Company: LIDRW
Filing Date: 2025-02-24
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001437749-25-004906
Chunk: 73

Company: AEye, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-24
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 73
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 market price of our common stock has been and may continue to be volatile. There is no guarantee that we will continue to benefit from such retail and individual investor interest, even if our business or financial performance is strong. If investor sentiment changes, this could have a material adverse impact on the market price of our common stock and your investment.

Retail and individual investor sentiment (including as may be expressed on financial trading and other social media sites and online forums) may also influence the amount and status of short interest in our common stock. This could increase the likelihood of our common stock being the target of a “short squeeze,” particularly because a proportion of our common stock has been in the past and may in the future be traded by short sellers. A short squeeze and/or focused investor trading in anticipation of a short squeeze could lead to volatile price movements in shares of our common stock that may be unrelated or disproportionate to our operating performance or prospects. Or, if investors no longer believe a short squeeze is viable, the market price of our common stock may rapidly decline. Accordingly, investors that purchase shares of our common stock during what may be considered a short squeeze may lose a significant portion of their investment.

We do not expect to declare any dividends in the foreseeable future.

We do not anticipate declaring any cash dividends to holders of our common stock in the foreseeable future. Consequently, our stockholders may need to rely on sales of their shares after price appreciation, which may never occur, as the only way to realize any future gains on their investment.

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Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments

None.

Item 1C. Cybersecurity

  Cybersecurity Risk Management and Strategy 
   
  Information technology is important to our business operations and we are committed to protecting the privacy, security, and integrity of our data, as well as our employee, customer, and vendor data. Accordingly, we have established processes, procedures, and controls to identify, manage, assess, and mitigate material risks from cybersecurity threats, as well as identify, contain, and respond to cybersecurity incidents. These processes include, but are not limited to, monitoring and updating of our information technology and infrastructure to prevent, detect, address, and mitigate risks associated with unauthorized access, misuse, computer viruses, and other events that could have a security impact. Additionally, to protect and secure sensitive data, we employ multi-factor authentication, a suite of security tools, systems monitoring and alerting, audit logs, and controls across our major systems, devices, and business processes. We engage with external