Company: FTCI
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000950170-25-047224
Chunk: 292

Company: FTC Solar, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 7
Chunk 292
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 expenses and other current liabilities" in our consolidated financial statements included in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report.

Stock-based compensation and warrants

Our accounting policy relating to stock-based compensation may be found in Note 2, "Summary of significant accounting policies" in our consolidated financial statements included in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report.

Judgments and assumptions

The Black-Scholes model and Monte Carlo simulations rely on various assumptions, in addition to the exercise price of the option and the value of our common stock on the date of grant. These assumptions include:

Expected Term: The expected term represents the period that the Company’s stock-based awards are expected to be outstanding and is calculated as the average of the option vesting and contractual terms, based on the simplified method, when we do not have sufficient historical exercise data to provide a reasonable basis upon which to estimate the expected term for options granted. The simplified method deems the term to be the average of the time-to-vesting 

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and the contractual life of the options. The contractual life of an option may be up to 10 years. Monte Carlo simulations estimate the derived service period of awards with market conditions.

Expected Volatility: Since the Company did not have a trading history of its common stock prior to our IPO and since such trading history subsequent to our IPO has been limited and may be less than the expected term of an award, the expected volatility may be derived from (i) our actual historical stock volatility with respect to certain more recent awards or (ii) the average historical stock volatilities of several public companies within the Company’s industry that it considers to be comparable to its business over a period equivalent to the expected term of the stock option grants or (iii) a combination of each method such as with recent awards granted with market conditions.

Risk-Free-Interest-Rate: The Company bases the risk-free interest rate on the implied yield available on U.S. Treasury zero-coupon issues with a remaining term equivalent to the expected term.

Expected Dividend: The Company has not issued any dividends in its history and does not expect to issue dividends over the life of the options and, therefore, has estimated the dividend yield to be zero.

We use Monte Carlo simulations for certain awards granted with market conditions which provide an estimated average present value for each award based on a simulation assuming Geometric Brownian Motion in a risk-neutral framework using up to 250,000 simulation paths to determine the derived service and vesting periods.

Our use of the simplified method for estimating