---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001654954-23-015506"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AIMD"
cik: "0001014763"
company_name: "Ainos, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-12-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-07T12:29:20.198803+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ainos announces 1-for-5 reverse stock split effective Dec 14, 2023; increases authorized preferred shares

## Summary
- Reverse stock split at 1-for-5 ratio effective Dec 14, 2023; fractional shares paid in cash.
- Authorized preferred shares increased from 10M to 50M; may be issued in series.
- Outstanding options and warrants adjusted proportionally; new CUSIP 00902F303.
- Common stock begins trading on split-adjusted basis on Nasdaq as of Dec 14, 2023.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001654954-23-015506
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AIMD
- cik: 0001014763
- company_name: Ainos, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-12-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1014763/000165495423015506/0001654954-23-015506-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1014763/000165495423015506/aimd_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001654954-23-015506.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Ainos, Inc.: Amended Certificate of Formation to effect a 1-for-5 reverse stock split and increase authorized preferred shares from 10,000,000 to 50,000,000 (effective 2023-12-14).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2023-12-14
  source text: Reverse Stock Split Effective December 14, 2023 at 9:00 a.m., Eastern time (the “Effective Time”), Ainos, Inc. (the “Company”) amended its Certificate of Formation (the “Amendment”) to effect a reverse stock split of the Company’s common stock, par value $.01 (the “Common Stock”) at a ratio of 1-for-5 (the “Reverse Stock Split”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1014763/000165495423015506/0001654954-23-015506-index.htm

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