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3/5BioCardia, Inc. (BCDA): Going-concern doubt

Filed 2025-08-11 路 Form 10-Q 路 Accession 0001437749-25-025826 nano

Market data

Price before filing: $1.79 (2025-08-08 close, split/dividend-adjusted)
Market cap at flag: $10.5M (2025-08-11) 路 Latest: $11.1M (2026-10-16)

What happened next

WindowBCDASPYvs SPY
30 days+18.4%+2.4%+16.1%2025-09-10
90 days-27.9%+7.2%-35.2%2025-11-10
180 days-29.6%+9.5%-39.1%2026-02-09

Return from the last close before the filing date to the first close on/after the window end. Pending windows have not fully elapsed. Past performance says nothing certain about the future.

Insider trading around this filing

90 days before the flag: 4 insiders bought $366K (9 purchases)
30 days after: 1 insider bought $5K (4 purchases)

DateInsiderTypeSharesPriceValue10b5-1 planSource
2025-05-14Altman Peter
President and CEO, Director
Purchase100$2.99$299noForm 4
2025-05-16Altman Peter
President and CEO, Director
Purchase300$2.43$730noForm 4
2025-05-20Altman Peter
President and CEO, Director
Purchase1,600$2.08$3KnoForm 4
2025-05-22Altman Peter
President and CEO, Director
Purchase700$1.89$1KnoForm 4
2025-05-30Altman Peter
President and CEO, Director
Purchase100$2.21$221noForm 4
2025-06-30Altman Peter
President and CEO, Director
Purchase24,096$2.08$50KnoForm 4
2025-06-30Blank Andrew Scott
Director
Purchase72,289$2.08$150KnoForm 4
2025-06-30McClung David
Chief Financial Officer
Purchase4,819$2.08$10KnoForm 4
2025-06-30STERTZER SIMON H
Director
Purchase72,289$2.08$150KnoForm 4
2025-08-11: red flag filed
2025-08-11Altman Peter
President and CEO, Director
Purchase1,700$1.76$3KnoForm 4
2025-08-12Altman Peter
President and CEO, Director
Purchase400$1.75$700noForm 4
2025-08-13Altman Peter
President and CEO, Director
Purchase100$1.83$183noForm 4
2025-08-22Altman Peter
President and CEO, Director
Purchase700$1.83$1KnoForm 4

Open-market purchases and sales (Form 4 codes P and S) by officers, directors and 10% owners, by transaction date, from 2025-05-13 to 2025-09-10. Excludes option exercises, grants, gifts and tax withholding. Amended filings replace the originals; joint filings count once. Foreign private issuers do not file Form 4. Many insider sales are pre-scheduled (10b5-1 plans) and are not by themselves a sign of wrongdoing.

Verified excerpt

"These factors raise substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern beyond one year from the date these financial statements are issued."

Quoted from the filing. Source

What this means

The filing states that substantial doubt exists about the company's ability to continue as a going concern: it may not have enough cash to last the next 12 months. Expect dilution, debt deals or worse. An auditor's going-concern paragraph is the strongest form of this warning.

Source: management disclosure in Form 10-Q (period 2025-06-30)

Why this score: quarterly (unaudited) disclosure

Read the original filing on SEC.gov →

Not investment advice. Automated summary; verify against the filing.

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