Evermore Shares at Evergreen Solar (ESLR)

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Solar panel maker Evergreen Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ:ESLR) has begun a secondary offering of common stock to raise $60 million.  The company plans to offer the underwriter, Piper Jaffray & Co., a 30-day option on an additional $9 million work of common stock. The offer is being made from Evergreen’s existing shelf registration

The proceeds will primarily be used to fund the company’s 100 megawatt manufacturing facility in Wuhan, China, and to purchase equipment to expand the company’s Midland, Michigan, plant. Remaining funds will go to “general corporate purposes” and “possible payments” to it’s German joint venture, Sovello.

Evergreen has suffered a net loss in each of the past two quarters, and estimates for the current quarter point to a net EPS loss of $0.07. The company has about 165 million shares outstanding and to raise $60 million will need to issue about another 30 million. That’s a dilution of about 18%.

Evergreen shares are trading down more than 2% in the pre-market, at $2.19. The stock’s 52-week trading range is $1.00-$12.64.

Paul Ausick
May 20, 2009

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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.

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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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