---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001213900-25-047350"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ALTO"
cik: "0000778164"
company_name: "Alto Ingredients, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-05-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T16:37:42.322116+00:00"
event_type: "regulatory"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Alto Ingredients receives Nasdaq bid-price deficiency notice; 180 days to cure

## Summary
- Common stock bid price below $1.00 for 30 consecutive business days as of May 19, 2025.
- Company has 180 calendar days, until November 15, 2025, to regain compliance.
- Compliance requires closing at $1.00+ for at least 10 consecutive business days.
- If not cured by Nov 15, may qualify for additional 180-day period subject to other listing standards.
- Potential delisting if unable to cure; company may appeal to Nasdaq Hearings Panel.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001213900-25-047350
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ALTO
- cik: 0000778164
- company_name: Alto Ingredients, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-05-23T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: regulatory
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 3.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/778164/000121390025047350/0001213900-25-047350-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/778164/000121390025047350/ea0243017-8k_altoingred.htm

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## Key facts
- Listing & Compliance Notices
  Alto Ingredients, Inc. received a nasdaq deficiency notice notice regarding minimum bid price (rules 5550(a)(2), 5810(c)(3)(A)).
  - Exchange: nasdaq
  - Notice: deficiency notice
  - Deficiency: minimum bid price
  - Rules: 5550(a)(2), 5810(c)(3)(A)
  source text: May 19, 2025, Alto Ingredients, Inc. (the “Company”) received a letter from the listing qualifications staff of The Nasdaq Stock Market (“Nasdaq”) indicating that the bid price of the Company’s common stock for the last 30 consecutive business days had closed below the minimum $1.00 per share required for continued listing under Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(a)(2). Under Nasdaq Listing Rule 5810(c)(3)(A), the Company has been provided an initial period of 180 calendar days, ending November 15, 2025, to regain compliance. The letter states that the Nasdaq staff will provide written notification that
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/778164/000121390025047350/0001213900-25-047350-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.