---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-26-011604"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HYFM"
cik: "0001695295"
company_name: "HYDROFARM HOLDINGS GROUP, INC."
filed_at: "2026-04-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-15T07:03:18.332453+00:00"
event_type: "regulatory"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.8
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Hydrofarm receives Nasdaq delisting notice over stockholders' deficit of $63.3M

## Summary
- Stockholders' deficit of $63.296M as of Dec 31, 2025, below Nasdaq's $2.5M minimum.
- Company also failed alternative compliance tests (market value and net income).
- Must submit compliance plan by May 16, 2026; possible extension to Sep 28, 2026.
- If plan rejected, company may appeal to a Nasdaq hearings panel.
- No immediate delisting; stock continues trading under HYFM pending resolution.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-26-011604
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HYFM
- cik: 0001695295
- company_name: HYDROFARM HOLDINGS GROUP, INC.
- filed_at: 2026-04-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: regulatory
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.8
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 3.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1695295/000143774926011604/0001437749-26-011604-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1695295/000143774926011604/hyfm20260403_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Listing & Compliance Notices
  HYDROFARM HOLDINGS GROUP, INC. received a nasdaq deficiency notice notice regarding stockholders equity (rules 5550(b)(1)).
  - Exchange: nasdaq
  - Notice: deficiency notice
  - Deficiency: stockholders equity
  - Rules: 5550(b)(1)
  source text: April 1, 2026, Hydrofarm Holdings Group, Inc. (the “Company”) received a letter (the “Letter”) from the Listing Qualifications Department of The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”) indicating that the Company was not in compliance with the minimum stockholders’ equity requirement for continued listing on the Nasdaq Capital Market, under Listing Rule 5550(b)(1), because the Company’s stockholders’ deficit of ($63,296,000) as reported in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025 was below the required minimum of $2.5 million, and because, as of March 31
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1695295/000143774926011604/0001437749-26-011604-index.htm

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