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Stockholders’ Equity
12 Months Ended
Oct. 31, 2018
Equity [Abstract]  
Stockholders' Equity

Note 13. Stockholders’ Equity

Authorized Common Stock

On December 14, 2017, the number of authorized shares of the Company’s common stock was increased from 125,000,000 to 225,000,000, by a vote of the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of the Company’s common stock.

In April 2017, the number of authorized shares of the Company's common stock was increased from 75,000,000 to 125,000,000, by vote of the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of the Company's common stock.  

At Market Issuance Sales Agreement and Other Common Stock Sales

On June 13, 2018, the Company entered into an At Market Issuance Sales Agreement (the “Sales Agreement”) with B. Riley FBR, Inc. and Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. (together, the “Agents”) to create an at the market equity program under which the Company from time to time may offer and sell shares of its common stock having an aggregate offering price of up to $50,000,000 through the Agents. Under the Sales Agreement, the Agent making the sales is entitled to a commission in an amount equal to 3.0% of the gross proceeds from such sales. During the year ended October 31, 2018, the Company sold 5.7 million shares of the Company’s common stock at prevailing market prices under the Sales Agreement and received gross proceeds of $8.0 million and paid $0.9 million of fees and commissions.

During the years ended October 31, 2017 and 2016, the Company sold 7.2 million shares and 6.0 million shares, respectively, of the Company's common stock at prevailing market prices through periodic offerings/sales on the open market and raised approximately $12.6 million and $36.1 million, net of aggregate selling commissions of $0.1 million and $0.1 million, respectively.

Public Offerings and Outstanding Warrants

On May 3, 2017, the Company completed an underwritten public offering of (i) 12,000,000 shares of its common stock, (ii) Series C warrants to purchase 12,000,000 shares of its common stock and (iii) Series D warrants to purchase 12,000,000 shares of its common stock, for gross proceeds of approximately $15.4 million, at a public offering price of $1.28 per share and accompanying warrants. Total net proceeds to the Company were approximately $13.9 million.  The Series C warrants have an exercise price of $1.60 per share and a term of five years.  A total of 11,536 shares of common stock were issued during fiscal year 2018 upon the exercise of Series C warrants and the Company received total proceeds of $0.02 million. The Series D warrants had an exercise price of $1.28 per share and a term of one year.  A total of 2,584,174 shares of common stock were issued during fiscal year 2018 upon the exercise of Series D warrants and the Company received total proceeds of $3.3 million.   As of October 31, 2018, all Series D warrants have been exercised.

On July 12, 2016, the Company closed on a registered public offering of securities to a single institutional investor pursuant to a placement agent agreement with J.P. Morgan Securities LLC.  In conjunction with the offering the Company issued 7,680,000 Series A Warrants, all of which remained outstanding as of October 31, 2018, at an exercise price of $5.83 per share. They are initially exercisable beginning on the date that is six months and one day after the issue date and will expire on the fifth anniversary of the initial exercisability date. The Company also issued 4,926,000 prefunded Series B Warrants which were immediately exercisable.  They had an exercise price of $0.0001 per share and were to expire on the fifth anniversary of the issue date.  There were 3,826,000 prefunded Series B Warrants outstanding as of October 31, 2016, all of which were exercised during the year ended October 31, 2017.

The following table outlines the warrant activity during the year ended October 31, 2018:

 

 

 

Series A

Warrants

 

 

Series C

Warrants

 

 

Series D

Warrants

 

Balance as of October 31, 2017

 

 

7,680,000

 

 

 

11,580,900

 

 

 

2,584,174

 

Warrants exercised

 

 

 

 

 

(11,536

)

 

 

(2,584,174

)

Warrants expired

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Balance as of October 31, 2018

 

 

7,680,000

 

 

 

11,569,364

 

 

 

 

 

Nasdaq Marketplace Rule 5635(d)

On December 14, 2017, in accordance with Nasdaq Marketplace Rule 5635(d), the Company’s common stockholders approved the issuance of shares of the Company’s common stock exceeding 19.9% of the number of shares outstanding on September 5, 2017, upon the conversion and/or redemption of the Series C Convertible Preferred Stock issued in an underwritten offering in September 2017.