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Note 14 – Stockholders’ equity
Common Stock
The Company was incorporated in California in 1994 and was redomiciled as a Delaware corporation, effective September 24, 2015. There are authorized shares of Common Stock at $ par value. The holders of Common Stock are entitled to one vote per share on all matters submitted to a vote of the stockholders.
Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
On August 8, 2014, the Company announced that it was initiating the repurchase of shares of its Common Stock (approximately 2% of the Company’s common shares outstanding at that time). As of December 31, 2023, and 2022, and shares have been repurchased and retired, respectively.
Preferred Stock
Mentor has preferred shares authorized at a $ par value.
On July 13, 2017, the Company filed a Certificate of Designation of Rights, Preferences, Privileges and Restrictions of Series Q Preferred Stock (“Certificate of Designation”) with the Delaware Secretary of State to designate preferred shares as Series Q Preferred Stock, such series having a par value of $ per share. Series Q Preferred Stock is convertible into Common Stock, at the option of the holder, at any time after the date of issuance of such share and prior to notice of redemption of such share of Series Q Preferred Stock by the Company into such number of fully paid and nonassessable shares of Common Stock as determined by dividing the Series Q Conversion Value by the Conversion Price at the time in effect for such share.
The per share “Series Q Conversion Value,” as defined in the Certificate of Designation, shall be calculated by the Company at least once each calendar quarter as follows: The per share Series Q Conversion Value shall be equal to the quotient of the “Core Q Holdings Asset Value” divided by the number of issued and outstanding shares of Series Q Preferred Stock. The “Core Q Holdings Asset Value” shall equal the value, as calculated and published by the Company, of all assets that constitute Core Q Holdings, which shall include such considerations as the Company designates and need not accord with any established or commonly employed valuation method or considerations. “Core Q Holdings” consists of all proceeds received by the Company on the sale of shares of Series Q Preferred Stock and all securities, acquisitions, and business acquired from such proceeds by the Company. The Company shall periodically, but at least once each calendar quarter, identify, update, account for, and value the assets that comprise the Core Q Holdings.
The “Conversion Price” of the Series Q Preferred Stock shall be at the product of 105% and the closing price of the Company’s Common Stock on a date designated and published by the Company. The Series Q Preferred Stock will be available only to accredited, institutional, or qualified investors.
The Company sold and issued shares of Series Q Preferred Stock on May 30, 2018, at a price of $ per share, for an aggregate purchase price of $110,000 (“Series Q Purchase Price”). The Company invested the Series Q Purchase Price as capital in Partner II to purchase equipment to be leased to Pueblo West. On September 27, 2022, Pueblo West exercised its lease prepayment option and purchased the manufacturing equipment for $245,369. On September 28, 2022 Partner II transferred full title to the equipment to Pueblo West. Therefore, the Core Q Holdings at December 31, 2023 and 2022 include this interest. The Core Q Holdings Asset Value at December 31, 2023 and 2022 was $ and $ per share, respectively. There was no contingent liability for the Series Q Preferred Stock conversion at December 31, 2023 and 2022.
At December 31, 2023 and 2022, the Series Q Preferred Stock could have been converted at the Conversion Price of $0.105 and $0.063 per Mentor common share, respectively, which would be anti-dilutive and therefore are not included in the weighted average share calculation for these periods.
Mentor Capital, Inc. Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements December 31, 2023 and 2022
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