5/5Crown Electrokinetics Corp. (CRKN): Auditor change

Market data

Price before filing: $0.651 (2025-09-16 close, split/dividend-adjusted)
Market cap at flag: $22.2M (2025-09-17) · Latest: $470,871 (2026-10-12)

What happened next

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 14, 2025, following a competitive review process conducted by the Audit Committee (the "Audit Committee") of the board of directors of Crown Electrokinetics Corp., a Delaware Corporation (the "Company"), the Audit Committee approved the engagement of Frank, Rimerman + Co."

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: changed
Disagreements reported: yes
New auditor: Frank, Rimerman + Co. LLP

Why this score: disagreements reported; also within 90 days: Late quarterly report (NT 10-Q)