GeneDx Holdings Corp.WGS
Cash in trust
$443M
$442,785,910
Trust per share
$10.20
Redemption value
IPO
Sep 2020
$97.0M raised
Combination deadline
—
Not disclosed
Filings on record
781
Latest Sep 18, 2026
Business combination
- Target
- Not disclosed in an indexed filing
- Announced
- May 5, 2021
- Closed
- Jul 28, 2021
Overview
GeneDx Holdings Corp. is a special purpose acquisition company incorporated in Delaware and registered with the SEC under CIK 0001818331. It completed its initial public offering in Sep 2020, raising $97.0M in gross proceeds and listing on Nasdaq. Class A shares trade under the ticker WGS on Nasdaq. The vehicle is sponsored by CMLS through CMLS Holdings LLC. The mandate targets healthcare. Business combination closed; the company trades under a new ticker.
“we intend to focus our efforts on the life sciences sector.”
Reading the filings
Arithmetic on what GeneDx Holdings Corp. has disclosed, written the way a desk would read it. These are observations, not a rating. Nothing here scores the vehicle or implies a view on it.
Trust versus the $10 unit
The trust holds $10.20 per public share, 2.0% above the $10.00 the units were sold at. That spread is accrued interest on the trust and, where the charter provides for it, sponsor contributions paid in to buy more time. It is the floor a public shareholder can redeem at, not a valuation of the business.
Warrant coverage
Each unit carried one-third warrant per unit. Warrants are dilution deferred: they cost the holder nothing until exercised, and they overhang the post-combination share count. Thinner coverage is generally a sign of a stronger book at pricing.
Sponsor record
CMLS has launched 6 vehicles. Of the 6 that have resolved, 6 closed a combination and 0 liquidated, a 100% completion rate. A sponsor's record is not a forecast, but it does tell you whether the team has taken a deal across the line before.
Underwriting
Jefferies led the offering. It has been named on 73 SPAC IPOs, book-running 68 of them, and 53.1% of its resolved vehicles closed a deal. The syndicate has no control over whether a sponsor finds a target, but the quality of the book at pricing shapes who ends up holding the units.
Filings per month since the first one. A vehicle that has gone quiet with a deadline ahead is a different proposition from one that is still working.
781 filings in all. 15 in the last three months, against a busiest month of 54.
News on GeneDx Holdings Corp.
Last 90 days- Neutral
- How Long Can GeneDx Keep Burning Cash?Neutral
Yahoo · 4d ago
- GeneDx Plans To Enhance Its Genome Testing Portfolio With Long-Read Whole Genome SequencingNeutral
Benzinga · 5d ago
- Neutral
- GeneDx Holdings And 2 Other Top Healthcare StocksNeutral
Yahoo · 8d ago
- Neutral
- Guggenheim Maintains Buy on GeneDx Holdings, Raises Price Target to $83Positive
Benzinga · 24d ago
- Neutral
News sentiment
NeutralAcross 12 recent stories, weighted towards the newest. Scored by our own headline classifier using finance- and SPAC-specific terms. It reads what a story is about, not what the shares are worth.
SEC filing history
Free tier: filings older than 24 hours- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0001689575-26-000032
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0001944119-26-000037
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0002083937-26-000005
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0001689575-26-000030
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0001944119-26-000035
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0001944119-26-000033
- 144
144 filing
Accession 0001628280-26-059939
- 144
144 filing
Accession 0001628280-26-059938
- SCHEDULE 13G
Beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0000886982-26-000376
- SCHEDULE 13G/A
Amended beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0001104659-26-092594
- 10-Q
Quarterly report
Accession 0001628280-26-051878
- 8-K
Current report
Items 2.02, 9.01 · Accession 0001628280-26-051852
- SCHEDULE 13G
Beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0002012383-26-002548
- 25-NSE
Notification of delisting
Accession 0001354457-26-000715
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0001955242-26-000011
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0001585017-26-000002
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0000943431-26-000002
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0001200796-26-000002
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0001307631-26-000002
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Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0001753655-26-000002
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0002083937-26-000003
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0001534264-26-000002
- 8-K
Submission of matters to a vote of security holders
Item 5.07 · Accession 0001628280-26-044806
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0001944119-26-000031
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0001689575-26-000028
- 3
Initial statement of beneficial ownership
Accession 0001955242-26-000008
- 8-K
Regulation FD disclosure
Items 5.02, 7.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001628280-26-043431
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Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0001944119-26-000029
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0001689575-26-000026
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0000919574-26-003907
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GeneDx Holdings Corp.: questions answered
What is GeneDx Holdings Corp. (WGS)?
GeneDx Holdings Corp. is a special purpose acquisition company incorporated in Delaware and registered with the SEC under CIK 0001818331. It completed its initial public offering in Sep 2020, raising $97.0M in gross proceeds and listing on Nasdaq. Class A shares trade under the ticker WGS on Nasdaq. The vehicle is sponsored by CMLS through CMLS Holdings LLC. The mandate targets healthcare. Business combination closed; the company trades under a new ticker.
How much does GeneDx Holdings Corp. hold in trust?
Approximately $442,785,910, or about $10.20 per public share, as at the most recent filing on record. Trust balances move: shareholders redeem at extension votes and at the combination vote, and sponsors pay contributions in to extend. Treat the figure as a point-in-time disclosure, not a running balance.
When must GeneDx Holdings Corp. complete a merger?
No combination deadline appears in the filings we have indexed. The date is stated in the charter and repeated in each quarterly report; where our parser could not establish it with confidence we leave it blank rather than infer one.
What happens if GeneDx Holdings Corp. does not find a target in time?
The charter requires the vehicle to redeem 100% of the public shares and return the trust, pro rata, to public shareholders. That is the mechanism working as designed rather than a default. Founder shares and warrants are worthless in that outcome, which is why the sponsor's incentive is to get a deal done or to buy more time. Across the market, deadline lapsed without a deal; trust returned to public shareholders.
Can I redeem shares in GeneDx Holdings Corp., and at what price?
Public shareholders may elect to redeem in connection with a combination vote and at each extension vote, at the pro-rata trust value on the relevant record date, most recently disclosed at about $10.20 per share. Redemption is a right attached to the public shares only; warrants and rights carry no claim on the trust. The mechanics and the deadline for electing are set out in the proxy statement for the vote in question.
What tickers does GeneDx Holdings Corp. trade under?
Class A shares trade as WGS on Nasdaq. Units trade first and separate into their component securities roughly 52 days after the IPO; only the Class A shares carry the redemption right against the trust.
Is the trust value the same as the share price for GeneDx Holdings Corp.?
No, and the gap between them is the whole trade. Trust per share is a disclosed, contractual figure of $10.20, being what a redeeming holder receives. The market price is whatever the shares change hands at: most recently $56.15, a spread to the redemption value. Quotes on this site are delayed and indicative; confirm on your own venue before trading.
How much dilution do GeneDx Holdings Corp.'s founder shares and warrants create?
Each unit also carried one-third warrant per unit, which is dilution deferred until exercise. Both are disclosed in the prospectus and both survive into the combined company, which is why a de-SPAC at $10 is not economically the same as an IPO at $10.
Who sponsors GeneDx Holdings Corp., and what is their track record?
CMLS Holdings LLC is the sponsor entity, part of the CMLS franchise. That franchise has launched 6 vehicles in total, of which 6 closed a combination and 0 liquidated, a 100% completion rate on resolved vehicles. Named principals: Eli Casdin, Keith A. Meister.
Which banks underwrote the GeneDx Holdings Corp. IPO?
Jefferies. Jefferies was credited as book-running manager on the cover. Syndicate membership and role are read from the prospectus cover and the underwriting section.
Is GeneDx Holdings Corp. tradeable, and where?
Yes. WGS returned a live quote of $56.15 on Nasdaq. Quotes here are delayed and refreshed on a schedule rather than streamed, so treat the figure as indicative and confirm on your own venue. Units and warrants trade under their own symbols and are quoted separately.
Is GeneDx Holdings Corp. a good investment?
That is not a question this site answers. GeneDx Holdings Corp. is covered here as reference data: what the company filed, when it filed it, and what the numbers in those filings say. The Edge, FOMO and Potential scores on this page are derived measures with a published formula, not ratings of investment merit: they describe the setup, and every component is shown so you can take them apart. We publish no price targets and no recommendations, and nothing here should be read as advice. The figures are a starting point for your own work, and each one carries the accession number of the filing it came from.
Where does this GeneDx Holdings Corp. data come from?
Filings GeneDx Holdings Corp. submitted to the SEC under CIK 0001818331: the registration statement and final prospectus for the structure, quarterly and annual reports for the trust, current reports and proxy statements for deals, votes and extensions. Trust economics are taken from the registrant's own XBRL tags rather than parsed from prose, which is why they are exact. Every filing in the history above is listed with its accession number, which identifies the document uniquely on EDGAR; Pro accounts open it directly from the row.
Compiled by the SPACListing research desk
Last reconciled Oct 26, 2026
Every figure on this page is read from documents the registrants filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, principally the IPO prospectus (Form 424B4), quarterly and annual reports, current reports and proxy statements, the registrant's own XBRL tags for trust economics. Nothing is sourced from press coverage, from the companies themselves, or from a third-party aggregator. Where a filing does not disclose something, the field is left blank rather than estimated.
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