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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-23-095265"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001183765"
company_name: "Molecular Templates, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-04-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-17T04:29:13.846943+00:00"
event_type: "regulatory"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.85
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Molecular Templates receives Nasdaq notice for failure to meet $2.5M equity requirement

## Summary
- Received additional Nasdaq deficiency notice on Apr 4, 2023 for failing $2.5M minimum stockholders' equity requirement (Listing Rule 5550(b)(2)).
- Company will present compliance plan at upcoming Nasdaq Hearings Panel; no assurance of continued listing.
- Shares trade under MTEM on Nasdaq Capital Market; delisting risk heightened.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-23-095265
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001183765
- company_name: Molecular Templates, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-04-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: regulatory
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.85
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 3.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1183765/000119312523095265/0001193125-23-095265-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1183765/000119312523095265/d450148d8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Listing & Compliance Notices
  Molecular Templates, Inc. received a nasdaq deficiency notice notice regarding stockholders equity (rules 5550(b)(2)).
  - Exchange: nasdaq
  - Notice: deficiency notice
  - Deficiency: stockholders equity
  - Rules: 5550(b)(2)
  source text: April 4, 2023, Molecular Templates, Inc. (the “Company”) received an additional notice from the Listing Qualifications Staff of The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”) indicating that the Company no longer satisfied the $2.5 million minimum stockholders’ equity requirement for continued listing on The Nasdaq Capital Market, as required by Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(b)(2) (the “Equity Requirement”), which could serve as an additional basis for the delisting of the Company’s securities from Nasdaq. The Company plans to present its plan to evidence compliance with the Equity Requirement along with i
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1183765/000119312523095265/0001193125-23-095265-index.htm

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