Exhibit 99.1
Wayfair Inc. Prices Offering of $500 Million Convertible Senior Notes
BOSTON—Wayfair Inc. (NYSE: W) (the “Company,” “we” or “Wayfair”) priced $500 million aggregate principal amount of 1.125% convertible senior notes due 2024 in a private offering (the “offering”) to qualified institutional buyers pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). In connection with the offering, the Company has granted the initial purchasers an option to purchase (solely to cover over-allotments, if any) up to an additional $75 million aggregate principal amount of notes, which additional notes shall be delivered within a13-day period beginning on, and including, the date the Company first issues the notes.
The notes will bear interest at a rate of 1.125% per year, payable semi-annually in arrears on May 1 and November 1 of each year, beginning May 1, 2019. The notes will mature on November 1, 2024, unless earlier redeemed, repurchased or converted in accordance with their terms. Prior to August 1, 2024, the notes will be convertible only upon satisfaction of certain conditions and during certain periods. Thereafter, the notes will be convertible at any time until the close of business on the second scheduled trading day immediately preceding the maturity date. The Company may not redeem the notes prior to May 8, 2022. On or after May 8, 2022, the Company may redeem for cash all or part of the notes if the last reported sale price of the Company’s Class A common stock has been at least 130% of the conversion price then in effect for at least 20 trading days (whether or not consecutive), including at least one of the five trading days immediately preceding the date on which the Company provides notice of redemption, during any 30 consecutive trading day period ending on, and including, the trading day immediately preceding the date on which the Company provides notice of redemption. The redemption price will equal 100% of the principal amount of the notes being redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the redemption date.
The notes will be convertible at the option of holders, subject to certain conditions and during certain periods, into cash, shares of the Company’s Class A common stock or a combination of cash and shares of the Company’s Class A common stock, with the form of consideration determined at the Company’s election. Holders of the notes will have the right to require the Company to repurchase all or a portion of their notes at 100% of their principal amount, plus any accrued and unpaid interest, upon the occurrence of certain events. The conversion rate will initially be 8.5910 shares of the Company’s Class A common stock per $1,000 principal amount of notes (equivalent to an initial conversion price of approximately $116.40 per share of the Company’s Class A common stock). The initial conversion price of the notes represents a premium of approximately 32.5% to the $87.85 per share closing price of the Company’s Class A common stock on November 14, 2018. The sale of the notes is expected to close on November 19, 2018, subject to customary closing conditions.
When issued, the notes will be the Company’s senior unsecured obligations and will rank senior in right of payment to any of the Company’s unsecured indebtedness that is expressly subordinated in right of payment to the notes; equal in right of payment to any of the Company’s unsecured indebtedness that is