Note 13 - 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 75,000,000 authorized shares of Common Stock at $0.0001 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 300,000 shares of its Common Stock (approximately 2% of the Company’s common shares outstanding at that time). A total of 44,748 shares were repurchased between August 8, 2014 and September 9, 2015. As of December 31, 2023, and 2022, 300,000 and 44,748 shares have been repurchased, respectively and a total of 300,000 shares have been retired. On October 14, 2023, the Board of Directors of the Company approved a stock repurchase plan authorizing the Company to repurchase up to 3,000,000 shares of the Company’s common stock at a total repurchase amount not to exceed $200,000. During the period January 1, 2024 through March 31, 2024 no shares have been repurchased. Subsequent to quarter end, on April 17, 2024, the Company announced the commencement of its second stock repurchase program. See Note 18.

Preferred Stock

Mentor has 5,000,000, $0.0001 par value, preferred shares authorized.

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 200,000 preferred shares as Series Q Preferred Stock, such series having a par value of $0.0001 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.

Note 13 - Stockholders’ equity (continued)

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 11 shares of Series Q Preferred Stock on May 30, 2018, at a price of $10,000 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 September 30, 2022 and December 31, 2022 include this interest. The Core Q Holdings Asset Value at March 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023 was $20,843 and $20,843 per share, respectively. There was no contingent liability for the Series Q Preferred Stock conversion at March 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023. At March 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023, the Series Q Preferred Stock could have been converted at the Conversion Price of $.084 and $ 0.105, respectively.