OMAHA, Neb.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Boston Omaha Corporation (NASDAQ: BOMN) (“Boston Omaha” or the “Company”) today announced the pricing of its previously announced underwritten public offering of its Class A common stock, par value $0.001 per share (“Class A common stock”), at a price to the public of $16.00 per share, for a total of 3,200,000 shares. Gross proceeds to Boston Omaha from the offering are expected to be approximately $51.2 million, before deducting the underwriting discount and estimated offering expenses. Adam Peterson and Alex Rozek, our Co-Chairmen, together with another director and an employee, have agreed to purchase (directly or through their affiliates), an aggregate of 39,375 shares of Class A common stock in the offering at the public offering price. In connection with the offering, Boston Omaha has granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 480,000 shares of Class A common stock from Boston Omaha at the public offering price (less the underwriting discount). The offering is expected to close on June 2, 2020, subject to customary closing conditions. All of the shares are being offered by Boston Omaha.
Wells Fargo Securities and Cowen acted as joint lead book-running managers for the offering.
Boston Omaha is raising capital to fund the expansion of its recently acquired fiber-to-the-home broadband telecommunication business, to grow its Link billboard business through the acquisitions of additional billboard businesses, and for general corporate purposes. The Company has no current agreements, commitments or understandings for any specific acquisitions at this time.
A shelf registration statement on Form S-3 relating to the securities being sold in this offering was declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on February 9, 2018. An electronic copy of the final prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to the offering will be available on the SEC website at www.sec.gov. Copies of the final prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to the offering may also be obtained, when available, by visiting the SEC website at www.sec.gov or from Well Fargo Securities, LLC, Attention: Equity Syndicate Department, 500 West 33rd Street, New York, New York 10001, toll-free at (800) 326-5897 or email a request to cmclientsupport@wellsfargo.com, or from Cowen and Company, LLC c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY,11717, Attn: Prospectus Department, by email at PostSaleManualRequests@broadridge.com or by telephone at (833) 297-2926.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities of Boston Omaha, nor shall there be any sale of securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.
About Boston Omaha Corporation
Boston Omaha Corporation is a public holding company with three majority owned businesses engaged in outdoor advertising, surety insurance and broadband telecommunications services. The Company also maintains minority investments in a bank, a national residential homebuilder and commercial real estate services businesses.
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