Quarterly report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

Stockholders' Equity

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Stockholders' Equity
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2021
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Stockholders' Equity
7. Stockholders’ Equity

 

2021 Public Offering

 

On February 23, 2021, the Company completed a public offering of 2,127,660 shares of its common stock, composed of 1,850,140 shares of common stock initially offered at a public offering price of $23.50 per share and an additional 277,520 shares of common stock sold pursuant to the exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares at the price of $22.09 per share.

 

Net proceeds from the offering totaled approximately $46.8 million after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions, and other offering expenses paid by the Company.

 

The underwriting agreement contains representations, warranties, agreements and indemnification obligations by the Company that are customary for this type of transaction.

 

Issuance of Common Stock in Lieu of Cash Payments

 

Under the terms of the Amended and Restated Non-Employee Director Compensation Plan, each compensated non-employee member of the Company’s Board of Directors may elect to receive all or part of his or her director fees in shares of the Company’s common stock. Director fees, whether paid in cash or in shares of common stock, are payable quarterly on the last day of each fiscal quarter. The number of shares of common stock issued to directors is determined by dividing the product of: (i)(a) the fees otherwise payable to each director in cash, times (b) the percentage of fees the director elected to receive in shares of common stock, by (ii) the volume weighted average price per share of common stock over the last five trading days of the quarter. During the three months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020, 2,009 shares and 9,731 shares, respectively, were issued to directors as payment for director fees amounting to $0.04 million in each of the three-month periods ended March 31, 2021 and 2020.

 

Stock Incentive Plans

 

The Company has various share-based compensation plans and share-based compensatory contracts (collectively, the “Plans”) under which it has granted share-based awards, such as stock grants, and incentive and non-qualified stock options, to employees, directors, consultants and advisors. Awards may be subject to a vesting schedule as set forth in individual award agreements. Certain of the Plans also have provided for cash-based performance bonus awards.

 

From October 2017 until June 2020, the Company granted share-based awards under the Company’s Second Amended and Restated 2013 Incentive Compensation Plan (the “Second Amended Plan”). On June 2, 2020, the Company’s stockholders approved the Company’s Third Amended and Restated 2013 Incentive Compensation Plan (the “Third Amended Plan” and, together with the Second Amended Plan, the “2013 Plan”), under which 1.0 million shares of the Company’s common stock were made available for future issuances under the 2013 Plan, resulting in a total of 2,956,250 shares of the Company’s common stock being reserved for issuance under the 2013 Plan. Of this amount, stock grants of 681,192 shares have been awarded and option grants, net of options terminated, expired or forfeited, of 1,269,947 shares were outstanding as of March 31, 2021. Accordingly, 1,005,111 shares remained available for grants under the 2013 Plan as of that date.

 

Stock option activity under all of the Company’s Plans during the three months ended March 31, 2021 is summarized below:

 

    Shares     Weighted-
average
Exercise
price per
share
    Intrinsic
Value
(1)
(in thousands)
 
Outstanding at January 1, 2021     1,806,092     $ 7.12     $ 20,760  
Exercised     (416,900 )     2.60          
Outstanding at March 31, 2021     1,389,192     $ 8.46     $ 21,516  

  

  (1) Intrinsic value is calculated as the estimated fair value of the Company’s stock at the end of the related period less the option exercise price of in-the-money options.

 

As of March 31, 2021, there was unrecognized compensation expense of approximately $1.8 million related to outstanding stock options and shares of restricted stock, which is expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of 2.16 years.

 

Warrants

 

Warrants have generally been issued in connection with financing transactions and for terms of up to five years. Common stock warrant activity for the three months ended March 31, 2021 was as follows:

 

    Shares     Weighted-
average
Exercise
price per
share
    Intrinsic
Value
(1)
(in thousands)
 
Outstanding at January 1, 2021     3,082,987     $ 3.82     $ 37,379  
Exercised     (1,150,647 )     2.31          
Outstanding at March 31, 2021     1,932,340     $ 4.72     $ 31,778  

 

  (1) Intrinsic value is calculated as the estimated fair value of the Company’s stock at the end of the related period less the option exercise price of in-the-money options.