Stockholders’ Equity

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2022

On March 21, 2022, Convertible Notes Payable pursuant to the PIPE Transaction discussed in Note 10, “Debt and Convertible Notes Payable”, which had been purchased by certain funds associated with one of the Company’s directors including the D3 Family Fund and the D3 Bulldog Fund, which aggregated $3.0 million plus $39 thousand of accrued interest, were converted into 2,793,030 shares of the Company’s common stock.

On June 21, 2022, ProFrac Holdings II, LLC paid $19.5 million for PreFunded Warrants of the Company. The PreFunded Warrants were recorded in equity at their fair value of $11.1 million, estimated using a Black-Scholes Option Pricing model, less $1.2 million of transaction costs paid. The remaining cash received of $8.4 million was recognized as an equity contribution. The Prefunded Warrants permit ProFrac Holdings II, LLC to purchase 13,104,839 shares of common stock of the Company at an exercise price equal to $0.0001 per share, representing a 20% premium to the 30-day volume average price of the Company’s common stock at the close of business on the day prior to the date of the issuance of the Prefunded Warrants. The Prefunded Warrants, net of transaction fees of $1.1 million, and the equity contribution of $8.4 million from ProFrac Holdings, II, LLC are included in additional paid-in capital as of December 31, 2022.

The key inputs into the Black-Scholes Option Pricing Model used to estimate the fair value of the Pre-Funded Warrants as of the issuance on June 21, 2022 were as follows:


Risk-free interest rate			3.21%
Expected volatility			90.0%
Term until liquidation (years)			2.00
Stock price			$1.11
Strike price (exercise fee)			$4.5 million

ProFrac Holdings II, LLC and its affiliates may not receive any voting or consent rights in respect of the Prefunded Warrants or the underlying shares unless and until (i) the Company has obtained approval from a majority of its shareholders excluding ProFrac Holdings II, LLC and its affiliates and (ii) ProFrac Holdings II, LLC has paid an additional $4.5 million to the Company. The additional $4.5 million will be accounted for as an equity contribution if received.

During the first quarter of 2021, the Company identified 613,000 shares that were improperly included in the December 31, 2020 issued share count, and the Company adjusted the issued share count presented on the statement of stockholders’ equity. This adjustment was not material to the December 31, 2020 consolidated financial statements or basic and diluted earnings per share.

Treasury Stock

The Company accounts for treasury stock using the cost method and includes treasury stock as a component of stockholders’ equity. During the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, the Company withheld 114,797 shares and 155,317 shares, respectively, of the Company’s common stock at market value as payment of income tax withholding owed by employees upon the vesting of restricted shares and the exercise of stock options. Shares issued as restricted stock awards to employees under the 2018 long-term incentive plan that were forfeited were 39,547 and 135,092 during the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively, are accounted for as treasury stock. During the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, forfeited stock awards returned to treasury stock were 30,055 shares and 421,389 shares, respectively.