Booz Allen Hamilton Sinks on Secondary Offering

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Booz Allen Hamilton Sinks on Secondary Offering

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Shares of Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp. (NYSE: BAH) dropped early Thursday after the company announced a massive sale of shares. An affiliate of the Carlyle Group will be selling these 16.66 million shares of Class A common stock on an underwritten basis to Barclays, which will in turn offer these shares to the public at a fixed price.

Upon completion of the offering, the Carlyle Group will not beneficially own any shares of common stock of Booz Allen. The offering is expected to close and settle on December 6. Booz Allen is not selling any shares of common stock in the offering and will not receive any of the proceeds.

At the most recent closing price of $37.81, the entire offering would be valued up to $629.9 million.

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Booz Allen has been at the forefront of strategy and technology for more than 100 years. Currently, the firm provides management and technology consulting and engineering services to leading Fortune 500 corporations, governments and not-for-profits across the globe. Booz Allen partners with public and private sector clients to solve their most difficult challenges through a combination of consulting, analytics, mission operations, technology, systems delivery, cybersecurity, engineering and innovation expertise.

Excluding Thursday’s move, Booz Allen has outperformed the broad markets, with the stock up 22.5% year to date.

Shares of Booz Allen were down about 3% at $36.69 on Thursday, with a consensus analyst price target of $38.38 and a 52-week trading range of $25.03 to $38.54.

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Chris Lange is a writer for 24/7 Wall St., based in Houston. He has covered financial markets over the past decade with an emphasis on healthcare, tech, and IPOs. During this time, he has published thousands of articles with insightful analysis across these complex fields. Currently, Lange's focus is on military and geopolitical topics.

Lange's work has been quoted or mentioned in Forbes, The New York Times, Business Insider, USA Today, MSN, Yahoo, The Verge, Vice, The Intelligencer, Quartz, Nasdaq, The Motley Fool, Fox Business, International Business Times, The Street, Seeking Alpha, Barron’s, Benzinga, and many other major publications.

A graduate of Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, Lange majored in business with a particular focus on investments. He has previous experience in the banking industry and startups.

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