Quarterly report [Sections 13 or 15(d)]

Stockholders Equity

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Stockholders Equity
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2025
Stockholders Equity [Abstract]  
STOCKHOLDERS EQUITY

NOTE 9 – STOCKHOLDERS EQUITY

 

A. Share Capital:

 

Reverse Stock Split:

 

On July 9, 2024, the Company’s stockholders approved a reverse stock split at a ratio within a range of 1-for-5 and 1-for-10 at such time as the Board of Directors shall determine, in its sole discretion, at any time before July 9, 2025. On August 8, 2024, the Board of Directors approved a 1-for-10 Reverse Stock Split of the Company’s shares of Common Stock.

 

On August 20, 2024, the Company filed a Certificate of Amendment with the Delaware Secretary of State to effect the Reverse Stock Split, which became effective on August 26, 2024 (the “Effective Date”). The Company’s Common Stock began trading on a Reverse Stock Split adjusted basis on the NYSE American at the opening of the markets on the Effective Date.

 

As a result of the Reverse Stock Split, the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding was reduced from 178,958,447 shares to 18,021,173 shares. No fractional shares of Common Stock or Units (which are no longer outstanding) were issued in connection with the Reverse Stock Split. Stockholders of the Company who otherwise were entitled to receive fractional shares or Units, because they held a number of shares or Units, as applicable, not evenly divisible by the Reverse Stock Split ratio were automatically entitled to receive an additional fraction of a share of the Common Stock or Unit, as applicable, to round up to the next whole share. As a result, 125,328 shares of Common Stock were issued. The Reverse Stock Split did not change the par value of the Common Stock nor the authorized number of shares of Common Stock, preferred stock or any series of preferred stock.

 

Unless otherwise indicated, all amounts of issued and outstanding stock contained in the accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements have been adjusted to reflect the 1-for-10 Reverse Stock Split for all prior periods presented. Proportional adjustments were also made to shares underlying outstanding equity awards, warrants and Redeemable Convertible Preferred Shares, and to the number of shares issued and issuable under the Company’s stock incentive plans and certain existing agreements.

 

Preferred Stock:

 

The Company is authorized to issue 1,000,000 shares of preferred stock with a par value of $0.0001 per share with such designations, rights and preferences as may be determined from time to time by the Company’s Board of Directors.

 

On March 15, 2024, the Company issued 40,470 and 216,417 Redeemable Convertible Preferred Shares, par value $0.0001 per share, as part of the Acquisition and the March 2024 PIPE, respectively. On July 15, 2024, 109,152 Redeemable Convertible Preferred Shares were converted into 10,915,200 shares of the Company’s Common Stock.

Private Investment in Public Equity:

 

On February 22, 2023, the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement to issue and sell an aggregate of 1,599,746 shares of its Common Stock and 1,461,072 pre-funded warrants (the “Pre-Funded Warrants”) at a price of $2.45 per share and $2.44 per Pre-Funded Warrant in a private placement (the “February 2023 PIPE”). The net proceeds from the PIPE were approximately $7,152, after deducting issuance costs of $333. During the year ended December 31, 2024, 533,031 Pre-Funded Warrants were exercised into 533,031 shares of Common Stock for total consideration of $6 at an exercise price of $0.01 per share of Common Stock, and 928,041 Pre-Funded Warrants were exercised into 925,607 shares of Common Stock through cashless mechanism with no consideration. As of March 31, 2025, there are no outstanding Pre-Funded Warrants.

 

On March 15, 2024, the effective date of the Acquisition as described in Note 1D, the Company issued to APT’s former stockholders 916,497 shares of the Company’s Common Stock 40,470 Redeemable Convertible Preferred Shares and warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 216,650 shares of the Company Common Stock (“Merger Warrants”). Each share of Redeemable Convertible Preferred Shares is convertible into an aggregate of 100 shares of Common Stock. The Merger Warrants became exercisable at any time after the date of the receipt of BiomX stockholder approval, which was obtained on July 9, 2024, at an exercise price of $50.00 per share and will expire on January 28, 2027.

 

Concurrently with the consummation of the Acquisition, the Company consummated a private placement (the “March 2024 PIPE”) with certain investors pursuant to which, such investors purchased an aggregate of 216,417 Redeemable Convertible Preferred Shares (“PIPE Preferred Shares”) and warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 10,820,850 shares of the Company’s Common Stock (the “Private Placement Warrants”), at a combined price of $231.10 per PIPE Preferred Share and an accompanying Private Placement Warrant to purchase 50 shares of common stock. The PIPE Preferred Shares and the Private Placement Warrants were issued in a private placement pursuant to an exemption from registration requirements under the Securities Act for aggregate gross proceeds of $50,000. Each Private Placement Warrant’s exercise price equals to $2.31, subject to customary adjustments for stock dividends, stock splits, reclassifications and the like, became exercisable from the date of the receipt of BiomX stockholder approval, which was obtained on July 9, 2024, and will expire on July 9, 2026. Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to pay to each holder of the Private Placement Warrants (i) an amount in cash equal to the holder’s total purchase price for the shares of Common Stock purchased (the “Buy-In Price”) or credit such holder’s balance account with the Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) for such shares of Common Stock shall terminate, or (ii) promptly honor its obligation to deliver to such holder a certificate or certificates representing such shares of Common Stock or credit such holder’s balance account with DTC, as applicable, and pay cash to such holder in an amount equal to the excess (if any) of the Buy-In Price over the product of (A) such number of shares of Common Stock, times (B) Weighted Average Price (as defined in the Private Placement Warrant) on the trading day immediately preceding the exercise date. On February 25, 2025, 6,955,528 Private Placement Warrants were repriced and exercised under the Inducement Letter Agreements as defined and described below.

 

The Company accounted for the Private Placement Warrants as liabilities as the Private Placement Warrants are not considered indexed to the entity’s own stock based on the provision of ASC 815. The Private Placement Warrants are measured at fair value at inception and in subsequent reporting periods with changes in fair value recognized in the condensed consolidated statements.

 

On July 15, 2024, 109,152 Redeemable Convertible Preferred Shares that were issued under the Acquisition and the March 2024 PIPE were converted into 10,915,200 shares of the Company’s Common Stock according to beneficial ownership limitations set by certain investors.

In connection therewith, the Company issued warrants to purchase shares of the Company’s Common Stock to the Placement Agents (the “Agents Warrants”). See Note 9B for further information.

 

On February 25, 2025, the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement with certain institutional and accredited investors, pursuant to which the Company agreed to issue and sell in a registered direct offering (the “February 2025 Registered Direct Offering”) an aggregate of 2,828,283 shares of the Company’s Common Stock, pre-funded warrants (the “Registered Pre-Funded Warrants”) to purchase up to an aggregate of 805,231 shares of Common Stock, and in a concurrent private placement (the “February 2025 PIPE”, and together with the February 2025 Registered Direct Offering, the “February 2025 SPA”), (a) unregistered pre-funded warrants (the “Private Pre-Funded Warrants”) to purchase up to an aggregate of 2,305,869 shares of Common Stock at an exercise price of $0.0001 per share and (b) unregistered warrants (the “Common Warrants”, and together with the Private Pre-Funded Warrants, the “Private Warrants”) to purchase up to an aggregate of 5,939,383 shares of Common Stock at an exercise price of $0.9306 per share. Each share of Common Stock (or Registered Pre-Funded Warrant in lieu thereof) and Private Pre-Funded Warrant were sold with an accompanying Common Warrant. The combined effective purchase price of each share of Common Stock (or Registered Pre-Funded Warrant in lieu thereof) and accompanying Common Warrant, and of each Private Pre-Funded Warrant and accompanying Common Warrant, is $0.9306. The Common Warrants became exercisable on the effective date of stockholder approval of the issuance of the shares of Common Stock upon exercise of the Private Warrants (the “Stockholder Approval Date”), which was obtained on April 21, 2025, and will expire on the five-year anniversary of the Stockholder Approval Date. The gross proceeds to the Company from the February 2025 SPA were $5,527, before deducting placement agent fees and other offering expenses payable by the Company of $657.

 

The Company accounted for the Common Warrants as liabilities as they are not considered indexed to the entity’s own stock based on the provision of ASC 815. The Common Warrants will be measured at fair value at inception and in subsequent reporting periods with changes in fair value recognized in the condensed consolidated statements.

 

The Company allocated the total consideration from the February 2025 SPA first to the fair value of the Common Warrants and then to the Company’s Common Stock, Registered Pre-Funded Warrants and Private Pre-Funded Warrants. The transaction costs were allocated in the same manner as the consideration. Issuance costs which were allocated to the Common Warrants were $539 and were expensed immediately, and issuance costs that were allocated to the Company’s Common Stock, Registered Pre-Funded Warrants and Private Pre-Funded Warrants were $118 and were deducted from Additional paid in capital.

 

Concurrently with the February 2025 SPA on February 25, 2025, the Company entered into inducement letter agreements (the “Inducement Letter Agreements”) with certain holders (the “Holders”) of the Company’s Private Placement Warrants issued on March 2024 PIPE, to purchase an aggregate of 6,955,528 shares of Common Stock, having an original exercise price of $2.311 per share (the “Existing Warrants”). Pursuant to the Inducement Letter Agreements, the Holders agreed to exercise for cash the Existing Warrants at a reduced exercise price of $0.9306 per share in consideration of the Company’s agreement to issue new unregistered warrants (the “Inducement Warrants”) to purchase up to an aggregate of 6,955,528 shares of Common Stock. Under the Inducement Letter Agreements, the Company issued 3,961,109 shares of Common Stock and amended and restated warrants (the “A&R Warrants”) to purchase up to 2,994,419 shares of Common Stock at an exercise price of $0.0001 per share. The Inducement Warrants have an exercise price of $0.9306 per share and became exercisable on Stockholder Approval Date, which was obtained on April 21, 2025 and will expire on the five-year anniversary of the Stockholder Approval Date. The benefit from the repricing in the amount of $3,300 was recorded as an expense within Loss (income) from change in fair value of warrants in the condensed consolidated statements of operations. The gross proceeds to the Company from the Existing Warrants exercise were $6,473 prior to deducting placement agent fees and offering expenses of $412.

 

The terms of the Inducement Warrants are substantially the same as those of the Common Warrants and were accounted for as liabilities.

 

At-the-Market Sales Agreement: 

  

In December 2023, pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-3 declared effective by the SEC on January 2, 2024, the Company entered an At the Market Offering Agreement with H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC (“Wainwright”), pursuant to which the Company was able to issue and sell shares of Common Stock having an aggregate offering price of up to $7,500 from time to time through Wainwright. During the three months ended March 31, 2024, the Company sold 7,518 shares of Common Stock under this agreement, at an average price of $2.71 per share, raising aggregate net proceeds of approximately $19, after deducting an aggregate commission of $1. No sales were made during the three months ended March 31, 2025 under this agreement and on February 24, 2025, the Company suspended the Open Market Offering Agreement and the related continuous offering by the Company under its registration statement on Form S-3.

Warrants:

 

As of March 31, 2025, the Company had the following outstanding warrants to purchase Common Stock issued to stockholders:

 

Warrant   Issuance Date   Expiration
Date
  Exercise
Price
Per Share
    Number of
Shares of
Common Stock
Underlying
Warrants
 
2021 Registered Direct Offering Warrants   SPA (July 28, 2021)   January 28, 2027     50.00       281,251  
Merger Warrants   March 15, 2024   January 28, 2027     50.00       216,650  
Private Placement Warrants   March 15, 2024   July 9, 2026     2.31       3,865,322  
Registered Pre-Funded Warrants   February 25, 2025   April 21, 2030     0.0001       805,231  
Private Pre-Funded Warrants   February 25, 2025   April 21, 2030     0.0001       2,305,869  
Common Warrants   February 25, 2025   April 21, 2030     0.9306       5,939,383  
Inducement Warrants   February 25, 2025   April 21, 2030     0.9306       6,955,528  
A&R Warrants   February 25, 2025   April 21, 2030     0.0001       2,994,419  
                      23,363,653  

 

  B. Stock-based Compensation:

  

On March 15, 2024, the Company issued Agents Warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 952,381 shares of the Company’s Common Stock to the Placement Agents in connection with the March 2024 PIPE. The exercise price of the Agents Warrants is $2.31 per share and they became exercisable at any time after the date of the receipt of BiomX stockholder approval, which was obtained on July 9, 2024, and will expire on July 9, 2026.

 

The Company accounted for the Agents Warrants under the scope of ASC 718-10 “Stock-Based Payment”, (“ASC 718-10”), and treated them as issuance costs of the March 2024 PIPE as the Company considers these Warrants as consideration for receipt of Private Placement Services.

A summary of options granted to purchase the Company’s Common Stock under the Company’s share option plans is as follows:

 

    For the Three Months Ended
March 31, 2025
 
    Number of
Options
    Weighted
Average
Exercise
Price
    Aggregate
Intrinsic
Value
 
Outstanding at the beginning of period     2,002,365       4.09       15  
Granted    
-
     
-
         
Forfeited     (45,810 )     3.63          
Expired     (32,874 )     2.85          
Exercised    
-
     
-
         
Outstanding at the end of period     1,923,681       4.12       11  
Exercisable at the end of period     353,482       6.09          
Weighted average remaining contractual life of outstanding options – years as of March 31, 2025     8.40                  

 

Warrants:

 

As of March 31, 2025, the Company had the following outstanding compensation related warrants to purchase Common Stock:

 

Warrant   Issuance
Date
  Expiration
Date
    Exercise
Price
Per Share
    Number of
Shares of
Common Stock
Underlying
Warrants
 
Private Warrants issued to scientific founders   November 27, 2017    
-
     
-
      298  
Landlord Warrants   March 15, 2024     January 28, 2027       50.00       25,000  
Agents Warrants   March 15, 2024     July 9, 2026       2.31       952,381  
                          977,679  

 

The following table sets forth the total stock-based payment expenses resulting from options granted, included in the statements of operations:

 

    Three Months Ended
March 31,
 
    2025     2024  
Research and development expenses, net     188       65  
General and administrative     471       112  
      659       177