Common Stock and Preferred Stock

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2020

Common Stock

In June 2014, the Company effectively repurchased 3,112,840 shares of its common stock at an average cost of $7.71 per share for an aggregate amount of $24.0 million pursuant to a prepaid forward share repurchase agreement entered into with Merrill Lynch International (“ML”). These repurchased shares are treated as retired for basic and diluted EPS purposes although they remain legally outstanding. The Company reflects the aggregate purchase price as a reduction to stockholders’ equity classified as Treasury Stock. The Company reflected the aggregate purchase price of its common shares repurchased as a reduction to stockholders’ equity allocated to treasury stock. On September 13, 2019, ML returned the shares to the Company. The Company subsequently retired the shares which had no impact to the Company’s stockholder’s equity.

In January 2019, the Company was obligated to issue an aggregate of 3,061,224 shares of restricted stock at a value of approximately $4.5 million to two executive officers pursuant to the applicable employment contracts. The shares were not issued at that time due to insufficient shares available in the 2002 Stock Award and Incentive Plan. Such shares were subsequently approved by the Company's shareholders and issued in July 2019. In addition, an aggregate of 328,230 shares of restricted stock at an aggregate value of approximately $0.5 million were issued to its six non-employee directors. In August 2019, the Board resolved to accelerate and immediately vest upon closing of the Recapitalization Transaction, 164,166 shares of the annual stock compensation granted to resigning members of the Board on January 1, 2019. Each resigning Board member forfeited the remaining balance of the annual stock compensation granted on January 1, 2019, or an aggregate of 54,704 shares. The remaining 109,360 shares of restricted stock vested in January 2020.

During the first quarter of 2019, certain employees, including two executive officers surrendered an aggregate of 166,699 shares of restricted stock for approximately $249,000 to cover income taxes due on the vesting of restricted shares.

During the second quarter of 2019, an executive officer surrendered an aggregate of 24,281 shares of restricted stock for approximately $25,000 to cover income taxes due on the vesting of restricted stock units.

On August 9, 2019, in connection with the Recapitalization Transaction (see Note 5 - Debt), the Company issued to the Investor Parties, in the aggregate, 5,853,002 shares of Common Stock valued at $4.2 million on the date of issuance. (the "New Common Equity").

In January 2020, the Company issued an aggregate of 704,208 shares of restricted stock at a value of approximately $0.7 million to two executive officers, which vest, in four equal annual installments over four years.

During the first quarter of 2020, certain employees, including two executive officers surrendered an aggregate of 166,400 shares of restricted stock for $172,000 to cover income taxes due on the vesting of restricted shares. Additionally, an aggregate of 262,136 shares of restricted stock granted in 2017 was forfeited during the first quarter of 2020.

All issuances of common stock, including those issued pursuant to stock option and warrant exercises, restricted stock grants and acquisitions, are issued from the Company’s authorized but not issued and outstanding shares.

No dividend was declared or paid in the three months ended March 31, 2020 or 2019.

Preferred Stock

On August 9, 2019, in connection with the Recapitalization Transaction (see Note 5 - Debt), the Company issued 200,000 shares of Series A Senior Preferred Stock (the “Series A Preferred Stock”), $0.001 par value per share, to the Investor Parties (the “New Preferred Equity”). As of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, 200,000 shares of Series A Preferred Stock were outstanding.

Each share of Series A Preferred Stock has an initial value of $100 per share, which is automatically increased for any accrued and unpaid dividends (the “Accreted Value”).

The Series A Preferred Stock has the right to receive dividends on a quarterly basis equal to 6.0% per annum, payable in cash or, if not paid in cash, by an automatic accretion of the Series A Preferred Stock. No dividends have been declared or paid. For the three months ended March 31, 2020, the Company recorded $307,000 of preferred stock dividends as an increase in the value of the Series A Preferred Stock.

The Series A Preferred Stock has no stated maturity, however, the Company has the right to redeem all or a portion of the Series A Preferred Stock at its Liquidation Preference (as defined below) at any time after payment in full of the New Term Loan. In addition, upon the occurrence of certain change of control type events, holders of the Series A Preferred Stock are entitled to receive an amount (the “Liquidation Preference”), in preference to holders of Common Stock or other junior stock, equal to (i) 20% of the Accreted Value in the case of a certain specified transaction, or (ii) otherwise, 150% of the Accreted value, plus any accrued and unpaid dividends.

The Company has the right, but is not required, to repurchase all or a portion of the Series A Preferred Stock at its Liquidation Preference at any time after payment in full of the New Term Loan (see Note 5 - Debt).

The Series A Preferred Stock does not have any voting rights, except to the extent required by the Delaware General Corporation Law, except for the exclusive right to elect the Series A Preferred Directors (as described below) and except for certain approval rights over certain transactions (as described below). These approval rights require the prior consent of specified percentages of holders (or in certain cases, all holders) of the Series A Preferred Stock in order for the Company to take certain actions, including the issuance of additional shares of Series A Preferred Stock or parity stock, the issuance of senior stock, certain amendments to the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, the Certificate of Designations of the Series A Preferred Stock (the “Certificate of Designations”), the Second Amended and Restated By-laws or the Amended and Restated Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee Charter, material changes in the Company’s line of business and certain change of control type transactions. In addition, the Certificate of Designations provides that the approval of at least six directors is required for any related person transaction within the meaning of Item 404 of Regulation S-K under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, including, without limitation, the adoption of, or any amendment, modification or waiver of, any agreement or arrangement related to any such transaction. The Certificate of Designations also includes restrictions on the ability of the Company to pay dividends on or make distributions with respect to, or redeem or repurchase, shares of Common Stock or other junior stock. In addition, holders of the Series A Preferred Stock have preemptive rights regarding future issuance of Series A Preferred Stock or parity stock.

In addition, the Certificate of Designations provides the holders of Series A Preferred Stock certain board representation rights. The Certificate of Designations provides, among other things, that, for so long as at least 50,000 shares of Series A Preferred Stock remain outstanding, (i) the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of Series A Preferred Stock have the sole right to nominate candidates to serve as the Series A Preferred Directors and (ii) the holders of shares of Series A Preferred Stock, voting as a separate class, have the right to elect two individuals to serve as the Series A Preferred Directors. From and after (i) the first annual meeting of stockholders occurring after less than 50,000 shares of Series A Preferred Stock remain outstanding, the holders of Series A Preferred Stock will only have the right to nominate and elect one Series A Preferred Director, and (ii) the time no shares of Series A Preferred Stock remain outstanding, the holders of Series A Preferred Stock will no longer have the right to nominate or elect any Series A Preferred Directors. The Series A Preferred Directors will serve for terms ending at the annual meeting of stockholders in 2023 and for successive three-year terms thereafter (until no shares of Series A Preferred Stock remain outstanding), and as of such time as the proposal to amend the Certificate of Incorporation to classify the Board into three classes, designated Class I, Class II and Class III, with staggered three-year terms, the Series A Preferred Directors shall be deemed to serve in Class III. The number of directors elected by the holders of the Company’s Common Stock and the number of Series A Preferred Directors is fixed and cannot be amended without the approval of holders of a majority of the outstanding Common Stock and holders of at least 80% of the outstanding shares of Series A Preferred Stock, each voting as a separate class.

The Series A Preferred Stock redemption amount is contingent upon certain events with no stated redemption date as of the reporting date, although may become redeemable in the future. In accordance with the SEC guidance within ASC Topic 480, Distinguishing Liabilities from Equity: Classification and Measurement of Redeemable Securities, the Company classified the Series A Preferred Stock as temporary equity as the Series A Preferred Stock contains a redemption feature which is contingent upon certain deemed liquidation events, the occurrence of which may not solely be within the control of the Company.

Under ASC 815, “Derivatives and Hedging”, certain contractual terms that meet the accounting definition of a derivative must be accounted for separately from the financial instrument in which they are embedded. The Company has concluded that the redemption upon a change of control and the repurchase option by the Company constitute embedded derivatives.

The embedded redemption upon a change of control must be accounted for separately from the Series A Preferred Stock. The redemption provision specifies if certain events that constitute a change of control occur; the Company may be required to settle the Series A Preferred Stock at 150% of its accreted amount. Accordingly, the redemption provision meets the definition of a derivative, and its economic characteristics are not considered clearly and closely related to the economic characteristics of the Series A Preferred Stock, which is considered more akin to a debt instrument than equity.

Accordingly, these two embedded derivatives are required to be bundled into a single derivative instrument and accounted for separately from the Series A Preferred Stock at fair value.

The Company considers the repurchase option to have no value as the likelihood is remote that this event, within the Company’s control, would ever occur. On August 9, 2019 the Company determined that the fair value of the redemption provision upon a change of control was $4.9 million and recorded as a long term liability. In subsequent periods, the liability is accounted for at fair value, with changes in fair value recognized as other income (expense) on the Company's condensed consolidated statements of operations. The value of the redemption provision explicitly considered the present value of the potential premium that would be paid related to, and the probability of, an event that would trigger its payment. The probability of a triggering event was based on management’s estimates of the probability of a change of control event occurring.

As of March 31, 2020, the Series A Preferred Stock is recorded in temporary equity at the amount of accrued, but unpaid dividends of $790,000, and the redemption provision, as a bifurcated derivative, is recorded as a long term liability with an estimated value of $3.2 million.

The following table provides a reconciliation of the beginning and ending balances of the Series A Preferred Stock, which is recorded in temporary equity:


	2020
Balance, January 1,	$	483
Preferred stock accrued dividends	307
Balance, March 31,	$	790