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accession: "0001104659-23-101615"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001633070"
company_name: "Axcella Health Inc."
filed_at: "2023-09-18T23:59:59+00:00"
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event_type: "other_material"
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source: SEC EDGAR
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# Axcella Health completes 1-for-25 reverse stock split effective Sept 18, 2023

## Summary
- Stockholders approved reverse split at 1-for-25 ratio at Sept 11 annual meeting; board approved same day.
- Effective at 5:00 pm ET Sept 18, every 25 pre-split shares automatically combined into one post-split share.
- No fractional shares issued; holders receive cash equal to fraction multiplied by Sept 18 closing price.
- Split-adjusted trading begins Sept 19 under existing symbol 'AXLA'; new CUSIP number 05454B204.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-23-101615
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001633070
- company_name: Axcella Health Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-09-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1633070/000110465923101615/0001104659-23-101615-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1633070/000110465923101615/tm2326324d1_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-23-101615.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Axcella Health Inc.: Filed Certificate of Amendment to effect a 1-for-25 reverse stock split of common stock (effective 2023-09-18).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2023-09-18
  source text: On September 18, 2023, Axcella Health Inc. (the “Company”) filed an amendment (the “Certificate of Amendment”) to its Restated Certificate of Incorporation to effectuate a reverse stock split of the Company’s issued and outstanding shares of common stock, par value of $0.001 per share (the “Common Stock”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1633070/000110465923101615/0001104659-23-101615-index.htm

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