Mullen Automotive Stock News: MULN drops another 9% on Wednesday
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- Mullen Automotive issued pre-funded warrants, according to a filing on Monday.
- MULN stock traded down to $0.6060 on Tuesday.
- NASDAQ futures are slightly down in Wednesday’s premarket session.
- Lucid Group raised $3 billion in late May to fund its ambitious production growth.
Mullen Automotive (MULN) stock is down 8.9% to $0.5521 at the start of trading on Wednesday, a new all-time low. MULN stock previously dropped 13.1% on Tuesday to $0.6060. The continued sell-off this week despite any new headlines was likely caused by another round of dilution. On Monday, Mullen filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) about a recent issuance of common stock and warrants to Acuitas Capital.
Mullen Automotive stock news: Acuitas Capital bought a lot of shares to dump
On June 5, Mullen sent a filing to the SEC explaining its latest funding initiative. Mullen requires lots of cash to meet production targets as it is currently ramping up its assembly line at a factory in Mississippi in order to build the Mullen Three, an electric long haul truck chassis.
Right now its Mullen One electric delivery van is on the lot, awaiting orders at Randy Marion Automotive Group’s enterprise dealerships nationwide, but automotive production requires heavy investment. The much bigger Lucid Group (LCID), another EV maker in California that differs from Mullen due to its eye on the luxury segment of the market, just sold another $3 billion worth of common stock in order to burnish its production budget.
The June 5 filing shows that Acuitas Capital paid $20 million for 19,493,071 shares of MULN common stock and pre-funded warrants that can be exercised for 8,074,124 shares of common stock. The warrants can be exercised immediately at a price of $0.001 per share. Acuitas may already be exercising these warrants this week, thus causing the share price to drop precipitously.
Mullen separately issued Acuitas 50,999,310 warrants exercisable for common stock at a price of $0.7255 per share. As this price is above the current share price, Acuitas likely will have to wait awhile to exchange them for common shares. Altogether then, the Mullen filing means that the share count could expand by more than 78.5 million shares. Since there were 218 million shares at the end of the first quarter, considering the May 4 1-for-25 reverse stock split, this deal with Acuitas capital would itself dilute shares outstanding by about 36%.
Mullen stock forecast
Mullen stock has been setting new all-time lows since early March, and there is no reason for it to stop in the near term. Mullen burned about $68 million in the first quarter of this year, and that figure should rise as it begins production of the Mullen Three in July. Expect MULN stock to fall back to its pre-reverse stock split price of $0.06 before entreaties from the NASDAQ exchange cause management to file for another reverse stock split. NASDAQ-listed companies are not allowed to trade below $1 for an extended period of time.
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