Shareholders’ Equity

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2023

Equity [Abstract]

Shareholders’ Equity

8. Shareholders’ Equity

Series A Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock

On April 13, 2022, the Company entered into the Securities Purchase Agreement with the Investors in a registered direct offering of 11,765 shares of the Company’s Series A Preferred Stock, which shares of Series A Preferred Stock are convertible into a total of 384,477 shares of common stock, at a conversion price of $30.60. The purchase price of each share of Series A Preferred Stock was $850, which included an original issue discount to the stated value of $1,000 per share. The rights, preferences and privileges of the Series A Preferred Stock are set forth in the Company’s Certificate of Determination, which the Company filed with the Secretary of State of the State of California. The Securities Purchase Agreement provides that the closing of the Series A Preferred Stock Offering will occur, subject to the satisfaction of certain closing conditions, in two equal tranches of $5,000,000 each for aggregate gross proceeds from both closings of $10,000,000. The first closing occurred on June 1, 2022, and Oncocyte received net proceeds of approximately $4.9 million from the Series A Preferred Stock issued from the first tranche. The second closing would occur, subject to the satisfaction of certain closing conditions (including but not limited to a requirement that the Company has not received, in the 12 months preceding the second closing, a notice from The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”) that the Company is not in compliance with the listing and maintenance and listing requirements of Nasdaq), on the earlier of (a) the second trading day following the date that Oncocyte receives notice from an Investor to accelerate the second closing and (b) a date selected by Oncocyte on or after October 8, 2022 and on or prior to March 8, 2023. On August 9, 2022, Oncocyte received a letter from Nasdaq indicating that the Company no longer met the minimum bid price requirement of the Nasdaq continued listing requirements. Accordingly, the second closing did not occur and no additional proceeds were received under the Securities Purchase Agreement. On August 8, 2023, the Company received a letter from Nasdaq indicating that the Company had regained compliance with the minimum bid price requirement of the Nasdaq continued listing requirements.

The Series A Preferred Stock is convertible into shares of the Company’s common stock at any time at the holder’s option. The conversion price will be subject to customary anti-dilution adjustments for matters such as stock splits, stock dividends and other distributions on our common stock, and recapitalizations. A holder is prohibited from converting shares of Series A Preferred Stock into shares of common stock if, as a result of such conversion, the holder, together with its affiliates, would own more than 4.99% of the shares of our common stock then issued and outstanding (provided a holder may elect, at the first closing, to increase such beneficial ownership limitation solely as to itself up to 19.99% of the number of shares of our common stock outstanding immediately after giving effect to the conversion, provided further that following the receipt of shareholder approval required by applicable Nasdaq rules with respect to the issuance of common stock that would exceed the beneficial ownership limitation, such beneficial ownership limitation will no longer apply to the holder if the holder notified the Company that the holder wishes the Company to seek such shareholder approval). On July 15, 2022, the Company received such shareholder approval to remove the beneficial ownership limitation with respect to the Series A Preferred Stock held by Broadwood. The Company may force the conversion of up to one-third of the shares of Series A Preferred Stock originally issued, subject to customary equity conditions, if the daily volume weighted average price of our common stock for 20 out of 30 trading days exceeds 140% of the conversion price and on 20 out of the same 30 trading days the daily trading volume equals or exceeds 20,000 shares of our common stock. The Company may only effect one forced conversion during any 30-trading day period.

In the event of the Company’s liquidation, dissolution, or winding up, holders of Series A Preferred Stock will receive a payment equal to the stated value of the Series A Preferred Stock plus accrued but unpaid dividends and any other amounts that may have become payable on the Series A Preferred Stock due to any failure or delay that may have occurred in issuing shares of common stock upon conversion of a portion of the Series A Preferred Stock, before any distribution or payment to the holders of common stock or any of our other junior equity.

Shares of Series A Preferred Stock generally have no voting rights, except as required by law and except that the consent of holders of a majority of the outstanding Series A Preferred Stock will be required to amend any provision of our certificate of incorporation that would have a materially adverse effect on the rights of the holders of the Series A Preferred Stock. Additionally, as long as any shares of Series A Preferred Stock remain outstanding, unless the holders of at least 51% of the then outstanding shares of Series A Preferred Stock shall have otherwise given prior written consent, we, on a consolidated basis with our subsidiaries, are not permitted to (1) have less than $8 million of unrestricted, unencumbered cash on hand (“Cash Minimum Requirement”); (2) other than certain permitted indebtedness, incur indebtedness to the extent that our aggregate indebtedness exceeds $15 million; (3) enter into any agreement (including any indenture, credit agreement or other debt instrument) that by its terms prohibits, prevents, or otherwise limits our ability to pay dividends on, or redeem, the Series A Preferred Stock in accordance with the terms of the Certificate of Determination; or (4) authorize or issue any class or series of preferred stock or other capital stock of the Company that ranks senior or pari passu with the Series A Preferred Stock.

Shares of Series A Preferred Stock are entitled to receive cumulative dividends at a rate per share (as a percentage of stated value) of 6% per annum, payable quarterly in cash or, at our option, by accreting such dividends to the stated value.

The Company is required to redeem, for cash, the shares of Series A Preferred Stock on the earlier to occur of (1) April 8, 2024, (2) the commencement of certain a voluntary or involuntary bankruptcy, receivership, or similar proceedings against the Company or its assets, (3) a Change of Control Transaction (as defined herein) and (4) at the election and upon notice of 51% in interest of the holders, if the Company fails to meet the Cash Minimum Requirement. A “Change of Control Transaction” means the occurrence of any of (a) an acquisition by an individual or legal entity or “group” (as described in Rule 13d-5(b)(1) promulgated under the Exchange Act) of effective control (whether through legal or beneficial ownership of capital stock of the Company, by contract or otherwise) of in excess of 50% of the voting securities of the Company (other than by means of conversion of Series A Preferred Stock), (b) the Company merges into or consolidates with any other person, or any person merges into or consolidates with the Company and, after giving effect to such transaction, the stockholders of the Company immediately prior to such transaction own less than 50% of the aggregate voting power of the Company or the successor entity of such transaction, or (c) the Company sells or transfers all or substantially all of its assets to another person. Additionally, the Company has the right to redeem the Series A Preferred Stock for cash upon 30 days prior notice to the holders; provided if the Company undertakes a capital raise in connection with such redemption, the Investors will have the right to participate in such financing. On April 5, 2023, the Company redeemed 1,064 shares of the Series A Preferred Stock for approximately $1.1 million.

The issuance and sale of the Series A Preferred Stock was completed pursuant to the Company’s effective shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (Registration No. 333-256650), filed with the SEC on May 28, 2021 and declared effective by the SEC on June 8, 2021, and an accompanying prospectus dated June 8, 2021 as supplemented by a prospectus supplement dated April 13, 2022.

The Series A Preferred Stock dividend for all issued and outstanding shares is set at 6% per annum per share. As of September 30, 2023, the Company elected to accrete dividends of $399,000, net of the April 2023 redemption, with respect to shares of Series A Preferred Stock.

As of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, Oncocyte had 4,818 and 5,882, shares issued and outstanding, respectively. The future right or obligation associated with the Series A Preferred Stock to be issued in the second closing was written off in the prior year since the second closing was not completed.

Common Stock

As of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, Oncocyte has 230,000,000 shares of common stock, no-par value, authorized. As of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, Oncocyte had 8,260,762 and 5,932,191 shares of common stock issued and outstanding, respectively.

Underwritten Offering

On April 13, 2022, Oncocyte entered into the Underwriting Agreement with the Underwriters, pursuant to which the Company agreed to issue and sell to the Underwriters an aggregate of 1,313,320 shares of common stock and 1,313,320 April 2022 Warrants to purchase up to 656,660 shares of common stock. Each share of common stock and the accompanying April 2022 Warrant was sold at a combined offering price of $26.65, representing an offering price of $26.45 per share of common stock and $0.20 per accompanying April 2022 Warrant, before underwriting discounts and commissions.

Under the terms of the Underwriting Agreement, the Company also granted to the Underwriters an over-allotment option, exercisable in whole or in part at any time for a period of 30 days from the date of the Underwriting Agreement, to purchase up to an additional 196,998 shares of common stock and 196,998 April 2022 Warrants to purchase 98,499 shares of common stock to cover over-allotments, if any. The over-allotment option may be exercised separately for shares of common stock at a price to the underwriters of $24.85 per share, and April 2022 Warrants at a price of $0.20 per April 2022 Warrant. On April 14, 2022, the Underwriters exercised their option to purchase the 196,998 April 2022 Warrants pursuant to the over-allotment option but did not exercise their option to purchase the additional 196,998 shares of common stock.

The Company received net proceeds of approximately $32.8 million from the Underwritten Offering, which includes the April 2022 Warrants sold upon the exercise of the Underwriters’ overallotment option. The Underwritten Offering closed on April 19, 2022. Refer to Note 11 for additional information.

The Underwritten Offering was made pursuant to the Company’s effective “shelf” registration statement on Form S-3 (Registration No. 333-256650) filed with the SEC Commission on May 28, 2021 and declared effective by the SEC on June 8, 2021, and an accompanying prospectus dated June 8, 2021 as supplemented by a prospectus supplement dated April 13, 2022.

April 2023 Offering

On April 3, 2023, Oncocyte entered into an agreement with certain members of the Company’s board of directors, and several institutional and accredited investors, including Broadwood, the Company’s largest shareholder, and certain members of the Company’s board of directors (and certain of their affiliated parties), relating to their purchase of an aggregate of up to 2,278,121 shares of its common stock at an offering price of $7.08 per share to board members and $6.03 per share to the other investors participating in the April 2023 Offering. The April 2023 Offering was intended to be priced at-the-market for purposes of complying with applicable Nasdaq Listing Rules. The Company issued an aggregate of 2,274,709 shares of common stock from this offering, as further discussed in Note 11. The aggregate gross proceeds from the offering were approximately $13.9 million. The Company used approximately $1.1 million of the net proceeds to immediately redeem an aggregate of 1,064 shares of its Series A Preferred Stock and may thereafter elect to redeem additional shares.

Common Stock Purchase Warrants

As of September 30, 2023, Oncocyte had an aggregate of 819,767 common stock purchase warrants issued and outstanding with exercise prices ranging from $30.60 to $109.20 per warrant. The warrants will expire on various dates ranging from February 2024 to October 2029. Certain warrants have “cashless exercise” provisions meaning that the value of a portion of warrant shares may be used to pay the exercise price rather than payment in cash, which may be exercised under any circumstances in the case of the 2017 Bank Warrants and 2019 Bank Warrants (see Note 6) or, in the case of certain other warrants, only if a registration statement for the warrants and underlying shares of common stock is not effective under the Securities Act or a prospectus in the registration statement is not available for the issuance of shares upon the exercise of the warrants. All of the outstanding warrants meet the equity classification criteria and have been classified as equity, refer to Note 2 for additional information.