Note 12 - Other Equity Transactions

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2024

Notes to Financial Statements

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12. Other Equity Transactions

On January 25, 2024, the Company redeemed its "Interests" of FG Holdings LLC and withdrew from FG Holdings LLC. In exchange for its Interests, the Company received 52,000 shares of the Company’s Common Stock, with an approximate fair value of $650 on the date of the transaction and recorded a realized loss of $91 on the investment during the first quarter of 2024. The shares received by the Company are held as treasury stock, increasing the total number of treasury shares held by the Company to 342,080.

On November 6, 2023, the Company entered into a Master Supply Agreement (the “MSA”) and Transition Services Agreement (the “TSA,” and together with the MSA, the “Agreements”) with East West Manufacturing, LLC, a Georgia limited liability company (“East West”). Pursuant to the Agreements, the Company transitioned its West Melbourne, Florida manufacturing activities to East West’s facilities, and East West became the exclusive third-party manufacturer of the Company’s radio product line under a three-year arrangement. In connection with the Agreements, the Company and East West entered into a Stock Purchase Agreement (the “SPA”), pursuant to which East West purchased 77,520 shares of the Company’s common stock with a value equal to $1,000. The number of shares of common stock was determined based upon a price per share of $12.90, which is equal to the average of the closing price of the Company's common stock on the NYSE American exchange for the 30 most recent trading days prior to November 6, 2023, rounded up to the nearest whole number of shares.

Additionally, East West purchased a warrant (“Warrant”), with a five-year term to purchase up to 135,300 shares of the Company’s common stock at an exercise price per share of $15.00. The consideration for the Warrant was payment equal to (a) $1,000 minus (b) (i) the amount of any outstanding accounts payable by the Company to East West and (ii) the amount of any excess or obsolete inventory of the Company held by East West (solely to the extent not otherwise taken into account pursuant to the MSA or any other agreement between the Company and East West). The payment consisted of a $950 reduction in accounts payable and $50 in cash. The common stock, the Warrant and the shares issuable upon exercise of the Warrant were deemed to be issued to an accredited investor in a private placement exempt from the registration pursuant to Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (“Securities Act”). The Company’s reliance upon Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act was based in part upon the following factors: (a) the issuance of the securities was in connection with isolated private transactions which did not involve any public offering; (b) there were a limited number of offerees; (c) there will be no subsequent or contemporaneous public offerings of the Warrant or the shares underlying the Warrant by the Company; and (d) the negotiations for the sale of the securities took place directly between East West and the Company. 

The Warrant issued to East West was classified as a component of permanent equity in the Company's Consolidated Balance Sheets as it is a freestanding financial instrument that is immediately exercisable, does not embody an obligation for the Company to repurchase its own shares and permits the holders to receive a fixed number of shares of common stock upon exercise.  For year ended 2023, all of the shares underlying the Warrant had not been included in the weighted-average number of shares of common stock used to calculate net loss per share, basic and diluted, attributable to common stockholders because the shares would have been anti-dilutive.

The Company used the Black-Scholes-Merton option valuation model to calculate the fair value of a stock warrant grant, using the assumptions noted in the following table. Expected volatilities are based on the historical volatility of the Company’s common stock over the period of time, commensurate with the expected life of the stock warrant. The dividend yield assumption is based on the Company’s expectations of no dividend payouts at the grant date. The stock price was the closing price of the common stock on the date of the warrant agreement and the strike price and the expected term was defined in the warrant agreement. The risk-free interest rate is derived from the 90 day U.S. Treasury rate at the date of the stock warrant grant.

	FY 2024
Expected Volatility		67.2	%
Expected Dividends		0	%
Stock price	$	34.29
Strike price	$	15.00
Expected Term (in years)		3.8
Risk-Free Rate		4.34	%