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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-24-003029"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001679063"
company_name: "Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-01-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-07T00:56:58.272008+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Chicken Soup for the Soul receives Nasdaq equity deficiency notice; suspends Series A preferred dividends

## Summary
- Received Nasdaq letter Jan 5, 2024 for stockholders' equity below $10M; 45 days to submit compliance plan.
- Also faces bid price deficiency (under $1 for 30 days) with cure period until March 20, 2024.
- Board suspends monthly dividends on Series A Preferred Stock starting Jan 15, deferring ~$1.2M/month.
- Will make special interest payment of ~$1.07M on 9.50% Notes due 2025 on Jan 30 for previously unpaid interest.
- Company evaluating strategic options to regain listing compliance; no immediate delisting.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-24-003029
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001679063
- company_name: Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-01-10T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 3.01, 7.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1679063/000110465924003029/0001104659-24-003029-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1679063/000110465924003029/tm243075d1_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Listing & Compliance Notices
  Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, Inc. received a nasdaq noncompliance notice notice regarding minimum bid price (rules 5550(a)(2)).
  - Exchange: nasdaq
  - Notice: noncompliance notice
  - Deficiency: minimum bid price
  - Rules: 5550(a)(2)
  source text: September 28, 2023, the Company previously received written notice (the “ Initial Notice ”) from Nasdaq indicating that the Company was not in compliance with the Rules because for the prior 30 consecutive business days (through September 21, 2023), the closing bid price of the Company’s Class A Common Stock, $0.0001 par value per share (“common stock”) had been below the minimum of $1 per share required for continued listing on the Nasdaq under Nasdaq Rule 5550(a)(2). The Notice stated that the Company would be afforded 180 calendar days (until March 20, 2024) to regain compliance. In order t
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1679063/000110465924003029/0001104659-24-003029-index.htm
- Listing & Compliance Notices
  Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, Inc. received a nasdaq noncompliance notice notice regarding stockholders equity (rules 5550(a)(2)).
  - Exchange: nasdaq
  - Notice: noncompliance notice
  - Deficiency: stockholders equity
  - Rules: 5550(a)(2)
  source text: Rules because for the prior 30 consecutive business days (through September 21, 2023), the closing bid price of the Company’s Class A Common Stock, $0.0001 par value per share (“common stock”) had been below the minimum of $1 per share required for continued listing on the Nasdaq under Nasdaq Rule 5550(a)(2). The Notice stated that the Company would be afforded 180 calendar days (until March 20, 2024) to regain compliance. In order to regain compliance, the closing bid price of the Company’s common stock must be at least $1 for a minimum of ten consecutive business days. The notification lett
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1679063/000110465924003029/0001104659-24-003029-index.htm

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