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Stock-based Compensation
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2025
Share-Based Payment Arrangement [Abstract]  
Stock-based Compensation

Note 3 – Stock-based Compensation

 

On June 19, 2019, our stockholders approved, and we adopted, the Processa Pharmaceuticals Inc. 2019 Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan (the “2019 Plan”). The 2019 Plan allows us, under the direction of our Board of Directors or a committee thereof, to make grants of stock options, restricted and unrestricted stock and other stock-based awards to employees, including our executive officers, consultants and directors. The 2019 Plan provides for the aggregate issuance of 800,000 shares of our common stock. At June 30, 2025, we have 357,420 shares available for future grants.

 

Stock Compensation Expense

 

We recorded stock-based compensation expense for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024 as follows:

 

   2025   2024   2025   2024 
   Three Months Ended June 30,   Six Months Ended June 30, 
   2025   2024   2025   2024 
Research and development  $8,613   $45,583   $55,333   $76,704 
General and administrative   194,635    107,049    375,626    243,571 
Total  $203,248   $152,632   $430,959   $320,275 

 

Stock Options

 

No stock options to purchase shares of common stock were forfeited or expired during the six months ended June 30, 2025. At June 30, 2025, we had outstanding and exercisable options for the purchase of 2,747 shares with a weighted average exercise price of $409.09 and a weighted average remaining contractual life of 3.2 years. At June 30, 2025, we did not have any unrecognized stock-based compensation expense related to our granted stock options.

 

Restricted Stock Units

 

Activity with respect to our Restricted Stock Units (“RSUs”) during the six months ended June 30, 2025 was as follows:

 

   Number of
shares
   Weighted-
average
grant-date fair
value per share
 
Outstanding at January 1, 2025   383,636   $19.87 
Granted   -    - 
Forfeited   (27,547)   53.08 
Issued   (74,804)   58.78 
Outstanding at June 30, 2025   281,285    6.27 
Vested and unissued   (229,905)   5.47 
           
Unvested at June 30, 2025   51,380   $9.84 

 

 

At June 30, 2025, unrecognized stock-based compensation expense of approximately $148,000 for RSUs is expected to be fully recognized over a weighted average period of 0.7 years. The unrecognized expense excludes approximately $253,000 of expense related to certain grants of RSUs with performance milestones that are being accounted for as though the performance milestones are not probable of occurring at this time.

 

Holders of our vested RSUs will be issued shares of our common stock upon meeting the distribution restrictions contained in their Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement. The distribution restrictions are different (longer) than the vesting schedule, imposing an additional restriction on the holder. While certain employees may hold fully vested RSUs, the individual does not hold any shares or have any rights of a stockholder until the distribution restrictions are met. Upon distribution to the employee, each RSU converts into one share of our common stock. The RSUs contain dividend equivalent rights.

 

Warrants

 

During the six months ended June 30, 2025, we sold 7,019,700 pre-funded warrants, and accompanying Series A Warrants to purchase up to 8,050,672 shares of our common stock and Series B Warrants to purchase up to 4,025,336 shares of our common stock in the January PO. We also sold 13,690,000 pre-funded warrants and accompanying common warrants to purchase up to 28,000,000 shares of common stock, as well as issued placement agent warrants to purchase up to 1,120,000 shares of common stock in the June PO. During the six months ended June 30, 2025, warrants to purchase 400,000 shares of common stock from the June PO and all pre-funded warrants from the January PO and June PO were exercised.

 

At June 30, 2025, we had outstanding exercisable stock purchase warrants excluding the Series A and B Warrants for the purchase of 30,495,784 shares with a weighted average exercise price of $0.35 and a weighted average remaining contractual life of 4.9 years. We have excluded the Series A and B Warrants sold under the January PO from the calculation of the weighted average remaining contractual life since we did not receive stockholder approval for these warrants until July 18, 2025.

 

We did not have any unrecognized stock-based compensation expense related to our granted stock purchase warrants at June 30, 2025.