Company: SRFM
Filing Date: 2025-03-21
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000950170-25-043326
Chunk: 278

Company: SURF AIR MOBILITY INC.
Filing Date: 2025-03-21
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 7
Chunk 278
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 determination of fair value required significant judgments by management. The principal assumptions used in our discounted cash flow analysis consisted of (a) long-term projections of financial performance, inclusive of scheduled completion factors and prospective operating cost assumptions and (b) the weighted-average cost of capital of market participants, adjusted for the risk attributable to us and the industry in which we operate. Under the market approach, the principal assumption included an estimate of a control premium.

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Stock-Based Compensation

We grant stock options, warrants, restricted stock units (“RSUs”) and performance-based restricted stock units (“PRSUs”) to certain employees, as well as non-employees (including directors and others who provide services to us) under our stock plans. We recognize compensation expense resulting from stock-based payments over the period for which the requisite services are provided.

Stock Options and Warrants

We use the Black-Scholes option pricing model to estimate the fair value of the stock options and warrants at the measurement date. The grant date is deemed to be the appropriate measurement date for stock options issued to employees and non-employees. We have elected to account for forfeitures as they occur.

The use of the Black-Scholes option pricing model requires the use of subjective assumptions, including the following:

•Fair Value of Common Stock—Prior to the Company’s direct listing, the absence of an active market for our common stock required us to estimate the fair value of our common stock. See the subsection titled “common stock Valuations” below. For valuations completed subsequent to the direct listing, the fair value of each share of underlying common stock is based on the closing price of our common stock as reported on the date immediately preceding the date of grant.

•Risk-Free Interest Rate—The yield on actively traded non-inflation indexed U.S. Treasury notes with the same maturity as the expected term of the underlying options was used as the average risk-free interest rate.

•Expected Term—The expected term of options granted to employees was determined based on management’s expectations of the options granted, which are expected to remain outstanding. Where appropriate, we calculated the expected term using the simplified method for “plain vanilla” stock option awards.

•Expected Volatility—Given our limited trading history subsequent to the direct listing, there is limited substantive share price history to calculate volatility and, as such, we have elected to use an approximation based on the volatility of other comparable public companies, which compete directly with us, over the expected term of the options.

•Dividend Yield—We have not issued regular dividends on common shares