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accession: "0001683168-25-007933"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FWDI"
cik: "0000038264"
company_name: "Forward Industries, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-11-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T00:45:20.112958+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.85
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confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Forward Industries authorizes $1B stock buyback, files resale prospectus for private placement shares

## Summary
- Board authorized repurchase of up to $1 billion of common stock through September 30, 2027.
- Repurchases may be executed via open market, block trades, or 10b5-1 plans; program can be suspended anytime.
- Filed resale prospectus supplement registering shares issued in September 2025 private placement.
- Legal opinion of Nason, Yeager, Gerson, Harris & Fumero, P.A. dated November 3, 2025 attached as Exhibit 5.1.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001683168-25-007933
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FWDI
- cik: 0000038264
- company_name: Forward Industries, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-11-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.85
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/38264/000168316825007933/0001683168-25-007933-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/38264/000168316825007933/forward_8k.htm

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