Company: SPRB
Filing Date: 2025-08-14
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000950170-25-108888
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Company: SPRUCE BIOSCIENCES, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-08-14
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 1A
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An investment in shares of our common stock involves a high degree of risk. You should carefully consider the risks described below, as well as the other information in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, including our unaudited condensed financial statements and the related notes and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” before deciding whether to purchase, hold or sell shares of our common stock. The occurrence of any of the risks described below could harm our business, financial condition, results of operations, growth prospects, and/or stock price or cause our actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking statements we have made in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and those we may make from time to time. You should consider all of the risk factors described when evaluating our business. We have marked with an asterisk (*) those risk factors that reflect changes from the similarly titled risk factors included in the Annual Report.

Risks Related to Ownership of Our Common Stock

If we are unable to regain compliance with all applicable requirements of the Nasdaq Capital Market (“Nasdaq”), our delisting could adversely affect the market liquidity of our common stock and the market price of our common stock could decrease.*

On April 26, 2024, we received a letter from Nasdaq Listing Qualifications, notifying us that, for the previous 30 consecutive business day period prior to the date of the letter, the closing bid price for our common stock was below $1.00 (the “Minimum Bid Price Requirement”). In accordance with Listing Rule 5810(c)(3)(A) we were provided an initial period of 180 calendar days, or until October 23, 2024, to regain compliance with Nasdaq’s bid price requirement. On October 10, 2024, we applied to transfer our listing from the Nasdaq Global Select Market to the Nasdaq Capital Market (the “Transfer”). On October 24, 2024, Nasdaq Listing Qualifications notified us that the Transfer was approved, effective October 28, 2024, and that, in connection with the Transfer, we were eligible for an additional 180 calendar day period, or until April 21, 2025 (the “Extended Compliance Date”), to regain compliance with the minimum closing bid price requirement. 

On April 22, 2025, we received a written notification (the “Delisting Notice”) from Nasdaq that as a result of our ongoing failure to comply with the Minimum Bid Price Requirement, our trading in the Company