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PAMELA EHRENKRANZ

S. CHRISTOPHER SZCZERBAN

 

 

 

 

KATHRYN GETTLES-ATWA

JEFFREY A. WATIKER

 

 

 

 

ADAM M. GOGOLAK

 

 

 

 

October 11, 2017

 

H. Roger Schwall
Assistant Director
Office of Natural Resources
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
100 F Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20549

 

Re:                             EQT Corporation
Amendment No. 2 to Registration Statement on Form S-4
Filed September 28, 2017
File No. 333-219508

 

Dear Mr. Schwall:

 

On behalf of EQT Corporation (the “Company”), we are submitting this letter in response to the verbal comments from the staff (the “Staff”) of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) to Amendment No. 2 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-4 filed with the Commission on September 28, 2017 (the “Registration Statement”).  As discussed with the Staff, this letter confirms that the disclosure under the caption “The Merger—Opinion of Rice’s Financial Advisor—Pro Forma Merger Consequences Analysis” will be revised in the definitive joint proxy statement/prospectus filed after effectiveness of the Registration Statement to reflect the changes submitted to the Staff, which are also set forth below (additions marked with underlining):

 



 

 

Pro Forma Merger Consequences Analysis

 

Barclays reviewed and analyzed the pro forma impact of the merger, including the Expected Synergies, on projected cash flow per share and NAV per share, respectively. With respect to cash flow per share for Rice and EQT, Barclays reviewed the pro forma impact of these metrics for 2018, 2019 and 2020 using projections provided by management of each of Rice and EQT as well as the pro forma impact on cash flow per share for Rice and EQT for 2018 and 2019 using Wall Street research estimates provided by FactSet, in each case, incorporating the Expected Synergies. Barclays noted that pro forma cash flow per share would be accretive to Rice in 2018 (1.0%) and dilutive to Rice for each of 2019 (-10.9%) and 2020 (-12.4%), respectively, based on projections provided by management, and accretive to Rice in each of 2018 (5.5%) and 2019 (7.2%), respectively, based on Wall Street research estimates provided by FactSet. Barclays also noted that pro forma cash flow per share would be accretive to EQT in each of 2018 (20.8%), 2019 (33.3%) and 2020 (33.0%), respectively, based on projections provided by management, and accretive to EQT in each of 2018 (15.6%) and 2019 (13.0%), respectively, based on Wall Street research estimates provided by FactSet. With respect to NAV per share for Rice and EQT, Barclays also reviewed the pro forma impact of this metric using projections provided by management of each of Rice and EQT as well as Wall Street research consensus NAV per share provided by FactSet, in each case, incorporating the Expected Synergies. Barclays also noted that pro forma NAV per share would be accretive to both Rice (2.9%) and EQT (3.9%), respectively, based on projections provided by management, and dilutive to EQT (-6.3%) and accretive to Rice (28.7%), based on Wall Street research consensus NAV per share provided by FactSet.

 

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We hope that the foregoing has been responsive to the Staff’s comments.  If you have any questions or comments regarding the foregoing, please do not hesitate to contact me at (212) 403-1347 or by email at SACohen@wlrk.com or Victor Goldfeld at (212) 403-1005 or by email at VGoldfeld@wlrk.com.

 

 

 

Sincerely,

 

 

 

/s/ Steven A. Cohen

 

Steven A. Cohen

 

cc:                                Lewis B. Gardner, EQT Corporation
Victor Goldfeld, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

William E. Jordan, Rice Energy Inc.
Stephen M. Gill, Vinson & Elkins LLP

 

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