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3/5374Water Inc. (SCWO): Going-concern doubt

Filed 2025-08-12 路 Form 10-Q 路 Accession 0001654954-25-009437 nano

Market data

Price before filing: $2.4 (2025-08-11 close, split/dividend-adjusted)
Market cap at flag: $37.3M (2025-08-12) 路 Latest: $42.8M (2026-10-16)

What happened next

WindowSCWOSPYvs SPY
30 days+62.5%+3.4%+59.1%2025-09-11
90 days+58.8%+7.5%+51.3%2025-11-10
180 days+27.5%+9.7%+17.8%2026-02-09

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 sold $157K (8 sales); 1 insider bought $68K (4 purchases)
30 days after: 1 insider sold $79K (3 sales); 4 insiders bought $73K (7 purchases)

DateInsiderTypeSharesPriceValue10b5-1 planSource
2025-05-20Jones Stephen J
Director
Purchase49,593$0.30$15KnoForm 4
2025-05-22Jones Stephen J
Director
Purchase40,000$0.32$13KnoForm 4
2025-05-30Jones Stephen J
Director
Purchase50,000$0.42$21KnoForm 4
2025-06-03Jones Stephen J
Director
Purchase40,000$0.47$19KnoForm 4
2025-06-12Nagar Yaacov
10% owner
Sale42,350$0.40$17KnoForm 4
2025-06-16Nagar Yaacov
10% owner
Sale6,052$0.40$2KnoForm 4
2025-06-18Nagar Yaacov
10% owner
Sale51,598$0.40$21KnoForm 4/A
2025-06-18Nagar Yaacov
10% owner
Sale57,650$0.40$23KnoForm 4
2025-06-23Nagar Yaacov
10% owner
Sale36,191$0.42$15KnoForm 4
2025-06-24Nagar Yaacov
10% owner
Sale59,946$0.42$25KnoForm 4
2025-06-26Nagar Yaacov
10% owner
Sale103,379$0.42$43KnoForm 4
2025-06-27Nagar Yaacov
10% owner
Sale23,396$0.42$10KnoForm 4
2025-08-12: red flag filed
2025-08-18Mandel Peter
General Counsel
Purchase20$0.25$5noForm 4
2025-08-19Mandel Peter
General Counsel
Purchase4,980$0.25$1KnoForm 4
2025-08-20Russell Kline
Chief Financial Officer
Purchase20,000$0.24$5KnoForm 4
2025-08-21Russell Kline
Chief Financial Officer
Purchase15,000$0.25$4KnoForm 4
2025-08-22Russell Kline
Chief Financial Officer
Purchase15,000$0.25$4KnoForm 4
2025-08-25Pawloski James
Director
Purchase193,300$0.26$51KnoForm 4
2025-08-26Estes Deanna Rene
Director
Purchase30,000$0.29$9KnoForm 4
2025-08-29Nagar Yaacov
10% owner
Sale22,711$0.39$9KnoForm 4
2025-09-05Nagar Yaacov
10% owner
Sale122,439$0.39$48KnoForm 4
2025-09-08Nagar Yaacov
10% owner
Sale54,850$0.40$22KnoForm 4

Open-market purchases and sales (Form 4 codes P and S) by officers, directors and 10% owners, by transaction date, from 2025-05-14 to 2025-09-11. 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

"These conditions raise substantial doubt regarding our ability to continue as a going concern."

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 2025-06-30)

Why this score: quarterly (unaudited) disclosure

Read the original filing on SEC.gov →

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

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