IREN stock price drops 4.2% due to $6 billion equity issuance plan

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Investing.com – Data center operator IREN (NASDAQ: IREN) announced on Thursday the launch of a market equity offering of up to $6 billion, causing its stock to fall 4.2% to $42 in pre-market trading.

The offering will be underwritten by 11 banks, including Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, and Citigroup. According to the prospectus, as of January 30, IREN had approximately 332.3 million shares outstanding.

The stock closed Wednesday up 12.8% at $43.84.

Additionally, IREN announced an agreement to purchase over 50,000 NVIDIA B300 GPUs to expand its AI cloud capacity.

The company plans to deploy these GPUs in phases at its existing data centers in Mackenzie, British Columbia, and Childress, Texas, before the second half of 2026.

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