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BIQI International Holdings (BIQIF) Risk Analysis

Public companies are required to disclose risks that can affect the business and impact the stock. These disclosures are known as “Risk Factors”. Companies disclose these risks in their yearly (Form 10-K), quarterly earnings (Form 10-Q), or “foreign private issuer” reports (Form 20-F). Risk factors show the challenges a company faces. Investors can consider the worst-case scenarios before making an investment. TipRanks’ Risk Analysis categorizes risks based on proprietary classification algorithms and machine learning. BIQI International Holdings disclosed 51 risk factors in its most recent earnings report. BIQI International Holdings reported the most risks in the “Finance & Corporate” category.

Risk Overview Q3, 2018

Source: the company's latest filing for the period ended Sep 30, 2018, filed Nov 28, 2018

Risk Distribution
51Risks
Sector Avg.Finance & CorporateTech & InnovationLegal & RegulatoryProductionAbility to SellMacro & Political
Finance & Corporate - Financial and accounting risks. Risks related to the execution of corporate activity and strategy

Risk Change Over Time

No filing history is available.

Risks removedRisks addedRisks changedBIQI International Holdings Risk Factors
  • Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 1
    We may suffer a change in control and our business could be significantly harmed if an owner of a significant number of our shares including our Chief Executive Officer or other significant employees pledge their common shares to secure loans and default in the payment of those loans.

    If our former Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Ping Wang, who owns approximately 30.53% of our outstanding common shares, or Ms. Li, our current Chief Financial Officer and director, who owns approximately 10.01% of our outstanding common shares, was to pledge his or her shares to secure the payment of a loan, and then default in the payment of that loan, the default could result in a sale of a substantial number of our common shares resulting in a decrease in the price of our shares and a change in control of our company.

  • Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 2
    If relations between the United States and China become an issue, deteriorate, our share price may decrease and we may have difficulty accessing U.S. capital markets.

    At various times during recent years, the United States and China have had disagreements over political, economic and other issues. Controversies may arise in the future between these two countries. Any political or trade controversies between the United States and China could adversely affect the market price of our common shares and our ability to access U.S. capital markets.

  • Corporate Activity and Growth - Risk 3
    We will incur significant costs as a result of operating as a public company, and our management will be is required to devote substantial time to new compliance requirements.

    As a public company we incur significant legal, accounting and other expenses under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, together with rules implemented by the Securities and Exchange Commission and applicable market regulators. These rules impose various requirements on public companies, including requiring certain corporate governance practices. Our management and other personnel devote a substantial amount of time to these compliance requirements. Moreover, these rules and regulations will increase our legal and financial compliance costs and make some activities more time-consuming and costly.

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Risk Highlights Q3, 2018

Main Risk Category
Finance & Corporate
With 22 Risks
Number of Disclosed Risks
51
No changes from last report
S&P 500 Average: 32
Recent Changes
0Risks added
0Risks removed
0Risks changed
Since Sep 2018
Number of Risk Changed
0
No changes from last report
S&P 500 Average: 1

Risk Word Cloud

the chinese government could change its policies toward private enterprise or even nationalize or expropriate private enterprises, which could result in the total loss of our investment in china.total loss of our investmentif our financial condition deteriorates, we may not meet continued listing standards of the nasdaq capital market and our shareholders could find it difficult to sell our shares.difficult to sell our shareswe may suffer a change in control and our business could be significantly harmed if an owner of a significant number of our shares including our chief executive officer or other significant employees pledge their common shares to secure loans and default in the payment of those loans.common shares to secure loansas part of our growth strategy, we have acquired assets within the prc. if any of our acquisitions are found not to comply with applicable laws or regulations, we might be required to make filings or submissions to prc regulators or amend the terms of such acquisitions to meet prc regulatory requirements.part of our growth strategyas the rights of shareholders under british virgin islands law differ from those under u.s. law, you may have fewer protections as a shareholder.british virgin islands law differpotential disruptions in the capital and credit markets may adversely affect our business, including the availability and cost of short-term funds for liquidity requirements, which could adversely affect our results of operations, cash flows and financial condition.cost of short-term fundsbritish virgin islands companies may not be able to initiate shareholder derivative actions, thereby depriving shareholders of the ability to protect their interests.to initiate shareholder derivative actionsour failure to obtain prior approval of the china securities regulatory commission ("csrc") of the listing and trading of our common shares on a foreign stock exchange could have a material adverse effect upon our business, operating results, reputation and trading price of our common shares.trading of our common shareswe may be unable to maintain our profitability in the face of a consolidating retail environment in the prc.unable to maintain our profitabilityif there are any interruptions to or a decline in the amount or quality of our breeding stock or feed components, our production or sales could be materially and adversely affected.quality of our breeding stock

Risk Factors Full Breakdown - Total Risks 51

Share Price & Shareholder Rights11 | 21.6%
  • Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 1
    Since our operations and assets are located in the PRC, shareholders may find it difficult to enforce a U.S. judgment against the assets of our company, our directors and executive officers.

    Our operations and assets are located in the PRC. In addition, most of our executive officers and directors are non-residents of the U.S., and substantially all the assets of such persons are located outside the U.S. As a result, it could be difficult for investors to affect service of process in the U.S., or to enforce a judgment obtained in the U.S. against us or any of these persons.

  • Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 2
    Our failure to obtain prior approval of the China Securities Regulatory Commission ("CSRC") of the listing and trading of our common shares on a foreign stock exchange could have a material adverse effect upon our business, operating results, reputation and trading price of our common shares.

    On August 8, 2006, six PRC regulatory agencies, including the Ministry of Commerce, the State Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, the State Administration of Taxation, the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, the CSRC and SAFE, jointly issued the Regulations on Mergers and Acquisitions of Domestic Enterprises by Foreign Investors (the "New M&A Rule"). The New M&A Rule became effective on September 8, 2006. This regulation contains provisions that purport to require that an offshore special purpose vehicle ("SPV") formed for listing purposes and controlled directly or indirectly by PRC companies or individuals shall obtain the approval of the CSRC prior to the listing and trading of such SPV's securities on an overseas stock exchange. On September 21, 2006, the CSRC published procedures specifying documents and materials required to be submitted to it by SPVs seeking CSRC approval of overseas listings. However, the application of the New M&A Rule remains unclear with no consensus currently existing among leading PRC law firms regarding the scope and applicability of the CSRC approval requirement. If prior CSRC approval for our structure and initial public offering was required, we may face regulatory actions or other sanctions from the CSRC or other PRC regulatory authorities. These authorities may impose fines and penalties upon our operations in the PRC, limit our operating privileges in the PRC, or take other actions that could have a material adverse effect upon our business, financial condition, results of operations, reputation and prospects, as well as the trading price of our common shares.

  • Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 3
    The market price for our common shares may be volatile, which could result in substantial losses to investors.

    The market price for our common shares may be volatile and subject to wide fluctuations in response to factors including the following: - actual or anticipated fluctuations in our quarterly operating results;- changes in the Chinese economy;- announcements by our competitors of acquisitions, strategic partnerships, joint ventures or capital commitments;- additions or departures of key personnel;- uncertainties about PRC companies generally; or - potential litigation. In addition, the securities markets have from time to time experienced price and volume fluctuations that are not related to the operating performance of particular companies. As a result, to the extent shareholders sell our shares, they may not receive a price per share that is based solely upon our business performance. We cannot guarantee that shareholders will not lose some of their entire investment in our common shares.

  • Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 4
    If our financial condition deteriorates, we may not meet continued listing standards of the NASDAQ Capital Market and our shareholders could find it difficult to sell our shares.

    Our common shares are listed on the NASDAQ Capital Market. The NASDAQ Capital Market requires companies to fulfill specific requirements in order for their shares to continue to be listed. If we fail to continue to meet NASDAQ's continued listing requirements and if our shares are delisted from the NASDAQ Capital Market at some later date, our shareholders could find it difficult to sell our shares.

  • Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 5
    If relations between the United States and China deteriorate, our share price may decrease and we may have difficulty accessing U.S. capital markets.

    At various times during recent years, the United States and China have had disagreements over political, economic and other issues. Controversies may arise in the future between these two countries. Any political or trade controversies between the United States and China could adversely affect the market price of our common shares and our ability to access U.S. capital markets.

  • Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 6
    Shares eligible for future sale may adversely affect the market price of our common shares, as the future sale of a substantial amount of outstanding common shares in the public marketplace could reduce the price of our common shares.

    The market price of our shares could decline as a result of sales of substantial amounts of our shares in the public market, or the perception that these sales could occur. In addition, these factors could make it more difficult for us to raise funds if required through future offerings of our common shares. As of March 27, 2018, we had outstanding an aggregate of 7,983,745 common shares, of those shares, 1,840,000 are restricted shares owned by non-affiliates that can be freely transferable or are tradable subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions without registration under the Securities Act, 3,638,750 are owned by our affiliates that may be sold in the future without registration under the Securities Act to the extent permitted by Rule 144 or other exemptions under the Securities Act. The shares held by our affiliates could also be sold in private transactions or transactions outside of the United States without the being reported in the United States.

  • Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 7
    Our former chief executive officer owns a significant percentage of our common shares, decreasing your influence on shareholder decisions.

    Mr. Ping Wang, our former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, beneficially owns approximately 30.53% of our outstanding common shares. In addition, our current Chief Financial Officer, Ms. Hanying Li, as well as one of our directors, owns approximately 10.01% of our outstanding common shares. As a result, Mr. Wang and Ms. Li possess substantial ability to impact our management and affairs and the outcome of matters submitted to shareholders for approval. These shareholders, acting individually or as a group, could exert control and substantial influence over matters such as electing directors and approving mergers or other business combination transactions. This concentration of ownership and voting power may discourage, delay or prevent a change in control of our company, which could deprive our shareholders of an opportunity to receive a premium for their shares as part of a sale of our company and might reduce the price of our common shares.

  • Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 8
    We may suffer a change in control and our business could be significantly harmed if an owner of a significant number of our shares including our Chief Executive Officer or other significant employees pledge their common shares to secure loans and default in the payment of those loans.

    If our former Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Ping Wang, who owns approximately 30.53% of our outstanding common shares, or Ms. Li, our current Chief Financial Officer and director, who owns approximately 10.01% of our outstanding common shares, was to pledge his or her shares to secure the payment of a loan, and then default in the payment of that loan, the default could result in a sale of a substantial number of our common shares resulting in a decrease in the price of our shares and a change in control of our company.

  • Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 9
    As the rights of shareholders under British Virgin Islands law differ from those under U.S. law, you may have fewer protections as a shareholder.

    Our corporate affairs will be governed by our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association, the British Virgin Islands Business Companies Act, 2004 (the "BVI Act"), and the common law of the British Virgin Islands. The rights of shareholders to take legal action against our directors, actions by minority shareholders and the fiduciary responsibilities of our directors under British Virgin Islands law are to a large extent governed by the common law of the British Virgin Islands and by the BVI Act. The rights of our shareholders and the fiduciary responsibilities of our directors under British Virgin Islands law are not as clearly established as they would be under statutes or judicial precedents in some jurisdictions in the United States. In particular, the British Virgin Islands has a less developed body of securities laws as compared to the United States. As a result of all of the above, holders of our shares may have more difficulty in protecting their interests through actions against our management, directors or major shareholders than they would as shareholders of a U.S. company.

  • Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 10
    British Virgin Islands companies may not be able to initiate shareholder derivative actions, thereby depriving shareholders of the ability to protect their interests.

    British Virgin Islands companies may not have standing to initiate a shareholder derivative action in a federal court of the United States. The circumstances in which any such action may be brought, and the procedures and defenses that may be available in respect to any such action, may result in the rights of shareholders of a British Virgin Islands company being more limited than those of shareholders of a company organized in the United States. Accordingly, shareholders may have fewer alternatives available to them if they believe that corporate wrongdoing has occurred. The British Virgin Islands courts are also unlikely to recognize or enforce against us judgments of courts in the United States based on certain liability provisions of U.S. securities law; and to impose liabilities against us, in original actions brought in the British Virgin Islands, based on certain liability provisions of U.S. securities laws that are penal in nature. There is no statutory recognition in the British Virgin Islands of judgments obtained in the United States, although the courts of the British Virgin Islands will generally recognize and enforce the non-penal judgment of a foreign court of competent jurisdiction without retrial on the merits. This means that even if shareholders were to sue us successfully, they may not be able to recover anything to make up for the losses suffered.

  • Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 11
    The laws of the British Virgin Islands provide little protection for minority shareholders, so minority shareholders will have little or no recourse if the shareholders are dissatisfied with the conduct of our affairs.

    Under the law of the British Virgin Islands, there is little statutory law for the protection of minority shareholders other than the provisions of the BVI Act dealing with shareholder remedies. The principal protection under statutory law is that shareholders may bring an action to enforce the constituent documents of the corporation, our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association. Shareholders are entitled to have the affairs of the company conducted in accordance with the general law and the articles and memorandum.

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How do companies disclose their risk factors?
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TipRanks has identified 6 major categories of risk factors and a number of subcategories for each. You can see how these categories are broken down in the list below. 1. Financial & Corporate Accounting & Financial Operations - risks related to accounting loss, value of intangible assets, financial statements, value of intangible assets, financial reporting, estimates, guidance, company profitability, dividends, fluctuating results. Share Price & Shareholder Rights – risks related to things that impact share prices and the rights of shareholders, including analyst ratings, major shareholder activity, trade volatility, liquidity of shares, anti-takeover provisions, international listing, dual listing. Debt & Financing – risks related to debt, funding, financing and interest rates, financial investments. Corporate Activity and Growth – risks related to restructuring, M&As, joint ventures, execution of corporate strategy, strategic alliances. 2. Legal & Regulatory Litigation and Legal Liabilities – risks related to litigation/ lawsuits against the company. Regulation – risks related to compliance, GDPR, and new legislation. Environmental / Social – risks related to environmental regulation and to data privacy. Taxation & Government Incentives – risks related to taxation and changes in government incentives. 3. Production Costs – risks related to costs of production including commodity prices, future contracts, inventory. Supply Chain – risks related to the company’s suppliers. Manufacturing – risks related to the company’s manufacturing process including product quality and product recalls. Human Capital – risks related to recruitment, training and retention of key employees, employee relationships & unions labor disputes, pension, and post retirement benefits, medical, health and welfare benefits, employee misconduct, employee litigation. 4. Technology & Innovation Innovation / R&D – risks related to innovation and new product development. Technology – risks related to the company’s reliance on technology. Cyber Security – risks related to securing the company’s digital assets and from cyber attacks. Trade Secrets & Patents – risks related to the company’s ability to protect its intellectual property and to infringement claims against the company as well as piracy and unlicensed copying. 5. Ability to Sell Demand – risks related to the demand of the company’s goods and services including seasonality, reliance on key customers. Competition – risks related to the company’s competition including substitutes. Sales & Marketing – risks related to sales, marketing, and distribution channels, pricing, and market penetration. Brand & Reputation – risks related to the company’s brand and reputation. 6. Macro & Political Economy & Political Environment – risks related to changes in economic and political conditions. Natural and Human Disruptions – risks related to catastrophes, floods, storms, terror, earthquakes, coronavirus pandemic/COVID-19. International Operations – risks related to the global nature of the company. Capital Markets – risks related to exchange rates and trade, cryptocurrency.