Quarterly report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

Stockholders' Equity

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Stockholders' Equity
 6 Months Ended
Feb. 28, 2022
Equity [Abstract]  
Stockholders' Equity Stockholders’ Equity
Preferred Stock
Preferred Stock
As previously disclosed, in September 2016, the founding shareholders of the Company were granted options to acquire preferred stock of the Company (the “Preferred Options”). The number of Preferred Options granted was based upon the number of shares held at the time of the grant. These Preferred Options are nontransferable and forfeited upon the sale of the related founding shares of common stock held by the option holder. Upon the occurrence of certain specified events, such founding shareholders can exercise each Preferred Option to purchase one share of preferred stock of the Company at an exercise price of $0.0001 per share. The preferred stock underlying the Preferred Options does not include any rights to dividends or preference upon liquidation of the Company and is convertible into shares of the Company’s common stock on a one-for-one basis. Upon consummation of the Vensure Asset Sale in January 2020, a total of 24,634,560 Preferred Options became exercisable and exchangeable into an equal number of shares of our common stock.

On June 4, 2020, Scott W. Absher, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, exercised 12,500,000 Preferred Options to purchase 12,500,000 shares of our preferred stock for an aggregate purchase price of $1,250. Immediately following the exercise of the Preferred Options described above, Mr. Absher elected to convert the 12,500,000 shares of preferred stock into 12,500,000 shares of common stock, which are subject to a 24-month lock-up period during which such shares may not be traded. Between July 20, 2020 and November 30, 2020, an additional 294,490 Preferred Options were exercised and converted into 294,490 shares of common stock, which were subject to a six-month lock up period at the time they were issued, during which such shares could not be traded on the open market. As of February 28, 2022, the restrictions on all of these shares have been lifted, rendering them freely tradeable.

On October 22, 2021, the Company’s board of directors canceled 11,790,000 of these Preferred Options previously issued to its co-founder, J. Stephen Holmes. Accordingly, these Preferred Options are no longer exercisable. A total of 37,570 Preferred Options issued pursuant to the September 2016 grant and triggered by the Vensure Asset Sale remain unexercised.

The amount of Preferred Options, and the number of shares of preferred stock issuable upon exercise of such options, is based upon the number of shares of common stock held by the option holders at the time the Preferred Options were issued in September 2016. Accordingly, in order to confirm the original intent of the granting of up to 25,000,000 Preferred Options to Mr. Absher, it has always been the Company’s intent to adopt a second grant of an additional 12,500,000 Preferred Options to Mr. Absher, whereby each option permits the holder to acquire one share of the Company’s preferred stock for $0.0001 per share. On August 13, 2021, consistent with this intent, the Company granted 12,500,000 Preferred Options to Mr. Absher to purchase shares of Preferred Stock, par value $0.0001 per share, for consideration of $0.0001 per share. Each Preferred Option is exercisable for a period of twenty-four months upon (i) the acquisition of a Controlling Interest (as defined below) in the Company by any single shareholder or group of shareholders acting in concert, (other than Mr. Absher), or (ii) the announcement of (x) any proposed merger, consolidation, or business combination in which the Company’s Common Stock is changed or exchanged, or (y) any sale or distribution of at least 50% of the Company’s assets or earning power, other than through a reincorporation. Each share of Preferred Stock is convertible into Common Stock on a one-for-one basis. “Controlling Interest” means the ownership or control of outstanding voting shares of the Company sufficient to enable the acquiring person, directly or indirectly and individually or in concert with others, to exercise one-fifth or more of all the voting power of the Company in the election of directors or any other business matter on which shareholders have the right to vote under the Wyoming Business Corporation Act. As of February 28, 2022, no events have occurred that would trigger the exercise of the Preferred Options issued to Mr. Absher in August 2021.
Common Stock and Warrants
During the six months ended February 28, 2022, the Company closed the following transactions:
January 2022 Warrant Exercise Agreement
On May 17, 2021, we issued warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 4,948,453 shares of our common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, with an exercise price of $2.425 (the "Existing Warrants"). The Existing Warrants were immediately exercisable and expire on June 15, 2026. On January 26, 2022, we entered into a Warrant Exercise Agreement ("the Exercise Agreement") with the holder of the Existing Warrants (the "Exercising Holder"). Pursuant to the Exercise Agreement, the
Exercise Holder and the Company agreed that, subject to any applicable beneficial ownership limitations, the Exercising Holder would cash exercise up to 4,948,453 of its Existing Warrants (the "Investor Warrants") into shares of our common stock underlying such Existing Warrants (the "Exercised Shares"). To induce the Exercising Holder to exercise the Investor Warrants, the Exercise Agreement (i) amended the Investor Warrants to reduce their exercise price per share to $1.20 and (ii) provided for the issuance of a new warrant to purchase up to an aggregate of approximately 9,896,906 shares of our common stock (the “January 2022 Common Warrant”), with such January 2022 Common Warrant being issued on the basis of two January 2022 Common Warrant shares for each share of the Existing Warrant that was exercised for cash. The January 2022 Common Warrant is exercisable commencing on July 28, 2022, terminates on July 28, 2027, and has an exercise price per share of $1.55. The Exercise Agreement generated aggregate proceeds to the Company of approximately $5.9 million, prior to the deduction of $461,000 of costs consisting of placement agent commissions and offering expenses payable by the Company. As a result of the warrant modification, which reduced the exercise price of the Existing Warrants, as well as the issuance of the January 2022 Common Warrants, the Company recorded approximately (i) $639,000 for the increased fair value of the modified warrants; and (ii) $12,590,000 as the fair value of the January 2022 Common Warrants on the date of issuance. We recorded approximately $5,477,000 as issuance costs that offset the $5.5 million of additional paid-in capital the Company received for the cash exercise of the Existing Warrants at the reduced exercise price, while the remaining $7,731,000 was recorded as a deemed dividend on the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations, resulting in a reduction of income available to common shareholders in our basic earnings per share calculation.

September 2021 Private Placement
In September 2021, the Company entered into a $12 million private placement transaction, inclusive of $0.9 million of placement agent fees and costs, with a large institutional investor pursuant to which the Company sold to the investor an aggregate of (i) 2,850,000 shares of Common Stock, together with warrants (the “September 2021 Common Warrants”) to purchase up to 2,850,000 shares of Common Stock, with each September 2021 Common Warrant exercisable for one share of Common Stock at a price per share of $1.595, and (ii) 4,673,511 prefunded warrants (the “September 2021 Prefunded Warrants”), together with the September 2021 Common Warrants to purchase up to 7,523,511 shares of Common Stock, with each September 2021 Prefunded Warrant exercisable for one share of Common Stock at a price per share of $0.0001. Each share of Common Stock and accompanying September 2021 Common Warrant were sold together at a combined offering price of $1.595 and each September 2021 Prefunded Warrant and accompanying September 2021 Common Warrant were sold together at a combined offering price of $1.5949.

The September 2021 Prefunded Warrants are immediately exercisable, at a nominal exercise price of $0.0001, and may be exercised at any time until all of the September 2021 Prefunded Warrants are exercised in full. The September 2021 Common Warrants have an exercise price of $1.595 per share, are immediately exercisable, and will expire five years from the date that the registration statement covering the resale of the shares underlying the September 2021 Common Warrants is declared effective (which has not yet occurred). The private placement generated gross proceeds of approximately $12.0 million, prior to deducting $0.9 million of costs consisting of placement agent commissions and offering expenses payable by the Company. In addition to the seven percent (7%) of the aggregate gross proceeds cash fee, the Company issued to the placement agent warrants to purchase 376,176 shares of our common stock issuable upon exercise of the September 2021 Prefunded Warrants sold in the offering (the “September Placement Agent Warrants”). The September Placement Agent Warrants are exercisable for a period commencing on March 3, 2022 (six months after issuance) and expire four years from the effective date (which has not yet occurred) of a registration statement for the resale of the underlying shares, and have an initial exercise price per share of $1.7545.
The following table summarizes the changes in the Company’s common stock and Prefunded  Warrants from August 31, 2021 to February 28, 2022.
  Number
of
shares		 Weighted
average
remaining
life
(years)		 Weighted
average
exercise
price
Warrants outstanding, August 31, 2021 9,592,085  4.7 $ 3.87 
Issued 22,470,104  4.7 1.58 
(Cancelled) —  —  — 
(Exercised) (4,948,453) 4.3 1.2 
Warrants outstanding, February 28, 2022 27,113,736  4.7 2.83 
Warrants exercisable, February 28, 2022 16,840,654  4.2 $ 0.95 
The following table summarizes the Company’s warrants outstanding as of February 28, 2022:
  Warrants
Outstanding		 Weighted average
Life of
Outstanding
Warrants
in years		 Exercise
price
Jan 2022 Common Warrants(1)
9,896,906  5.4 $ 1.55 
Sep 2021 Common Warrants 7,523,511  4.5 1.60 
Sep 2021 Prefunded Warrants(2)
4,673,511  4.5 N/A
Sep 2021Underwriter Warrants (3)
376,176  4.5 1.75 
May 2021Underwriter Warrants 247,423  4.2 2.43 
October 2020 Common Warrants 2,300,000  3.6 3.30 
October 2020 Underwriter Warrants 200,000  3.6 3.30 
February 2021 Common Warrants 1,277,580  3.2 5.40 
February 2021 Underwriter Warrants 111,108  3.2 5.40 
March 2020 Exchange Warrants 423,669  3.6 10.17 
Amended March 2019 Warrants 66,288  2.0 40.00 
March 2019 Services Warrants 3,366  2.0 70.00 
June 2018 Warrants 6,276  1.8 40.00 
June 2018 Services Warrants 5,422  1.8 99.60 
2017 PIPE Warrants 2,500  0.3 276.00 
  27,113,736  4.7 $ 2.22 
(1)The January 2022 Common Warrants are exercisable commencing on July 28, 2022 and terminate on July 28, 2027..
(2)The September 2021 Prefunded Warrants were sold as part of a Prefunded Warrant Unit as described above at a nominal price of $0.0001 per share.
(3)The September 2021 Placement Agent Warrants become exercisable six months from issuance and expire four years from the effective date (which has not yet occurred) of the registration statement covering the resale of the underlying shares.