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Stockholders' Equity
 6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2024
Equity, Attributable to Parent [Abstract]  
Stockholders' Equity Note Disclosure [Text Block] STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
2023 Shelf Registration

The Company filed a shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (Registration Statement No. 333-272984) with the SEC on June 28, 2023, which became effective on July 10, 2023. Pursuant to this shelf registration statement, the Company may offer and sell up to $200 million in securities, in aggregate. The Company retains broad discretion over the use of the net proceeds from the sale of the securities offered.

Common Stock Issuance

On February 9, 2024, the Company entered into an At Market Issuance Sales Agreement with B. Riley Securities, Inc., Lake Street Capital Markets, LLC and Roth Capital Partners, LLC (collectively, the “Agents”), relating to the ATM offering of shares of the Company’s Class A Common Stock. Pursuant to this sales agreement, the Company sold an aggregate of 275,202 and 451,830 shares of its Class A Common Stock at the market price in the three and six months ended June 30, 2024, respectively, for a total of $12.5 million and $19.9 million, respectively. After expenses and commissions paid to the Agents, the Company’s proceeds totaled $12.2 million and $19.3 million in the three and six months ended June 30, 2024, respectively. Additionally, the Company recorded direct costs of less than $0.1 million in both the three and six months ended June 30, 2024, related to the issuance. The shares of Class A Common Stock were issued pursuant to the Company’s shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-272984), which became effective on July 10, 2023, and a prospectus supplement dated February 9, 2024.

Pursuant to a separate sales agreement with its Agents, the Company sold, through its ATM offering at the market price, an aggregate of 0 and 722,568 shares of its Class A Common Stock in the three and six months ended June 30, 2023, respectively, for a total of $0 and $24.4 million, respectively. After expenses and commissions paid to the Agents, the Company’s proceeds totaled $0 and $23.4 million in the three and six months ended June 30, 2023, respectively. Additionally, the Company recorded direct costs of $0 and $0.2 million in the three and six months ended June 30, 2023, respectively, related to the issuance. The shares of Class A Common Stock were issued pursuant to the Company’s shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-239242), which became effective on August 5, 2020, and two prospectus supplements dated December 31, 2020 and December 5, 2022, respectively.

Unless otherwise specified in any prospectus supplement, the Company has used and/or intends to use the net proceeds from the sale of its securities offered under these prospectuses for working capital and general corporate purposes including, but not limited to, capital expenditures, repayment of indebtedness, potential acquisitions and other business opportunities. Pending any specific application, the Company may initially invest funds in short-term marketable securities or apply them to the reduction of indebtedness.
Rights Agreement

On May 28, 2024, the Company entered into a Sixth Amendment to the Section 382 Rights Agreement (the “Rights Agreement”), which amends the Rights Agreement, dated as of April 6, 2016, by and among the Company, and Computershare Trust Company, N.A. and Computershare Inc., as rights agent, as previously amended by (i) the First Amendment to the Rights Agreement dated as of February 14, 2017, (ii) the Second Amendment to the Rights Agreement dated as of April 3, 2019, (iii) the Third Amendment to the Rights Agreement dated as of April 13, 2020, (iv) the Fourth Amendment to the Rights Agreement dated as of June 16, 2021, and (v) the Fifth Amendment to the Rights Agreement dated as of June 20, 2023.

The Fifth Amendment to the Rights Agreement (i) increased the purchase price for each one one-thousandth (1/1000th) of a share of the Company’s Series A Participating Cumulative Preferred Stock, par value $1.00 per share, from $18.00 to $160.38; and (ii) extended the Final Expiration Date (as defined in the Rights Agreement) from June 30, 2023 to June 30, 2026.

The Fifth Amendment was not adopted as a result of, or in response to, any effort to acquire control of the Company. The Fifth Amendment was adopted in order to preserve for the Company’s stockholders the long-term value of the Company’s NOL carry-forwards for United States federal income tax purposes and other tax benefits.

The Sixth Amendment was approved by the Board on May 28, 2024, and makes clarifying changes relating to the definition of “Beneficial Owner”, “beneficially owned” and “Beneficial Ownership” contained in the Rights Agreement. Please see Exhibit 4.1 in Item 6, Exhibits, for further details.
    
Awards under Executive Incentive Plan

Under the Company’s 2019 Equity Incentive Plan, participating employees are eligible to receive grants of equity awards such as notional stock units and SARs. In April 2020, under the 2019 Equity Incentive Plan, notional stock units and SARs were granted to participating executives with a vesting period ending in April 2023.

In March 2022, 2023 and 2024 restricted stock units were granted to participating executives with a vesting period ending in March 2025, 2026 and 2027, respectively. The restricted stock unit awards are time based and payable in shares of the Company’s Class A Common Stock subject to achieving a threshold level of cumulative net income over the vesting period. The grant-date fair value is included in Excess of Capital Over Par Value as the value is amortized over the vesting period.

The plan payouts for the 2020-2022 performance period were settled in Class A Common Stock in March and April 2023. In the first quarter of 2023, the Company withheld $1.9 million of shares that vested during the period to fund the tax withholding obligations under the terms of the stock-based compensation plan.

The Class A Common Stock issued for the 2021-2023 performance period were issued in March 2024. The Company withheld $0.1 million of shares to fund the tax withholding obligations under the terms of the stock-based compensation plan.