In coordination with a secondary offering of TrueCar’s shares, seven investors plan to sell 7.5 million of the company’s shares at an unannounced upcoming date, worth $118.9 million at the close of the stock market on Monday.
The online car-pricing website’s secondary offering will be used to raise funds for general operations and is worth about $15.9 million. The insider’s stock sale represents about 36.3 percent of the firm’s common stock.
Since August 2015, the month founder and Chief Executive Scott Painter resigned after a series of long-running lawsuits with auto dealerships, TrueCar’s stock price has risen more than 230 percent. The company’s revenue rose to $277 million in 2016, up 34.3 percent from about $207 million in 2015.
The seven investors selling off shares in TrueCar are United Services Automobile Association, Santa Monica’s Upfront Ventures, Pacific Sequoia Holdings, Jeff Skoll’s Capricorn & Skoll, Paul Allen’s Vulcan Capital Growth Equity, Nevada Capital Partners, and Peppy Capital Partners. No insider is selling more than 25 percent of their stake in TrueCar.
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