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3/5AbCellera Biologics Inc. (ABCL): Auditor change

Filed 2025-11-28 路 Form 8-K 路 Accession 0001703057-25-000032 small

Market data

Price before filing: $3.64 (2025-11-26 close, split/dividend-adjusted)
Market cap at flag: $1.11B (2025-11-28) 路 Latest: $3.61B (2026-10-16)

What happened next

WindowABCLSPYvs SPY
30 days-4.9%+1.5%-6.4%2025-12-29
90 days-1.4%+1.7%-3.1%2026-02-26
180 days+49.5%+11.0%+38.4%2026-05-27

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 $178K (1 purchase)
30 days after: none reported.

DateInsiderTypeSharesPriceValue10b5-1 planSource
2025-11-26Montalbano John S.
Director
Purchase50,000$3.57$178KnoForm 4
2025-11-28: red flag filed

Open-market purchases and sales (Form 4 codes P and S) by officers, directors and 10% owners, by transaction date, from 2025-08-30 to 2025-12-28. 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 dismissal of KPMG LLP ("KPMG") as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm, effective following the completion of KPMG's audit of the Company's consolidated financial statements for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025, and the filing of the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for that fiscal year."

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: KPMG LLP · New auditor: Ernst & Young LLP

Read the original filing on SEC.gov →

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

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