---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001493152-23-018328"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CING"
cik: "0001862150"
company_name: "Cingulate Inc."
filed_at: "2023-05-19T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-14T20:05:47.119659+00:00"
event_type: "regulatory"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Cingulate receives Nasdaq notice for failure to meet minimum equity requirement

## Summary
- Stockholders' equity of $81,614 as of March 31, 2023 was below Nasdaq's $2.5M minimum for continued listing.
- Company has 45 days (until June 30, 2023) to submit a plan to regain compliance with Nasdaq Rule 5550(b)(1).
- If plan accepted, Nasdaq may grant up to 180 days (until Nov 12, 2023) to regain compliance; no assurance of acceptance.
- No immediate impact on listing; common stock (CING) and warrants (CINGW) continue trading on Nasdaq.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001493152-23-018328
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CING
- cik: 0001862150
- company_name: Cingulate Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-05-19T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: regulatory
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 3.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1862150/000149315223018328/0001493152-23-018328-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1862150/000149315223018328/form8-k.htm

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## Key facts
- Listing & Compliance Notices
  Cingulate 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: May 16, 2023, Cingulate 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’ equity of $81,614 as reported in the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended March 31, 2023 was below the required minimum of $2.5 million, and because, as of May 15, 2023, the Company did not meet
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1862150/000149315223018328/0001493152-23-018328-index.htm

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