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Equity
 3 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2024
Equity [Abstract]  
Equity

Note 14 – Equity

 

Common Stock

 

As of September 30, 2024, the total authorized shares of capital stock were 200,000,000 shares consisting of 180,000,000 shares of Common Stock (“Common Stock”) and 20,000,000 shares of preferred stock (the “Preferred Stock”), each with a par value of $0.001 per share.

 

The holders of Common Stock shall be entitled to one vote per share in voting to the election of directors and all other corporate purposes. Subject to the express terms of any outstanding series of Preferred Stock, dividends may be paid in cash or otherwise with respect to the holders of Common Stock out of the assets of the Company legally available therefor, upon the terms, and subject to the limitations, as the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board of Directors”) may determine. In the event of liquidation or dissolution of the Company, subject to the express terms of any outstanding series of Preferred Stock, the holders of Common Stock shall be entitled to share in the distribution of any remaining assets available for distribution to the holders of Common Stock ratably in proportion to the total number of shares of Common Stock then issued and outstanding.

 

During the year ended June 30, 2024, the Company issued 107,293 shares of restricted Common Stock for RSUs vested.

 

On June 18, 2024, the Company closed on a registered direct offering (the “Registered Direct”) of 2,083,334 shares of common stock (the “Shares”) and a concurrent private placement (“Private Placement,” and together with the Registered Direct, the “Offering”) of warrants (the “Warrants”) to purchase 2,083,334 shares of common stock (the “Warrant Shares”), which were sold for gross aggregate proceeds of $5,000,002. The Shares were sold pursuant to a prospectus supplement, filed on June 18, 2024, to the Registration Statement on Form S-3, originally filed on September 25, 2023, with the SEC (File No. 333-274665) and declared effective by the SEC on September 29, 2023. The Warrants, which were issued pursuant to an exemption from registration pursuant to Section 4(a)(2) or Regulation D on the Securities Act, have a term of five years and are immediately exercisable at $2.40 per share. The Shares and Warrants were sold to a purchaser pursuant to a securities purchase agreement, dated June 16, 2024, between the Company and the purchaser (the “Purchase Agreement”). Roth Capital Partners, LLC (the “Placement Agent”) acted as placement agent, pursuant to a placement agency agreement between the Company and the Placement Agent dated June 16, 2024 (the “Placement Agency Agreement”). The Company paid the Placement Agent as compensation a cash fee equal to 6.5% of the gross proceeds of the Offering plus reimbursement of certain expenses and legal fees. The net proceeds of the Offering, after deducting $456,913, the Placement Agent’s fees and expenses and other direct offering costs paid by the Company, was $4,543,089.

 

The Company calculated the fair value of the Warrants at $3.1 million, with a relative fair value of $1.7 million after allocation of the fair value of the Shares, using the Black-Scholes Model with the following variables:

 

· Stock Price - $2.00
· Exercise Price - $2.40
· Volatility – 104%
· Term –5 years
· Risk Free Rate of Return – 4.24%

 

Pursuant to the Warrant agreement, except for some fundamental transactions within the Company’s control, in no event shall the Company be required to net cash settle the Warrants. The Company considered and followed the rules and guidelines under ASC 480-10 and ASC 815 and concluded that the Warrants should be classified and recorded as equity. Further, as the warrants were issued as part of the Offering, the relative fair value of the Warrants was included in the gross proceeds and recorded as additional paid-in capital.

 

On June 18, 2024, as disclosed in Note 17 below, in order to recoup the settlement payment made to Boustead Securities, LLC, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and co-founder, Lawrence Tan, along with co-founder Allan Huang, returned a total of 541,667 shares to the Company for cancellation (the “Share Cancellation”). The Share Cancellation was completed in June 2024 and the par value of $542 was reduced against additional paid-in capital.

 

As of September 30, 2024 and June 30, 2024, there were 31,359,899 shares of Common Stock issued and outstanding.

 

Preferred Stock

 

The Preferred Stock was authorized as “blank check” series of Preferred Stock, providing that the Board of Directors is expressly authorized, subject to limitations prescribed by law, by resolution or resolutions and by filing a certificate pursuant to the applicable law of the State of Nevada, to provide, out of the authorized but unissued shares of Preferred Stock, for series of Preferred Stock, and to establish from time to time the number of shares to be included in each such series, and to fix the designation, powers, preferences and rights of the shares of each such series and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof. As of September 30, 2024 and June 30, 2024, respectively, there were no shares of Preferred Stock issued and outstanding.

 

Equity Incentive Plan

 

On May 5, 2021, the Company’s Board of Directors adopted, and its stockholders approved and ratified, the iPower Inc. Amended and Restated 2020 Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”). The Plan allows for the issuance of up to 5,000,000 shares of Common Stock, whether in the form of stock options, restricted stock, restricted stock units, stock appreciation rights, performance units, performance shares and other stock or cash awards. The general purpose of the Plan is to provide an incentive to the Company’s directors, officers, employees, consultants and advisors by enabling them to share in the future growth of the Company’s business. On November 16, 2021 and December 6, 2022, the Company filed a registration statement on Form S-8 registering all shares issuable under the Plan, which was subsequently amended on December 6, 2022 and September 15, 2023 and November 22, 2023.

 

Restricted Stock Unit

 

Following completion of the IPO on May 11, 2021, pursuant to their letter agreements, the Company awarded 46,546 restricted stock units (“RSUs”) under the Plan to its independent directors, its Chief Financial Officer, and certain other employees and consultants, all of which vested over 12 months following the grant date and were subject to other restrictions until the filing of a Registration Statement on Form S-8 registering the shares. The fair value of the RSUs was determined based on $5.00 per share, the initial listing price of the Company’s Common Stock on the grant date. During the three months ended September 30, 2024, the Company granted an additional 71,427 shares of RSUs. For the three months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, the Company recorded $31,788 and $7,500 of stock-based compensation expense. There was no forfeiture of RSUs occurred during the three months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023. As of September 30, 2024 and June 30, 2024, the unvested number of RSUs was 47,619 and 3,250 and the unamortized expense was $60,000 and $1,788, respectively.

 

Information relating to RSU grants is summarized as follows:

        
   Total RSUs Issued   Total Fair Market Value of RSUs Issued as Compensation (1) 
RSUs granted, but not vested, at June 30, 2024   3,250      
RSUs granted   71,427   $90,000 
RSUs forfeited   –      
RSUs vested   (27,058)     
RSUs granted, but not vested, at September 30, 2024   47,619      

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(1) The total fair value was based on the current stock price on the grant date.

 

As of September 30, 2024, of the 357,212 vested RSUs, 285,869 shares of Common Stock were issued, and 71,343 shares were to be issued in the near future.

 

Stock Option

 

On May 12, 2022, the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors approved an incentive plan for the Company’s executive officers consisting of a cash performance bonus of $60,000 to be awarded to Kevin Vassily, CFO of the Company, and grants of stock option (the “Option Grants”) exercisable to purchase (i) 3,000,000 shares of Common Stock to Chenlong Tan, CEO and (ii) 330,000 shares of Common Stock to Mr. Vassily. The Option Grants, which were issued on May 13, 2022, have an exercise price of $1.12, a contractual term of 10 years, and consist of six vesting tranches with a vesting schedule based entirely on the attainment of both operational milestones (performance conditions) and market conditions, assuming continued employment of the recipients through each vesting date. Each of the six vesting tranches of the Option Grants will vest when both (i) the market capitalization milestone for such tranche, which begins at $150 million for the first tranche and increases by increments of $50 million through the fourth tranche and $100 million thereafter (based on achieving such market capitalization for five consecutive trading days), has been achieved, and (ii) any one of the following six operational milestones focused on revenue or any one of the six operational milestones focused on operating income have been achieved during a given fiscal year.

 

The estimated achievement status of the operational milestones as of September 30, 2024 was as follows:

                             
  Revenue in Fiscal Year       Operating Income in Fiscal Year  
 

Milestone

(in Millions)

      

Achievement

Status

      

Milestone

(in Millions)

      

Achievement

Status

  
                             
$ 90       Probable     $ 6       Probable  
$ 100       Probable     $ 8       Probable  
$ 125       Probable     $ 10       Probable  
$ 150       Probable     $ 12       Probable  
$ 200       Probable     $ 16       –  
$ 250       –     $ 20       –  

 

The Company evaluated the performance condition and market condition under ASC 718-10-20. The Option Grants are considered an award containing a performance and a market condition and both conditions (in this case at least one of the performance conditions) must be satisfied for the award to vest. The market condition is incorporated into the fair value of the award, and that fair value is recognized over the longer of the implied service period or requisite service period if it is probable that one of the performance conditions will be met. In relation to the five awards deemed probable to vest, the recognition period ranges from 2.93 years to 9.64 years. If the performance condition is ultimately not met, compensation cost related to the award should not be recognized (or should be reversed to the extent any expense has been recognized related to such tranche) because the vesting condition in the award would not have been satisfied.

 

On the grant date, a Monte Carlo simulation was used to determine for each tranche (i) a fixed amount of expense for such tranche and (ii) the future time when the market capitalization milestone for such tranche was expected to be achieved. Separately, based on a subjective assessment of our future financial performance, each quarter we determine whether it is probable that the Company will achieve each operational milestone that has not previously been achieved or deemed probable of achievement and, if so, the future time when the Company expects to achieve that operational milestone. The Monte Carlo simulation utilized the following inputs:

 

  · Stock Price - $1.12
  · Volatility – 95.65%
  · Term –10 years
  · Risk Free Rate of Return – 2.93%
  · Dividend Yield – 0%

 

The total fair value of the Option Grants was $3.2 million of which, at September 30, 2023, $2.3 million is deemed probable of vesting. As of September 30, 2024, none of the options had vested. For the three months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, the Company recorded $110,382 and $110,382 of stock-based compensation expense related to the Option Grants. As of September 30, 2024, unrecognized compensation cost related to tranches probable of vesting is approximately $1.2 million and will be recognized over two years to nine years, depending on the tranche.

 

On August 29, 2024, the board of directors (the “Board”) of the Company, based on the recommendation of the compensation committee of the Board, approved a grant of 1,200,000 stock options (the “2024 Stock Options”) issuable to Chenlong Tan, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, pursuant to the terms of the iPower Inc. Amended and Restated 2020 Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”). Following the Board’s approval, Mr. Tan and the Company entered into a stock option award agreement (the "Stock Option Award Agreement").

 

According to the Stock Option Award Agreement, and subject to the terms and conditions of the Stock Option Award Agreement and the Plan, upon vesting of the 2024 Stock Options, Mr. Tan will have the option to purchase common stock, par value $0.001 per share of the Company, at an exercise price of $1.43 per share (which is 110% of the Fair Market Value of the stock on the grant date). The 2024 Stock Options have a term of 10 years and will vest as follows: 30,000 2024 Stock Options vested on the grant date (August 29, 2024), and 32,500 2024 Stock Options will vest on the first day of each month from September 1, 2024, to August 1, 2027.

 

On the grant date, a Black-Scholes Model was used to determine the fair value of the 2024 Stock Options with the following inputs:

 

  · Stock Price - $1.30
  · Exercise Price - $1.43
  · Volatility – 101%
  · Expected Term –5.71 years
  · Risk Free Rate of Return – 3.66%
  · Dividend Yield – 0%

 

The total fair value of the 2024 Stock Options was $1.22 million as of the grant date. For the three months ended September 30, 2024, 62,500 stock options were vested and the Company recorded $63,790 as stock compensation expense. As of September 30, 2024, the unrecognized compensation cost of the 2024 Stock Options was approximately $1.16 million and will be recognized monthly through August 1, 2027.