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Nature of Operations, Basis of Presentation, and Liquidity
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2026
Nature of Operations, Basis of Presentation, and Liquidity  
Nature of Operations, Basis of Presentation, and Liquidity

1)    Nature of Operations, Basis of Presentation, and Liquidity

Nature of Operations and Basis of Presentation

Petros Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“Petros” or the “Company”) was incorporated in Delaware on May 14, 2020, for the purpose of effecting the transactions contemplated by that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of May 17, 2020 (as amended, the “Merger Agreement”), by and between Petros, Neurotrope, Inc., a Nevada corporation (“Neurotrope”), Metuchen Pharmaceuticals LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Metuchen”), and certain subsidiaries of Petros and Neurotrope. Prior to June 2025, Petros consisted of wholly owned subsidiaries: Metuchen, Neurotrope, Timm Medical Technologies, Inc. (“Timm Medical”), and Pos-T-Vac, LLC (“PTV” and, collectively with Metuchen and Timm Medical, the “Subsidiaries”). The Company has historically been engaged in the commercialization and development of Stendra®, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) approved PDE-5 inhibitor prescription medication for the treatment of erectile dysfunction (“ED”), which the Company licensed from Vivus, Inc. (“Vivus”). Petros also historically marketed its own line of ED products in the form of vacuum erection device products (“VEDs”) through its previous subsidiaries, Timm Medical and PTV, including VEDs marketed as “Osbon ErecAid” and “PosTVac.”

In December 2024, the Company determined to discontinue sales of Stendra® to wholesalers. Beginning in March 2025, the Company is no longer engaged in the commercialization, development or sales of Stendra®. In addition, on June 16, 2025, in accordance with California state law, the Company effected an assignment (the “Assignment”) of all of the business, assets, properties, contractual rights, goodwill, going concern value, rights and claims (“Assets”) of Metuchen, including Metuchen’s wholly-owned subsidiaries, Timm Medical and PTV and each of their respective Assets (collectively, the “ABC Assets”), for the benefit of creditors to a special purpose vehicle that is managed by a third-party fiduciary (the “Assignee”) such that, as of June 16, 2025, the Assignee succeeded to all of each Subsidiary’s right, title and interest in and to the respective ABC Assets. Upon the completion of the Assignment, the Assignee obtained sole control over the ABC Assets and each Subsidiary no longer operates its business or controls the liquidation or distribution of its assets or the resolution of claims. The Assignment is a judicial insolvency procedure, which was commenced by each Subsidiary entering a contractual assignment for the benefit of creditors on June 16, 2025, that effectuates the assignment, grant, conveyance, transfer, and setting over to the Assignee, in trust, of all of the ABC Assets. Accordingly, the Company is no longer engaged in the marketing or selling of VEDs following the completion of the Assignment. Today, the Company is working towards the goal of becoming a leading innovator in the emerging self-care market driving expanded access to key nonprescription pharmaceuticals as Over-the-Counter (“OTC”) and nonprescription drug products with additional condition for nonprescription use (“ACNU Products”) treatment options.

Petros is pursuing the development of a proprietary integrated technology solutions platform (the “platform”) containing two components (i) SaaS, designed to assist pharmaceutical companies in operationalizing and commercializing an Rx-to-OTC switch as an element in the development of an ACNU Product, and (ii) a potential Software as a Medical Device (“SaMD”) component, which must comply with FDA governance and approval and is expected to be a consumer interface that guides the consumer in navigating appropriate self-selection or deselection, through the acquisition process of the OTC product. The Company has been working towards the development of the platform, which is currently in early development stages and is being designed to serve as a retail or online interface, with clinically established algorithmic logic qualifying the intended consumer-patient for purchase and use of an ACNU Product, while reducing subjectivity to the least possible degree and maximizing objective qualifiers to the greatest possible degree.

The condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”) and in accordance with the accounting rules under Regulation S-X, as promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). All significant intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.

Reverse Stock Split

On April 29, 2025, the Company effected a 1-for-25 reverse stock split of its common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), as of April 30, 2025. All share, restricted stock unit (“RSU”) and per share or per RSU information has been retroactively adjusted to reflect the reverse stock split.

In connection with the reverse stock split, on April 10, 2025, the Company’s stockholders approved an amendment to the Company’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to increase the number of authorized shares of Common Stock from 250,000,000 to 7,000,000,000.

Liquidity and Going Concern

In accordance with Financial Accounting Standards Board (the “FASB”) Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) ASU 2014-15, Presentation of Financial Statements - going Concern (Subtopic 205-40) (“ASC 205-40”), the Company has the responsibility to evaluate whether conditions and/or events raise substantial doubt about its ability to meet its future financial obligations as they become due within one year after the date that the financial statements are issued. To date, the Company’s principal sources of capital used to fund the Company’s operations have been the revenues from product sales, private sales, registered offerings and private placements of equity securities. The Company has experienced net losses and negative cash flows from operations since the Company’s inception. As of June 30, 2026, the Company had cash of $3.5 million, working capital of $0.7 million, and accumulated deficit of $113.2 million. The Company’s plans include, or may include, utilizing cash and cash equivalents on hand, as well as exploring additional ways to raise capital in addition to increasing cash flows from operations. The Company does not currently have sufficient available liquidity to fund its operations for at least the next 12 months. These conditions and events raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern within one year after the date that these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements are issued.

The accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from these uncertainties. The condensed consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments to reflect the possible future effects on the recoverability and classification of assets or the amounts and classifications of liabilities that may result should the Company be unable to continue as a going concern.

In response to these conditions and events, the Company is evaluating various financing strategies to obtain sufficient additional liquidity to meet its operating, debt service and capital requirements for the next twelve months following the date of the Company’s condensed consolidated financial statements included in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. The potential sources of financing that the Company is evaluating include one or any combination of secured or unsecured debt, convertible debt and equity in both public and private offerings. The Company also plans to finance near-term operations by exploring additional ways to raise capital and increasing cash flows from operations. There is no assurance the Company will manage to raise additional capital or otherwise increase cash flows, if required or that the Company will have sufficient cash to develop its platform.

Metuchen ABC

On January 18, 2022, Metuchen and Vivus, Inc. (“Vivus”) entered into a Settlement Agreement (the “Vivus Settlement Agreement”) related to the minimum purchase requirements under the Vivus Supply Agreement in 2018, 2019 and 2020 and certain reimbursement rights asserted by a third-party retailer in connection with quantities of Metuchen’s Stendra® product that were delivered to the third-party retailer and later returned. In connection with the Vivus Settlement Agreement, Metuchen retained approximately $7.3 million of API inventory (representing the 2018 and 2019 minimum purchase requirements) out of approximately $12.4 million due under the Vivus Supply Agreement, in conjunction with forgiveness of approximately $4.25 million of current liabilities relating to returned goods and minimum purchase commitments. In exchange for the API and reduction of current liabilities, Metuchen executed an interest-bearing promissory note (the “Note”) in favor of Vivus in the principal amount of $10,201,758. The parties also entered into that certain Security Agreement, dated January 18, 2022 (“Security Agreement”), pursuant to which Metuchen granted to Vivus a continuing security interest in all of its Stendra® API and products and its rights under the License Agreement (the “Collateral”) to secure Metuchen’s obligations under the Note. The Security Agreement contained customary events of default. The Company recorded the impact of this transaction, including the gain in the first quarter of 2022.

In addition to the payments to be made in accordance with the Note, Metuchen further agreed in the Vivus Settlement Agreement to (i) grant to Vivus a right of first refusal to provide certain types of debt and convertible equity (but not preferred equity) financing issued by or to Metuchen (including any subsidiaries and intermediaries) until the Note is paid in full, and (ii) undertake to make certain regulatory submissions to effectuate Vivus’ ability to exercise its rights under the License Agreement. On January 18, 2022, Metuchen made a prepayment of the obligations under the Note in the amount of $900,000, and a payment of $1,542,904 with respect to a purchase order made in 2021 to Vivus. In consideration of these payments and upon Metuchen’s satisfaction of certain regulatory submissions, Vivus released 50% of the quantity of bulk Stendra® tablets under Metuchen’s existing open purchase order (the “Open Purchase Order”) being held by Vivus, which represented approximately a six-month supply of inventory. Pursuant to the Vivus Settlement

Agreement, Vivus released the remaining 50% of the quantity of bulk Stendra® tablets under the Open Purchase Order, later during the first quarter of 2022, upon Metuchen’s satisfaction of the remaining regulatory submission requirements.

On October 1, 2024, Metuchen failed to make the payment due pursuant to the Note and related Security Agreement in the amount of $0.5 million, constituting an Event of Default (as defined in the Note) under the Note and Security Agreement. The outstanding principal amount on the Note, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon, was $7,574,824 as of December 31, 2024. As a result of an event of default under the Settlement Agreement and the Security Agreement existing and continuing by virtue of Metuchen’s failure to pay the Installment (as defined in the Note) that was due October 1, 2024 (the “Vivus Event of Default”), all the obligations under the Settlement Agreement and the Security Agreement (the “Obligations”) became immediately due and payable on the date of the Foreclosure Notice (as defined below).

Pursuant to the Security Agreement, Vivus holds a security interest against the Collateral. On December 10, 2024, pursuant to a Notice of Proposal to Accept Pledged Collateral in Partial Satisfaction of Indebtedness Pursuant to Uniform Commercial Code Section 9-620 (the “Foreclosure Notice”), Vivus proposed to accept all the Collateral (save and except the Specified License Agreement (as defined in the Security Agreement); collectively, the “Foreclosed Collateral”) in partial satisfaction of the Obligations. Vivus further proposed in the Foreclosure Notice that its acceptance of the Foreclosed Collateral would only constitute satisfaction of $2,000,000 worth of the Obligations and would not include any other amounts outstanding under the Note, the Settlement Agreement, or the Security Agreement, including but not limited to (i) all interest accrued or at any time accruing thereon and (ii) all other sums recoverable by Vivus from Metuchen by virtue of the Obligations. On December 13, 2024, Metuchen accepted and agreed to the Foreclosure Notice.

In connection with the Foreclosure Notice, Metuchen and Vivus entered into that certain termination agreement, dated as of March 31, 2025, pursuant to which, the parties mutually agreed to terminate the Vivus License Agreement, effective as of March 31, 2025 (the “Vivus Termination Agreement”), subject to the survival of certain provisions as set forth therein. As a result of the Vivus Termination Agreement, Metuchen no longer has any right in or to Vivus Technology (as defined in the Vivus License Agreement) in the United States of America and its territories and possessions, including Puerto Rico and U.S. military bases abroad, Canada, South America and India (the “Licensed Territory”) and Metuchen agreed to immediately cease the development, manufacturing and commercialization of Stendra® in the Licensed Territory. Metuchen further agreed to assign any trademarks incorporating the mark “Stendra®” to Vivus, subject to certain exceptions as set forth therein. In furtherance of the Foreclosure Notice, and pursuant to the Termination Agreement, Metuchen agreed to transfer all completed inventory of Stendra® and all substantially manufactured inventory of Stendra® on hand to Vivus at Metuchen’s sole expense within 30 days of the date of the Vivus Termination Agreement.

Pursuant to the Vivus Termination Agreement, Metuchen agreed to provide transition services to Vivus, including transferring any agreements or arrangements with distributors of Stendra®, to enable the development, manufacturing and commercialization of Stendra® to proceed without disruption. Additionally, Metuchen agreed to transfer to Vivus any regulatory approvals with respect to Stendra® controlled by Metuchen or its affiliates within 30 days of the date of the Vivus Termination Agreement.

Pursuant to the Vivus Termination Agreement, Metuchen further agreed that Metuchen will retain liability for payment of all gross to net sales deductions (including returns, rebates and chargeback) of Stendra® products that were sold prior to the date of the Vivus Termination Agreement and agreed to reimburse Vivus for any such deductions charged to or otherwise borne by Vivus.

On June 16, 2025, in accordance with California state law, the Company effected an assignment (the “Assignment”) of all of the business, assets, properties, contractual rights, goodwill, going concern value, rights and claims (“Assets”) of Metuchen, including Metuchen’s wholly-owned subsidiaries, Timm Medical and PTV and each of their respective Assets (collectively, the “ABC Assets”), for the benefit of creditors to a special purpose vehicle that is managed by a third-party fiduciary (the “Assignee”) such that, as of June 16, 2025, the Assignee succeeded to all of each Subsidiary’s right, title and interest in and to the respective ABC Assets. Upon the completion of the Assignment, the Assignee obtained sole control over the ABC Assets and each Subsidiary no longer operates its business or controls the liquidation or distribution of its assets or the resolution of claims. The Assignment is a judicial insolvency procedure, which was commenced by each Subsidiary entering a contractual assignment for the benefit of creditors on June 16, 2025, that effectuates the assignment, grant, conveyance, transfer, and setting over to the Assignee, in trust, of all of the ABC Assets. The Assignee is expected to liquidate the property through an auction sale and distribute the proceeds to the Subsidiaries’ creditors according to their respective priorities at law to satisfy Metuchen’s obligations, including the Obligations, in accordance with the rules and regulations of the State of California. If any proceeds remain after all of Metuchen’s obligations, including the Obligations, and costs associated with the liquidation process have been satisfied, any remaining proceeds will be distributed to Metuchen’s equity holder, which is the Company (collectively, the “ABC”).

Pursuant to that certain letter agreement (the “Sherwood Agreement”), dated as of March 31, 2025, by and between Metuchen and Sherwood Partners, Inc. (“Sherwood”), Sherwood agreed to provide certain consulting and advisory services in connection with the ABC, including in connection with the sale process and budgeting and planning process (the “Services”). In consideration for the Services, Metuchen has agreed to pay a fee to Sherwood equal to $60,000 and a cash fee equal to 9% of the gross proceeds of the sale of the ABC Assets and has agreed to reimburse Sherwood for certain reasonable out-of-pocket expenses.

Restatement of Previously Issued Financial Statements

The Company identified certain errors related to the estimated fair value of the deemed dividend conveyed to holders of the Warrants and Series A Warrants related to the modification of these warrants on April 30, 2025, which was recognized during the three months ended June 30, 2025, which resulted in the following misstatements in the unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations and supplemental non-cash disclosures for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025:

-Overstatement of the Deemed Dividend on Series A Preferred warrants and the Deemed Dividend on Series A Warrants
-Overstatement of net loss from continuing operations attributable to common stockholders
-Overstatement of basic and diluted loss per common share – continuing operations
-Overstatement of basic and diluted loss per common share

There is no impact to any periods prior to the quarter ended June 30, 2025. The Company’s prior accounting for the deemed dividend did not have any effect on the Company’s previously reported cash flows or cash.

The following tables summarize the effect of the restatement on each financial statement line items for the periods indicated:

For the three months ended June 30, 2025:

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

  ​ ​ ​

June 30, 2025

  ​ ​ ​

  ​ ​ ​

June 30, 2025

As Reported

Adj.

As Restated

Deemed Dividend Series A Preferred Warrant

$

(35,399,000)

$

2,153,000

$

(33,246,000)

Deemed Dividend Series A Warrant

$

(3,270,000)

$

243,000

$

(3,027,000)

Net loss per common share - continuing ops

 

(40,928,462)

 

2,396,000

$

(38,532,462)

Basic and Diluted loss per common share - continuing ops

$

(1.58)

$

0.09

$

(1.49)

Basic and Diluted loss per common share

$

(1.29)

$

0.09

$

(1.20)

For the six months ended June 30, 2025:

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

  ​ ​ ​

June 30, 2025

  ​ ​ ​

  ​ ​ ​

June 30, 2025

As Reported

Adj.

As Restated

Deemed Dividend Series A Preferred Warrant

$

(43,754,824)

$

2,153,000

$

(41,601,824)

Deemed Dividend Series A Warrant

$

(3,270,000)

$

243,000

$

(3,027,000)

Net loss per common share - continuing ops

 

(50,758,994)

 

2,396,000

$

(48,362,994)

Basic and Diluted loss per common share - continuing ops

$

(3.73)

$

0.18

$

(3.55)

Basic and Diluted loss per common share

$

(3.26)

$

0.18

$

(3.08)

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

  ​ ​ ​

June 30, 2025

  ​ ​ ​

  ​ ​ ​

June 30, 2025

As Reported

Adj.

As Restated

Supplemental disclosure of cash flows information

Deemed dividend on Series A Preferred Warrants

 

43,754,824

 

(2,153,000)

 

41,601,824

Deemed dividend on Series A Warrants

 

3,270,000

 

(243,000)

 

3,027,000