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United Rentals Inc. (NYSE: URI) has announced a major self tender offer this morning and is is seeing shares surge in pre-market trading. It isn’t going private, but it is cleaning up its books and retiring a big portion of its common stock and preferred shares. It seems it is doing what the old private equity acquisition couldn’t do.

The company has announced its plans to tender for up to 27,160,000 shares of common stock through a altered dutch auction. This will be at a price of not less than $22.00 and not greater than $25.00. Shares closed at $19.50 yesterday and its 52-week trading range is $14.83 to $34.98.

The number of shares to be repurchased in the tender offer represents approximately 31.4% of the total outstanding number of shares. If fully subscribed, the total purchase price for the common stock would be roughly $679 million. There is also the retirement of preferred shares outstanding as part of this deal, which ties into Apollo Investment Funds and the associated board members will resign from the board of directors as part of the transaction.

Continue reading the full details and analysis at 247WallSt.com.

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