Investors dumped Nikola stock Friday after the electric truck maker priced the sale of 133.3 million new shares and sought to issue $175 million in new debt with an annual interest rate of 8.25%.
The new stock sale would raise to nearly 1 billion the number of outstanding shares in the company. Shareholders voted in August to double the number of authorized shares to 1.6 billion from 800 million, effectively agreeing to dilute the value of their holdings as new shares are issued.
The company...
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