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Energizer buys shaving cream and announces stock offering -- stock drops

Posted May 11th 2009 12:10PM by Melly Alazraki (RSS feed)
Filed under: Earnings Reports, Deals, Procter and Gamble (PG)

Energizer Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: ENR) made two announcements this morning, and as a result its stock is dropping over 5% in morning trading.

Energizer announced the acquisition of the Edge and Skintimate shaving cream business of S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. for an aggregate purchase price of $275 million. Energizer also announced that it has commenced an offering of 9.5 million shares of common stock.

Starting with the stock offering: Energizer said it would use the net proceeds from the offering to pay for the deal with S.C. Johnson and for general corporate purposes, including the repayment of debt. The offering includes an option for the underwriters to buy up to 1.425 million more shares to cover any over-allotments.

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