may be required to delay, limit, reduce or terminate our medical device development or future commercialization efforts or grant rights to third parties to develop and market medical device candidates that we would otherwise prefer to develop and market ourselves.
After this offering, our executive officers and directors and their affiliates, if they choose to act together, will continue to have the ability to significantly influence all matters submitted to stockholders for approval.
Upon the completion of this offering and based on the number of shares of Class A Common Stock outstanding as of September 30, 2018, our executive officers and directors and their affiliates will beneficially own, in the aggregate, shares representing approximately 21% of our Class A Common Stock, assuming no exercise by the underwriters of their option to purchase additional shares and no exercise of options or warrants outstanding as of September 30, 2018. As a result, following this offering, if these stockholders were to choose to act together, they would be able to significantly influence all matters submitted to our stockholders for approval, as well as our management and affairs. For example, these persons, if they choose to act together, would significantly influence the election of directors and approval of any merger, consolidation or sale of all or substantially all of our assets. This concentration of ownership control may delay, defer or prevent a change in control of our company, entrench our management and board of directors, or impede a merger, consolidation, takeover or other business combination involving us that other stockholders may desire.
If you purchase shares of Class A Common Stock in this offering, you will suffer immediate dilution of your investment.
The price of our Class A Common Stock to be sold in this offering is substantially higher than the net tangible book value per share of our Class A Common Stock. Therefore, if you purchase shares of our Class A Common Stock in this offering, you will pay a price per share that substantially exceeds our net tangible book value per share after this offering. To the extent outstanding options are exercised, you will incur further dilution. Based on a public offering price of US$8.25 per share, you will experience immediate dilution of US$7.81 per share, representing the difference between the public offering price and our as adjusted net tangible book value per share after giving effect to this offering.
We have broad discretion over the use of our cash, including the net proceeds we receive in this offering, and may not use them effectively.
Our management has broad discretion to use our cash, including the net proceeds we receive in this offering, to fund our operations and could spend these funds in ways that do not improve our results of operations or enhance the value of our Class A Common Stock. The failure by our management to apply these funds effectively could result in financial losses that could have an adverse effect on our business, cause the price of our Class A Common Stock to decline and delay the development of our medical device candidates. Pending their use to fund operations, we may invest our cash in a manner that does not produce income or that loses value.
Because we do not intend to pay dividends for the foreseeable future, stockholders must rely on appreciation of the value of our common stock for any return on their investment.
We have never declared or paid any dividends on our Class A Common Stock and do not intend to pay any dividends in the foreseeable future. We anticipate that we will retain all of our future earnings for use in the operation of our business and for general corporate purposes. Any determination to pay dividends in the future will be at the discretion of our board of directors. As a result, we expect that only appreciation of the price of our common stock, if any, will provide a return to investors in this offering for the foreseeable future.
Future sales of our common stock could cause our stock price to decline.
Sales of a substantial number of shares of our common stock in the public market, or the perception that these sales might occur, may reduce the prevailing market price of our common stock and make more difficult for you
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