---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-037514"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001015155"
company_name: "CHARLES & COLVARD LTD"
filed_at: "2025-04-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T08:53:07.998688+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.85
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Charles & Colvard to be delisted from Nasdaq on April 25, 2025 for failure to file quarterly reports

## Summary
- Received Nasdaq determination letter on April 16, 2025 for non-compliance with Listing Rule 5250(c)(1) due to unfiled Forms 10-Q.
- Company will not appeal; trading suspension effective April 25, 2025, followed by Form 25-NSE delisting filing.
- Common stock (CTHR) expected to quote on OTC Experts Market; no assurance of trading market or broker-dealer quotes.
- Decision driven by cost savings; Company filed annual 10-K but missed quarterly filings.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-037514
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001015155
- company_name: CHARLES & COLVARD LTD
- filed_at: 2025-04-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.85
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 3.01, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1015155/000110465925037514/0001104659-25-037514-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1015155/000110465925037514/tm2512898d1_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Listing & Compliance Notices
  CHARLES & COLVARD LTD received a nasdaq delisting notice notice regarding late filing (rules 5250(c)(1)).
  - Exchange: nasdaq
  - Notice: delisting notice
  - Deficiency: late filing
  - Rules: 5250(c)(1)
  source text: April 16, 2025, the Company received a staff determination letter (the “Letter”) from the Listing Qualifications staff (the “Staff”), which states that, since the Company did not file the Forms 10-Q prior to the Extension Date, the Company is out of compliance with the Listing Rule. The Company does not intend to appeal the Staff’s determination. As a result, trading of the Company’s common stock will be suspended from The Nasdaq Capital Market at the opening of business on April 25, 2025, and a Form 25-NSE will be filed with the SEC, which will remove the Company’s securities from listing and
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1015155/000110465925037514/0001104659-25-037514-index.htm

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