Company: KROS
Filing Date: 2025-08-06
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001664710-25-000070
Chunk: 232

Company: Keros Therapeutics, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-08-06
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 1
Chunk 232
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Right”) to purchase one-thousandth of one share of the Company’s newly designated Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (each, a “Preferred Share” and collectively, the “Preferred Shares”), for each outstanding share of common stock to the stockholders of record as of the close of business on April 24, 2025. The Company also adopted a limited duration stockholder rights plan (the “Rights Plan”), effective immediately, as set forth in the Rights Agreement, dated as of April 9, 2025 (the “Rights Agreement”), by and between the Company and Computershare Trust Company, N.A., as Rights Agent. The Rights Agent currently serves as the Company’s transfer agent with respect to the common stock and also has been appointed transfer agent with respect to the Preferred Shares, if any, that may be issued pursuant to the exercise of rights under the Rights Agreement. The Rights will expire on April 9, 2026, unless the rights are earlier redeemed or exchanged by the Company. The Company does not have any obligation under the Rights Agreement to seek stockholder approval for the Rights Plan.

In general terms, the Rights Plan is designed to impose a penalty upon any person or group that acquires beneficial ownership of 10% (15% in the case of a passive institutional investor) or more of the outstanding shares of Common Stock without the approval of the Board. The Board adopted the Rights Plan in response to significant and rapid accumulations of the common stock by a number of investors who have indicated a desire to influence the control of the Company. The Rights Plan is intended to protect the investment of the Company's stockholders during a period in which it believes shares of the Company do not reflect the Company’s intrinsic value. The Rights Plan will reduce the likelihood that any entity, person or group gains control of the Company through open-market accumulation without paying all stockholders an appropriate control premium. 

7. STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION

2017 Stock Incentive PlanThe Board adopted the 2017 Stock Incentive Plan (the "2017 Plan") in February 2017, and the stockholders approved the 2017 Plan in March 2017. The 2017 Plan was most recently amended in March 2020.As of June 30, 2025, there was an aggregate of 417,043 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of outstanding options under the 2017 Plan. Any options or awards outstanding under