---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-25-026328"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DRCT"
cik: "0001880613"
company_name: "Direct Digital Holdings, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-05-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-21T03:42:13.471868+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.8
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Direct Digital receives Nasdaq bid price non-compliance notice; sells 1.1M shares for $571k

## Summary
- Nasdaq notified DRCT of non-compliance with minimum bid price rule ($1.00) for 30 consecutive business days; 180-day cure period until Nov 10, 2025.
- Company sold 1,100,000 shares of Class A common stock to New Circle Principal Investments for $570,924 cash from May 13-16, 2025.
- If compliance not regained by Nov 10, may be eligible for 180-day extension subject to meeting other Nasdaq listing standards.
- Immediate trading unaffected; company evaluating options including potential reverse stock split to cure deficiency.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-25-026328
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DRCT
- cik: 0001880613
- company_name: Direct Digital Holdings, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-05-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.8
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 3.01, 3.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1880613/000162828025026328/0001628280-25-026328-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1880613/000162828025026328/drct-20250512.htm

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## Key facts
- Listing & Compliance Notices
  Direct Digital Holdings, Inc. received a nasdaq deficiency notice notice regarding minimum bid price (rules 5450(a)(1)).
  - Exchange: nasdaq
  - Notice: deficiency notice
  - Deficiency: minimum bid price
  - Rules: 5450(a)(1)
  source text: received a notice (the “ Notice ”) from the Listing Qualifications Department (the “ Staff ”) of The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“ Nasdaq ”) notifying the Company that because the closing bid price of the Company’s Class A common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “ Class A Common Stock ”) was below $1.00 per share for the prior 30 consecutive business days, the Company is not in compliance with the minimum bid price requirement for continued listing on The Nasdaq Capital Market, as set forth in Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(a)(2) (the “ Rule ”). The Notice states that the Company has 180 calendar
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1880613/000162828025026328/0001628280-25-026328-index.htm

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