Note 8 – Stockholders’ Equity



Preferred Stock



The Company has 5,000,000 shares designated as Class A Preferred Stock with a par value of $.01 per share. There are 1,040,000 shares of Class A Preferred Stock - Series 1 authorized; 1,500,000 shares of Class A Preferred Stock- Series 2 authorized; 700,000 shares of Class A Preferred Stock - Series 3 authorized; and 548,000 shares of Class A Preferred Stock- Series 4 (the “Series 4 Preferred Stock”) authorized. In connection with the completion of the APP Acquisition (see Note 2), a total of 546,756 shares of Series 4 Preferred Stock were issued to the former APP stockholders as of October 31, 2016, and all of the outstanding shares of Series 4 Preferred automatically converted into shares of the Company’s common stock effective July 31, 2017.  There were no shares of Class A Preferred Stock of any series issued and outstanding at September 30, 2018 or September 30, 2017.  The Company has 15,000 shares designated as Class B Preferred Stock with a par value of $0.50 per share. There were no shares of Class B Preferred Stock issued and outstanding at September 30, 2018 or September 30, 2017.



Common Stock



We are authorized to issue up to 77,000,000 shares of common stock, $0.01 par value per share. On July 28, 2017, the Company held a special meeting at which the Company’s stockholders approved, among other proposals, an increase in the number of authorized shares of common stock from 38,500,000 to 77,000,000 shares. Holders are entitled to one vote for each share of common stock.



Common Stock Purchase Warrants



In connection with the closing of the APP Acquisition, the Company issued a warrant to purchase up to 2,585,379 shares of the Company's common stock to Torreya Capital, the Company's financial advisor (the “Financial Advisor Warrant”).  The Financial Advisor Warrant has a five-year term, a cashless exercise feature and a strike price equal to $1.93 per share, the average price of the Company's common stock for the ten-day period preceding the original announcement of the APP Acquisition on April 6, 2016. The fair value of the Financial Advisor Warrant of $542,930 was estimated at the October 31, 2016 date of grant using the Black-Scholes option pricing model assuming expected volatility of 47.2%, a risk-free interest rate of 1.31%, an expected life of five years, no dividend yield, and the closing price of the Company's common stock on October 31, 2016 of $0.95. The Financial Advisor Warrant vested upon issuance. Half of the shares subject to the Financial Advisor Warrant, or 1,292,690 shares, were locked-up for a period of 18 months from the issuance date. The Financial Advisor Warrant was recorded as a component of additional paid-in-capital and the related expense is included in business acquisition expenses in the accompanying consolidated statement of operations for the year ended September 30, 2017.



In May 2018, the Company issued two warrants to purchase a total of up to 750,000 shares of the Company's common stock in connection with a services agreement. The first warrant allows the service organization to purchase up to 300,000 shares of the Company’s common stock at $2.31 per share subject to achievement of specified performance goals that will be measured at March 31, 2019. The second warrant allows the service organization to purchase up to 450,000 shares of the Company’s common stock at $2.31 per share subject to achievement of specified performance goals that will be measured at March 31, 2020. The warrants provide for early exercisability if certain events occur related to the Company’s FC2 business. If the warrants become exercisable, they will expire to the extent not exercised on or before April 2, 2023.  The warrants have a cashless exercise feature. If the performance goals defined in the warrant agreements are not achieved, the warrants will be forfeited. For measurement and recognition purposes, the Company utilized the lowest aggregate amount within the range of potential values, which was zero. Therefore, at September 30, 2018, the Company has determined the fair value of these warrants to be zero and has not recognized any expense related to these warrants for the year ended September 30, 2018.



Aspire Capital Purchase Agreement    



On December 29, 2017, the Company entered into a common stock purchase agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) with Aspire Capital Fund, LLC (“Aspire Capital”) which provides that, upon the terms and subject to the conditions and limitations set forth therein, the Company has the right, from time to time in its sole discretion during the 36-month term of the Purchase Agreement, to direct Aspire Capital to purchase up to $15.0 million of the Company’s common stock in the aggregate.  Concurrently with entering into the Purchase Agreement, the Company also entered into a registration rights agreement with Aspire Capital (the “Registration Rights Agreement”), in which the Company agreed to prepare and file under the Securities Act of 1933 and under its current registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-221120), a prospectus supplement for the sale or potential sale of the shares of the Company’s common stock that have been and may be issued to Aspire Capital under the Purchase Agreement.



Under the Purchase Agreement, on any trading day selected by the Company, the Company has the right, in its sole discretion, to present Aspire Capital with a purchase notice (each, a “Purchase Notice”), directing Aspire Capital (as principal) to purchase up to 200,000 shares of the Company’s common stock per business day, at a per share price (the "Purchase Price") equal to the lesser of the lowest sale price of the Company’s common stock on the purchase date or the average of the three lowest closing sale prices for the Company’s common stock during the ten consecutive trading days ending on the trading day immediately preceding the purchase date.



In addition, on any date on which the Company submits a Purchase Notice to Aspire Capital in an amount equal to 200,000 shares and the closing sale price of our common stock is equal to or greater than $0.50 per share, the Company also has the right, in its sole discretion, to present Aspire Capital with a volume-weighted average price purchase notice (each, a “VWAP Purchase Notice”) directing Aspire Capital to purchase an amount of common stock up to 30% of the aggregate shares of the common stock traded on its principal market on the next trading day (the VWAP Purchase Date), subject to a maximum number of shares the Company may determine.  The purchase price per share pursuant to such VWAP Purchase Notice is generally 97% of the volume-weighted average price for the Company’s common stock traded on its principal market on the VWAP Purchase Date.



In consideration for entering into the Purchase Agreement, concurrently with the execution of the Purchase Agreement, the Company issued to Aspire Capital 304,457 shares of the Company’s common stock. The shares of common stock issued as consideration were valued at approximately $347,000. This amount and related expenses of approximately $78,000, which total approximately $425,000, were recorded as deferred costs.



During fiscal 2018, we sold an aggregate of 1,717,010 shares of common stock to Aspire Capital under the Purchase Agreement resulting in proceeds to the Company of $3.0 million. As a result of these sales, we recorded approximately $85,000 of the deferred costs noted above to additional paid-in capital. The unamortized amount of deferred costs of approximately $340,000 is included in other assets on the accompanying consolidated balance sheet at September 30, 2018. As of September 30, 2018, the amount remaining under the Purchase Agreement was $12 million. However, based on the current market price of the Company’s common stock and the number of shares of the Company’s common stock that are unreserved and available for issuance, the Company will need to seek stockholder approval to amend its Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation to increase the number of authorized shares of common stock to use the full remaining availability under the Purchase Agreement.



Common Stock Offering    



On October 1, 2018, we completed an underwritten public offering of 7,142,857 shares of the common stock, at a public offering price of $1.40 per share, resulting in gross proceeds of $10.0 million. We also granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase additional shares of common stock in an amount not to exceed 1,071,428 shares. The underwriters did not exercise this option. Net proceeds to the Company from this offering were $9.2 million after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and expenses payable by the Company. All of the shares sold in the offering were sold by the Company.  The offering was made pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement.