Item 1. | Security and Issuer |
(a) | Title of Class of Securities:
Common Stock, $0.0001 par value per share |
(b) | Name of Issuer:
Universal Technical Institute, Inc. |
(c) | Address of Issuer's Principal Executive Offices:
4225 East Windrose Drive, Suite 200, Phoenix,
ARIZONA
, 85032. |
Item 1 Comment:
This Amendment No. 9 (this "Amendment") to the Schedule 13D (the "Initial 13D") filed by the reporting persons identified on the cover pages hereto (the "Reporting Persons" with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on March 21, 2016, relating to shares of common stock, $0.0001 par value per share (the "Common Shares"), of Universal Technical Institute, Inc. (the "Issuer"), a corporation organized under the laws of Delaware, and as amended by Amendment No. 1 to the Initial 13D filed with the SEC on June 28, 2016, by Amendment No. 2 to the Initial 13D filed with the SEC on December 19, 2019, by Amendment No. 3 to the Initial 13D filed with the SEC on September 16, 2020, by Amendment No. 4 to the Initial 13D filed with the SEC on December 29, 2022, by Amendment No. 5 to the Initial 13D filed with the SEC on June 26, 2023, by Amendment No. 6 to the Initial 13D filed with the SEC on December 19, 2023, by Amendment No. 7 to the Initial 13D filed with the SEC on February 16, 2024 and by Amendment No. 8 to the Initial 13D filed with the SEC on December 3, 2024, amends and supplements the items set forth herein. |
Item 5. | Interest in Securities of the Issuer |
(a) | The information relating to the beneficial ownership of the Common Stock by each of the Reporting Persons set forth in Rows 7 through 13 of the cover pages hereto is incorporated by reference herein. The percentages set forth in Row 13 for all cover pages filed herewith are calculated based upon 54,371,711 shares of Common Stock outstanding as of February 1, 2025, as reported in the Issuer's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on February 6, 2025. |
(b) | The information relating to the beneficial ownership of the Common Stock by each of the Reporting Persons set forth in Rows 7 through 13 of the cover pages hereto is incorporated by reference herein. |
(c) | The Reporting Persons and a separate account investment advisory client of Coliseum Capital Management, LLC (the "Separate Account") effected the following transactions in the Common Stock on the dates indicated, and such transactions are the only transactions in the Common Stock by the Reporting Persons in the sixty days preceding the filing of this Amendment, or since the most recent filing of Schedule 13D by the Reporting Persons, whichever is less: on February 10, 2025, Coliseum Capital Partners, L.P. executed a block sale of 584,364 shares, and the Separate Account executed a block sale of 120,517 shares, each at a price of $28.20 per share. |
(d) | Except as set forth in Item 6 hereof, no person has the right to receive or the power to direct the receipt of dividends from, or the proceeds from the sale of, the Common Stock reported herein. |
(e) | Not applicable. |