IREN Ltd (NASDAQ: IREN) saw its stock price plummet 5.09% in after-hours trading on Tuesday, following the company's announcement of its intention to offer $875 million in convertible senior notes due 2031. This significant drop came despite earlier positive news about the company's AI cloud contracts.
The proposed private offering, aimed at qualified institutional buyers, includes an option for initial purchasers to buy an additional $125 million in notes. IREN plans to use a portion of the net proceeds to fund capped call transactions, which are expected to reduce potential dilution to ordinary shares upon conversion of the notes. The remainder will be allocated for general corporate purposes and working capital.
Ironically, this negative market reaction came on the same day IREN announced new multi-year cloud services contracts with leading AI companies for NVIDIA Blackwell GPU deployments. The company remains on track to achieve over $500 million in annualized run-rate revenue from 23,000 GPUs by Q1 2026. While this news initially drove the stock up during regular trading hours, the after-hours announcement of the convertible notes offering appears to have overshadowed the positive developments, leading to the significant stock price decline.