** AI cloud platform DigitalOcean's DOCN.N shares down 6.6% at $79.28 premarket after above-target equity raise
** DOCN announces pricing offering of ~10.4 mln shares for approx $800 mln gross proceeds, up from planned $700 mln
** Offering price equates to $77, which is 9.3% discount to stock's last sale on Tues
** Co to use net proceeds to invest in additional infrastructure capacity, pay down term loan, and for general corporate purposes
** JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley and BofA joint bookrunners, joined by Goldman Sachs, Citizens Capital Markets and MUFG
** Broomfield, Colorado-based DOCN has ~92 mln shares outstanding
** Through Tues close, DOCN shares up 76.5% YTD
** Avg rating of 14 analysts is "buy"; median PT $76.50, per LSEG
(Lance Tupper is a Reuters market analyst. The views expressed are his own)
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