KLX Energy Services Announces Completion of Subscription Rights Offering
The redemption and debt-for-stock exchange will reduce outstanding 2030 note principal by $94.0 million while adding common shares.
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KLX Energy Services Holdings (KLXE) completed its subscription rights offering and closed the related debt-for-stock exchange on September 29, 2026. Rights holders purchased 24,975,001 shares at $1.49 each, generating $37.2 million in gross proceeds. The company expects to use $31.0 million for general corporate purposes, including offering fees and expenses, and $6.2 million to redeem notes due 2030 at par, plus accrued and unpaid interest.
The redemption and backstop exchange will reduce outstanding note principal by $94.0 million. Backstop parties will receive 59,273,445 shares in exchange for notes at 100% of principal plus accrued and unpaid interest, at the same subscription price. KLX expects 105,677,168 shares outstanding after both transactions. Each backstop party is subject to a 30% ownership limit on a fully diluted basis after the transactions. KLX also entered into an amended and restated indenture governing the notes.
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Hollow bars mark forward-looking points. How the balance works
Positive
- Major point$37.2 million in gross proceeds raised through the completed subscription rights offering. 1.2× market cap
- Major point. Forward-looking: it has not happened yet and may not happen.$94.0 million of 2030 note principal will be eliminated through redemption and the backstop exchange.
Negative
- Major point24,975,001 common shares purchased at $1.49 each dilute existing holders.
- Major point. Forward-looking: it has not happened yet and may not happen.59,273,445 common shares will be issued to backstop parties at $1.49, adding dilution.
- Minor point. Forward-looking: it has not happened yet and may not happen.Offering fees and expenses will be paid from the expected $31.0 million general-purpose allocation.
- Minor point. Forward-looking: it has not happened yet and may not happen.$6.2 million redemption at par also requires payment of accrued and unpaid interest.
Key Figures
- Rights-offering shares
- 24,975,001 shares
- Purchased through exercise of subscription rights
- Subscription price
- $1.49 per share
- Rights offering
- Gross proceeds
- $37.2 million
- Rights offering
- Corporate-purpose proceeds
- $31.0 million
- Expected use includes rights-offering fees and expenses
- 2030 Notes redemption
- $6.2 million
- Expected redemption at par, plus accrued and unpaid interest
- 2030 Notes principal reduction
- $94.0 million
- From note redemptions and the Backstop Exchange
- Backstop Exchange shares
- 59,273,445 shares
- To be issued to Backstop Parties
- Shares outstanding
- 105,677,168 shares
- Expected after the Rights Offering and Backstop Exchange
Previous Offering Reports
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Preliminary results reported $37.2 million proceeds, 24,975,001 shares, and a planned $94.0 million note reduction.
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Launched a $125 million rights offering with up to $94 million backstopped through note-for-stock exchanges.
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Key Terms
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The Rights Offering was backstopped by the existing holders (the "Backstop Parties") of the Company's Senior Secured Floating Rate Cash / PIK Notes due 2030 (the "2030 Notes") in an aggregate backstop commitment amount of
Subscription rights holders who have participated in the Rights Offering should expect to see the shares of Common Stock issued to them in uncertificated book-entry form. Any excess subscription payments received by Computershare Trust Company, N.A. (the "Subscription Agent") will be returned by the Subscription Agent to such subscription rights holder via check without interest or deduction.
The Rights Offering was made pursuant to the Company's existing effective shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (Reg. No. 333-295905) on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and the prospectus supplement (and the accompanying base prospectus) filed with the SEC on August 24, 2026 (collectively, the "Prospectus"). Additional information regarding the Rights Offering is set forth in the Prospectus.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any of the subscription rights, Common Stock or any other securities, nor will there be any sale of the subscription rights, Common Stock or any other securities in any state or other jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or other jurisdiction.
About KLX Energy Services Holdings, Inc.
KLX is a growth-oriented provider of diversified oilfield services to leading onshore oil and natural gas exploration and production companies operating in both conventional and unconventional plays in all of the active major basins throughout the United States. The Company delivers mission critical oilfield services focused on drilling, completion, production, and intervention activities for technically demanding wells from over 60 service and support facilities located throughout the United States. KLX's complementary suite of proprietary products and specialized services is supported by technically skilled personnel and a broad portfolio of innovative in-house manufacturing, repair and maintenance capabilities. More information is available at www.klx.com.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This release and the documents to which the Company refers you to in this release, as well as oral statements made or to be made by the Company, include certain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of, and subject to the safe harbor created by, the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and other federal securities laws, which are referred to as the safe harbor provisions, with respect to the transactions described herein, the businesses, strategies and plans of the Company and its expectations relating to its future financial condition and performance. Statements included in this release that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, statements about the Company's beliefs and expectations regarding the Rights Offering, including the use of proceeds therefrom, and the Backstop Exchange. Words such as "believe," "expect," "plan," "intend," "anticipate," "estimate," "predict," "forecast," "potential," "project," "continue," "may," "might," "should," "could," "would," "will" or the negative thereof and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements that are intended to be covered by the safe harbor provisions.
Any forward-looking statements in this release and the information incorporated by reference in this release reflect our current views with respect to future events or to our future financial performance and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors that may cause our actual results, performance, or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from current expectations include, among other things, prevailing market conditions, as well as, without limitation, those risks described under the heading "Risk Factors" in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC, as supplemented by our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q or our Current Reports on Form 8-K, and discussed elsewhere in this release, and the information incorporated by reference in this release. Given these uncertainties, you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements.
All subsequent written or oral forward-looking statements attributable to the Company or any person acting on behalf of the Company are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements contained or referred to in this section. The Company is not under any obligation, and the Company expressly disclaims any obligation, to update, alter, or otherwise revise any forward-looking statements, whether written or oral, that may be made from time to time, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required by law.
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KLX Energy Services |
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Geoffrey C. Stanford, SVP, CAO & Interim CFO |
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(832) 930-8066 |
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Dennard Lascar Investor Relations |
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Ken Dennard / Natalie Hairston |
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(713) 529-6600 |
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SOURCE KLX Energy Services Holdings, Inc.
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