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3/5Prairie Operating Co. (PROP): Auditor change

Filed 2025-09-22 路 Form 8-K 路 Accession 0001140361-25-035610 micro

Market data

Price before filing: $1.87 (2025-09-19 close, split/dividend-adjusted)
Market cap at flag: $97.2M (2025-09-22) 路 Latest: $36.5M (2026-10-16)

What happened next

WindowPROPSPYvs SPY
30 days-6.4%+0.6%-7.0%2025-10-22
90 days-8.6%+3.5%-12.0%2025-12-22
180 days-24.1%-0.7%-23.4%2026-03-23

Return from the last close before the filing date to the first close on/after the window end. Pending windows have not fully elapsed. Past performance says nothing certain about the future.

Insider trading around this filing

90 days before the flag: 6 insiders bought $958K (9 purchases)
30 days after: none reported.

DateInsiderTypeSharesPriceValue10b5-1 planSource
2025-08-19Thoresen Erik
Director
Purchase2,500$2.37$6KnoForm 4
2025-08-20Gray Jonathan H.
Director
Purchase218,917$2.09$458KnoForm 4
2025-08-21Gray Jonathan H.
Director
Purchase120,563$2.16$260KnoForm 4
2025-08-21Kovalik Edward
Chief Executive Officer, Director
Purchase10,000$2.17$22KnoForm 4
2025-08-25Frommer Richard N.
Director
Purchase3,000$2.44$7KnoForm 4
2025-08-27Frommer Richard N.
Director
Purchase1,500$2.49$4KnoForm 4
2025-08-27Patton Gregory Scott
EVP and CFO
Purchase3,000$2.51$8KnoForm 4
2025-09-02Lee Stephen
Director
Purchase2,500$2.51$6KnoForm 4
2025-09-05Gray Jonathan H.
Director
Purchase89,000$2.11$188KnoForm 4
2025-09-22: red flag filed

Open-market purchases and sales (Form 4 codes P and S) by officers, directors and 10% owners, by transaction date, from 2025-06-24 to 2025-10-22. Excludes option exercises, grants, gifts and tax withholding. Amended filings replace the originals; joint filings count once. Foreign private issuers do not file Form 4. Many insider sales are pre-scheduled (10b5-1 plans) and are not by themselves a sign of wrongdoing.

Verified excerpt

"(the " Company ") approved the engagement of Deloitte & Touche LLP (" Deloitte "), effective September 18, 2025, as its independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025."

Quoted from the filing. Source

What this means

The company changed its outside auditor (8-K Item 4.01). A dismissal or resignation, especially near an annual report or with reported disagreements, is a warning sign. Changes caused by audit firms merging are usually routine.

Type: dismissed
Disagreements reported: no
Former auditor: Ham, Langston & Brezina, L.L.P. · New auditor: Deloitte & Touche LLP

Read the original filing on SEC.gov →

Not investment advice. Automated summary; verify against the filing.

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