---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-23-015478"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001506928"
company_name: "Avinger Inc"
filed_at: "2023-05-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-14T18:12:06.824541+00:00"
event_type: "regulatory"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Avinger receives Nasdaq delisting notice for failing stockholders' equity requirement

## Summary
- Nasdaq notified Avinger on May 18, 2023 of non-compliance with $2.5M stockholders' equity continued listing requirement.
- Company has 45 days, until July 3, 2023, to submit a plan to regain compliance with the equity requirement.
- If plan accepted, Nasdaq may grant extension up to November 14, 2023 to regain compliance; rejection could be appealed.
- Separately, Avinger also faces bid price deficiency from April 25, 2023, with compliance period ending October 23, 2023.
- Failure to meet either requirement could result in delisting from Nasdaq Capital Market.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-23-015478
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001506928
- company_name: Avinger Inc
- filed_at: 2023-05-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: regulatory
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 3.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1506928/000143774923015478/0001437749-23-015478-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1506928/000143774923015478/avgr20230519_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Listing & Compliance Notices
  Avinger Inc received a nasdaq noncompliance notice notice regarding stockholders equity (rules 5550(b)).
  - Exchange: nasdaq
  - Notice: noncompliance notice
  - Deficiency: stockholders equity
  - Rules: 5550(b)
  source text: May 18, 2023, Avinger, Inc. (the “Company”) received notice from the Listing Qualifications Department of The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”) that the Company no longer satisfies the $2.5 million stockholders’ equity requirement for continued listing on The Nasdaq Capital Market, or the alternatives to that requirement – a $35 million market value of listed securities or $500,000 in net income in the most recent fiscal year or two or the last three fiscal years – as required by Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(b) (the “Equity Requirement”). As with the Bid Price Deficiency Letter (as defined below)
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1506928/000143774923015478/0001437749-23-015478-index.htm

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