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| Sale of Common Stock and Warrants | 6. Sale of Common Stock and Warrants
Inducement Transaction and Shares held in Abeyance
On November 19, 2025, the Company entered into a warrant inducement agreement with a single institutional investor (the Investor”) who is an existing stockholder of the Company (the “Inducement Agreement”), pursuant to which the Investor agreed to immediately exercise in full all of its outstanding Common Stock Warrants originally issued on November 20, 2024 (as amended on May 15, 2025) and on May 15, 2025 to purchase an aggregate of 251,702 shares of Common Stock at an amended exercise price of $15.96 per share, resulting in aggregate gross proceeds to the Company of approximately $4.0 million before fees and expenses.
In consideration for the immediate exercise of the Common Stock Warrants, the Company issued to the Investor, in a private placement pursuant to Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act, new Common Stock Warrants to purchase up to 503,402 shares of Common Stock at an exercise price of $14.46 per share. In a private transaction entered into contemporaneously with the February 2026 Sale of Common Stock and Warrants discussed below, the Company agreed to an amendment to reduce the exercise price of these Common Stock Warrants to $3.633 per share. However, the effectiveness of this amendment is subject to stockholder approval, which the Company expects to seek at its annual meeting of stockholders scheduled to be held on June 15, 2026.
As of December 31, 2025, there were shares held in abeyance. On February 25, 2026 and March 16, 2026, the Investor requested that the Company issue and shares, respectively, of the remaining shares in abeyance.
February 2026 Sale of Common Stock and Warrants
On February 17, 2026, the Company entered into a securities purchase agreement (“SPA”) with the Investor, pursuant to which the Company issued 412,882 units (the “Units”) consisting of (i) 412,882 pre-funded warrants (the “Pre-Funded Warrants”) to purchase up to 412,882 shares of Common Stock, and (ii) up to 412,882 Common Stock purchase warrants the exercise of which is conditioned on stockholder approval (the “Common Warrants”, and together with the Pre-Funded Warrants, the “Warrants”) to purchase up to 412,882 shares of Common Stock.
The Company’s Common Stock is listed on The Nasdaq Capital Market and, as such, the Company is subject to the Nasdaq Stock Market Rules. Nasdaq Stock Rule 5635(d) is referred to as the “Nasdaq 20% Rule.” In order to comply with the Nasdaq 20% Rule, the Company must seek stockholder approval to permit the potential issuance of more than 19.99% of outstanding Common Stock upon exercise of the Common Warrants in accordance with their terms. To meet the Nasdaq 20% Rule, the Company needs stockholder approval under the listing rules of Nasdaq to remove the Exchange Cap provisions in the SPA to permit the potential issuance of more than 20% of our outstanding Common Stock in accordance with the terms of the SPA.
The combined purchase price for each Unit consisting of one Pre-Funded Warrant that may be exercised for one share of Common Stock and an accompanying Common Stock Warrant to purchase one share of Common Stock was $. The Common Stock Warrants have an exercise price of $3.633 per share, will be exercisable only upon receipt of stockholder approval thereof in accordance with applicable Nasdaq rules, and expire on the five-year anniversary of such stockholder approval. The Pre-Funded Warrants have an exercise price of $0.0001, are exercisable immediately and will not expire until exercised in full.
The securities were offered pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-1, as amended (File No. 333-293396), which was declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 17, 2026. The gross proceeds to the Company from the 2026 Offering are approximately $1.5 million before deducting the placement agent’s fees and other offering expenses of $389,056 payable by the Company. The offering closed on February 19, 2026.
The Investor may not exercise any portion of the Common Stock Warrants to the extent it would beneficially own more than the limits defined in the respective Warrant Purchase Agreement. The exercise price and number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of the Common Stock Warrants are subject to adjustment in the event of any stock dividends and distributions, stock splits, stock combinations or stock reclassifications, as described in the respective warrant agreements. Under certain circumstances, the warrants may be exercised on a “cashless” basis.
On February 17, 2026, the Company also entered into a privately negotiated agreement with the Investor, which holds certain existing outstanding warrants to purchase up to 503,402 shares of Common Stock (the “Existing Warrants”) to seek stockholder approval in accordance with applicable Nasdaq rules to reduce the exercise price of such Existing Warrants to the public offering price per Unit paid in the Offering (the “Existing Warrants Amendment Agreement”). There can be no assurance that we will obtain such stockholder approval or amend the Existing Warrants or as to the final terms of any amendments to the Existing Warrants. Until such time as stockholder approval is obtained, the Existing Warrants continue to remain outstanding with an exercise price of $14.46 per share.
The fair value of the Common Stock Warrants issued in this transaction was estimated at $1.3 million using the Black-Scholes option pricing model with assumptions including a term of years, volatility of % and a risk-free rate of %. The change in fair value of the Existing Warrants which were amended to lower the exercise price from $14.46 to $3.633 per share was estimated at $193,910 using the Black Scholes pricing model with the assumptions including term of years, volatility of % and risk-free rate of %. As this was a transaction with an existing stockholder, the difference between the gross proceeds of $1.5 million and the fair value of securities issued and the modification of the warrant, or $3.0 million, was deemed to be an equity dividend to the Investor which was recorded in additional-paid-in capital as of March 31, 2026.
On March 16, 2026, the Investor exercised all of its Pre-Funded Warrants issued from the February 2026 offering, and the Company issued 412,882 shares of Common Stock.
Warrant Classification
The Common Warrants that may be exercised to purchase up to 412,882 shares of Common Stock issued on February 17, 2026 were classified as a component of permanent stockholders’ equity within additional paid-in-capital and were recorded at the issuance date. The Common Warrants are equity classified because they are freestanding financial instruments that are legally detachable and separately exercisable from the equity instruments, are immediately exercisable, do not embody an obligation for the Company to repurchase its shares, permit the holders to receive a fixed number of shares of Common Stock upon exercise, are indexed to the Company’s Common Stock and meet the equity classification criteria. In addition, the Common Warrants and the Pre-Funded Warrants do not provide any guarantee of value or return.
Upon modification of Existing Warrants, as of February 17, 2026, the Existing Warrants were reclassified as a warrant liability. Until stockholders approve the new strike price of $ per share, these warrants have a contingent strike price adjustment and will be treated as derivative liabilities, recorded at the fair value on the date of the transaction and remeasured to fair value for each subsequent reporting date, with changes in fair value recorded in earnings. As of February 17, 2026, the Company reclassified $1.6 million from Additional paid-in capital to noncurrent liabilities as a warrant liability. As of March 31, 2026, the Company reported a warrant liability of $928,435 on the condensed balance sheet and a change in fair value of $667,343 for the three months ended March 31, 2026 on the condensed statements of operations.
Participating Warrants
Certain warrants issued by the Company are participating warrants. Under U.S. GAAP, participating warrants are instruments that grant the holder the right to receive non-forfeitable dividends or dividend equivalents on an equal basis with common stockholders before exercise. Because they are considered “participating securities,” the Company utilizes the two-class method to calculate and report basic and diluted Earnings Per Share (EPS). See Note 9. Net Income (Loss) per Share.
As of March 31, 2025, outstanding participating warrants included: November 2024 Common Stock Warrants to purchase up to 27,988 shares of Common Stock,
As of March 31, 2026, outstanding participating warrants included: November 2025 Common Stock Warrants to purchase up to 503,402 shares of Common Stock and Conversion Common Stock Warrants to purchase up to shares of Common Stock.
Compliance to Obtain Stockholder Approval
The Company held a Special Meeting of Stockholders on April 27, 2026 to obtain stockholder approval for the warrants issued or potentially amended in the February 2026 offering, but this meeting was adjourned for lack of quorum. The Company filed a definitive proxy statement for its Annual Meeting of Stockholders on April 28, 2026, which resubmitted the two proposals regarding these warrants. The Company is obliged to submit this matter to stockholders for their consideration every 60 days, until the Company obtains stockholder approval for the exercise of these warrants at $3.633 per share. See Note 13. Subsequent Events.
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