** Shares of BrightSpring Health Services BTSG.O down 1.7% premarket at $29.96 after $435 mln overnight secondary offering priced
** Home healthcare and hospice provider late Mon said certain holders including affiliates of KKR KKR.N and members of management parted ways with 15 mln shares
** Offering priced at $29, per thefly.com reports, which is 4.8% discount to stock's last close of $30.47
** In addition, BTSG to concurrently repurchase 1.5 mln of the offering's shares from the underwriter
** Private equity firm KKR offloaded ~14.7 mln shares, and including the repurchase, reduces its stake to ~34.7%, while CEO Jon Rousseau sold 235,000 shares, per the prospectus
** Louisville, Kentucky-based BTSG had ~181 mln shares outstanding as of Oct 17, per the filing
** BofA is sole bookrunner for offering
** BTSG late Mon reported preliminary Q3 results and boosted annual rev guidance to $12.4-$12.7 bln, up from prior outlook of $12.2-$12.6 bln
** BTSG shares were added to S&P SmallCap 600 index .SPCY before the bell on Mon
** Through Mon, stock up 79% in 2025
** 11 of 12 analysts rate stock "strong buy" or "buy", 1 rates "hold" and median PT is $31.50, per LSEG data
(Lance Tupper is a Reuters market analyst. The views expressed are his own)
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