Annual report [Section 13 and 15(d), not S-K Item 405]

ISSUANCE OF EQUITY INTERESTS

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ISSUANCE OF EQUITY INTERESTS
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2024
ISSUANCE OF EQUITY INTERESTS  
ISSUANCE OF EQUITY INTERESTS

NOTE 4 – ISSUANCE OF EQUITY INTERESTS

On June 23, 2021, Acurx Pharmaceuticals, LLC was converted into a corporation and renamed Acurx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. The Company’s certificate of incorporation authorizes 200,000,000 shares of common stock, of which 17,030,686 were issued and outstanding as of December 31, 2024.

On May 16, 2023, the Company entered into a securities purchase agreement with a single healthcare-focused U.S. institutional investor named therein (the “2023 Investor”), pursuant to which the Company issued and sold, in a registered direct offering by the Company directly to the 2023 Investor (the “2023 Registered Offering”), an aggregate of 601,851 shares of common stock at an offering price of $3.00 per share and an aggregate of 731,482 pre-funded warrants exercisable for shares of common stock at an offering price of $2.9999 per pre-funded warrant. The pre-funded warrants sold to the Investor have an exercise price of $0.0001 and were immediately exercisable. As of December 31, 2024, all of the pre-funded warrants were exercised.

The gross proceeds to the Company from the 2023 Registered Direct Offering were approximately $4.0 million and net proceeds after deducting the placement agent’s fees and other offering expenses payable by the Company were approximately $3.5 million.

In a concurrent private placement (the “2023 Private Placement” and together with the 2023 Registered Offering, the “2023 Offerings”), the Company issued to the Investor Series C warrants exercisable for an aggregate of 1,333,333 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $3.26 per share and Series D warrants exercisable for an aggregate of

1,333,333 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $3.26 per share. The Series C Warrants were exercisable commencing on November 18, 2023 and will expire on November 18, 2025. The Series D Warrants were exercisable commencing on November 18, 2023 and will expire on November 19, 2029.

In connection with the 2023 Offerings, the Company also entered into a Warrant Amendment Agreement with the 2023 Investor. Under the Warrant Amendment Agreement, the Company amended its existing Series A warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 1,230,769 shares of the Company's common stock and Series B warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 1,230,769 shares of the Company's common stock (collectively, the “Existing Warrants”) that were previously issued in July 2022, such that effective upon the closing of the offering, the amended Existing Warrants have a termination date of May 18, 2029. The Company used the Black-Scholes model to calculate the change in the value of the aforementioned Series A and Series B warrants attributable to the change in the termination date, with an estimated increase in fair value of approximately $2.0 million. This amount was recorded as both an increase to additional paid-in capital and as a non-cash issuance cost of the offerings.

In January 2024, the Affiliate Investors exercised 59,211 of Series B Warrants which generated approximately $0.2 million in proceeds for the Company.

The following table summarizes information with respect to outstanding warrants to purchase common stock of the Company at December 31, 2024:

Weighted Average

    

Number of Warrants

    

Exercise Price

Balance at December 31, 2023

6,195,456

$

3.28

Issued

 

Exercised

 

(59,211)

3.55

Balance at December 31, 2024

 

6,136,245

$

3.28

The weighted average contractual life of the outstanding warrants is 3.50 years.

On November 15, 2023, the Company entered into a Sales Agreement and established the ATM Program, pursuant to which the Company may offer and sell, from time to time through A.G.P./Alliance Global Partners, as sales agent, shares of its common stock having an aggregate offering price of up to $17.0 million. Under the Sales Agreement, the sales agent is entitled to compensation of 3.0% of the gross offering proceeds of all shares sold through it pursuant to the Sales Agreement.

The Company sold 698,121 shares of its common stock under the ATM Program at a weighted-average price of $3.76 per share, raising $2.6 million of gross proceeds and net proceeds of $2.4 million, after deducting commissions to the sales agent and other ATM Program related expenses for the year ended December 31, 2023. The Company recorded a receivable of $129,159 for 34,116 shares sold under the ATM Program yet to settle as of December 31, 2023, of which 17,869 shares had yet to be issued by the transfer agent as of the year-end. The receivable for the unsettled shares as of December 31, 2023 is included within the “Other Receivable” balance in the accompanying balance sheets. The receivable was collected on January 3, 2024 and 17,869 shares were settled and transferred on January 2, 2024.

The Company sold 2,132,207 shares of its common stock under the ATM Program at a weighted-average price of $3.10 per share, raising $6.6 million of gross proceeds and net proceeds of $6.4 million, after deducting commissions to the sales agent for the year ended December 31, 2024.

As of December 31, 2024, the Company had $7.8 million available under the ATM Program.