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DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS
 3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
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DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS

1. DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS

 

Ault Alliance, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Ault Alliance” or the “Company”) is a diversified holding company pursuing growth by acquiring undervalued businesses and disruptive technologies with a global impact. Through its wholly- and majority-owned subsidiaries and strategic investments, the Company owns and operates a data center at which it mines Bitcoin, and provides mission-critical products that support a diverse range of industries, including metaverse platform, oil exploration, crane services, defense/aerospace, industrial, automotive, medical/biopharma, consumer electronics, hotel operations and textiles. In addition, the Company extends credit to select entrepreneurial businesses through a licensed lending subsidiary.

 

Ault Alliance was founded by Milton “Todd” Ault, III, its Executive Chairman and is led by Milton “Todd” Ault, III, William B. Horne, its Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman and Henry Nisser, its President and General Counsel. Together, they constitute the Executive Committee, which manages the day-to-day operations of the Company. All major investment and capital allocation decisions are made for the Company by the Executive Committee. The Company has the following nine reportable segments:

 

·Energy and Infrastructure (“Energy”) – crane operations, advanced textiles processing and oil exploration;

 

·Technology and Finance (“Fintech”) –commercial lending, activist investing, media, and digital learning;

 

·The Singing Machine Company, Inc. (“SMC”) – consumer electronics;

 

·BitNile, Inc. (“BNI”) – cryptocurrency mining operations;

 

·Giga-tronics Incorporated (“GIGA”) – defense industry;

 

·Imperalis Holding Corp., d/b/a TurnOnGreen, Inc. (“TurnOnGreen”) – commercial electronics solutions;

 

·BitNile Metaverse, Inc. (“BMI”) – immersive metaverse platform;

 

·Ault Global Real Estate Equities, Inc. (“AGREE”) – hotel operations and other commercial real estate holdings; and

 

·Ault Disruptive Technologies Corporation (“Ault Disruptive”) – a special purpose acquisition company (“SPAC”).

 

On January 3, 2023, the Company (then known as BitNile Holdings, Inc.) merged its wholly owned subsidiary, Ault Alliance, Inc. with and into itself. In connection with this upstream merger, Ault Alliance, Inc. was merged out of existence and the business of the Company continued as it was being conducted. Further, on January 3, 2023, the effective date of the merger, the Company changed its name to Ault Alliance, Inc. and its ticker was changed to “AULT.” The name change did not affect the rights of security holders of the Company.

 

Reverse Stock Split

 

On May 15, 2023, pursuant to the authorization provided by the Company’s stockholders at a special meeting of stockholders, the Company’s board of directors approved an amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation to effectuate a reverse stock split of the of the Company’s issued and outstanding common stock by a ratio of one-for-three hundred (the “Reverse Split”). The Reverse Split did not affect the number of authorized shares of common stock or preferred stock or their par value per share. As a result of the Reverse Split, each three hundred shares of common stock issued and outstanding prior to the Reverse Split were converted into one share of common stock. The Reverse Split became effective in the State of Delaware on May 17, 2023. All share amounts in these financial statements have been updated to reflect the Reverse Split.