Sotera Health Director Warburg Pincus Sells 9.7 Million Shares for $158.7 Million

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Sarah Sidlow, The Motley Fool

Thu, January 8, 2026 astatine 10:38 AM CST 6 min read

  • 9,720,000 shares were sold indirectly for a transaction worth of ~$158.7 cardinal connected Dec. 3, 2025.

  • The merchantability represented 22.18% of full indirect holdings, reducing indirect vulnerability from 43,822,952 to 34,102,952 shares.

  • All shares were sold done indirect entities, with nary nonstop ownership earlier oregon aft the transaction.

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On Dec. 3, 2025, Warburg Pincus & Co. executed an indirect merchantability of 9,720,000 shares of Sotera Health Company (NASDAQ:SHC) for a full information of $158,727,600, arsenic disclosed successful the SEC Form 4 filing.

Metric

Value

Shares sold (indirect)

9,720,000

Transaction value

$158.7 million

Post-transaction shares (direct)

Post-transaction shares (indirect)

34,102,952

Post-transaction worth (direct ownership)

$0.00

Transaction worth based connected SEC Form 4 reported terms ($16.33).

  • How important was this merchantability successful the discourse of the insider’s remaining position?
    The 9,720,000 shares sold accounted for 22.18% of Warburg Pincus & Co.'s indirect stake, marking a continued simplification and leaving 34,102,952 shares indirectly held aft the transaction.

  • What channels were utilized for the disposition, and who holds the residual ownership?
    The merchantability was executed wholly done indirect entities -- chiefly Bull Holdco L.P. and Bull Co-Invest L.P. -- with the insider holding nary nonstop shares earlier oregon aft the event; residual shares stay attributed to these indirect entities arsenic elaborate successful the filing’s footnotes.

  • How does the transaction size comparison to humanities enactment by this insider?
    Relative to a humanities median merchantability size of 12,000,000 shares successful the caller period, the 9,720,000-share artifact ranks astatine the little end, a relation of decreased disposable capableness pursuing aggregate ample anterior sales.

  • Did marketplace conditions play a relation successful timing the transaction?
    The transaction was executed astatine astir $16.33 per share, with Sotera Health  banal priced astatine $16.84 astatine the marketplace adjacent connected the aforesaid time and up 31.25% twelvemonth implicit twelvemonth arsenic of Dec. 3, 2025, providing liquidity conditions favorable for a ample artifact sale.

Metric

Value

Revenue (TTM)

$1.15 billion

Net income (TTM)

$55.43 million

Dividend yield

0.00%

1-year terms change

31.25%

* 1-year show calculated arsenic of Dec. 3, 2025.

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