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Kid Castle Educational (KDCE) 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. Kid Castle Educational disclosed 52 risk factors in its most recent earnings report. Kid Castle Educational reported the most risks in the “Finance & Corporate” category.

Risk Overview Q3, 2022

Source: the company's latest filing for the period ended Sep 30, 2022, filed Nov 21, 2022

Risk Distribution
52Risks
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

Kid Castle Educational disclosed risks per quarterNo. of Risks52Q3Showing: Q3, 2022
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Risk Changed (1)
  • Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 1
    We are a specialty pharmaceutical company with a limited operating history, and it is difficult for potential investors to evaluate our business.

    We are a specialty pharmaceutical company founded in May 2014 and have not commenced revenue-producing operations. To date, our operations have consisted of the preliminary formulation, testing and search for initial product candidates. Our limited operating history makes it difficult for potential investors to evaluate our prospective operations. As an early stage company, we are subject to all the risks inherent in the initial organization, financing, expenditures, complications and delays in a new business. Further, biopharmaceutical product development is a highly speculative undertaking, involves a substantial degree of risk, and is a capital-intensive business. Accordingly, you should consider our prospects in light of the costs, uncertainties, delays and difficulties frequently encountered by companies in the early stages of development, especially clinical-stage biopharmaceutical companies such as ours.  Potential investors should carefully consider the risks and uncertainties that a company with a limited operating history will face. In particular, potential investors should consider that we may be unable to: -          successfully implement or execute our current business plan, or develop a business plan that is sound;-          successfully start and complete clinical trials and obtain regulatory approval for the marketing of product candidates (we currently do not have any product candidate);-          successfully contract for the manufacture of a clinical drug products and establish a commercial drug supply;-          secure market exclusivity or adequate intellectual property protection for a product candidates;-          attract and retain an experienced management and advisory team; or -          raise sufficient funds in the capital markets to effectuate our business plan, including clinical development, regulatory approval and commercialization for a product candidates (we currently do not have any product candidate).

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Risk Highlights Q3, 2022

Main Risk Category
Finance & Corporate
With 42 Risks
Number of Disclosed Risks
52
No changes from last report
S&P 500 Average: 32
Recent Changes
0Risks added
0Risks removed
0Risks changed
Since Sep 2022
Number of Risk Changed
0
No changes from last report
S&P 500 Average: 1

Risk Word Cloud

the requirements of being a public company may strain our resources, divert management's attention and affect our ability to attract and retain qualified board members.retain qualified board membersour ability to succeed depends on our ability to grow our business and achieve profitability.our ability to succeed dependswe will need but may be unable to obtain additional funding on satisfactory terms, which could dilute our shareholders or impose burdensome financial restrictions on our business.unable to obtain additional fundingacquisitions we pursue in our industry and related industries could result in operating difficulties, dilution to our stockholders and other consequences harmful to our business.consequences harmful to our businesswe have limited operating history on which to judge our business prospects and management.to judge our business prospectsthe application of rule 144 creates some investment risk to potential investors; for example, existing shareholders may be able to rely on rule 144 to sell some of their holdings, driving down the price of the shares you purchased.investment risk to potential investorswe may not be able to manage our growth effectively.to manage our growth effectivelywe may not be able to carry out our proposed plan of operations.our proposed plan of operationsthe requirements of being a public company may strain our resources, divert management's attention and affect our ability to attract and retain qualified board members.affect our ability to attractbecause we do not currently have an audit committee, compensation committee or any other form of corporate governance committee, shareholders will have to rely on our directors, none of whom is independent, to perform these functions.form of corporate governance committee

Risk Factors Full Breakdown - Total Risks 52

Share Price & Shareholder Rights14 | 26.9%
  • Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 1
    Our inability to timely submit registration package to the Delaware Secretary of State until in 2019 presents a risk that any liabilities that may have accrued, including any material agreements may be unenforceable, as a result of the failure to properly register with the State of Delaware until in 2019.

    The Company used to be a Florida corporation until March 22, 2011 when it voluntarily dissolved its Florida registration with intention to simultaneously incorporate in Delaware and convert into a Delaware corporation. Although the company immediately finalized its registration effort to convert into a Delaware Corporation, the company's registered agent who was supposed to submit the registration package to the Delaware Secretary of State for certification, failed to make a timely submission. Later in January 2019, when the company realized that the Delaware incorporation/registration package/process was never submitted to the Delaware Secretary of State nor completed in any other way or form, the Company went ahead and resubmitted the required registration package and was then formally re-incorporated in Delaware and convert into a Delaware corporation. The re-incorporation in Delaware, which occurred in January 2019, has placed at risk, voidable and unenforceable, all and any liabilities that may have accrued, including any material agreements the Company may have executed during the period between March 22, 2011 and January 2019. To the best of our knowledge, no such liabilities that were accrued and no material agreement were entered into by the company during the period between March 22, 2011 and January 2019. In addition, there could be penalties or legal liabilities that may have accrued as a result of conducting business from 2011 to 2019 without properly registering with any State. To the best of our knowledge, as at September 7, 2020, no such penalties or liabilities has accrued to the company accrued as a result of conducting business from 2011 to 2019 without properly registering with any State. However, there is no guarantee that such penalties or liabilities would not accrue or arise in the future.

  • Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 2
    We have limited knowledge about the circumstances surrounding the filing of the Form 15 by the Company in 2010. We are not aware of any reason that made the previous management of the company to file the Form 15 with the SEC.

    Because we took control of the Company on October 21, 2019, we have limited knowledge of events that took place prior to October 21, 2019, which was the date that we formally took control of the management of the Company, we relied on information supplied to us by the previous management of the Company and we also relied on their filings with the SEC as shown on the SEC website. Thus, we knew that the Company filed with the SEC to the suspension of your duty to file SEC reports after March 29, 2010. We are not aware of the circumstances that led to the decision of the previous management of the Company to seek to stop reporting. We just knew that the steps taken by the Company was not unusual since several other small reporting companies seems to also take that route when reporting obligation has gotten burdensome to them that the cost / benefit analysis was no longer favorable to those companies. Our knowledge and understanding of the events that were contained in the Company's SCHEDULE 13E-3 filing on June 18, 2009 was totally based on the filings themselves which is listed on the SEC website. We do not have any additional information on that matter or any other occurrence in the Company prior to the filing of the FORM 15-15D. We only obtained information from the Company previous managers concerning the Company's failure to re-incorporate in Delaware after termination of their Florida registration. We were satisfied with their explanation that it was oversight and not deliberate. We were also satisfied that the Company has been incorporated in Delaware by January of 2019. Based on the foregoing, investing in the Company may carry additional risk of the unknown or whatever might has occurred in the Company prior to October 21, 2019, which was not reported alongside the Company's filings shown on the SEC website, which is our primary source of information about the Company's activities prior to October 21, 2019.

  • Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 3
    Raising additional capital by issuing additional securities may cause dilution to our current and future shareholders.

    We will need to, or desire to, raise substantial additional capital in the future. Our future capital requirements will depend on many factors, including, among others: - Our degree of success in selling our medical products and related services;   - The costs of establishing or acquiring sales, and marketing for our services;   - The extent to which we acquire or invest in businesses, products, or technologies, and other strategic relationships; and   - The costs of financing unanticipated working capital requirements and responding to competitive pressures. If we raise additional funds by issuing equity or convertible debt securities, we will reduce the percentage of ownership of the then-existing shareholders, and the holders of those newly-issued equity or convertible debt securities may have rights, preferences, or privileges senior to those possessed by our then-existing shareholders. Additionally, future sales of a substantial number of shares of our Common Stock, or other equity-related securities in the public market could depress the market price of our Common Stock and impair our ability to raise capital through the sale of additional equity or equity-linked securities. We cannot predict the effect that future sales of our Common Stock, or other equity-related securities would have on the market price of our Common Stock at any given time.

  • Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 4
    Because we do not currently have an audit committee, compensation committee or any other form of corporate governance committee, shareholders will have to rely on our directors, none of whom is independent, to perform these functions.

    We do not have an audit committee, compensation committee or any form of corporate governance committees comprised of an independent director. The Board performs these functions as a whole and no members of the Board are an independent director. Our Board has recently passed a resolution and is in the process of establishing certain committees, including an audit and compliance committee, a finance committee, a hiring and compensation committee and an executive committee, and plans to implement additional corporate governance controls. However, until such committees and controls are formally established, there is a significant risk that certain members of the Board of Directors, executive management and/or our controlling shareholder could thwart such plans and prevent such committees and controls from being implemented. Thus, there is a potential conflict in that board members who are also part of management will participate in discussions concerning management compensation and audit issues that may affect management decisions.

  • Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 5
    General securities investment risks.

    All investments in securities involve the risk of loss of capital. No guarantee or representation is made that an investor will receive a return of its capital. The value of our Common Stock can be adversely affected by a variety of factors, including development problems, regulatory issues, technical issues, commercial challenges, competition, legislation, government intervention, industry developments and trends, and general business and economic conditions.

  • Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 6
    A sale of a substantial number of shares of the Common Stock may cause the price of our Common Stock to decline.

    If our stockholders sell, or the market perceives that our stockholders intend to sell for various reasons, substantial amounts of our Common Stock in the public market, including shares issued in connection with the exercise of outstanding options or warrants, the market price of our Common Stock could fall. Sales of a substantial number of shares of our Common Stock may make it more difficult for us to sell equity or equity-related securities in the future at a time and price that we deem reasonable or appropriate. We may become involved in securities class action litigation that could divert management's attention and harm our business. The stock markets have from time to time experienced significant price and volume fluctuations that have affected the market prices for the Common Stock of pharmaceutical companies. These broad market fluctuations may cause the market price of our Common Stock to decline. In the past, securities class action litigation has often been brought against a company following a decline in the market price of a company's securities. We may become involved in this type of litigation in the future. Litigation often is expensive and diverts management's attention and resources, which could adversely affect our business.

  • Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 7
    Directors, executive officers, principal stockholders and affiliated entities own a significant percentage of our capital stock, and they may make decisions that you do not consider to be in your best interests or those of our other stockholders.

    As of the date of this Filing, our directors, executive officers and principal stockholders beneficially owned, in the aggregate, substantially all of our outstanding voting securities. As a result, if some or all of them acted together, they would have the ability to exert significant influence over the election of our board of directors and the outcome of issues requiring approval by our stockholders. This concentration of ownership may also have the effect of delaying or preventing a change in control of our company that may be favored by other stockholders. This could prevent transactions in which stockholders might otherwise recover a premium for their shares over current market prices.

  • Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 8
    Our bylaws provide for indemnification of officers and directors at our expense and limits their liability, which may result in a major cost to us and hurt the interests of our stockholders because corporate resources may be expended for the benefit of our officers and/or directors.

    Our Bylaws and applicable California law provide for the indemnification of our directors, officers, employees, and agents, under certain circumstances, against attorney's fees and other expenses incurred by them in any litigation to which they become a party arising from their association with or activities on our behalf. We will also bear the expenses of such litigation for any of our directors, officers, employees, or agents, upon such person's promise to repay us, therefore if it is ultimately determined that any such person shall not have been entitled to indemnification. This indemnification policy could result in substantial expenditures by us, which we will be unable to recover. Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of our Company pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, we have been advised that in the opinion of the SEC such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by us of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer, or controlling person of our Company in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question of whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

  • Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 9
    Our Common Stock may be traded on a closed trading system with limited volume and liquidity.

    Our Common Stock may not be freely quoted for trading on any stock exchange or through any other traditional trading platform. Our Common Stock may be issued, available for purchase and may be traded exclusively on a specific trading system that is registered with the SEC as an alternative trading system (an "ATS"). We do not currently have any plans to trade our Common Stock on a specific ATS. Any disruption to the operations of an ATS or a broker-dealer's customer interface with an ATS would materially disrupt trading in, or potentially result in a complete halt in the trading of, our Common Stock. Because our Common Stock may be traded exclusively on a closed trading system, it is a possibility that there will be a limited number of holders of our Common Stock. In addition, an ATS is likely to experience limited trading volume with a relatively small number of securities trading on the ATS platform as compared to securities trading on traditional securities exchanges or trading platforms. As a result, this novel trading system may have limited liquidity, resulting in a lower or higher price or greater volatility than would be the case with greater liquidity. You may not be able to resell your Common Stock s on a timely basis or at all.

  • Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 10
    The number of securities traded on an ATS may be very small, making the market price more easily manipulated.

    While we understand that many ATS platforms have adopted policies and procedures such that security holders are not free to manipulate the trading price of securities contrary to applicable law, and while the risk of market manipulation exists in connection with the trading of any securities, the risk may be greater for our Common Stock because the ATS we choose may be a closed system that does not have the same breadth of market and liquidity as the national market system. There can be no assurance that the efforts by an ATS to prevent such behavior will be sufficient to prevent such market manipulation.

  • Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 11
    An ATS is not a stock exchange and has limited quoting requirements for issuers or for the securities traded.

    Unlike the more expansive listing requirements, policies and procedures of the Nasdaq Global Market and other trading platforms, there are no minimum price requirements and limited listing requirements for securities to be traded on an ATS. As a result, trades of our Common Stock on an ATS may not be at prices that represent the national best bid or offer prices of securities that could be considered similar securities.

  • Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 12
    If securities industry analysts do not publish research reports on us, or publish unfavorable reports on us, then the market price and market trading volume of our Common Stock could be negatively affected.

    Any trading market for our Common Stock will be influenced in part by any research reports that securities industry analysts publish about us. We do not currently have and may never obtain research coverage by securities industry analysts. If no securities industry analysts commence coverage of us, the market price and market trading volume of our Common Stock could be negatively affected. In the event we are covered by analysts, and one or more of such analysts downgrade our securities, or otherwise reports on us unfavorably, or discontinues coverage or us, the market price and market trading volume of our Common Stock could be negatively affected.

  • Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 13
    There currently is only a minimal public market for our common stock. Failure to develop or maintain a trading market could negatively affect the value of our common stock and make it difficult or impossible for you to sell your shares.

    There currently is only a minimal public market for shares of our common stock and an active market may never develop. Our common stock is quoted on the OTC expert market operated by the OTC Market's Group, Inc. under the symbol "KDCE". We may not ever be able to satisfy the listing requirements for our common stock to be listed on any stock exchange, including the trading platforms of the NASDAQ Stock Market which are often more widely-traded and liquid markets. Some, but not all, of the factors which may delay or prevent the listing of our common stock on a more widely-traded and liquid market include the following: our stockholders' equity may be insufficient; the market value of our outstanding securities may be too low; our net income from operations may be too low; our common stock may not be sufficiently widely held; we may not be able to secure market makers for our common stock; and we may fail to meet the rules and requirements mandated by, any of the several exchanges and markets to have our common stock listed.

  • Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 14
    The market price for our common stock is particularly volatile given our status as a relatively unknown company with a small and thinly traded public float, limited operating history and lack of profits which could lead to wide fluctuations in our share price. You may be unable to sell your common stock at or above your conversion price, which may result in substantial losses to you.

    The market for our common stock is characterized by significant price volatility when compared to seasoned issuers, and we expect that our share price will continue to be more volatile than a seasoned issuer for the indefinite future. The volatility in our share price is attributable to a number of factors. First, as noted above, our common stock are sporadically and thinly traded. As a consequence of this lack of liquidity, the trading of relatively small quantities of shares by our shareholders may disproportionately influence the price of those shares in either direction. The price for our shares could, for example, decline precipitously in the event that a large number of our common stock are sold on the market without commensurate demand, as compared to a seasoned issuer which could better absorb those sales without adverse impact on its share price. Secondly, we are a speculative or "risky" investment due to our limited operating history and lack of profits to date, and uncertainty of future market acceptance for our potential products and services. As a consequence of this enhanced risk, more risk-adverse investors may, under the fear of losing all or most of their investment in the event of negative news or lack of progress, be more inclined to sell their shares on the market more quickly and at greater discounts than would be the case with the stock of a seasoned issuer. Many of these factors are beyond our control and may decrease the market price of our common stock, regardless of our operating performance. We cannot make any predictions or projections as to what the prevailing market price for our common stock will be at any time, including as to whether our common stock will sustain their current market prices, or as to what effect that the sale of shares or the availability of common stock for sale at any time will have on the prevailing market price.

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