Note 10 - Stockholders' Equity

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2024

Notes to Financial Statements

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10. STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY

Common Shares—The Company has one class of common shares issued and available. Each share of common stock has the right to one vote per share.

On March 1, 2022, the Company entered into Securities Purchase Agreements (the “Purchase Agreements”) with certain accredited investors identified on the signature pages to the Purchase Agreements (collectively, the “Purchasers”) pursuant to which, among other things, the Company issued and sold to the Purchasers, in a private placement transaction (the “2022 Private Placement”), (i) 536,361 shares of the Company’s Common Stock (the “Shares”), and accompanying warrants to purchase an aggregate of 402,271 shares of common stock, and (ii) prefunded warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 251,155 shares of common stock (the “Prefunded Warrants”) and accompanying warrants to purchase an aggregate of 188,366 shares of common stock. The accompanying warrants to purchase common stock are referred to herein collectively as the “Common Stock Warrants”, and the Common Stock Warrants and the Prefunded Warrants are referred to herein collectively as the “Warrants”. Under the Purchase Agreements, each Share and accompanying Common Stock Warrant were sold together at a combined price of $34.92, and each Prefunded Warrant and accompanying Common Stock Warrant were sold together at a combined price of $34.92, for gross proceeds of approximately $27.5 million.

On September 29, 2022, we entered into securities purchase agreements (the “September Purchase Agreements”) with certain accredited investors, pursuant to which, among other things, we agreed to sell and issue, in a registered direct offering (the “Registered Direct Offering”), an aggregate of 886,920 shares of its Shares and accompanying warrants to purchase an aggregate of 886,920 shares of its common stock. 877,197 of the shares and the accompanying warrants to purchase 877,197 shares of common stock were sold to certain accredited purchasers that are not affiliated with us at a combined offering price of $22.80 per share and accompanying warrant to purchase one share of common stock. The remaining 9,722 shares of Common Stock and the accompanying warrants to purchase 9,722 shares of Common Stock were sold to certain of our insiders, at a combined offering price of $25.20 per share and accompanying warrant to purchase one share of common stock.
 

The Registered Direct Offering closed on October 4, 2022 and the Company issued and sold an aggregate of 886,920 shares of common stock to the Purchasers. The gross proceeds to us from the Registered Direct Offering were approximately $20.2 million, before deducting fees payable to the placement agent and other estimated offering expenses payable by us. We intended to use the net proceeds from the Registered Direct Offering for working capital purposes, the conduct of its business and other general corporate purposes, which may include acquisitions, investments in or licenses of complementary products, technologies or businesses.
 

Pursuant to the ASC 815-40, the September Purchase Agreement represents a legally binding contract that meets the definition of a firm commitment and as such we recorded a derivative related to the offering of common stock (“forward contract”). Additionally, we recorded $12.8 million derivative expense derived from the excess of the fair-value of the issuances of equity of common shares and common stock warrants over the anticipated proceeds to be received by us. This expense was recorded in loss on initial issuance of equity on the consolidated statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2023.