---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-25-028526"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AQMS"
cik: "0001621832"
company_name: "Aqua Metals, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-09-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T07:36:29.678138+00:00"
event_type: "regulatory"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Aqua Metals regains Nasdaq minimum bid compliance after reverse split and hearing

## Summary
- Nasdaq confirmed Sept 4, 2025 that AQMS regained compliance with Listing Rule 5550(a)(2) after 1-for-10 reverse stock split on Aug 4, 2025.
- Company had fallen below $1.00 closing bid price for 30 consecutive days; previous reverse split made it ineligible for grace period.
- Nasdaq Hearing Panel heard appeal on Aug 19, 2025; mandatory panel monitor in place until Sept 4, 2026.
- If noncompliant again during monitoring, no grace period available; delisting determination could follow unless appeal is requested.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-25-028526
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AQMS
- cik: 0001621832
- company_name: Aqua Metals, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-09-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: regulatory
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 3.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1621832/000143774925028526/0001437749-25-028526-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1621832/000143774925028526/aqms20250906_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Listing & Compliance Notices
  Aqua Metals, Inc. received a nasdaq compliance regained notice regarding minimum bid price (rules 5550(a)(2)).
  - Exchange: nasdaq
  - Notice: compliance regained
  - Deficiency: minimum bid price
  - Rules: 5550(a)(2)
  source text: September 4, 2025 confirming the Company had regained compliance with minimum bid requirement in Listing Rule 5550(a)(2). The Company will be subject to a mandatory panel monitor for a period of one year ending September 4, 2026. If, within that one-year monitoring period, the Nasdaq staff finds the Company again out of compliance with the minimum bid requirement, the Company will not be eligible for any compliance grace period under the Nasdaq Listing Rules in order to regain compliance with Listing Rule 5550(a)(2), and, consequently, the Company would be subject to a delist determination fro
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1621832/000143774925028526/0001437749-25-028526-index.htm

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