Saturday, July 5, 2014

NASDAQ sends delisting notice to KiOR. MDA grants forebearance on loan repayment.

NASDAQ notifed Kior it faces delisting from the stock exchange if its share price does not improve.  Kior closed at $0.37 per share Thursday and had a market cap of $41 million.  Kior stated in a May 6 SEC filing:


On April 30, 2014, KiOR, Inc. ("we," "our" or the "Company") received two notifications of deficiency from the Listing Qualifications Department of The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC ("NASDAQ") indicating that (1) based on the Company's closing bid price for its Class A common stock during the last 30 consecutive business days, the Company does not comply with the minimum bid price requirement of $1.00 per share, as set forth in NASDAQ Listing Rule 5450(a)(1) and (2) for the past 30 consecutive business days the Company did not maintain a minimum market value of listed securities ("MVLS") of $50 million, as set forth in NASDAQ Listing Rule 5450(b)(2)(A). On May 5, 2014, the Company received a notification of deficiency from NASDAQ indicating that for the prior 30 consecutive business days the Company did not maintain a minimum market value of publicly held shares ("MVPHS") of $15 million, as set forth in NASDAQ Listing Rule 5450(b)(2)(C). The notifications have no immediate effect on the listing of the Company's Class A common stock on The NASDAQ Global Select Market.

Closing Bid Price
In accordance with NASDAQ Listing Rule 5810(c)(3)(A), the Company has a grace period of 180 calendar days, or until October 27, 2014, to regain compliance with the minimum closing price requirement for continued listing. In order to regain compliance, the minimum closing price per share of the Company's Class A common stock must be at least $1.00 for a minimum of ten consecutive business days during the 180-day grace period. Copy of notice

Meanwhile the Associated Press reported that the state gave Kior a break:

Mississippi will give struggling biofuel company KiOR another four months to raise money and resume repaying its $69.4 million debt to the state, passing up a chance to force the company into bankruptcy and seize its Columbus refinery, a state official said Thursday.

The state negotiated a short-term forbearance agreement with KiOR under which the company will pay Mississippi $250,000, and the state will agree not to press its claims for 120 days, Mississippi Development Authority spokesman Jeff Rent said in a statement he emailed to The Associated Press on Thursday.

Rent says the $250,000 is in addition to what KiOR already owes the state.....

 KiOR is based in Pasadena, Texas. The company owed Mississippi a nearly $1.9 million payment June 30 on what was originally a $75 million, no-interest loan. Kior said if it defaults, it could face demands from other lenders to immediately repay the entire $287 million that it owes....

Apparently it looks like the Kior lost its lifeline as the AP also reported:

Mississippi relented after KiOR's longtime financier, Vinod Khosla, apparently refused to lend the company any more money. KiOR signed an agreement March 31 to borrow up to $25 million from KFT Trust, an entity controlled by Khosla, the billionaire co-founder of computer firm Sun Microsystems. KiOR said the money would be drawn in installments and Khosla could stop lending if the company didn't reach "certain performance milestones." Rest of article

But don't worry.  If KiOR does not repay the loan, Mississippi gets to foreclose and take possession of an experimental plant in Columbus.  Surely  someone will want to buy a plant that can covert wood chips to fuel for $60-70 million?  If not, can the state just donate it to Mississippi State?

Senatobia, KiOR, one day Kemper. Thank you, Haley and the legislature.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

If this was a bad movie, which it is, they would now say:
"That's a wrap!"

Anonymous said...

New reality show idea.

"Dixie Boondoggle Scrappers".

Locals and a few token carpetbaggers travel the highways and byways in search of their next big scrapping score. Most of the locals are experienced second and third generation scrappers while the carpetbaggers don't know sweettea from shinola when it comes to high dollar stainless and big ass copper bus bars.

Following the trails of such notorious sugar daddies like Mississippi's MDA and the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs, the scrappers tour numerous mothballed brainfarts. Some of the boondoggles will be sold at auction soon, and taking a look to see what will soon be bringing less than five cents on the dollar is important research for the serious players.

The carpetbaggers seem to be much more interested in all the back-stories behind the failures and scams. Not smart enough to suspect that the cousins and inlaws and lobbyists are often behind the economic jackassery, those not fitted with steel toes are continually SHOCKED to find out that the most frequent excuse is "Who could have known?"

Anonymous said...

Proof the Haley Barbour can political campaigns better than he can pick companies to fund.

Anonymous said...

2:41p...haley is nobody's dumbass, and there is a reason he was "on katrina duty", just like this kior deal here

i wonder if this where a bunch of the "katrina relief funds" went? you know, that half of the settlement that he took for "economic development", i.e. $2.5 BILLION

Anonymous said...

No matter if you like McDaniel or not this is the sort of "economic development" Haley and Thad's ilk bring to the state. Plenty of conservative Republicans that wouldn't touch the Tea Party with a ten foot pole are tired of this crony capitalism.

Pugnacious said...

The KIOR misadventure was sold to a bunch of scalawags in Lowndes county who were led by Joe Max Higgins and "fluff journalist," Birney Imes,that KIOR had developed a secret catalyst that would convert cellulose fiber into diesel fuel in an economically viable process that was the forester's equivalent to the ancient alchemist's dream of turning base metals into gold.
The president of the Lowndes County Board of Superviors is the scion of a local petroleum distributor...his brother is a graduate mechanical engineer. They should have known better.

Now in Hattiesburg, another scalawag, a lontime associate of Trent Lott, B. York, has convinced three members of the five-member City council that he can cure the stench from the USA Yeast/ Marshall Durbin witch's brew that permates the air in H'Burg with a percolation scheme that will ultimately cost taxpayers $600,000,000(that's 600 million dollars) over a period of twenty years. His pipe dream is GROUNDWORX which is a scheme that consists of a series of pipe conduit that will spray treated sewage over land that is located in the LEAF RIVER FLOODPLAIN! Two of the city council members would profit financially if the deal goes through. Real waste treatment professional engineers that have appeared before the board and in public hearings have said that the solution will cost around six million. Now, Mr. York has retained the services of Andy Taggert and his committee to file suit against the taxpayers of Hattiesburg, demanding in excess of six million dollars plus legal fees.

Anonymous said...

Haley downing a couple bean burritos produces more 'fuel' than the sham KiOR. Just the latest of the Haley Barbour-style beef plants.

Anonymous said...

KiOR was the company that only had a YouTube video of it processes, correct? KiOR was based in Texas and pretty much trawled the country looking for a state dumb enough to give them money.

The sad part is that Phil continued Haley's economic development approach.

Anonymous said...

in every one of these corporate welfare boondoogles ALL republicans and 95% of democrats vote FOR these including this kior crap. the MDA must be eliminated and a law passed making it illegal to pay any company money to come here as well as outlawing tax breaks for companys to come here.. now I see everyone blaming haley, and I agree, but phil bryant is even worse than haley. . the ONLY way we should support giving money to companys to come here is to tell tham that MS must get a precentage of their profits based upon the ammount of their plant we are paying for. example: we gave nissan $390 million to pay for I belive a $1 billion plant, so MS taxpayers should be sent a check every month totaling 39% of nissians profits, THAT the only "economic developement Mississippians should support!.



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