Company: SIDU
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001641172-25-001742
Chunk: 1273

Company: Sidus Space Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 1273
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 A common stock.

We
cannot predict whether our dual-class structure will result in a lower or more volatile market price of our Class A common stock, adverse
publicity or other adverse consequences. For example, certain index providers have announced and implemented restrictions on including
companies with multiple-class share structures in certain of their indices. In July 2017, FTSE Russell announced that it would require
new constituents of its indices to have greater than 5% of the company’s voting rights in the hands of public stockholders, and
S&P Dow Jones announced that it would no longer admit companies with multiple-class share structures to certain of its indices. Affected
indices include the Russell 2000 and the S&P 500, S&P MidCap 400 and S&P SmallCap 600, which together make up the S&P
Composite 1500. Also in 2017, MSCI, a leading stock index provider, opened public consultations on its treatment of no-vote and multi-class
structures and temporarily barred new multi-class listings from certain of its indices; however, in October 2018, MSCI announced its
decision to include equity securities “with unequal voting structures” in its indices and to launch a new index that specifically
includes voting rights in its eligibility criteria. Under such announced and implemented policies, the dual-class structure of our common
stock would make us ineligible for inclusion in certain indices and, as a result, mutual funds, exchange-traded funds and other investment
vehicles that attempt to passively track those indices would not invest in our Class A common stock. These policies are relatively new
and it is unclear what effect, if any, they will have on the valuations of publicly-traded companies excluded from such indices, but
it is possible that they may adversely affect valuations, as compared to similar companies that are included. Due to the dual-class structure
of our common stock, we will likely be excluded from certain indices and we cannot assure you that other stock indices will not take
similar actions. Given the sustained flow of investment funds into passive strategies that seek to track certain indices, exclusion from
certain stock indices would likely preclude investment by many of these funds and could make our Class A common stock less attractive
to other investors. As a result, the market price of our Class A common stock could be adversely affected.

We
could be subject to securities class action litigation.

In
the past, securities class action litigation has often been brought against companies following a decline in the