SailPoint Technologies Holdings, Inc. priced its initial public offering at $12 Thursday night, setting the company up to begin trading Friday morning. The price for 20 million shares was higher than the expected range of $9 to $11 a share, and means the IPO will bring in at least $240 million. Sailpoint sells enterprise identity-management tools, which helps businesses securely manage employees’ use of multiple apps on their systems. The company has been owned by private-equity firm Thoma Bravo, which will maintain a majority stake in Sailpoint after the IPO. Thoma Bravo offered 5 million shares in the IPO, while Chief Executive Mark McClain and President Kevin Cunningham sold 700,000 shares combined. The other 14.3 million shares were sold by Sailpoint, which will collect at least $171.6 million before fees that it intends to use for general corporate purposes, including “expanding our global presence,” according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Sailpoint revenue increased to $132.4 million in 2016 from $95.4 million in 2015, while net losses were reduced to $3.2 million from $10.8 million in that time. Underwriters have access to 1.5 million more shares, which are expected to list Friday morning on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol SAIL.
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