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4/5SANUWAVE Health, Inc. (SNWV): Going-concern doubt

Filed 2025-05-08 路 Form 10-Q 路 Accession 0001628280-25-023881 micro

Market data

Price before filing: $31.64 (2025-05-07 close, split/dividend-adjusted)
Market cap at flag: $270.1M (2025-05-08) 路 Latest: $42.7M (2026-10-16)

What happened next

WindowSNWVSPYvs SPY
30 days-4.7%+6.9%-11.5%2025-06-09
90 days+11.3%+13.1%-1.8%2025-08-06
180 days-13.1%+21.0%-34.1%2025-11-04

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: 1 insider bought $204K (2 purchases)
30 days after: 2 insiders sold $167K (2 sales)

DateInsiderTypeSharesPriceValue10b5-1 planSource
2025-04-29Opaleye Management Inc.
10% owner
Purchase5,000$25.49$127KnoForm 4
2025-04-29Opaleye Management Inc.
10% owner
Purchase2,998$25.49$76KnoForm 4
2025-05-08: red flag filed
2025-05-15Cioanta Iulian
Chief Sci. and Tech. Officer
Sale3,639$31.60$115KnoForm 4
2025-06-05Stegagno Peter
Chief Operating Officer
Sale1,862$27.71$52KnoForm 4

Open-market purchases and sales (Form 4 codes P and S) by officers, directors and 10% owners, by transaction date, from 2025-02-07 to 2025-06-07. 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 has incurred recurring operating losses in prior years, has negative working capital, and its Senior Secured Note becomes due in September 2025, which raises substantial doubt as to its ability to continue as a going concern for a period of 12 months from the filing of this Form 10-Q. During the three months ended March 31, 2025, and prior fiscal year ended December 31, 2024, the Company achieved..."

Quoted from the filing. Source

What this means

The filing states that substantial doubt exists about the company's ability to continue as a going concern: it may not have enough cash to last the next 12 months. Expect dilution, debt deals or worse. An auditor's going-concern paragraph is the strongest form of this warning.

Source: management disclosure in Form 10-Q (period 2025-03-31)

Why this score: quarterly (unaudited) disclosure; also within 90 days: Auditor change

Read the original filing on SEC.gov →

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

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