MADISON, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Exact Sciences Corp. (Nasdaq: EXAS) today announced that it has completed its previously announced underwritten public offering of its common stock at a price of $8.00 per share to the public.
Due to the exercise in full of the underwriters’ over-allotment option, the company sold a total of 3,593,750 shares of common stock in the offering for aggregate gross proceeds of $28.8 million and received approximately $27.1 million of net proceeds from the offering, after deducting the underwriting discount and estimated expenses of the offering payable by the company. Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated acted as sole book-running manager in the offering and William Blair & Company, L.L.C. acted as co-manager for the offering.
A copy of the final prospectus related to the offering may be obtained by contacting: Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated, Attention: Syndicate Department, 777 E. Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53202, telephone: 800-792-2413 or email: [email protected].
About Exact Sciences
Exact Sciences Corp. is a molecular diagnostics company focused on colorectal cancer. The company has exclusive intellectual property protecting its non-invasive, molecular screening technology for the detection of colorectal cancer. Stool-based DNA technology is included in the colorectal cancer screening guidelines of the American Cancer Society and the U.S. Multi-Society Task Force on Colorectal Cancer. For more information, please visit the company’s website at www.exactsciences.com.
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CONTACT:
Exact Sciences Corp.
Cara Tucker
Office: 608-284-5735
Cell: 614-302-5622
[email protected]
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