---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-22-029539"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GROW"
cik: "0000754811"
company_name: "U S GLOBAL INVESTORS INC"
filed_at: "2022-12-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-21T01:12:00.528209+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# U.S. Global Investors names Grant Thornton auditor, renews buyback, declares dividend

## Summary
- Engaged Grant Thornton LLP as new independent auditor, effective review of Q2 FY23 (quarter ending Dec 31, 2022).
- Repurchased 24,795 shares in Nov 2022 at net cost ~$73,600; up 25% from Oct and 625% from Nov 2021.
- Renewed $5M annual stock buyback program; modified algorithm allows repurchases when price flat/down from prior day.
- Authorized monthly dividend of $0.0075/share through March 2023; record/payment dates in Jan, Feb, Mar.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-22-029539
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GROW
- cik: 0000754811
- company_name: U S GLOBAL INVESTORS INC
- filed_at: 2022-12-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 4.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/754811/000143774922029539/0001437749-22-029539-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/754811/000143774922029539/usglobal20221221_8k.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-22-029539
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-22-029539.txt

## Key facts
- Auditor Changes
  U S GLOBAL INVESTORS INC engaged Grant Thornton LLP as its auditor.
  - Action: engagement
  - Auditor: Grant Thornton LLP
  source text: On December 16, 2022, the Board of Directors of U.S. Global Investors, Inc. (the "Company"), engaged Grant Thornton LLP ("Grant Thornton") as the Company's new independent registered public accounting firm commencing with the review of the Company’s financial statements to be included in the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ending December 31, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/754811/000143774922029539/0001437749-22-029539-index.htm

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