Annual report pursuant to Section 13 and 15(d)

Capitalization and Equity Structure

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Capitalization and Equity Structure
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2019
Stockholders' Equity Note [Abstract]  
Capitalization and Equity Structure
Capitalization and Equity Structure

Summary

The Company’s authorized capital stock at December 31, 2019 consisted of 141,429 shares of common stock and 10,000 shares of preferred stock. At December 31, 2019, 86,920 shares of common stock were issued and outstanding and no shares of preferred stock were issued and outstanding.

Common Stock

The holders of outstanding shares of common stock are entitled to receive dividends out of assets or funds legally available for the payment of dividends at such times and in such amounts as the Board of Directors may determine. Holders of common stock are entitled to one vote for each share held on all matters submitted to a vote of stockholders. There is no cumulative voting for the election of directors. The common stock is not entitled to pre-emptive rights and is not subject to conversion or redemption. Upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company, the assets legally available for distribution to stockholders are distributable ratably among the holders of the common stock after payment of liquidation preferences, if any, on any outstanding payment of other claims of creditors. Each outstanding share of common stock is duly and validly issued, fully paid, and non-assessable.

December 2019 Common Stock Offering

In December 2019, the Company entered into a securities purchase agreement, or the December 2019 Purchase Agreement, with certain purchasers. Pursuant to the December 2019 Purchase Agreement, the Company agreed to sell in a registered direct offering, or the December 2019 Offering, an aggregate of 11,111 shares of its common stock, and accompanying warrants, or the December 2019 Warrants, to purchase 8,333 shares of its common stock at a combined purchase price of $0.45 for each share and related warrant, for gross proceeds of $5,000. Each December 2019 Warrant has an exercise price of $0.5402 per share, subject to adjustment in certain circumstances, and will be exercisable commencing six months and one day from the date of issuance and will expire five years from the date the warrants become exercisable.

As compensation for services provided by the underwriters or placement agent for the December 2019 Offering, or Placement Agent, the Company paid a cash fee equal to 7.0% ($350) and a management fee equal to 1.0% of the aggregate gross proceeds raised in the registered direct offering ($50), and issued warrants to purchase shares of common stock, or the December 2019 Placement Agent Warrants, in an amount equal to 7.0% of the aggregate number of shares of common stock placed in the registered direct offering, or 778 shares in the aggregate, in substantially the same form as the December 2019 Warrants, except that the December 2019 Placement Agent Warrants will expire five years from the effective date of the December 2019 Offering and have an exercise price per share equal to $0.5625. In connection with the December 2019 Offering, the Company also incurred $95 in other expenses of the Placement Agent.

Of the $5,000 in proceeds, $2,507 was allocated to the December 2019 Warrants and December 2019 Placement Agent Warrants based on the fair value method, with the remaining proceeds of $2,493 allocated to the common stock shares. In connection with the December 2019 Offering, the Company incurred approximately $777 in direct financing costs, including fair value of $200 of December 2019 Placement Agent Warrants, which were allocated on the fair value basis between the common stock shares and the applicable warrants: $389 was allocated to the December 2019 Warrants and the December 2019 Placement Agent Warrants and expensed immediately in other income, net in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss and $388 was allocated to the common stock shares and recorded as a reduction to additional paid in capital.

May 2019 Common Stock Offering

In May 2019, the Company entered into an underwriting agreement, or the May 2019 Underwriting Agreement, with Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. and SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc., or the Underwriters, for the underwritten public offering of its common stock and warrants to purchase common stock, or the May 2019 Offering. Pursuant to the May 2019 Underwriting Agreement, on May 24, 2019, the Company sold 6,667 shares of its common stock, and accompanying warrants, or the May 2019 Warrants, to purchase 6,667 shares of its common stock at a combined price to the public of $1.50 per share of common stock and accompanying warrant, for total gross proceeds of $10,000. Each warrant had an initial exercise price of $2.00 per share, subject to adjustment in certain circumstances, and will expire five years from the date of issuance. Of the $10,000 in proceeds, $7,334 was allocated to the warrants based on the fair value method, with the remaining proceeds of $2,666 allocated to the common stock shares.

In connection with the May 2019 financing, the Company incurred approximately $963 in direct financing costs which have been allocated on the fair value basis between the common stock shares and the warrants. Of the $963 in direct financing costs, $706 was allocated to the warrants and expensed immediately in other income (expense), net in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss and $257 was allocated to the common stock shares and recorded as a reduction to additional paid in capital.

The May 2019 Warrants contain a price protection feature, pursuant to which, in connection with the December 2019 Offering, the exercise price of the May 2019 Warrants was reduced to $0.38 per share.

Equity Investments

On January 30, 2019, the Company sold 3,067 shares of its common stock for $5,000 at a purchase price of $1.63 per share under the JV SPA, in connection with the JV Agreement. Refer to Note 4. Investment in Unconsolidated Affiliate - Equity Investments for additional information.

At-the-Market Offering

In August 2018, the Company entered into a Controlled Equity OfferingSM Sales Agreement, or ATM Agreement, with Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., or the Agent, under which the Company may issue and sell shares of its common stock, from time to time, to or through the Agent, by methods deemed to be an “at the market offering.” Shares having an aggregate offering price of up to $25,000 may be offered and sold under the prospectus and prospectus supplement filed with the SEC related to such offering, or the ATM Prospectus. For the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company sold 2,150 shares of common stock under the ATM Agreement at an average price of $1.35 per share, for aggregate proceeds of $2,776, net of commission and issuance costs, to the Company. From inception to December 31, 2019, the Company has sold 4,182 shares of its common stock under the ATM Agreement at an average price of $1.86 per share, for aggregate proceeds of $7,206, net of commission and issuance costs, to the Company. As of December 31, 2019, approximately $17,241 aggregate offering price of the Company's common stock remained available for issuance pursuant to the ATM Prospectus.

Preferred Stock

The Company may issue shares of preferred stock from time to time in one or more series, each of which will have such distinctive designation or title as shall be determined by its Board of Directors and will have such voting powers, full or limited, or no voting powers, and such preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights and such qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, as shall be stated in such resolution or resolutions providing for the issue of such class or series of preferred stock as may be adopted from time to time by the Board of Directors.

Warrants

Warrant share activity for the year ended December 31, 2019 was as follows:
Source
Exercise
Price
 
Term
(Years)
 
December 31, 2018
 
Issued
 
Expired
 
Exercised
 
December 31, 2019
December 2019 Warrants
$
0.5402

 
5
 

 
8,333

 

 

 
8,333

December 2019 Placement Agent Warrants
$
0.5625

 
5
 

 
778

 

 

 
778

May 2019 Warrants
$
0.38

 
5
 

 
6,667

 

 

 
6,667

2017 Information Agent Warrants
$
1.50

 
3
 
200

 

 

 

 
200

2015 Warrants
$
2.75

 
5
 
1,604

 

 

 

 
1,604

2014 PPO and Merger warrants
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


Placement agent warrants
$
7.00

 
5
 
426

 

 
(426
)
 

 

PPO warrants
$
14.00

 
5
 
1,078

 

 
(1,078
)
 

 

Pre-2014 warrants
$
9.66

 
9-10
 
88

 

 

 

 
88

 
 
 
 
 
3,396

 
15,778

 
(1,504
)
 

 
17,670



December 2019 Warrants

In December 2019, pursuant to the December 2019 Purchase Agreement the Company issued warrants to purchase 8,333 shares of common stock, or the December 2019 Offering, with an exercise price of $0.5402 per share, or the December 2019 Warrants. The December 2019 Warrants will be exercisable six months and one day from their issuance date, or from and after June 21, 2020, and will expire five years from the date they initially become exercisable, or on June 21, 2025.

In addition, the December 2019 Warrants contain a cashless exercise provision and could require cash payments in the event of a failure to timely deliver securities or in the event of insufficient authorized shares. The December 2019 Warrants also contain a put option, under which, if the Company enters into a Fundamental Transaction, as defined in the December 2019 Warrants, the Company or any successor entity will, at the option of a holder of a December 2019 Warrant, exercisable concurrently with or at any time within 30 days after the consummation of such Fundamental Transaction, purchase such holder’s December 2019 Warrant by paying to such holder an amount of cash equal to the Black-Scholes value of the remaining unexercised portion of such holder’s December 2019 Warrant within five trading days after the notice of exercise by the holder of the put option. Because of this put-option provision, the December 2019 Warrants are classified as a liability and are marked to market at each reporting date.

The warrant liability related to the December 2019 Warrants is measured at fair value at each reporting date using certain estimated inputs, which are classified within Level 3 of the fair value hierarchy. The following assumptions were used in the Black-Scholes Model to measure the fair value of the December 2019 Warrants:
 
December 31, 2019
December 20, 2019
Current share price
$
0.39

$
0.39

Conversion price
$
0.5402

$
0.5402

Risk-free interest rate
1.73
%
1.73
%
Expected term (years)
5.47

5.50

Volatility of stock
95.7
%
96.3
%


December 2019 Placement Agent Warrants
 
In December 2019, in connection with the December 2019 Offering, the Company issued warrants to purchase 778 shares of the Company’s common stock to the placement agent for such offering, or the December 2019 Placement Agent Warrants. The December 2019 Placement Agent Warrants have substantially the same form as the December 2019 Warrants, except that they have an exercise price per share equal to $0.5625, subject to adjustment in certain circumstances, and will expire on December 18, 2025.

 
December 31, 2019
December 20, 2019
Current share price
$
0.39

$
0.39

Conversion price
$
0.5625

$
0.5625

Risk-free interest rate
1.69
%
1.69
%
Expected term (years)
4.97

5.00

Volatility of stock
93.1
%
92.7
%


Management has assessed that the likelihood of a Change of Control occurring during the term of the December 2019 Placement Agent Warrants is low, and that if such an event were to occur, the difference between the cashless exercise value and the warrants fair value is nominal.

May 2019 Warrants

In May 2019, pursuant to the May 2019 Underwriting Agreement and as part of the May 2019 Offering, the Company issued the May 2019 Warrants with an initial exercise price of $2.00 per share. The May 2019 Warrants will expire five years from the date of their issuance, or on May 24, 2024. The May 2019 Warrants contain a price protection feature, pursuant to which, subject to certain exceptions, if shares of common stock are sold or issued in the future, or securities convertible or exercisable for shares of the Company’s common stock are sold or issued in the future, for consideration, or with an exercise price or conversion price, as applicable, per share less than the exercise price per share then in effect for the May 2019 Warrants, the exercise price of the May 2019 Warrants is reduced to the consideration paid for, or the exercise price or conversion price of, as the case may be, the securities issued in such offering. Pursuant to this provision, in connection with the December 2019 Offering, the exercise price of the May 2019 Warrants was reduced to $0.38 per share, being the amount that is equal to the lower of (x) the consideration paid for the securities issued in the December 2019 Offering, or $0.45 per share, (y) the lowest exercise price of the December 2019 Warrants, or $0.5402, and (z) the lowest one-day volume-weighted average price of the Company’s Common Stock on the Nasdaq Capital Market as measured each day during the five trading day period starting on December 19, 2019, rounded to the nearest share, or $0.38.

In addition, if the Company effects or enters into any issuance of common stock or options or convertible securities exercisable for or convertible into common stock at a price which varies or may vary with the market price of the shares of the Company's common stock, subject to certain exceptions, a May 2019 Warrant holder may, at the time of exercise of the holder’s warrant, elect to exercise the warrant at such variable price.

Further, the May 2019 Warrants contain a cashless exercise provision and could require cash payments in the event of a failure to timely deliver securities or in the event of insufficient authorized shares. As well, the May 2019 Warrants include a put option, whereby while the May 2019 Warrants are outstanding, if the Company enters into a Change of Control, as defined in the May 2019 Warrants, the Company or any successor entity will, at the option of a 2019 Warrant holder exercise within 90 days after the public disclosure of the Change of Control transaction, purchase such holder’s May 2019 Warrants by paying to such holder an amount of cash equal to the Black-Scholes value of the remaining unexercised portion of such warrants on the later date of consummation of the Change of Control transaction or two trading days after the notice of such request. Because of this put option provision, the May 2019 Warrants are classified as a liability and are marked to market at each reporting date.

The warrant liability related to the May 2019 Warrants is measured at fair value at each reporting date using certain estimated inputs, which are classified within Level 3 of the fair value hierarchy. The following assumptions were used in a combination of the Black-Scholes Model and the Lattice Model to measure the fair value of the 2019 Warrants:

 
December 31, 2019
May 24, 2019

Current share price
$
0.39

$
1.49

Conversion price
$
0.38

$
2.00

Risk-free interest rate
1.67
%
2.12
%
Expected term (years)
4.40

5.00

Volatility of stock
93.9
%
98
%


Management has assessed that the likelihood of a Change of Control occurring during the term of the warrants is low, and that if such an event were to occur, the difference between the cashless exercise value and the May 2019 Warrants fair value is nominal.

2017 Information Agent Warrants

In September 2017, in connection with a rights offering in August 2017, the Company issued warrants to purchase 200 shares of the Company’s common stock with an exercise price of $1.50 per share to an information agent, or the 2017 Information Agent Warrants. The 2017 Information Agent Warrants became exercisable immediately upon issuance and will remain exercisable until September 13, 2020. These warrants were recorded in stockholders’ equity on the Company’s consolidated balance sheet.

2015 Warrants

In December 2015, the Company issued warrants to purchase 2,122 shares with an exercise price of $3.74 per share, or the 2015 Warrants. The 2015 Warrants contain a put-option provision. Under this provision, while the 2015 Warrants are outstanding, if the Company enters into a Fundamental Transaction, as defined in the 2015 Warrants, the Company or any successor entity shall, at the option of each warrant holder, exercisable at any time concurrently with or within 30 days after the consummation of the Fundamental Transaction, purchase the warrant from the holder exercising such option by paying to the holder an amount of cash equal to the Black-Scholes Model value of the remaining unexercised portion of such holder’s warrant on the date of the consummation of the Fundamental Transaction. Because of this put-option provision, the 2015 Warrants are classified as a liability and are marked to market at each reporting date. Through December 31, 2018518 shares of the 2015 Warrants were exercised. During the year ended December 31, 2019, none of the 2015 Warrants were exercised.

On March 8, 2019, in connection with the Company entering into the JV Agreement, the Company entered into an amendment to the December 2019 Purchase Agreement under which the 2015 Warrants were issued with the holders of the 2015 Warrants, or the 2015 SPA Amendment, which retroactively removed a provision from such securities purchase agreement that prohibited the Company from effecting or entering into an agreement to effect any issuance by the Company of its common stock at a price determined based on the trading price of the Company’s common stock or otherwise at a future determined price. Pursuant to the 2015 SPA Amendment, the Company also entered into an amendment to the 2015 Warrants to reduce the exercise price of each such warrant from $3.74 per share to $2.75 per share, subject to further adjustments under certain circumstances pursuant to the existing terms of such warrant. In the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company recorded a $257 loss on the modification of these warrants.

The warrant liability related to the 2015 Warrants is measured at fair value at each reporting date using certain estimated inputs, which are classified within Level 3 of the fair value hierarchy. The following assumptions were used in the Black-Scholes Model to measure the fair value of the 2015 Warrants as of the years ended:
 
December 31, 2019
December 31, 2018
Current share price
$
0.39

$
1.24

Conversion price
$
2.75

$
3.74

Risk-free interest rate
1.59
%
2.48
%
Expected term (years)
0.99

1.99

Volatility of stock
98
%
104
%


2014 PPO and Merger Warrants and Pre-Merger Warrants

On January 15, 2014, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ekso Bionics Holdings, Inc. named Ekso Acquisition Corp. merged with and into Ekso Bionics, Inc., or the Merger. Concurrently with the closing of the Merger and in contemplation of the Merger, the Company closed a private placement offering, or PPO, in which it issued warrants to purchase a total of 5,151 shares of common stock of which 4,329 were at an exercise price of $14.00 per share, and the balance of which were at an exercise price of $7.00 per share. The aforementioned warrants expired January 14, 2019.

Warrants to purchase preferred stock of Ekso Bionics Inc. outstanding prior to the Merger were converted into warrants to purchase 89 shares of common stock of the Company in connection with the Merger, or the Merger Warrants. As of December 31, 2019, there remained Merger Warrants to purchase 88 shares of the Company’s common stock outstanding, with the following terms: (1) the Merger Warrants expire on various dates from June 1, 2022 to August 30, 2023; (2) the Merger Warrants have an exercise price of $9.66 per share; and (3) at the option of the holder, the Merger Warrants may be exercised on a “cashless exercise” basis in which shares are retained to cover the exercise price based on the market value of the Company’s common stock on the date of exercise.