---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001493152-23-002993"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CETX"
cik: "0001435064"
company_name: "CEMTREX INC"
filed_at: "2023-01-30T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-20T06:34:01.192911+00:00"
event_type: "regulatory"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.8
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Cemtrex common stock (CETX) faces delisting from Nasdaq; preferred stock (CETXP) gets 180-day extension

## Summary
- Common stock (CETX) bid price below $1 for 30 days; failed to regain compliance by Jan 23, 2023 deadline.
- Nasdaq determined delisting; suspension scheduled Feb 6 unless appeal filed; company requested hearing on Mar 16, 2023.
- Series 1 preferred stock (CETXP) also non-compliant but granted additional 180 days until July 24, 2023.
- Company may effect reverse stock split to cure CETX deficiency; appeal hearing stays delisting pending Panel decision.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001493152-23-002993
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CETX
- cik: 0001435064
- company_name: CEMTREX INC
- filed_at: 2023-01-30T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: regulatory
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.8
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 3.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1435064/000149315223002993/0001493152-23-002993-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1435064/000149315223002993/form8-k.htm

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## Key facts
- Listing & Compliance Notices
  CEMTREX 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: daq notifying the Company that, because the closing bid price for the Company’s common stock listed on Nasdaq was below $1.00 for 30 consecutive trading days, the Company no longer met the minimum bid price requirement for continued listing on The Nasdaq Capital Market under Nasdaq Marketplace Rule 5550(a)(2), requiring a minimum bid price of $1.00 per share (the “Minimum Bid Price Requirement”). On July 26, 2022, the Company received a notification letter from the Listing Qualifications Department of The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC Nasdaq notifying the Company that, it had been granted an additio
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1435064/000149315223002993/0001493152-23-002993-index.htm

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