Note 6 - Equity Transactions

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2021

Notes to Financial Statements

Stockholders' Equity Note Disclosure [Text Block]

(6) EQUITY TRANSACTIONS:

On December 8, 2020, the Company effected a 1-for-100 reverse split of its authorized and issued and outstanding shares of common stock. All share references have been restated for this reverse split to the earliest period presented. As a result of the split, the authorized shares of the Company’s common stock decreased to 10,000,000 shares. Thereafter, on June 24, 2021, following the approval of the Company’s stockholders at its annual meeting, the Company’s Articles of Incorporation were amended to increase the number of authorized shares of common stock from 10,000,000 to 20,000,000.

The Company expensed $0 in employee and board member stock compensation for the three and six months ended June 30, 2021. The Company expensed $6,840 and $14,060 in employee and board member stock compensation for the three and six months ended June 30, 2020, respectively. These shares were valued using quoted market values. The Company accrues stock compensation expense over the period earned for employees and board members. Stock compensation expense for board members is included in “Board of Directors fees and costs” on our statement of operations, and stock compensation expense for officers and employees that are not board members is included in “Personnel” on our statement of operations. In 2020, the Company did not issue shares of common stock for compensation. The Company issued 53,938 shares to employees in January 2021 with a value of $271,308 at the time of issuance, with respect to which compensation expense in that amount had been accrued as of December 31, 2020.

On April 24, 2020, the Company completed a private placement of common stock to a group of accredited investors that included several directors of the Company and members of management. Investors in the private placement purchased a total of 200,000 shares of common stock at a price of $10 per share, resulting in gross proceeds to the Company of $2,000,000.

On August 27, 2020, the Company completed a private placement of its securities to a group of accredited investors that included several directors of the Company and members of management. Investors in the private placement purchased a total of 283,111 units at a price of $10 per unit, resulting in gross proceeds to the Company of $2,831,114. Each unit consisted of one share of common stock and a seven-year warrant to purchase one share of common stock at an exercise price of $15 per share.

On December 11, 2020, the Company sold an aggregate of 2,500,000 units at a price to the public of $5.00 per unit (the “Public Offering”), each unit consisting of one share of common stock, and a warrant to purchase one share of common stock at an exercise price of $5.00 per share (the “Warrants”), pursuant to an Underwriting Agreement we entered into with Maxim Group LLC (“Maxim”). In addition, pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement, the Company granted Maxim a 45-day option to purchase up to 375,000 additional shares of common stock, and/or 375,000 additional Warrants, to cover over-allotments in connection with the Offering, which Maxim partially exercised to purchase 375,000 Warrants on the closing date.

The Company received gross proceeds of $12,503,750 upon the initial closing of the Public Offering, before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions of eight percent (8%), and expenses. On December 22, 2020, the Company sold an additional 375,000 shares of common stock to Maxim upon its exercise of the balance of its over-allotment option, and received additional gross proceeds of $1,871,250 from such sale, bringing the total gross proceeds of the Public Offering to $14,375,000. The total expenses of the Public Offering were approximately $1,703,000 which included Maxim’s expenses relating to the offering.

Pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement, we issued warrants (the “Underwriter’s Warrants”) to Maxim to purchase 57,500 shares of common stock (2% of the shares of common stock sold in the Public Offering). The Underwriter’s Warrants are exercisable at $6.25 per share of common stock and have a term of five years.

Subsequent to the closing of the Public Offering through December 31, 2020, Warrants to purchase an aggregate of 197,000 shares of common stock were exercised, resulting in gross proceeds to the Company of $985,000.

In January 2021, 10,000 shares of common stock with a value of $50,300 were issued to a nonemployee for services.

In February and March 2021 warrants issued in our December 2020 Public Offering were exercised to purchase an aggregate of 1,519,984 shares of common stock, resulting in gross proceeds to the Company of $7,599,920.

In March 2021, warrants to purchase an aggregate of 9,436 shares of common stock were exercised on a cashless basis, resulting in the issuance of 2,913 shares of common stock.

In June 2021, warrants issued in our December 2020 Public Offering were exercised to purchase an aggregate of 78,220 shares of common stock, resulting in gross proceeds to the Company of $391,100.

As of June 30, 2021, the Company had warrants outstanding to purchase 2,050,221 shares of common stock at exercise prices of $5.00 - $100.00 per share that expire at various dates through 2027. In addition, there are seven-year warrants outstanding at June 30, 2021 to purchase 4,800 Units sold in our May 2016 private placement at an exercise price of $25.00 per Unit, 1,641 Units sold in our February 2017 private placement at an exercise price of $35.00 per Unit, and 2,400 Units sold in our October 2017 private placement at an exercise price of $25.00 per Unit.