Rivian Stock Plummeted 11% in Morning Trading

Tiger Newspress2022-05-09

Rivian stock plummeted 11% as Ford planned to offload 8 million shares of EV start-up.

Ford Motor reportedly plans to dump 8M of its 102M-share stake in Rivian Automotive once the struggling EV maker's post-IPO lockup period expires Sunday.

The automaker intends to sell the stock through Goldman Sachs at a time when RIVN's share price has tanked since staging a hot initial public offering last November.

Rivian went public on Nov. 10 at $78 a share – valuing the firm at some $66.5M – and shot up to as high as $179.47 intraday just a few sessions later. However, the stock has run out of juice since then, closing Friday at $28.79 – down 6.3% for the session and 84% from its Nov. 16 post-IPO peak.

Another unnamed investor has hired JPMorgan Chase to sell 13M to 15M RIVN shares once the lockup period ends.

The network said both sales will likely carry a $26.90-a-share asking price, or 6.6% below where Rivian (RIVN) closed on Friday.

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