BUZZ-Flood insurer Neptune slides on $271 mln secondary offering
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** Neptune Insurance NP.N shares down 2.7% at $27.18 on Thurs and dropping for third straight day after secondary offering priced
** Florida-based flood insurer late Weds announced ~9.84 mln shares at $27.50 for deal size of ~$270.6 mln
** As part of offering, NP intends to concurrently repurchase 984,140 shares from the underwriters at $26.40, the price paid by the underwriters to the selling holders
** Offering priced at 1.6% discount to stock's last close
** Private equity firms Bregal Sagemount and FTV Capital were the sellers, per the prospectus
** Morgan Stanley lead left bookrunner for offering, and JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs are active bookrunners, among others
** NP debuted on Oct 1 after co and some of its existing shareholders, including co-founder James Albert, sold shares in IPO priced at $20
** NP's stock last Thurs jumped ~22% to close at $30.47 after Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Review Council released a final report including proposed reforms to National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), recommending a "comprehensive reform plan centered on a strategic shift toward a primary role for the private market"
** 7 of 11 analysts rate the stock "buy", 4 rate "hold"; median PT $30, per LSEG data
