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NRx Pharmaceuticals Announces Reverse Stock Split to Maintain Nasdaq Listing
Common Stock Will Begin Trading on Split-Adjusted Basis on April 2, 2024
RADNOR, Pa., March 28, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- NRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:NRXP) ("NRx Pharmaceuticals", the "Company"), 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, ...