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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-25-022143"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AQMS"
cik: "0001621832"
company_name: "Aqua Metals, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-07-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-18T09:27:34.522436+00:00"
event_type: "regulatory"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Aqua Metals receives Nasdaq delisting notice for bid price non-compliance; plans appeal and reverse split vote

## Summary
- Nasdaq notified Aqua Metals on July 2, 2025 that its stock bid price closed below $1.00 for 30 straight days.
- Due to a reverse stock split within the prior year, Aqua Metals is not eligible for a compliance period and faces delisting.
- Company will appeal to Nasdaq Hearing Panel by July 9, 2025, which will stay delisting pending the appeal.
- Shareholder meeting scheduled for July 22, 2025 to vote on a reverse stock split (ratio 1:2 to 1:10) to regain compliance.
- No guarantee that stockholders will approve the reverse split or that compliance will be achieved in time.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-25-022143
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AQMS
- cik: 0001621832
- company_name: Aqua Metals, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-07-03T23:59:59+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/1621832/000143774925022143/0001437749-25-022143-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1621832/000143774925022143/aqms20250703_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Listing & Compliance Notices
  Aqua Metals, Inc. received a nasdaq delisting notice notice regarding minimum bid price (rules 5550(a)(2)).
  - Exchange: nasdaq
  - Notice: delisting notice
  - Deficiency: minimum bid price
  - Rules: 5550(a)(2)
  source text: July 2, 2025, Aqua Metals, Inc. (the “Company”) received a letter (the “Letter”) from the Nasdaq Stock Market, LLC (the “Nasdaq”). The Letter notified the Company that it had fallen below compliance with respect to the continued listing standard set forth in Rule 5550(a)(2) of the Nasdaq Listing Rules because the closing bid price of the Company’s common stock over the previous 30 consecutive trading-day period had fallen below $1.00 per share. The Letter states that due to the fact that the Company has effected a reverse stock split over the prior one-year period, the Company is not eligible
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1621832/000143774925022143/0001437749-25-022143-index.htm

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