Note 7 - Equity |
3 Months Ended |
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Mar. 31, 2025 | |
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7. Equity
Common stock
Effective at 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time on April 11, 2024, every six shares of common stock issued and outstanding or held by the Company in treasury stock were combined and reclassified into one share of common stock (the “Reverse Stock Split”). The Reverse Stock Split reduced the number of issued and outstanding shares of common stock from 81,571,864 shares to 13,660,598 shares and reduced the issued shares of common stock held by the Company in treasury stock from 4,611,569 shares to 768,595 shares. The common stock began trading on a reverse split-adjusted basis at the opening of trading on The Nasdaq Capital Market on April 12, 2024, under the same symbol (FLNT) with a new CUSIP number (34380C 201).
As of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, the number of issued shares of common stock was 21,412,255 and 20,791,431, respectively, which included shares of treasury stock of 768,595 and 768,595, respectively.
For the three months ended March 31, 2025, the increase in the number of issued shares of common stock was the result of the exercise of pre-funded warrants for 620,824 shares, as described below.
Direct Offering:
On
November 29, 2024, the Company entered into securities purchase agreements (the "Registered Direct Purchase Agreements") with certain pre-existing institutional investors (the "Registered Direct Investors"), pursuant to which the Company agreed to sell to such investors an aggregate of
2,483,586 shares of common stock of the Company, par value
$0.0005 per share (the "Registered Direct Offering"). The Registered Direct Offering was made pursuant to the Company's shelf registration statement on Form S-
3, which was declared effective by the SEC
September 9, 2024.
In connection with the Registered Direct Offering, the Company entered into a placement agency agreement (the "Placement Agency Agreement") with ThinkEquity LLC, as the placement agent (the "Placement Agent"), for the sale of
1,943,676 shares of common stock to the Registered Direct Investors. Pursuant to the Placement Agency Agreement, the Company, among other things, paid the Placement Agent a cash fee equal to
4% of the gross proceeds raised in the Registered Direct Offering by an investor making an investment of
$4,500.
On
December 2, 2024, the Registered Direct Offering was closed and the gross proceeds totaled
$5,750, before deducting offering expenses payable by the Company of
$562, including the Placement Agent fee. The Company has used the net proceeds from the Registered Direct Offering for general corporate purposes, which included capital expenditures, working capital and general and administrative expenses.
Pre-Funded Warrants
On May 13, 2024, the Company entered into securities purchase agreements (the "May Purchase Agreements") with certain accredited or sophisticated investors (the "May Purchasers"), all of whom were related parties, pursuant to which the Company sold pre-funded warrants (the "May Pre-Funded Warrants") to purchase up to 2,955,084 shares of the Company's common stock, at a purchase price of $3.384 per May Pre-Funded Warrant (the "May Private Placement"). The May Purchasers included three officers and/or directors and the largest stockholder of the Company. underwriting discounts or commissions were paid with respect to the May Private Placement.
The aggregate gross proceeds for the May Private Placement totaled $10,000, before deducting offering expenses payable by the Company of $100. The May Pre-Funded Warrants, which terminated when exercised in full, had an exercise price of $0.0005 per share of common stock and became immediately exercisable upon stockholder approval. Stockholder approval of the May Private Placement was obtained on July 2, 2024, at a special meeting of the Company's stockholders.
On November 29, 2024, the Company entered into securities purchase agreements (the "December Purchase Agreements") with certain accredited or sophisticated investors (the "December Purchasers"), all of whom were related parties, pursuant to which the Company agreed to sell to the December Purchasers unregistered pre-funded warrants (the "December Pre-Funded Warrants") to purchase up to 1,187,802 shares of the Company’s common stock, at a purchase price of $2.3147 per December Pre-Funded Warrant and an exercise price of $0.0005 per share of common stock (the "December Private Placement"). The December Purchasers consisted of three officers and/or directors and the Company's largest stockholder of the Company. underwriting discounts or commissions were paid with respect to the December Private Placement.
On December 2, 2024, the Company closed the December Private Placement receiving aggregate gross proceeds totaled $2,750 from the sale of the December Pre-Funded Warrants, before deducting offering expenses payable by the Company of $22. The Company's largest stockholder exercised its warrant on December 9, 2024. The December Pre-Funded Warrants purchased by three officers and/or directors of the Company will be immediately exercisable after stockholder approval transactions contemplated by the December Purchase Agreements and will terminate when exercised in full.
On March 19, 2025, the Company entered into securities purchase agreements (the "March Purchase Agreements") with certain accredited or sophisticated investors (the "March Purchasers"), all of whom were related parties, pursuant to which the Company sold to the March Purchasers unregistered pre-funded warrants (the "March Pre-Funded Warrants") to purchase up to 2,332,104 shares of the Company's common stock, at a purchase price of $2.174 per March Pre-Funded Warrant and an exercise price of $0.0005 per share of common stock (the "March Private Placement"). The March Pre-Funded Warrants will be immediately exercisable after stockholder approval and terminate when exercised in full. The March Purchasers consisted of three officers and/or directors of the Company, the Company's largest stockholder, and an institutional investor. No underwriting discounts or commissions were paid with respect to the March Private Placement.
The aggregate gross proceeds totaled $5,070, before deducting offering expenses payable by the Company of $70. The Company's largest stockholder and an institutional investor exercised their March Pre-Funded Warrants on March 20, 2025. The March Pre-Funded Warrants purchased by the three officers and/or directors of the Company will be immediately exercisable after stockholder approval of the transactions contemplated by the March Purchase Agreements and will terminate when exercised in full.
The Company is obligated to use its reasonable best efforts to obtain such stockholder approval of the exercise of the officers' and/or directors' December Pre-Funded Warrants and March Pre-Funded Warrants at the 2025 annual meeting of stockholders. The Company entered into Support Agreements (as amended, the "Support Agreements") with the Registered Direct Investors and the December Purchasers. In addition, the Company entered into a First Amendment to Support Agreement (the "First Amendment to Support Agreement") with each of the March Purchasers, December Purchasers, and certain of the Registered Direct Investors. Pursuant to the Support Agreements, the Registered Direct Investors, the December Purchasers, and the March Purchasers agreed to vote their shares of the Company's common stock beneficially owned by them in favor of certain actions subject to Stockholder Approval (as defined in the Support Agreements) at any meeting of stockholders of the Company.
As of March 31, 2025, 620,824 of the March Pre-Funded Warrants had been exercised. In addition, as of December 31, 2024, all of the May Pre-Funded Warrants and 647,892 of the December Pre-Funded Warrants had been exercised. The issuance of the shares upon exercise of the pre-funded warrants was made in reliance upon the exemption from registration under Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
The issuance of the March Pre-Funded Warrants was reflected in the Company's stockholder's equity within common stock and additional paid-in-capital as of March 31, 2025. In accordance with ASC 815-40, Derivatives and Hedging, a contract is classified as an equity agreement if it is both indexed to its own stock and classified in stockholder's equity in its financial position. The May Pre-Funded Warrants, December Pre-Funded Warrants, and March Pre-Funded Warrants met the requirements of being classified as equity because (i) they had a fixed share limit and the Company had sufficient authorized and unissued shares, (ii) they required physical or net share settlement, and (iii) no cash payments or settlement top-off was required by the Company.
Treasury stock
As of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, the Company held shares of treasury stock of 768,595 and 768,595, respectively, with a cost of $11,407 and $11,407, respectively.
The Company's share-based incentive plans allow employees the option to either make a cash payment or forfeit shares of common stock upon vesting to satisfy federal and state statutory tax withholding obligations associated with equity awards. The forfeited shares of common stock may be taken into treasury stock by the Company or sold on the open market. For the three months ended March 31, 2025, shares of common stock were withheld to cover statutory taxes owed by certain employees for this purpose. See Note 8, Share-based compensation.
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