---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-26-063192"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BW"
cik: "0001630805"
company_name: "Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc."
filed_at: "2026-05-18T20:10:54+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-18T20:12:22.781932+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Babcock & Wilcox prices $200M common stock offering at $18.50/share

## Summary
- Priced 10,810,811 shares at $18.50/share for ~$200M gross; underwriters have 30-day option for 1,621,621 additional shares.
- Offering closed May 18 with full exercise of option, total 12,432,432 shares issued.
- Proceeds to prepay credit facility and reborrow for growth initiatives including AI data center power, BrightLoop tech, and potential acquisitions.
- B. Riley Securities lead book-runner; Craig-Hallum and Lake Street joint book-runners; Northland co-manager.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-26-063192
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BW
- cik: 0001630805
- company_name: Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc.
- filed_at: 2026-05-18T20:10:54+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1630805/000110465926063192/0001104659-26-063192-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1630805/000110465926063192/tm2614762d1_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc. entered into Underwriting Agreement with B. Riley Securities, Inc., as representative of the several underwriters (effective 2026-05-14).
  - Action: entry
  - Agreement: underwriting
  - Counterparty: B. Riley Securities, Inc., as representative of the several underwriters
  - Effective: 2026-05-14
  source text: On May 14, 2026, Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”) entered into an an underwriting agreement, dated May 14, 2026 (the “Underwriting Agreement”), by and among the Company and B. Riley Securities, Inc., as representative of the several underwriters (the “Underwriters”), relating to its previously announced underwritten offering (the “Offering”) of 10,810,811 shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share (“Common Stock”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1630805/000110465926063192/0001104659-26-063192-index.htm

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