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Stock-based Compensation
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2026
Share-Based Payment Arrangement [Abstract]  
Stock-based Compensation
9.
STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION

Prior to March 14, 2025, the Company was authorized to issue a number of equity awards equal to 15% of the Company’s issued and outstanding Common Shares under the terms of the 2020 Option Plan, together with Common Shares that were issuable pursuant to outstanding awards or grants under any other compensation or incentive mechanism involving the issuance or potential issuance of Common Shares, including the MindMed Performance and Restricted Share Unit Plan (“2020 PRSU Plan”) and ESPP. The 2020 Option Plan and the 2020 PRSU Plan were retired effective March 14, 2025, and no further grants will be made under the 2020 Option Plan or the 2020 PRSU Plan. With the retirement of the 2020 Option Plan and the 2020 PRSU Plan, the ESPP and any other compensation or incentive mechanism involving the issuance or potential issuance of Common Shares (including inducement grants made outside a plan) are no longer subject to the 15% limitation from the Prior Plans.

In June 2025, the Company adopted the 2025 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2025 Plan”), consisting of (a) 4,500,000 Common Shares reserved for issuance under the 2025 Plan, and (b) a maximum of 9,318,090 Common Shares (the “Outstanding Award Shares”) consisting of (i) an aggregate of 3,500,979 Common Shares that were subject to outstanding option awards under the 2020 Option Plan and (ii) an aggregate of 5,817,111 Common Shares subject to outstanding restricted stock unit (“RSU”) awards and performance share unit (“PSU”) awards under the 2020 PRSU Plan. The Outstanding Award Shares will become available for issuance under the 2025 Plan if and as such awards under the 2020 Option Plan and the 2020 PRSU Plan are forfeited or otherwise terminated.

In June 2026, the Company's shareholders approved an amendment to the 2025 Plan to increase the number of Common Shares reserved for issuance by 5,000,000.

As of June 30, 2026, 536,495 stock options, 2,315,895 RSUs, and 285,000 PSUs have been granted under the 2025 Plan.

The Company also grants inducement equity awards consisting of stock options, RSUs or PSUs to newly hired employees as an inducement material to the employees entering into employment with the Company. All inducement grants granted prior to the adoption of the Definium Therapeutics, Inc. 2026 Inducement Plan (the “Inducement Plan”) were granted outside of the 2020 Option Plan, the 2020 PRSU Plan and the 2025 Plan. All inducement grants are approved by the Compensation Committee of the Company’s Board of Directors prior to issuance. During the six months ended June 30, 2026, the Company issued inducement grants consisting of 1,251,480 stock options and 34,500 PSUs. As of June 30, 2026, there were an aggregate of 4,392,430 inducement awards outstanding consisting of (i) 4,013,430 stock options, (ii) 60,000 RSUs and (iii) 319,000 PSUs.

 

In June 2026, the Company's Board of Directors approved the Inducement Plan consisting of 3,000,000 Common Shares reserved for issuance of inducement grants to newly hired employees in accordance with NASDAQ Listing Rule 5635(c)(4). As of June 30, 2026, no equity awards have been granted under the Inducement Plan.

Stock Options

The following table summarizes the Company’s stock option activity for the six months ended June 30, 2026:

 

 

Number of Options

 

 

Weighted Average Exercise Price

 

 

Weighted Average Remaining Contractual Life (Years)

 

 

Aggregate Intrinsic
Value (USD$)

 

Options outstanding at December 31, 2025

 

 

6,106,759

 

 

$

10.94

 

 

 

7.6

 

 

$

30,906,946

 

Granted

 

 

1,412,040

 

 

 

21.46

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Exercised

 

 

(232,580

)

 

 

8.84

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Forfeited

 

 

(167,319

)

 

 

9.42

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Expired

 

 

(493,973

)

 

 

33.71

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Options outstanding at June 30, 2026

 

 

6,624,927

 

 

$

11.60

 

 

 

8.2

 

 

$

234,865,179

 

Options vested and exercisable at June 30, 2026

 

 

2,339,399

 

 

$

10.25

 

 

 

6.5

 

 

$

86,132,195

 

The expense recognized related to options for the three months ended June 30, 2026 and 2025 was $2.6 million and $1.6 million, respectively, and for the six months ended June 30, 2026 and 2025 was $5.0 million and $3.2 million, respectively.

Restricted Share Units

The following table summarizes the Company's RSU activity for the six months ended June 30, 2026:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Number of RSUs

 

 

Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value

 

Balance at December 31, 2025

 

 

5,457,220

 

 

$

6.29

 

Granted

 

 

2,954,895

 

 

 

18.10

 

Vested

 

 

(462,361

)

 

 

9.37

 

Cancelled

 

 

(89,750

)

 

 

16.85

 

Balance at June 30, 2026

 

 

7,860,004

 

 

$

10.43

 

During the six months ended June 30, 2026, RSUs granted include 319,500 PSUs that vest based on the achievement of certain clinical milestones and require service for 36 months after grant. As of June 30, 2026, the Company has determined that all of these milestones are probable of achievement, which means that the PSUs would vest at 200% or a total of 639,000 PSUs, which is included in "Granted" in the table above. The Company will recognize the related compensation expense for awards that are probable of vesting over the 36 month requisite service period.

The expense recognized related to RSUs for the three months ended June 30, 2026 and 2025 was $7.0 million and $3.6 million, respectively, and for the six months ended June 30, 2026 and 2025 was $11.6 million and $5.4 million, respectively.

Employee Share Purchase Plan

In August 2024, the Company commenced the first offering under the ESPP. Subsequent to this offering, new offerings under the ESPP commence automatically every six months until the earlier of (i) termination or modification by the Compensation Committee of the Company’s Board of Directors and (ii) such time when all Common Shares reserved under the ESPP have been issued. During the six months ended June 30, 2026, the Company recognized $0.2 million of expense in relation to its ESPP and issued 33,787 Common Shares under the ESPP.

Stock-based Compensation Expense

Stock-based compensation expense for all equity arrangements for the three and six months ended June 30, 2026 and 2025 was as follows (in thousands):

 

 

Three Months Ended June 30,

 

Six Months Ended June 30,

 

 

2026

 

 

2025

 

2026

 

 

2025

 

Research and development

 

$

4,119

 

 

$

2,301

 

$

6,994

 

 

$

4,354

 

General and administrative

 

 

5,520

 

 

 

2,952

 

 

9,777

 

 

 

4,325

 

Total

 

$

9,639

 

 

$

5,253

 

$

16,771

 

 

$

8,679

 

 

As of June 30, 2026, there was approximately $38.1 million of total unrecognized stock-based compensation expense, related to unvested options granted to employees and directors under the 2020 Option Plan, the 2025 Plan or as inducement grants made outside of a plan that is expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of 3.2 years. As of June 30, 2026, there was approximately $67.4 million of total unrecognized stock-based compensation expense, related to RSUs granted to employees under the PRSU Plan that is expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of 2.9 years.

Directors' Deferred Share Unit Plan

On April 16, 2021, the Company adopted the Definium Therapeutics Director’s Deferred Share Unit Plan (the “DDSU Plan”). The DDSU Plan sets out a framework to grant non-employee directors DDSUs, which are cash settled awards. The DDSUs generally vest ratably over twelve months after grant and are settled within 90 days of the date the director ceases service to the Company. For the three and six months ended June 30, 2026, stock-based compensation expense of $5.2 million and $6.2 million, respectively, was recognized relating to the revaluation of the vested DDSUs, and recorded in general and administrative expense in the accompanying condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss. For both the three and six months ended June 30, 2025, stock-based compensation expense of $0.2 million was recognized relating to the revaluation of the vested DDSUs.

During the six months ended June 30, 2026, the Company did not issue any additional DDSUs. There were 199,026 DDSUs vested as of June 30, 2026. The liability associated with the outstanding vested DDSU’s was $8.9 million as of June 30, 2026, and was recorded to accrued expenses in the accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheets.