Company: ACCS
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000843006-25-000014
Chunk: 27

Company: ACCESS Newswire Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 27
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 22.60 |     |                                                                                                                                       | 365,078 |

PAY VERSUS PERFORMANCE

As required by Item 402(v) of Regulation S-K, we are providing the following information about the relationship between executive compensation actually paid (as defined by SEC rules) and net income. For further information about how we align executive compensation with the Company’s performance, see “Compensation of Executive Officers” above. The amounts in the table below are calculated in accordance with SEC rules and do not represent amounts actually earned or realized by our named executive officers (“NEOs”), including with respect to equity based compensation.

|      | Year |   | Summary Compensation Table Total for PEO (1) |     |   | Compensation Actually Paid to PEO (2) |     |   | Average Summary Compensation Table Total for Non-PEO NEO’s (3) |     |   | Average Compensation Actually Paid to Non-PEO NEO’s (4) |     |   | Value of Initial Fixed $100 Investment Based on Total Stockholder Return (5) |     |   |  Net Income |
|:-----|:-----|:--|---------------------------------------------:|:----|:--|--------------------------------------:|:----|:--|---------------------------------------------------------------:|:----|:--|--------------------------------------------------------:|:----|:--|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------:|:----|:--|------------:|
| 2024 |      | $ |                                      285,000 |     | $ |                               285,000 |     | $ |                                                        292,704 |     | $ |                                                 307,804 |     | $ |                                                                        77.67 |     | $ | -10,793,000 |
| 2023 |      | $ |                                      849,800 |     | $ |                               647,600 |     | $ |                                                        780,916 |     | $ |                                                 506,232 |     | $ |                                                                       159.74 |     | $ |     766,000 |
| 2022 |      | $ |                                      215,250 |     | $ |                               215,250 |     | $ |                                                      1,107,865 |     | $ |                                                 862,261 |     | $ |                                                                       220.62 |     | $ |   1,934,000 |

| (1) | The dollar amounts reported for Brian R. Balbirnie, our Chief Executive Officer (“PEO”), under