COMMON STOCK, STOCK OPTIONS AND WARRANTS | 5. COMMON STOCK, STOCK OPTIONS AND WARRANTS Authorized Common Stock On June 21, 2021, our stockholders approved an amendment to our Articles of Incorporation to increase the authorized number of shares of capital stock from 210,000,000 to 410,000,000 and the authorized number of common shares from 200,000,000 to 400,000,000. Common Stock Offerings On January 27, 2021, the Company closed a private placement for 15,455,960 common shares and warrants to purchase 7,727,980 common shares, at a purchase price of $1.294 per common share and accompanying warrant, for gross proceeds of $20,000,012. The 7,727,980 warrants are immediately exercisable at $1.231 per common share for a term of five and one-half years. The Company paid the placement agent a fee of 7% of the gross proceeds totaling $1,400,001 and issued the placement agent 1,081,917 immediately exercisable warrants at $1.6175 per common share for a term of five and one-half years. The Company also reimbursed the placement agent for $85,000 in expenses and incurred $64,601 in other expenses. Net proceeds from the offering were $18,450,410. The estimated fair value of the 7,727,980 warrants issued to the investors was approximately $7,582,000 and the estimated fair value of the 1,081,917 warrants issued to the placement agent was approximately $1,025,000. On February 19, 2021, the Company closed a registered direct offering for 50,830,566 common shares and warrants to purchase up to 25,415,283 common shares, at a purchase price of $1.505 per share of common stock and accompanying warrant, for gross proceeds of $76,500,002. The 25,415,283 warrants are immediately exercisable at $1.70 per common share for a term of five years. The Company paid the placement agent a fee of 7% of the gross proceeds totaling $5,355,000 and issued the placement agent 3,558,140 immediately exercisable warrants at $1.881 per common share for a term of five years. The Company also reimbursed the placement agent for $85,000 in expenses and incurred $80,160 in other expenses. Net proceeds from the offering were $70,979,842. The estimated fair value of the 25,415,283 warrants issued to the investors was approximately $42,322,000 and the estimated fair value of the 3,558,140 warrants issued to the placement agent was approximately $5,850,000. Common Stock Issued for Services On November 2, 2021, the Company issued 50,201 shares of common stock for investor relations services and expensed the $95,884 fair value of the common stock issued. Stock Option Plans Pursuant to our 2014 Stock Incentive Plan, we reserved 866,667 common shares for issuance to employees, directors and consultants. As of December 31, 2021, options to purchase 855,171 shares were outstanding and no shares remain available for future grants. On February 7, 2018, our stockholders approved the 2018 Omnibus Stock Incentive Plan and we reserved 2,000,000 common shares for issuance to employees, directors and consultants. As of December 31, 2021, options to purchase 1,820,000 shares were outstanding. On February 10, 2020, our stockholders approved the 2020 Stock Plan and we reserved 3,110,000 common shares for issuance thereunder. The 2020 Stock Plan provides incentives to employees, directors, and consultants through options, SARs, dividend equivalent rights, restricted stock, restricted stock units, or other rights. As of December 31, 2021, options to purchase 1,870,000 shares were outstanding and the remaining 1,240,000 shares were transferred to the 2021 Omnibus Stock Incentive Plan (“2021 Stock Plan”). On May 24, 2021, our stockholders approved the 2021 Stock Plan and we reserved 8,740,000 shares for issuance thereunder. The 2021 Stock Plan provides incentives to employees, directors, and consultants through options, SARs, dividend equivalent rights, restricted stock, restricted stock units, or other rights. As of December 31, 2021, options to purchase 4,475,000 shares were outstanding and there were 4,265,000 shares available for future grants. The fair value of each stock option award is estimated on the date of grant using the Black-Scholes option pricing model. The risk-free interest rate is based on the U.S. Treasury yield curve in effect at the time of grant commensurate with the expected term assumption. The expected term of stock options granted, all of which qualify as “plain vanilla,” is based on the average of the contractual term (generally 10 years) and the vesting period. For non-employee options, the expected term is the contractual term. A summary of option activity under our stock option plans (excluding the NoveCite Stock Plan) is presented below: Option Weighted- Weighted- Aggregate Outstanding at October 1, 2021 5,755,171 $ 2.13 8.02 years $ 3,589,392 Granted 3,265,000 2.03 Exercised — — Forfeited or expired — — Outstanding at December 31, 2021 9,020,171 $ 2.09 8.49 years $ 1,799,433 Exercisable at December 31, 2021 3,365,325 $ 2.55 6.87 years $ 1,163,643 On October 11, 2021, the Board of Directors granted options to purchase 2,515,000 shares to employees, 375,000 shares to directors and 175,000 shares to consultants at $2.04 per share. On November 1, 2021, the Board of Directors granted options to purchase 200,000 shares to an employee at $1.87 per share. The weighted average grant date fair value of the options granted during the three months ended December 31, 2021 was estimated at $1.72 per share. All of these options vest over terms of 12 to 36 months and have a term of 10 years. On October 6, 2020, the Board of Directors granted stock options to purchase a total of 800,000 shares to employees, 175,000 shares to directors and 125,000 shares to consultants with an exercise price of $1.01 per share. The weighted average grant date fair value of the options granted during the three months ended December 31, 2020 was estimated at $0.87 per share. All of these options vest over terms of 12 to 36 months and have a term of 10 years. Stock-based compensation expense for the three months ended December 31, 2021 and 2020 was $904,604 (including $33,333 for the NoveCite Stock Plan) and $276,582 (including $12,556 for the NoveCite Stock Plan), respectively. At December 31, 2021, unrecognized total compensation cost related to unvested awards under the Citius stock plans of $7,755,214 is expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of 2.4 years. On November 5, 2020, the stockholders of NoveCite, approved NoveCite’s Stock Plan and we reserved 2,000,000 common shares of NoveCite for issuance thereunder. The NoveCite Stock Plan provides incentives to employees, directors, and consultants through grants of options, SARs, dividend equivalent rights, restricted stock, restricted stock units, or other rights. As of December 31, 2021, there were options outstanding to purchase 2,000,000 common shares of NoveCite and no shares available for future grants. As of December 31, 2021, NoveCite has options outstanding to purchase 2,000,000 common shares at a weighted average exercise price of $0.24 per share, of which 376,665 are exercisable as of December 31, 2021. All of these options vest over 36 months and have a term of 10 years. The weighted average remaining contractual term of options outstanding under the NoveCite Stock Plan is 9.14 years. At December 31, 2021, unrecognized total compensation cost related to unvested awards under the NoveCite Stock Plan of $283,111 is expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of 2.17 years. Warrants As of December 31, 2021, we have reserved shares of common stock for the exercise of outstanding warrants as follows: Exercise Number Expiration Dates LMB Warrants $ 7.50 53,110 March 24 – April 29, 2022 2016 Offering Warrants 4.13 69,316 February 10 – 27, 2022 2017 Public Offering Investors 4.13 1,622,989 August 2, 2022 2017 Public Offering Underwriter 4.54 65,940 February 2, 2023 December 2017 Registered Direct/Private Placement Offering Investors 4.63 640,180 June 19, 2023 December 2017 Registered Direct/Private Placement Offering Placement Agent 5.87 89,625 December 19, 2022 March 2018 Registered Direct/Private Placement Offering Investors 2.86 218,972 October 2, 2023 March 2018 Registered Direct/Private Placement Offering Placement Agent 3.73 46,866 March 28, 2023 August 2018 Offering Investors 1.15 3,921,569 August 14, 2023 August 2018 Offering Agent 1.59 189,412 August 8, 2023 April 2019 Registered Direct/Private Placement Offering Investors 1.42 1,294,498 April 5, 2024 April 2019 Registered Direct/Private Placement Offering Placement Agent 1.93 240,130 April 5, 2024 September 2019 Offering Investors 0.77 2,793,297 September 27, 2024 September 2019 Offering Underwriter 1.12 194,358 September 27, 2024 February 2020 Exercise Agreement Placement Agent 1.28 138,886 August 19, 2025 May 2020 Registered Direct Offering Investors 1.00 1,670,588 November 18, 2025 May 2020 Registered Direct Offering Placement Agent 1.33 155,647 May 14, 2025 August 2020 Underwriter 1.31 201,967 August 10, 2025 January 2021 Private Placement Offering Investors 1.23 3,091,192 July 27, 2026 January 2021 Private Placement Offering Agent 1.62 351,623 July 27, 2026 February 2021 Registered Direct Offering Investors 1.70 20,580,283 February 19, 2026 February 2021 Registered Direct Offering Agent 1.88 2,506,396 February 19, 2026 40,136,844 At December 31, 2021, the weighted average remaining life of the outstanding warrants is 3.5 years, all warrants are exercisable, and the aggregate intrinsic value of the warrants outstanding was $5,890,469. Common Stock Reserved A summary of common stock reserved for future issuances as of December 31, 2021 is as follows: Stock plan options outstanding 9,020,171 Stock plan shares available for future grants 4,265,000 Warrants outstanding 40,136,844 Total 53,422,015 |