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9. Common Stock and Preferred Stock |
On March 31, 2014, the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement (the "SPA") with Aracle SPF I, LLC ("Aracle") pursuant to which Aracle and another subscribed investors had the right to acquire up to 12 units (the "Units"), for $50,000 per Unit, with each Unit consisting of 25,000 shares of common stock (the "Shares") of the Company and 12,500 common stock purchase warrants (the "Warrants"). The Warrants were exercisable 6 months after issuance, had a term of 4 years, and had an exercise price of $2.50 per warrant share. The SPA contained standard representations, warranties, and covenants. In addition, the SPA contained a price adjustment mechanism that requires the Company, with certain exceptions, to issue additional shares of common stock to the investor in the event the Company, within 12 months of the initial closing under the SPA, issue certain equity securities at a price per share less than $2.00, provided, however, as long as the Company was listed on the NYSE MKT the total number of shares issuable under the foregoing adjustment provision may not exceed 19.9% of the Company's outstanding shares of common stock on March 30, 2014. Further, in the event the Company was delisted from the NYSE MKT while Aracle owns at least 51% of the Shares issued to it under the SPA, the Company would be required to issue an additional 300,000 shares to Aracle, and the 12 month price adjustment period shall be extended to 36 months.
Concurrently with entering into the SPA, the Company and Aracle conducted an initial closing thereunder, in which Aracle purchased 9.5 Units for $475,000. The Company incurred certain expenses related to the SPA of approximately $88,000, which were paid from the proceeds.
On April 16, 2014, the Company, Aracle and a second institutional investor (both companies referred to as "Investors"), entered into certain Securities Purchase Agreements ("SPA") pursuant to which the Investors purchased 2.5 Units for $125,000. The Company incurred certain expenses related to the SPA of approximately $7,000, which were paid from the proceeds of this closing. The Company incurred additional expense of approximately $45,000, paid subsequent to the two closings.
Warrants to purchase up to 150,000 shares of common stock at $2.50 per share were issued related to this Securities Purchase Agreement. The Company issued 122,415 shares of common stock related to the cashless exercise of the warrants during 2015. There are no warrants remaining related to the SPA signed with Aracle.
On January 8, 2015, the Company completed a Securities offering with 18 individuals who collectively have purchased a total of 200,000 shares of Preferred Stock from the Company for a total purchase price of $2,000,000. The Company netted approximately $1,960,000, with approximately $1,000,000 to be used as working capital and the remaining $1,000,000 for marketing, acquisitions, expansion and to further the operations of the Company. Each share of Preferred Stock is initially convertible, at the election of the holder, into 5 shares of the Company's Common Stock.
In addition dividends were payable in kind at the Company's option at a rate of eight percent (8%) annually. Payments of annual dividends have not been declared by the Company's Board of Directors on the outstanding Series A shares because of losses sustained by the Company. See note 12 for additional preferred shares issued related to the Scribe acquisition. As of September 30, 2015, there were no preferred dividends in arrears as all Series A preferred shares and the accrued dividends have been converted into common stock.
During the year ended September 30, 2015, the Company issued 61,500 shares of common stock to employees or former directors of the Company who exercised their stock options. Approximately $194,000 was received related to the exercise of these options.
During the year ended September 30, 2015, a total of 5,055,673 shares of common stock were issued, however no cash was received for these issuances.
122,412 shares of common stock were issued related to several cashless warrant conversions.
120,192 shares of common stock were issued related to the acquisition of Agile.
34,402 shares of common stock were issued to the Board of Directors that were board members prior to January 1, 2015 for services provided prior to January 1, 2015. A portion of these were issued by the Company to settle approximately $69,000 of accrued board fees from December 31, 2014. These shares were valued at $258,000.
26,859 shares of common stock were issued to employees of the Company who exercised their stock options on a cashless basis.
Brio converted $632,500 of its outstanding loan into 316,250 shares of the Company's common stock. Based on the closing stock prices of $8.50, $1.30 and $7.80 per common share, the shares were valued at approximately $2,866,750.
840,000 shares of Series A preferred stock and the accumulated interest converted into 4,315,318 shares of common stock. As of September 30, 2015, there were no outstanding shares of preferred stock.
On July 22, 2015, the Company entered into an underwriting agreement (the "Underwriting Agreement") with Roth Capital Partners, LLC (the "Representative"), as the representative of the several underwriters identified therein (collectively, the "Underwriters"), pursuant to which the Company agreed to offer and sell up to 1,120,000 shares of the Company's common stock, no par value (the "Common Stock"), at a price of $7.00 per share. Under the terms of the Underwriting Agreement, the Company has granted the Representative an option, exercisable for 30 days, to purchase up to an additional 168,000 shares of Common Stock to cover over-allotments, if any.
The Company received net proceeds from this offering, after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and offering expenses payable by the Company of approximately $7.8 million and issued 1,246,000 common shares, this includes the Underwriters exercise of the over-allotment option.
The offering was made pursuant to the Company's effective registration statements on Form S-3 (File No. 333- 204080), as amended and supplemented filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC").
The Company also issued warrants (the "Underwriter's Warrant") to the Underwriters to purchase up to a total of 124,600 shares of Common Stock, at a price of $8.40 per common share and are exercisable for five years. The Underwriter's Warrant has a seven-year piggyback registration right with respect to shares of common stock underlying the Underwriter's Warrant from the date of the Underwriting Agreement.
Stock Options
The Company has recognized compensation expense in the amount of approximately $340,000 (excluding $189,000 of stock compensation for board shares issued) and $120,000 during the years ended September 30, 2015 and 2014, respectively.
Warrants
The weighted average exercise price of outstanding warrants was $4.54 at September 30, 2015, with expiration dates ranging from February 7, 2020 to April 1, 2025. |