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WARRANT LIABILITY

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WARRANT LIABILITY
9 Months Ended
Jan. 31, 2024
Warrant Liability  
WARRANT LIABILITY

NOTE 9 — WARRANT LIABILITY

 

As of January 31, 2024 and April 30, 2023, the Company’s warrant liabilities were valued at $3,139,500 and $4,230,850, respectively. Under the guidance in ASC 815-40, certain warrants do not meet the criteria for equity treatment. These warrants include a clause whereby the warrant holder may be entitled to receive a net cash settlement upon the completion of a “fundamental transaction.” A fundamental transaction, as defined in the warrants, includes (a) any merger or consolidation by and between the Company and another Person, (b) the sale or other disposition by the Company of all or substantially all of its assets, (c) the completion of any tender offer or exchange offer pursuant to which the holders of greater than 50% of the Company’s outstanding common stock has agreed to tender or exchange their securities, and (d) the consummation of a stock purchase agreement or other business combination whereby another Person acquires more than 50% of the outstanding shares of common stock of the Company. In the event of a fundamental transaction, the holder of the warrant has the right to require that the Company purchase the warrant from the holder by paying the holder an amount of cash equal to a valuation based on the Black-Scholes Option Pricing Model reflecting an expected volatility equal to the greater of 100% or the 100-day volatility as of the trading day immediately following the public announcement of the applicable fundamental transaction. This volatility input precludes the Company from applying equity accounting as the warrant holder could receive a net cash settlement value that is greater than a holder of the Company’s common stock. Accordingly, the Company has concluded that liability accounting is required.

 

As such, these warrants are recorded at fair value as of each reporting date with the change in fair value reported within other income in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations as “Change in fair value of warrant liability” until the warrants are exercised, expired or other facts and circumstances lead the warrant liability to be reclassified to stockholders’ equity. The Company utilized a Monte Carlo Simulation model to estimate the fair values of the April 2023 and March 2022 warrants, which incorporates significant inputs that are not observable in the market, and thus represents a Level 3 measurement as defined in ASC 820. The unobservable inputs utilized for measuring the fair value of the contingent consideration reflect management’s own assumptions about the assumptions that market participants would use in valuing the contingent consideration. The Company determined the fair value by using the below key inputs to the Monte Carlo Simulation Model.

 

Initial Measurement

 

The Company accounted for the 625,000 warrants issued on March 18, 2022, in accordance with the guidance contained in ASC 815 “Derivatives and Hedging” whereby under that provision these warrants did not meet the criteria for equity treatment and were recorded as a liability. The initial valuation of these warrants was valued at $3,652,000 on March 18, 2022. Additionally, the Company accounted for the 870,000 warrants issued on April 10, 2023, in accordance with the guidance contained in ASC 815 “Derivatives and Hedging” whereby under that provision these warrants did not meet the criteria for equity treatment and were recorded as a liability at an initial valuation of $3,088,500.

 

 

U.S. GOLD CORP. AND SUBSIDIARIES

NOTES TO UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

JANUARY 31, 2024

 

The key inputs for the warrant liability were as follows as of January 31, 2024:

 

Key Valuation Inputs      
Expected term (years)     4.69  
Annualized volatility     77.3 %
Volatility if fundamental transaction occurs     100.00 %
Risk-free interest rate     3.93 %
Stock price   $ 3.70  
Dividend yield     0.00 %
Exercise price   $ 6.16  
Probability of fundamental transaction     90 %
Date of fundamental transaction     0.25 years to 4.70 years  

 

The key inputs for the warrant liability were as follows as of April 30, 2023:

 

Key Valuation Inputs      
Expected term (years)     5.45  
Annualized volatility     81.4 %
Volatility if fundamental transaction occurs     100.00 %
Risk-free interest rate     3.51 %
Stock price   $ 4.31  
Dividend yield     0.00 %
Exercise price   $ 6.16  
Probability of fundamental transaction     90 %
Date of fundamental transaction     1.00 years to 5.45 years  

 

The following table sets forth a summary of the changes in the fair value of the Level 3 warrant liability for the nine months ended January 31, 2024:

 

   

Warrant

Liability

 
Fair value as of April 30, 2023   $ 4,230,850  
Change in fair value     (1,091,350 )
Fair value as of January 31, 2024   $ 3,139,500