NA.PR.W Soft On Unimpressive Volume

National Bank of Canada has announced:

that it has closed its domestic public offering of non-cumulative 5-year rate reset first preferred shares series 32 (the “Series 32 Preferred Shares”). National Bank issued 12 million Series 32 Preferred Shares at a price of $25.00 per share to raise gross proceeds of $300 million.

The offering was underwritten by a syndicate led by National Bank Financial Inc.

The Series 32 Preferred Shares will commence trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange today under the ticker symbol NA.PR.W.

The Series 32 Preferred Shares were issued under a prospectus supplement dated October 2, 2014 to National Bank’s short form base shelf prospectus dated October 5, 2012.

NA.PR.W will be tracked by HIMIPref™. It is still rated Pfd-2(low) by DBRS, as confirmed on July 7, so despite being considered junk by S&P, it will be added to the FixedResets subindex.

The issue traded 740,000 shares today (consolidated exchanges) in a range of 24.76-97 before closing at 24.78-82, 1×12. Vital statistics are:

NA.PR.W FixedReset YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2044-10-09
Maturity Price : 23.06
Evaluated at bid price : 24.78
Bid-YTW : 3.77 %

Update, 2014-10-11: NA.PR.W is a FixedReset, 3.90%+225, announced September 30.

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