Seagate slides in profit-taking after note settlement dilutes shares
-3.73% to $830.17 from $862.33
What moved STX
- A Form 8-K filing confirmed Seagate issued about 1.65 million ordinary shares and paid roughly $151 million in cash to fully settle its 3.50% exchangeable senior notes due 2028, adding to share supply and diluting existing holders.
- Analysts characterized the decline as profit-taking after Seagate’s large 2026 run-up rather than new company-specific news, noting broad storage- and memory-sector benchmarks gained the same day.
- Fellow storage stock SanDisk also fell while Micron held roughly flat, pointing to sector-wide rotation rather than a Seagate-specific issue.
Sources: ad-hoc-news.de · 24/7 Wall St.