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3/5Sotherly Hotels Inc. (SOHON): Auditor change

Filed 2025-09-17 路 Form 8-K 路 Accession 0001193125-25-206258 nano

Market data

Price before filing: $10.68 (2025-09-16 close, split/dividend-adjusted)
Market cap at flag: $16.9M (2025-09-17) 路 Latest: $45.9M (2026-02-13)

What happened next

WindowSOHONSPYvs SPY
30 days+5.8%+0.9%+4.9%2025-10-17
90 days+42.1%+3.1%+39.0%2025-12-16
180 days+55.4%+2.0%+53.5%2026-03-16

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: no open-market insider sales or purchases reported.
30 days after: none reported.

Open-market purchases and sales (Form 4 codes P and S) by officers, directors and 10% owners, by transaction date, from 2025-06-19 to 2025-10-17. 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

"On September 11, 2025, the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of Sotherly Hotels Inc., a Maryland corporation (the "Company") and the sole general partner of Sotherly Hotels LP, a Delaware limited partnership (the "Operating Partnership", and together with the Company, "we", "us" and "our"), approved the dismissal of Forvis Mazars, LLP ("Forvis") as our independent registered public accounting firm effective..."

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: Forvis Mazars, LLP · New auditor: Cherry Bekaert LLP

Read the original filing on SEC.gov →

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

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