The market price of our common stock has fluctuated, and may continue to fluctuate, widely, due to many factors, some of which may be beyond our control. These factors include, without limitation:
- "short squeezes";- comments by securities analysts or other third parties, including blogs, articles, message boards and social and other media;- large stockholders exiting their position in our securities or an increase or decrease in the short interest in our securities;- actual or anticipated fluctuations in our financial and operating results;- changes in foreign currency exchange rates;- the commencement, enrollment or results of our planned or future clinical trials of our product candidates or those of our competitors;- the success of competitive drugs or therapies;- regulatory or legal developments in the United States and other countries;- the success of competitive products or technologies;- developments or disputes concerning patent applications, issued patents or other proprietary rights;- the recruitment or departure of key personnel;- the level of expenses related to our product candidates or clinical development programs;- litigation matters, including amounts which may or may not be recoverable pursuant to our officer and director insurance policies, regulatory actions affecting us and the outcome thereof;- the results of our efforts to discover, develop, acquire or in-license additional product candidates;- actual or anticipated changes in estimates as to financial results, development timelines or recommendations by securities analysts;- disputes or other developments relating to proprietary rights, including patents, litigation matters and our ability to obtain patent protection for our technologies;- significant lawsuits, including patent or stockholder litigation;- variations in our financial results or those of companies that are perceived to be similar to us;- market conditions in our market sector;- general economic, political, and market conditions and overall fluctuations in the financial markets in the United States and abroad; and - investors' general perception of us and our business.
Stock markets in general and our stock price in particular have recently experienced extreme price and volume fluctuations that have often been unrelated or disproportionate to the operating performance of those companies and our company. For example, the closing sale prices of our Common Stock from January 1, 2025 through August 10, 2025, ranged from a high of $1.53 per share (on January 7, 2025) to a low of $0.53 per share (on August 7, 2025). During that time, we have not experienced any material changes in our financial condition or results of operations that would explain such price volatility or trading volume; however, we have sold equity which was dilutive to existing stockholders. These broad market fluctuations may adversely affect the trading price of our securities. Additionally, these and other external factors have caused and may continue to cause the market price and demand for our common stock to fluctuate substantially, which may limit or prevent our stockholders from readily selling their shares of our common stock and may otherwise negatively affect the liquidity of our common stock.
In addition, if the stock price of our common stock continues to trade at its current level, it may imply as a negative indicator of the valuation of our intangible assets and our goodwill, which could result in an impairment for these assets.