Rafina Innovations (VICA) Risk Analysis
Risk Overview Q3, 2018
Risk Change Over Time
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- Sales & Marketing - Risk 1We While we have entered into agreements with a handful of licensing partners, we have not yet found commercial partners for our introduced commercial, saleable products into the market, and may never have saleable products.
We have only recently entered into preliminary licensing agreements with commercial partners with a goal of bringing commercial products to market. As yet we have not introduced any commercial products with these partners. Further, many of our products require additional research and development. We will also need to develop a market for our products if our commercial partners do not have an established marketing channel. There can be no assurance that we will successfully find commercial partners, market our products or complete our research and development of new products.
Risk Highlights Q3, 2018
Risk Word Cloud
Risk Factors Full Breakdown - Total Risks 33
- Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 1We are an "emerging growth company," and the reduced disclosure requirements applicable to emerging growth companies may make our common stock less attractive to investors.
We are an "emerging growth company," as defined in the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012, or the JOBS Act, and may remain an emerging growth company until December 31, 2018, provided that, if the market value of our common stock that is held by non-affiliates exceeds $700 million as of any June 30 before that time or if we have annual gross revenues of $1 billion or more in any fiscal year, we would cease to be an emerging growth company as of December 31 of the applicable year. We also would cease to be an emerging growth company if we issue more than $1 billion of non-convertible debt over a three-year period. For so long as we remain an emerging growth company, we are permitted and intend to rely on exemptions from certain disclosure requirements that are applicable to other public companies that are not emerging growth companies. These exemptions include: - providing only three years of audited financial statements, in addition to any required unaudited interim financial statements, with correspondingly reduced "Management's discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations" disclosure; - not being required to comply with the auditor attestation requirements in the assessment of our internal control over financial reporting; - not being required to comply with any requirement that may be adopted by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board regarding mandatory audit firm rotation or a supplement to the auditor's report providing additional information about the audit and the financial statements; - reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation; and - exemptions from the requirements of holding a nonbinding advisory vote on executive compensation and shareholder approval of any golden parachute payments not previously approved. We may choose to take advantage of some, but not all, of the available exemptions. We have taken advantage of reduced reporting burdens in this filing. In particular, in this filing, we have provided only two years of audited financial statements and have not included all of the executive compensation related information that would be required if we were not an emerging growth company. We cannot predict whether investors will find our common stock less attractive if we rely on these exemptions. If some investors find our common stock less attractive as a result, there may be a less active trading market for our common stock and our stock price may be more volatile. In addition, the JOBS Act also provides that an emerging growth company can take advantage of an extended transition period for complying with new or revised accounting standards. This allows an emerging growth company to delay the adoption of certain accounting standards until those standards would otherwise apply to private companies. We have elected to delay such adoption of new or revised accounting standards, and as a result, we may not comply with new or revised accounting standards on the relevant dates, on which adoption of such standards is required for public companies that are not emerging growth companies. As a result of such election, our financial statements may not be comparable to the financial statements of other public companies.
- Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 2Because we can issue additional shares of common stock, purchasers of our common stock may incur immediate dilution and may experience further dilution.
We are authorized to issue up to 700,000,000 shares of common stock, of which 256,133,852 shares are issued and outstanding as of May 15, 2018. Our board of directors has the authority to cause us to issue additional shares of common stock, and to determine the rights, preferences and privileges of such shares, without consent of any of our stockholders. Consequently, the stockholders may experience more dilution in their ownership of our stock in the future.
- Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 3Because we can issue shares of preferred stock which will have certain voting rights, which, if voted collectively, could result in a control of any matters put before the Company's stockholders, the shareholders of our common stock will suffer substantial dilution if issued or converted.
We have the right to issue a total of 5,000,000 shares of Series A Preferred Stock. Except with respect to matters which adversely affect the holders of Series A Preferred Stock, as required by law, or as required by the Articles of Incorporation, the holders of Series A Preferred and the holders of Common Stock shall be entitled to notice of any stockholders' meeting and to vote as a single class upon any matter submitted to the stockholders for a vote, on the following basis: (a) holders of Common Stock shall have one vote per share of Common Stock held by them; and (b) holders of Series A Preferred Stock shall have 50 votes per share of Series A Preferred Stock held by them. Holders of the Series A Preferred Stock have voting rights with respect to matters that generally require the approval of voting stockholders, in addition to voting rights as specifically required by Nevada law. In the event the holders of Series A Preferred Stock vote collectively as to any matter put before a vote, such holders of Series A Preferred Stock could control the vote. While the holders of Series A Preferred Stock have not advised that they intend to vote collectively on any matter, nor are we aware of any voting agreements currently in place, we cannot know with certainty that such holders of Series A Preferred Stock will not vote collectively in the future or enter into any voting agreements. Further, the holders of any Series A Preferred Stock will have the right to convert to common stock at their election on the basis of 20 shares of common stock for each one share of Series A Preferred Stock issued, thus the holders of our common stock would suffer substantial dilution upon conversion.
- Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 4A decline in the price of our common stock could affect our ability to raise further working capital, it may adversely impact our ability to continue operations, and we may go out of business.
A prolonged decline in the price of our common stock could result in a reduction in the liquidity of our common stock and a reduction in our ability to raise capital. Because we may attempt to acquire a significant portion of the funds we need in order to conduct our planned operations through the sale of equity securities, a decline in the price of our common stock could be detrimental to our liquidity and our operations because the decline may cause investors to not choose to invest in our stock. If we are unable to raise the funds we require for all our planned operations, we may be forced to reallocate funds from other planned uses and may suffer a significant negative effect on our business plan and operations, including our ability to develop new products and continue our current operations. As a result, our business may suffer, and not be successful and we may go out of business. We also might not be able to meet our financial obligations if we cannot raise enough funds through the sale of our common stock and we may be forced to go out of business.
- Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 5Our stock is a penny stock. Trading of our stock may be restricted by the Securities and Exchange Commission's penny stock regulations which may limit a stockholder's ability to buy and sell our stock.
Our stock is a penny stock. The Securities and Exchange Commission has adopted Rule 15g-9 which generally defines "penny stock" to be any equity security that has a market price (as defined) less than $5.00 per share or an exercise price of less than $5.00 per share, subject to certain exceptions. Our securities are covered by the penny stock rules, which impose additional sales practice requirements on broker-dealers who sell to persons other than established customers and "accredited investors". The term "accredited investor" refers generally to institutions with assets in excess of $5,000,000 or individuals with a net worth in excess of $1,000,000 or annual income exceeding $200,000 or $300,000 jointly with their spouse. The penny stock rules require a broker-dealer, prior to a transaction in a penny stock not otherwise exempt from the rules, to deliver a standardized risk disclosure document in a form prepared by the SEC which provides information about penny stocks and the nature and level of risks in the penny stock market. The broker-dealer also must provide the customer with current bid and offer quotations for the penny stock, the compensation of the broker-dealer and its salesperson in the transaction and monthly account statements showing the market value of each penny stock held in the customer's account. The bid and offer quotations, and the broker-dealer and salesperson compensation information, must be given to the customer orally or in writing prior to effecting the transaction and must be given to the customer in writing before or with the customer's confirmation. In addition, the penny stock rules require that prior to a transaction in a penny stock not otherwise exempt from these rules, the broker-dealer must make a special written determination that the penny stock is a suitable investment for the purchaser and receive the purchaser's written agreement to the transaction. These disclosure requirements may have the effect of reducing the level of trading activity in the secondary market for the stock that is subject to these penny stock rules. Consequently, these penny stock rules may affect the ability of broker-dealers to trade our securities. We believe that the penny stock rules discourage investor interest in and limit the marketability of our common stock.
- Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 6Technology company stock prices are especially volatile, and this volatility may depress the price of our common stock.
The stock market has experienced significant price and volume fluctuations, and the market prices of technology companies have been highly volatile. We believe that various factors may cause the market price of our common stock to fluctuate, perhaps substantially, including, among others, the following: - announcements of developments in our patent enforcement actions, should patents be granted to us; - developments or disputes concerning our inventions or patents, if granted; - our competitors' technological innovations; - developments in relationships with licensees;- variations in our quarterly operating results; - our failure to meet or exceed securities analysts' expectations of our financial results; - a change in financial estimates or securities analysts' recommendations; - changes in management's or securities analysts' estimates of our financial performance; - changes in market valuations of similar companies; - the current sovereign debt crises affecting several countries in the European Union and concerns about sovereign debt of the United States; - announcements by us or our competitors of significant contracts, acquisitions, strategic partnerships, joint ventures, capital commitments, new technologies, or patents, if granted; and - failure to complete significant transactions. The financial crisis affecting the banking system and financial markets and the uncertainty in global economic conditions, which began in late 2007 and has continued up until today, have resulted in a tightening in the credit markets, a low level of liquidity in many financial markets, and extreme volatility in the credit, equity and fixed income markets. If investors have concerns that our business, operating results and financial condition will be negatively impacted by global economic conditions, our stock price could fluctuate significantly in future periods. In addition, we believe that fluctuations in our stock price during applicable periods can also be impacted by court rulings and/or other developments in our patent licensing and enforcement actions. Court rulings in patent enforcement actions are often difficult to understand, even when favorable or neutral to the value of the patents we intend to apply for and our overall business, and we believe that investors in the market may overreact, causing fluctuations in our stock prices that may not accurately reflect the impact of court rulings on our business operations and assets. In the past, companies that have experienced volatility in the market price of their stock have been the objects of securities class action litigation. If our common stock was the object of securities class action litigation, it could result in substantial costs and a diversion of management's attention and resources, which could materially harm our business and financial results.
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