---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001849820-25-000246"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "KITT"
cik: "0001849820"
company_name: "Nauticus Robotics, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-10-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T02:48:38.240424+00:00"
event_type: "regulatory"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.85
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Nauticus Robotics receives Nasdaq delisting notice for market value deficiency

## Summary
- Received deficiency letter on Oct 16, 2025: market value of listed securities below $35M for 30 consecutive days.
- Company also failed alternative equity requirement under Nasdaq Rule 5550(b)(1).
- Subject to Panel Monitor through Feb 18, 2026; no cure period available for this deficiency.
- Intends to request a hearing to stay suspension and delisting, but no assurance of compliance.
- Previously noncompliant in Feb 2024; had exception extended to Feb 10, 2025.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001849820-25-000246
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: KITT
- cik: 0001849820
- company_name: Nauticus Robotics, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-10-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: regulatory
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.85
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 3.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1849820/000184982025000246/0001849820-25-000246-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1849820/000184982025000246/kitt-20251016.htm

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## Source-grounded claims
- claim_id: 1a655a3c57420b3ffea768dc89b60cba0adf90e6
  claim: Nauticus Robotics, Inc. received a nasdaq deficiency notice notice regarding market value (rules 5550(b)(2)).
  evidence_excerpt: October 16, 2025, Nauticus Robotics, Inc. (the “Company”) received a deficiency letter (the “Deficiency Letter”) from the Listing Qualifications Department (the “Staff”) of The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”) notifying the Company that, for the preceding 30 consecutive trading days, the market value of the Company’s listed securities had been below the minimum $35,000,000 requirement for continued listing on The Nasdaq Capital Market, pursuant to Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(b)(2) (the “MVLS Requirement”). The Company also did not meet the alternative equity requirement under Nasdaq Listing Rul
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1849820/000184982025000246/0001849820-25-000246-index.htm
- claim_id: 703758d04e90f1c0bf606b304937946ab9e043ff
  claim: Nauticus Robotics, Inc. received a nasdaq deficiency notice notice regarding stockholders equity (rules 5550(b)(1)).
  evidence_excerpt: October 16, 2025, Nauticus Robotics, Inc. (the “Company”) received a deficiency letter (the “Deficiency Letter”) from the Listing Qualifications Department (the “Staff”) of The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”) notifying the Company that, for the preceding 30 consecutive trading days, the market value of the Company’s listed securities had been below the minimum $35,000,000 requirement for continued listing on The Nasdaq Capital Market, pursuant to Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(b)(2) (the “MVLS Requirement”). The Company also did not meet the alternative equity requirement under Nasdaq Listing Rul
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1849820/000184982025000246/0001849820-25-000246-index.htm

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