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March 19, 2019 at 06:31 PM
AXA Equitable Holdings Inc. announced Monday that its parent, AXA S.A., will be selling 40 million shares of AXA Equitable common stock.
The offering underwriters will have an option to buy 6 million shares for themselves.
(Related: AXA Equitable Posts Strong Buffer Annuity Sales)
AXA Equitable — publicly traded company based in New York — now has about 521 million shares of common stock outstanding.
AXA S.A. — an insurer based in Paris — owns about 313 million shares, or about 60% of the total.
The AXA Equitable shares are now selling for about $20 each on the New York Stock Exchange, under the stock symbol EQH.
If AXA S.A. succeeds at selling 40 million AXA Equitable shares, that could raise about $800 million. The sale could reduce the number of AXA Equitable shares AXA S.A. holds to 243 million, or 49.5% of the total.
AXA Equitable said it intends to buy about 30 million of the shares itself.
After AXA Equitable buys back those shares, there would be a total of about 491 million AXA Equitable shares of common stock outstanding, according to an offering document filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
