Webstar Technology Group (WBSR) Risk Analysis
Risk Overview Q3, 2024
Source: the company's latest filing for the period ended Sep 30, 2024, filed Nov 14, 2024
Risk Change Over Time
- Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 1Controlling Stockholder has 82.67% 100% of the voting rights of the Company.
On March 16, 2020, the Company filed a Certificate of Designations (the "Certificate") with the Secretary of State of Wyoming to amend its Articles of Incorporation to designate the Series A Preferred Stock as a series of preferred stock of the Company. 1,000 shares of Series A Preferred Stock are authorized in the Certificate. The Series A Preferred Stock has voting rights equivalent to three times the total voting power of the total common stock outstanding at any time. The Series A Preferred Stock has no conversion rights, no dividends, and no liquidation preference. On April 2, 2020, the Company issued James Owens all 1,000 shares of its Series A Preferred Stock in settlement of $250,000 due to Mr. Owens. James Owens has voting control over 61,280,387 common shares held by the Frank T. Perone Revocable Trust. When added to the voting power of his Series A Preferred Stock, James Owens holds 100% of the voting rights of the Company. Because Mr. Owens has 100% of the voting rights of our stockholders, he will be able to influence the outcome of all corporate actions requiring approval of our stockholders, including the election of directors and approval of significant corporate transactions, which may result in corporate action with which other stockholders do not agree. If Mr. Owens votes in favor of the foregoing actions, he will have sufficient voting power to approve such actions and no other stockholder approvals will be required. As a result, Mr. Owens will have significant influence over our management and affairs and control over matters requiring stockholder approval, including the election of directors and significant corporate transactions, such as a merger or other sale of our company or our assets, for the foreseeable future. His interests may differ from the interests of other stockholders and thus result in corporate decisions that are disadvantageous to other stockholders.
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- Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 1Anti-takeover effects of certain provisions of Wyoming state law hinder a potential takeover of our company.
Though not now, we may be or in the future we may become subject to Wyoming's control share law. A corporation is subject to Wyoming's control share law if it has more than 200 stockholders, at least 100 of whom are stockholders of record and residents of Wyoming, and it does business in Wyoming or through an affiliated corporation. The law focuses on the acquisition of a "controlling interest" which means the ownership of outstanding voting shares sufficient, but for the control share law, to enable the acquiring person to exercise the following proportions of the voting power of the corporation in the election of directors: (i) one-fifth or more but less than one-third, (ii) one-third or more but less than a majority, or (iii) a majority or more. The ability to exercise such voting power may be direct or indirect, as well as individual or in association with others. The effect of the control share law is that the acquiring person, and those acting in association with it, obtains only such voting rights in the control shares as are conferred by a resolution of the stockholders of the corporation, approved at a special or annual meeting of stockholders. The control share law contemplates that voting rights will be considered only once by the other stockholders. Thus, there is no authority to strip voting rights from the control shares of an acquiring person once those rights have been approved. If the stockholders do not grant voting rights to the control shares acquired by an acquiring person, those shares do not become permanent non-voting shares. The acquiring person is free to sell its shares to others. If the buyers of those shares themselves do not acquire a controlling interest, their shares do not become governed by the control share law. If control shares are accorded full voting rights and the acquiring person has acquired control shares with a majority or more of the voting power, any stockholder of record, other than an acquiring person, who has not voted in favor of approval of voting rights is entitled to demand fair value for such stockholder's shares. Wyoming's control share law may have the effect of discouraging takeovers of the corporation. In addition to the control share law, Wyoming has a business combination law which prohibits certain business combinations between Wyoming corporations and "interested stockholders" for three years after the "interested stockholder" first becomes an "interested stockholder," unless the corporation's board of directors approves the combination in advance. For purposes of Wyoming law, an "interested stockholder" is any person who is (i) the beneficial owner, directly or indirectly, of ten percent or more of the voting power of the outstanding voting shares of the corporation, or (ii) an affiliate or associate of the corporation and at any time within the three previous years was the beneficial owner, directly or indirectly, of ten percent or more of the voting power of the then outstanding shares of the corporation. The definition of the term "business combination" is sufficiently broad to cover virtually any kind of transaction that would allow a potential acquirer to use the corporation's assets to finance the acquisition or otherwise to benefit its own interests rather than the interests of the corporation and its other stockholders. The effect of Wyoming's business combination law is to potentially discourage parties interested in taking control of our company from doing so if it cannot obtain the approval of our board of directors.
- Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 2We may, in the future, issue additional shares of common stock, which would reduce investors' percent of ownership and may dilute our share value.
Our amended and restated articles of incorporation as amended authorize the issuance of 300,000,000 shares of common stock. As of the date of this report, we had 158,271,000 shares of common stock outstanding. The future issuance of common stock may result in substantial dilution in the percentage of our common stock held by our then existing stockholders. We may value any common stock issued in the future on an arbitrary basis. The issuance of common stock for future services or acquisitions or other corporate actions may have the effect of diluting the value of the shares held by our investors, and might have an adverse effect on any trading market for our common stock.
- Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 3We engage in transactions with James Owens, our controlling stockholder, and entities he owns or controls and the terms were not arrived at as a result of arms-length negotiations and there are no assurances that these transactions are fair to our company.
We have entered into a significant number of transactions with James Owens, our controlling stockholder, or entities he owns or controls. These transactions include the issuance of 97,000,000 shares of our common stock to Mr. Owens upon formation of our company, the license of the Gigabyte Slayer software and WARP-G software from Soft Tech, the purchase of the Webstar eCampus software from Webstar Networks for 17,000,000 shares of our common stock, and the sale to him of 1,000 shares of our Series A Preferred Stock. The terms of these transactions were not determined as a result of arm's length negotiations. Consequently, we cannot assure you that the terms of the transactions we entered into with Mr. Owens or entities he owns or controls are on terms as fair as we might receive from or extend to third parties. Furthermore, it is possible that as a result of the conflict of interests, the intellectual property we acquire, software we license and services to be provided by Mr. Owens may not be worth the prices we pay and could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
- Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 4Controlling Stockholder has 100% of the voting rights of the Company.
On March 16, 2020, the Company filed a Certificate of Designations (the "Certificate") with the Secretary of State of Wyoming to amend its Articles of Incorporation to designate the Series A Preferred Stock as a series of preferred stock of the Company. 1,000 shares of Series A Preferred Stock are authorized in the Certificate. The Series A Preferred Stock has voting rights equivalent to three times the total voting power of the total common stock outstanding at any time. The Series A Preferred Stock has no conversion rights, no dividends, and no liquidation preference. On April 2, 2020, the Company issued James Owens all 1,000 shares of its Series A Preferred Stock in settlement of $250,000 due to Mr. Owens. James Owens has voting control over 61,280,387 common shares held by the Frank T. Perone Revocable Trust. When added to the voting power of his Series A Preferred Stock, James Owens holds 100% of the voting rights of the Company. Because Mr. Owens has 100% of the voting rights of our stockholders, he will be able to influence the outcome of all corporate actions requiring approval of our stockholders, including the election of directors and approval of significant corporate transactions, which may result in corporate action with which other stockholders do not agree. If Mr. Owens votes in favor of the foregoing actions, he will have sufficient voting power to approve such actions and no other stockholder approvals will be required. As a result, Mr. Owens will have significant influence over our management and affairs and control over matters requiring stockholder approval, including the election of directors and significant corporate transactions, such as a merger or other sale of our company or our assets, for the foreseeable future. His interests may differ from the interests of other stockholders and thus result in corporate decisions that are disadvantageous to other stockholders.
- Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 5We are an emerging growth company within the meaning of the Securities Act, and if we take advantage of certain exemptions from disclosure requirements available to emerging growth companies, this could make our securities less attractive to investors and may make it more difficult to compare our performance with other public companies.
We are an "emerging growth company" within the meaning of the Securities Act, as modified by the JOBS Act, and we may take advantage of certain exemptions from various reporting requirements that are applicable to other public companies that are not emerging growth companies including, but not limited to, not being required to comply with the auditor internal controls attestation requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in our periodic reports and proxy statements, and exemptions from the requirements of holding a nonbinding advisory vote on executive compensation and stockholder approval of any golden parachute payments not previously approved. As a result, our stockholders may not have access to certain information they may deem important. We could be an emerging growth company for up to five years, although circumstances could cause us to lose that status earlier, including if the market value of our common stock held by non-affiliates exceeds $700 million as of any June 30 before that time, in which case we would no longer be an emerging growth company as of the following December 31. We cannot predict whether investors will find our securities less attractive because we will rely on these exemptions. If some investors find our securities less attractive as a result of our reliance on these exemptions, the trading prices of our securities may be lower than they otherwise would be, there may be a less active trading market for our securities and the trading prices of our securities may be more volatile. Further, Section 102(b)(1) of the JOBS Act exempts emerging growth companies from being required to comply with new or revised financial accounting standards until private companies (that is, those that have not had a Securities Act registration statement declared effective or do not have a class of securities registered under the Exchange Act) are required to comply with the new or revised financial accounting standards. The JOBS Act provides that a company can elect to opt out of the extended transition period and comply with the requirements that apply to non-emerging growth companies but any such an election to opt out is irrevocable. We have elected not to opt out of such extended transition period which means that when a standard is issued or revised and it has different application dates for public or private companies, we, as an emerging growth company, can adopt the new or revised standard at the time private companies adopt the new or revised standard. This may make comparison of our financial statements with another public company which is neither an emerging growth company nor an emerging growth company which has opted out of using the extended transition period difficult or impossible because of the potential differences in accounting standards used.
- Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 6Common stock eligible for future sale may adversely affect the market.
From time to time, certain of our stockholders may be eligible to sell all or some of their shares of Common Stock by means of ordinary brokerage transactions in the open market pursuant to Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act, subject to certain limitations. In general, pursuant to Rule 144, non-affiliate stockholders may sell freely after six months, subject only to the current public information requirement. Affiliates may sell after six months, subject to the Rule 144 volume, manner of sale (for equity securities), current public information, and notice requirements. There are 158,271,000 shares of our common stock outstanding as of the date of this report. 85,466,340 of these shares are tradable without restriction. Given the lack of a trading history of our common stock, resale of even a small number of shares of our common stock may adversely affect the market price of our common stock.
- Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 7Our common stock is a "penny stock" under SEC rules. It may be more difficult to resell securities classified as "penny stock."
Our common stock is a "penny stock" under applicable SEC rules (generally defined as non-exchange traded stock with a per-share price below $5.00). Unless we maintain a per-share price above $5.00, these rules impose additional sales practice requirements on broker-dealers that recommend the purchase or sale of penny stocks to persons other than those who qualify as "established customers" or "accredited investors." For example, broker-dealers must determine the appropriateness for non-qualifying persons of investments in penny stocks. Broker-dealers must also provide, prior to a transaction in a penny stock not otherwise exempt from the rules, a standardized risk disclosure document that provides information about penny stocks and the risks in the penny stock market. The broker-dealer also must provide the customer with current bid and offer quotations for the penny stock, disclose the compensation of the broker-dealer and its salesperson in the transaction, furnish monthly account statements showing the market value of each penny stock held in the customer's account, provide 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. Legal remedies available to an investor in "penny stocks" may include the following: - If a "penny stock" is sold to the investor in violation of the requirements listed above, or other federal or states securities laws, the investor may be able to cancel the purchase and receive a refund of the investment. - If a "penny stock" is sold to the investor in a fraudulent manner, the investor may be able to sue the persons and firms that committed the fraud for damages. However, investors who have signed arbitration agreements may have to pursue their claims through arbitration. These requirements may have the effect of reducing the level of trading activity, if any, in the secondary market for a security that becomes subject to the penny stock rules. The additional burdens imposed upon broker-dealers by such requirements may discourage broker-dealers from effecting transactions in our securities, which could severely limit the market price and liquidity of our securities. These requirements may restrict the ability of broker-dealers to sell our Common Stock and may affect your ability to resell our Common Stock. Many brokerage firms will discourage or refrain from recommending investments in penny stocks. Most institutional investors will not invest in penny stocks. In addition, many individual investors will not invest in penny stocks due, among other reasons, to the increased financial risk generally associated with these investments. For these reasons, penny stocks may have a limited market and, consequently, limited liquidity. We can give no assurance that our Common Stock will not remain classified as a "penny stock" in the future.
- Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 8Our issuance of additional common stock in exchange for the purchase of assets, services or to repay debt would dilute your proportionate ownership and voting rights and could have a negative impact on the market price of our Common Stock.
It is possible that we may issue additional shares of common stock in exchange for debt or for cash under circumstances we may deem appropriate at the time. Any such new issuances may cause a decrease in the quoted price of our common stock.
- Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 9Because our officers and board of directors will make all management decisions, you should only purchase our securities if you are comfortable entrusting our directors to make all decisions.
Our board of directors will have the sole right to make all decisions with respect to our management. Investors will not have an opportunity to evaluate the specific projects that will be financed with future operating income. You should not purchase our securities unless you are willing to entrust all aspects of our management to our officers and directors.
- Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 10Our Common Stock price is likely to be highly volatile because of several factors, including a limited public float.
We anticipate that the market price of our common stock is likely to be highly volatile in the future. You may not be able to resell shares of our common stock following periods of volatility because of the market's adverse reaction to volatility. Other factors that could cause such volatility may include, among other things: - actual or anticipated fluctuations in our operating results; - the absence of securities analysts covering us and distributing research and recommendations about us; - we may have a low trading volume for a number of reasons, including that a large portion of our stock is closely held; - overall stock market fluctuations; - announcements concerning our business or those of our competitors; - actual or perceived limitations on our ability to raise capital when we require it, and to raise such capital on favorable terms; - conditions or trends in the industry; - litigation; - changes in market valuations of other similar companies; - future sales of common stock; - departure of key personnel or failure to hire key personnel; and - general market conditions. Any of these factors could have a significant and adverse impact on the market price of our common stock. In addition, the stock market in general has at times experienced extreme volatility and rapid decline that has often been unrelated or disproportionate to the operating performance of particular companies. These broad market fluctuations may adversely affect the trading price of our common stock, regardless of our actual operating performance.
- Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 11An active trading market for our common stock may not develop and you may not be able to resell your shares.
There has been a limited public market for shares of our common stock. In the absence of an active trading market for our common stock, investors may not be able to sell their common stock at or above the purchase price or at the time that they would like to sell or at all. Our stock is currently trading on the OTCQB tier of the OTC Markets Group, Inc. We do not know the extent to which investor interest will lead to the development and maintenance of an active trading market for our common stock. A limited trading volume will adversely impact your ability to sell our shares. The OTCQB, as with other public markets, has from time to time experienced significant price and volume fluctuations. As a result, the market price of shares of our common stock may be similarly volatile, and holders of shares of our common stock may from time to time experience a decrease in the value of their shares, including decreases unrelated to our operating performance or prospects. The price of shares of our common stock could be subject to wide fluctuations in response to a number of factors, including those listed in this "Risk Factors" section of this report. No assurance can be given that the market price of shares of our common stock will not fluctuate or decline significantly in the future or that common stockholders will be able to sell their shares when desired on favorable terms, or at all.
- Share Price & Shareholder Rights - Risk 12We believe we will be considered a smaller reporting company and will be exempt from certain disclosure requirements, which could make our common stock less attractive to potential investors.
Effective on September 10, 2018, Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act defines a "smaller reporting company" as an issuer that is not an investment company, an asset-backed issuer, or a majority-owned subsidiary of a parent that is not a smaller reporting company and that: - had a public float of less than $250 million as of the last business day of its most recently completed second fiscal quarter, computed by multiplying the aggregate worldwide number of shares of its voting and non-voting common equity held by non-affiliates by the price at which the common equity was last sold, or the average of the bid and asked prices of common equity, in the principal market for the common equity; or - in the case of an initial registration statement under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act for shares of its common equity, had a public float of less than $250 million as of a date within 30 days of the date of the filing of the registration statement, computed by multiplying the aggregate worldwide number of such shares held by non-affiliates before the registration plus, in the case of a Securities Act registration statement, the number of such shares included in the registration statement by the estimated public offering price of the shares; or - in the case of an issuer whose public float as calculated under paragraph (1) or (2) of this definition was zero or whose public float was less than $700 million, had annual revenues of less than $100 million during the most recently completed fiscal year for which audited financial statements are available. As a smaller reporting company, we will not be required and may not include a Compensation Discussion and Analysis section in our proxy statements; we will provide only two years of financial statements; and we need not provide the table of selected financial data. We also will have other "scaled" disclosure requirements that are less comprehensive than issuers that are not smaller reporting companies which could make our common stock less attractive to potential investors, which could make it more difficult for our stockholders to sell their shares.
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