Recursion Announces Pricing of $200 Million Underwritten Offering of Class A Common Stock
The planned issuance of 61,540,000 Class A shares will dilute existing shareholders.
Sentiment and the balance of points
Rhea-AI Sentiment reads the wording of the document, how positive or negative its language is on a 1 to 5 scale. The balance of points shown with the takes weighs what the document actually discloses, so the two can disagree, for example when a trial that missed its main goal is described in upbeat language.
Rhea-AI Summary
Recursion Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: RXRX) priced an underwritten Class A common stock offering expected to raise approximately $200 million in gross proceeds. The offering comprises 61,540,000 shares at $3.25 per share, all to be sold by Recursion. Gross proceeds are before underwriting discounts, commissions and estimated offering expenses. Recursion expects the offering to close on or about October 16, 2026, subject to customary closing conditions.
Participating investors included Janus Henderson Investors, Invus, Longaeva Partners, ARK Invest and Driehaus Capital Management, alongside other healthcare specialists and mutual funds. Leerink Partners, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Evercore are joint bookrunning managers, which coordinate the offering. Needham & Company is lead manager.
How this balance works
Rhea-AI gives every point it takes from this document a weight. Minor counts 1, Moderate 3 and Major 9, so one Major point outweighs several Minor ones. The bar adds up the weights on each side, and when neither side holds more than 65% of the total the balance reads Mixed.
It reads the document as published, with the same rules for every company, and it does not look at what the market expected or at how the stock traded, so a point can be objectively good on a day the stock falls.
Rhea-AI Sentiment measures something else, the tone of the wording.
Hollow bars mark forward-looking points. How the balance works
Positive
- Major point. Forward-looking: it has not happened yet and may not happen.Offering expected to raise approximately $200 million in gross proceeds for Recursion. 10% of market cap
Negative
- Major point. Forward-looking: it has not happened yet and may not happen.61,540,000 Class A shares at $3.25 per share will dilute existing holders.
- Minor point. Forward-looking: it has not happened yet and may not happen.Underwriting discounts, commissions and estimated offering expenses will reduce proceeds received.
Details
Market Reaction – RXRX
On Oct 15, the day this news came out, the latest delayed price for RXRX is 2.88% above the previous close. Our momentum scanner has recorded 19 alerts for this stock so far that day. The latest delayed price is $3.85. Relative volume is very high at 3.6x the average.
Data tracked by StockTitan Argus (15 min delayed). Upgrade to Gold for real-time data.
Key Figures
- Shares offered
- 61,540,000 shares
- Class A common stock; all shares to be sold by Recursion
- Offering price
- $3.25 per share
- Class A common stock
- Gross proceeds
- Approximately $200 million
- Before underwriting discounts, commissions and estimated offering expenses
- Expected closing
- October 16, 2026
- Subject to customary closing conditions
Key Terms
underwritten offering financial
registration statement regulatory
prospectus supplement regulatory
AI-generated analysis. How Rhea-AI works. Not financial advice.
Salt Lake City, UT, Oct. 15, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Recursion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“Recursion”) (NASDAQ: RXRX), a leading clinical-stage company pioneering AI-enabled drug discovery and development decoding biology to radically improve lives, today announced the pricing of an underwritten offering of 61,540,000 shares of its Class A common stock at a price of
Leerink Partners, Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and Evercore Group L.L.C. are acting as joint bookrunning managers for the offering. Needham & Company, LLC is acting as lead manager for the offering.
The financing included participation from leading healthcare and institutional investors, including Janus Henderson Investors, Invus, Longaeva Partners, ARK Invest, Driehaus Capital Management and other prominent healthcare specialists and mutual funds.
The shares are being offered by Recursion pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-3, which became automatically effective upon filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on February 12, 2025. The offering is being made solely by means of a written prospectus and a prospectus supplement that form a part of the registration statement. The preliminary prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to the offering was filed on October 15, 2026. A final prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to the offering will also be filed with the SEC. These documents can be accessed for free through the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Alternatively, a copy of the final prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to this offering may be obtained, when available, by contacting: Leerink Partners LLC, Attention: Syndicate Department, 53 State Street, 40th Floor, Boston, MA 02109, by telephone at (800) 808-7525 ext. 6105 or by email at syndicate@leerink.com; Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Attention: Prospectus Department, 200 West Street, New York, NY 10282, by telephone at (866) 471-2526 or by email at prospectus-ny@ny.email.gs.com; Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Attention: Prospectus Department, 180 Varick Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10014, by telephone at (866) 718-1649 or by email at prospectus@morganstanley.com; or Evercore Group L.L.C., Attention: Equity Capital Markets, 55 East 52nd Street, 35th Floor, New York, NY 10055, by telephone at (888) 474-0200 or by email at ecm.prospectus@evercore.com.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy, nor will there be any sale of these securities in any state or other jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation, or sale would be unlawful before registration or qualification under the securities laws of that state or jurisdiction.
About Recursion
Recursion (NASDAQ: RXRX) is a leading clinical-stage company pioneering AI-enabled drug discovery and development decoding biology to radically improve lives. Recursion is advancing a portfolio of differentiated investigational medicines across its wholly owned and partnered pipeline in oncology, rare disease, neuroscience, immunology, and other therapeutic areas with significant unmet need. Enabling its mission is the Recursion OS, an AI-native, end-to-end drug discovery and development platform integrating biology, chemistry, and clinical development into a unified intelligence system. Powered by proprietary multimodal data, purpose-built AI models, and bilingual teams fluent in both science and AI, the Recursion OS is designed to translate complex science into medicines that matter — faster, better, and at scale — for patients who are waiting.
Recursion's platform infrastructure is anchored in Salt Lake City, Utah and Milton Park, Oxfordshire, where its automated biology and chemistry laboratories generate proprietary data at industrial scale. Recursion also maintains offices in New York, Montréal, and London, three global hubs for talent and leadership at the intersection of AI and scientific innovation.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains information that includes or is based upon “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including, without limitation, statements regarding the expected completion and timing of closing of the offering, the anticipated total gross proceeds from the offering and all other statements that are not statements of historical facts. Forward-looking statements may or may not include identifying words such as “intend,” “plan,” “will,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “believe,” “potential,” “continue,” and similar terms. These statements are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in such statements, including but not limited to: prevailing market conditions; the satisfaction of customary closing conditions; general economic, industry or political conditions; challenges inherent in pharmaceutical research and development, including the timing and results of preclinical and clinical programs, where the risk of failure is high and failure can occur at any stage prior to or after regulatory approval due to lack of sufficient efficacy, safety considerations, or other factors; the fact that interim and preliminary clinical data, including data from a small number of patients in a single-arm study, may not be predictive of final results; our ability to leverage and enhance our drug discovery platform; the performance and limitations of our artificial intelligence and machine learning models and the data on which they are trained; our reliance on third parties, including collaborators, contract research organizations, and manufacturers; our ability to initiate clinical trials and enroll patients on expected timelines; the outcome of our discussions with the FDA, which may result in changes to the design or timing of, or delays in, our planned registrational trial of REC-4881; competition from other therapies and platforms; our ability to obtain financing for development activities and other corporate purposes; the satisfaction of customary closing conditions for the offering; the possibility that our preliminary estimate of cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash may change upon completion of our quarter-end financial close procedures; the success of our collaboration activities and our collaborators' discretion over option exercises, program advancement, and funding; our ability to obtain regulatory approval of, and ultimately commercialize, drug candidates; our ability to obtain, maintain, and enforce intellectual property protections; cyberattacks or other disruptions to our technology systems; our ability to attract, motivate, and retain key employees and manage our growth; inflation and other macroeconomic issues; and other risks and uncertainties such as those described under the heading "Risk Factors" in our filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including our Annual Report on Form 10-K and our subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. All forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this document and are based on management's current estimates, projections, and assumptions, and Recursion undertakes no obligation to correct or update any such statements, whether as a result of new information, future developments, or otherwise, except to the extent required by applicable law.
Investor Contact:
investor@recursion.com
Media Contact:
media@recursion.com
FAQ
AI-generated questions and answers. How Rhea-AI works. Not financial advice.
When is Recursion's RXRX stock offering expected to close?
Recursion expects the offering to close on or about October 16, 2026, subject to satisfaction of customary closing conditions.