Stockholders’ Equity |
12 Months Ended |
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| Equity [Abstract] | |
| Stockholders’ Equity | Stockholders’ Equity Common Stock
On February 6, 2023, the Company’s board of directors approved a 1-for-10 reverse stock split of the Company’s outstanding shares of common stock. The reverse stock split was effected on February 10, 2023 at 5:00 p.m. Eastern time. At the effective time, every 10 issued and outstanding shares of the Company’s common stock were converted into one share of common stock. Any fractional shares of common stock resulting from the reverse stock split were rounded up to the nearest whole post-split share and no stockholders received cash in lieu of fractional shares. The par value of each share of common stock remained unchanged. The reverse stock split proportionately reduced the number of shares of authorized common stock from 400,000,000 to 40,000,000 shares. The reverse stock split also applied to common stock issuable upon the exercise of the Company’s then outstanding warrants and stock options. The reverse stock split did not affect the authorized preferred stock of 10,000,000 shares.
As of December 31, 2023, the total number of authorized shares of common stock was 190,000,000.
As of December 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, there were 35,247,744 and 31,918,552 shares of common stock outstanding, respectively.
During the year ended December 31, 2023, the Company issued 481,850 shares of common stock for services. Included in the issued shares were 400,000 shares of common stock valued at $1.0 million, or $2.47 per share, issued to the Company's lawyers and recorded as a prepaid retainer fee within Prepaid Expenses and Other Assets on the consolidated balance sheet. The prepaid fee is reduced as the Company incurs lawyer fees. As of December 31, 2023, the balance in the prepaid retainer fee account has been depleted.
Preferred Stock
The Company has 10,000,000 shares of preferred stock authorized with a par value of $0.001 per share. The board of directors is authorized, subject to any limitations prescribed by law, without further vote or action by our stockholders, to issue from time-to-time shares of preferred stock in one or more series. Each series of preferred stock will have such number of shares, designations, preferences, voting powers, qualifications and special or relative rights or privileges as shall be determined by the board of directors, which may include, among others, dividend rights, voting rights, liquidation preferences, conversion rights and preemptive rights.
In connection with the Company’s acquisition of Wow, certain eligible Canadian stockholders, noteholders and optionholders of Wow elected to receive the Exchangeable Shares in the capital of the Wow Exchange Co. Inc. (“ExchangeCo”) instead of shares of the Company’s common stock to which they were otherwise entitled.
The shares of ExchangeCo are exchangeable into shares of the Company’s common stock in accordance with their terms. Holders of the ExchangeCo shares are entitled to defined voting rights (the “Voting Rights”) in the Company pursuant to a voting and exchange trust agreement (the “Voting Agreement”) dated April 6, 2022 among the Company, ExchangeCo, 1329258 B.C. Ltd. and Computershare Trust Company of Canada (the “Voting Trustee”). The Voting Trustee holds a single share of Series B Preferred Stock in the capital of the Company (the “Special Voting Share”), which grants the Voting Trustee that number of votes at the meetings of the Company’s stockholders as is equal to the number of shares of the Company’s common stock that at such time have not been delivered pursuant to the tender of ExchangeCo shares. The Voting Trustee is required to exercise each vote attached to the Special Voting Share only as directed by the relevant holder of the underlying Company shares of common stock and, in the absence of any instructions, will not exercise voting rights with respect to the applicable shares.
On September 21, 2023, the Company’s board of directors declared a dividend of one one-thousandth of a share of Series C Preferred Stock, par value $0.001 per share (“Series C Preferred Stock”), for each outstanding share of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.001 per share to stockholders of record on October 2, 2023 (the “Record Date”). Each share of Series C Preferred Stock would entitle the holder thereof to 1,000,000 votes per share (and, for the avoidance of doubt, each fraction of a share of Series C Preferred Stock would have a ratable number of votes). Thus, each one-thousandth of a share of Series C Preferred Stock would entitle the holder thereof to 1,000 votes. The outstanding shares of Series C Preferred Stock would vote together with the outstanding shares of common stock as a single class exclusively with respect to the approval of the proposal (the “Share Increase Proposal”) to amend the Company’s Articles of Incorporation to increase the authorized shares of common stock from 40,000,000 shares to 190,000,000 shares with a corresponding increase in the total number of authorized shares of capital stock from 50,000,000 shares to 200,000,000 shares (the “Share Increase Amendment”) and any proposal to adjourn any meeting of stockholders called for the purpose of voting on the Share Increase Amendment (the “Adjournment Proposal” and together with the Share Increase Proposal, the “Proposals”). The Series C Preferred Stock would not be entitled to vote on any other matter, except to the extent required under Chapter 78 of the Nevada Revised Statues. The Company held a special meeting of stockholders on November 1, 2023 (the “Special Meeting”), at which both Proposals were approved by the stockholders.
All shares of Series C Preferred Stock that had not been duly voted by proxy prior to the opening of the Special Meeting were automatically redeemed in whole, but not in part, by the Company as of immediately prior to the opening of such meeting. Any outstanding shares of Series C Preferred Stock that had not been redeemed prior to the opening of the Special Meeting were redeemed in whole, but not in part, automatically upon the approval of the Share Increase Proposal by the stockholders. Each share of Series C Preferred Stock was redeemed in consideration for the right to receive an amount equal to $0.01 in cash for each ten whole shares of Series C Preferred Stock that had been held as of immediately prior to the applicable redemption. However, the redemption consideration in respect of the shares of Series C Preferred Stock (or fractions thereof) was only payable to such owners on the number of shares owned and redeemed pursuant to the redemptions rounded down to the nearest whole number that is a multiple of ten (such, that for example, an owner of 25 shares of Series C Preferred Stock redeemed was entitled to receive cash payment only on redemption of 20 shares of Series C Preferred Stock).
As of December 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, there were 0 shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock outstanding. As of December 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, there was 1 share of Series B Preferred Stock outstanding. As of December 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, there were 0 shares of Series C Preferred Stock outstanding.
Treasury Stock
During the years ended December 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, 32,840 and 699 shares of common stock with a cost of $48,845 and $4,807, respectively, were withheld to cover taxes owed by certain employees, all of which were included as treasury stock outstanding and recorded at cost within Treasury Stock on the consolidated balance sheets.
In addition, during 2022, the Company settled a lawsuit by agreeing to purchase 41,934 shares of its common stock held by the other party. The shares were purchased at the market price of $6.80 per share, plus a premium of $13.10 per share, for a total cost of $0.8 million. The market based cost of $0.3 million was recorded within Treasury Stock on the consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2022 and the cost in excess of market of $0.5 million was recorded as a legal expense within General and Administrative expenses on the Company’s consolidated statement of operations.
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