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LEASES
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2026
Leases  
LEASES

Note 9. LEASES

 

The Company has one operating lease for its real estate and office space for the CAP/CLIA laboratory, as well as multiple finance leases for lab equipment in Texas that were acquired through the September 18, 2023 acquisition. In April 2024, the Company amended the lab space lease agreement which included two options to extend the lease for an additional three years on the exercise of each option. Management has not included these options in calculating the Operating lease right-of-use assets and Operating lease liabilities. During the first quarter of 2026, Operating lease assets and liabilities increased as a result of amending the lease due to an out-of-period adjustment described previously in Note 1. Additionally, the Company entered into an operating lease on September 1, 2024 for additional office space. The Company’s operating leases consist of office and lab space with remaining lease terms of 4.4 years as of March 31, 2026. The Company has finance leases consisting of office and lab equipment with remaining lease terms ranging from approximately 0.83 to 6.6 years as of March 31, 2026, for which the Company has determined that it will use the equipment for a major part of its remaining economic life.

 

The lease agreements generally do not provide an implicit borrowing rate. Therefore, the Company used a benchmark approach as of the date of inception of the leases to derive an appropriate incremental borrowing rate to discount remaining lease payments. The Company benchmarked itself against other companies of similar credit ratings and comparable quality and derived imputed interest rates ranging from 6.41% to 7.97% for the lease term lengths.

 

Leases with an initial term of 12 months or less are not recorded on the balance sheets. There are no material residual guarantees associated with any of the Company’s leases, and there are no significant restrictions or covenants included in the Company’s lease agreements. Certain leases include variable payments related to common area maintenance and property taxes, which are billed by the landlord, as is customary with these types of charges for office space. The Company has not entered into any lease arrangements with related parties, and the Company is not the sublessor in any arrangement.

 

The Company’s existing leases contain escalation clauses and renewal options. The Company has evaluated several factors in assessing whether there is reasonable certainty that the Company will exercise a contractual renewal option. For leases with renewal options that are reasonably certain to be exercised, the Company included the renewal term in the total lease term used in calculating the right-of-use asset and lease liability.

 

 

The components of lease expense, which are included in selling, general and administrative expense and depreciation and amortization for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, are as follows:

 

Components of lease expense:  2026   2025 
Amortization of right-of-use assets - finance lease  $75,527   $96,243 
Interest on lease liabilities - finance lease   12,269    13,081 
Operating lease cost   43,284    29,793 
Total lease cost  $131,080   $139,117 
           
Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities:          
Operating cash flows from finance leases  $77,174   $100,266 
Operating cash flows from operating leases  $36,451   $29,197 

 

Operating leases:  March 31, 2026   December 31, 2025 
Operating lease right-of-use, assets  $651,430   $334,289 
Operating lease liability, current  $142,303   $139,220 
Operating lease liability, non-current  $545,157   $202,878 
Total operating lease liabilities  $687,460   $342,098 

 

Finance leases:  March 31, 2026   December 31, 2025 
Finance lease right-of-use asset, gross  $1,184,598   $1,184,598 
Accumulated amortization   (598,550)   (523,023)
Finance lease right-of-use asset, net  $586,048   $661,575 
Finance lease liability, current portion  $80,241   $139,490 
Finance lease liability, long-term   514,834    532,759 
Total finance lease liabilities  $595,075   $672,249 

 

Weighted-average remaining lease term:  March 31, 2026   December 31, 2025 
Operating leases (in years)   4.42    3.04 
Finance leases (in years)   6.53    6.18 

 

Weighted-average discount rate:  March 31, 2026   December 31, 2025 
Operating leases   6.87%   7.28%
Finance leases   6.76%   6.86%

 

Future minimum lease payments under non-cancellable lease as of March 31, 2026, are as follows:

 

   Operating Leases   Finance
Leases
 
Remaining for 2026  $124,933   $89,822 
2027   172,488    111,708 
2028   179,367    111,708 
2029   186,553    111,708 
2030   127,651    111,708 
2031 and thereafter       201,495 
Total undiscounted cash flows   790,992    738,149 
Less discounting   (103,532)   (143,074)
Present value of lease liabilities  $687,460   $595,075