Company: MGLD
Filing Date: 2025-09-19
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001493152-25-014286
Chunk: 184

Company: Marygold Companies, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-09-19
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 184
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recovery time and experience significant expenditures in order to resume operations.

Our
intellectual property may not be adequately protected.

We
seek to protect our intellectual property rights through patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secret laws, confidentiality agreements,
and licensing arrangements, but we cannot ensure that we will be able to adequately protect our technology from misappropriation or infringement.
We cannot ensure that our existing intellectual property rights will not be invalidated, circumvented, challenged, or rendered unenforceable.

Our
competitors may successfully challenge the validity of our patents, design non-infringing products, or deliberately infringe our patents.
There can be no assurance that other companies are not investigating or developing other similar technologies. In addition, our intellectual
property rights may not provide a competitive advantage to us or ensure that our products and technology will be adequately covered by
our patents and other intellectual property. Any of these factors or the expiration, termination, or invalidity of one or more of our
patents may have a material adverse effect on our business.

18

Risks
Related to Ownership of Our Shares

Our
stock price may change significantly, and you may not be able to sell your shares of our common stock at or above the price you paid
or at all, and you could lose all or part of your investment as a result.

The
stock market may routinely experience periods of large or extreme volatility. In some instances, this volatility is unrelated or disproportionate
to the operating performance of particular companies. The market price of our shares of common stock could be subject to wide fluctuations
in response to many risk factors and many beyond our control, including:

    ●
    results
    of operations that vary from the expectations of securities analysts and investors

    ●
     
    changes
    in expectations as to our or our industries future financial performance, including financial estimates and investment recommendations
    by securities analysts and investors, and

    ●
    the
    publication of new or updated research reports by securities analysts;

    ●
    the
    public’s response to press releases or other public announcements by us or third parties, including our filings with the SEC;

    ●
    changes
    in our senior management or other key personnel;

    ●
    results
    and timing of our product development, including related to our Fintech app;

    ●
    share
    price and volume fluctuations attributable to inconsistent trading volume levels of our shares;

    ●
    litigation
    or regulatory action regarding our products