in Silicon Valley.

He has a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Chicago and now lives in Montana, where he fishes for trout in the summer and stays inside during the winter.

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