NRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: NRXP), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, today announced that it intends to effect a reverse stock split of its common stock at a ratio of 1 post-split share for every 10 pre-split shares. The reverse stock split will become effective at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time on Monday, April 1, 2024. The Company’s common stock will continue to be traded on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol NRXP and will begin trading on a split-adjusted basis when the market opens on Tuesday, April 2, 2024. The new CUSIP number for the Company’s common stock following the reverse stock split will be 629444209.
“Given the company’s progress over the past year, we have received consistent guidance from investors, analysts, and financial advisors that our shareholders are best served by establishing a share price that is within the charter of institutional investors and not subject to “penny stock” rules. While a more modest reverse split may have achieved Nasdaq compliance, the board believes that today’s action is most consistent with creating long term shareholder value. With data from important clinical trials in Suicidal Bipolar Depression and Chronic Pain in the near term, as well as a planned dividend of shares in HOPE Therapeutics to existing shareholders and expected filing of an NDA for ketamine in the second quarter, we believe the company is well positioned to be attractive to many larger investors,” said Dr. Jonathan Javitt, Founder, Chairman and Chief Scientist of NRx Pharmaceuticals. Positive data readouts from either clinical trial has the potential to drive a forward stock split in the future.
At the effective time of the reverse stock split, every 10 shares of NRx Pharmaceutical’s issued and outstanding common stock will be converted automatically into one issued and outstanding share of common stock without any change in the par value per share. Stockholders holding shares through a brokerage account will have their shares automatically adjusted to reflect the 1-for-10 reverse stock split. It is not necessary for stockholders holding shares of the Company’s common stock in certificated form to exchange their existing stock certificates for new stock certificates of the Company in connection with the reverse stock split, although stockholders may do so if they wish.
About NRx Pharmaceuticals
NRx Pharmaceuticals is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing therapeutics based on its NMDA platform for the treatment of central nervous system disorders, specifically suicidal bipolar depression, chronic pain and PTSD. The Company is developing NRX-101, an FDA-designated investigational Breakthrough Therapy for suicidal treatment-resistant bipolar depression and chronic pain. NRx has partnered with Alvogen and Lotus around the development and marketing of NRX-101 for the treatment of suicidal bipolar depression. NRX-101 additionally has potential to act as a non-opioid treatment for chronic pain, as well as a treatment for complicated UTI.
NRx has recently announced plans to submit a New Drug Application for HTX-100 (IV ketamine), through Hope Therapeutics, in the treatment of suicidal depression, based on results of well-controlled clinical trials conducted under the auspices of the US National Institutes of Health and newly obtained data from French health authorities, licensed under a data sharing agreement. NRx was awarded Fast Track Designation for development of ketamine (NRX-100) by the US FDA as part of a protocol to treat patients with acute suicidality.
