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3/5MILESTONE SCIENTIFIC INC. (MLSS): Going-concern doubt

Filed 2025-08-14 路 Form 10-Q 路 Accession 0001437749-25-026919 nano

Market data

Price before filing: $0.6019 (2025-08-13 close, split/dividend-adjusted)
Market cap at flag: $47.7M (2025-08-14) 路 Latest: $30.4M (2026-10-16)

What happened next

WindowMLSSSPYvs SPY
30 days-3.6%+2.5%-6.1%2025-09-15
90 days-40.5%+6.3%-46.8%2025-11-12
180 days-57.3%+7.9%-65.2%2026-02-10

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: 1 insider sold $298K (22 sales)
30 days after: 1 insider sold $6K (1 sale)

DateInsiderTypeSharesPriceValue10b5-1 planSource
2025-05-28BP4 S.r.l.
10% owner
Sale14,256$0.96$14KnoForm 4
2025-05-29BP4 S.r.l.
10% owner
Sale3,361$0.96$3KnoForm 4
2025-05-30BP4 S.r.l.
10% owner
Sale12,118$0.93$11KnoForm 4
2025-06-02BP4 S.r.l.
10% owner
Sale10,000$0.95$9KnoForm 4
2025-06-03BP4 S.r.l.
10% owner
Sale8,000$0.94$7KnoForm 4
2025-06-04BP4 S.r.l.
10% owner
Sale6,000$0.91$5KnoForm 4
2025-06-05BP4 S.r.l.
10% owner
Sale26,855$0.91$24KnoForm 4
2025-06-06BP4 S.r.l.
10% owner
Sale60,200$0.90$54KnoForm 4
2025-06-09BP4 S.r.l.
10% owner
Sale20,266$0.91$18KnoForm 4
2025-06-10BP4 S.r.l.
10% owner
Sale30,100$0.91$27KnoForm 4
2025-06-11BP4 S.r.l.
10% owner
Sale23,797$0.90$21KnoForm 4
2025-06-16BP4 S.r.l.
10% owner
Sale10,056$0.90$9KnoForm 4
2025-06-18BP4 S.r.l.
10% owner
Sale1,693$0.88$1KnoForm 4
2025-06-23BP4 S.r.l.
10% owner
Sale5,933$0.86$5KnoForm 4
2025-06-24BP4 S.r.l.
10% owner
Sale10,000$0.81$8KnoForm 4
2025-06-25BP4 S.r.l.
10% owner
Sale1,300$0.77$1KnoForm 4
2025-06-27BP4 S.r.l.
10% owner
Sale10,000$0.73$7KnoForm 4
2025-06-30BP4 S.r.l.
10% owner
Sale649$0.65$422noForm 4
2025-07-03BP4 S.r.l.
10% owner
Sale50,853$0.67$34KnoForm 4
2025-07-07BP4 S.r.l.
10% owner
Sale30,558$0.68$21KnoForm 4
2025-07-08BP4 S.r.l.
10% owner
Sale11,489$0.69$8KnoForm 4
2025-07-17BP4 S.r.l.
10% owner
Sale10,000$0.64$6KnoForm 4
2025-08-14: red flag filed
2025-09-11BP4 S.r.l.
10% owner
Sale10,000$0.59$6KnoForm 4

Open-market purchases and sales (Form 4 codes P and S) by officers, directors and 10% owners, by transaction date, from 2025-05-16 to 2025-09-13. 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

"Based on our available cash and cash equivalents, recurring losses, accumulated deficit and the need to raise additional capital to finance operations, including proceeds received from the note financing received in April 2025, as of June 30, 2025, we have concluded that there is substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern for a period of one year from the date that these unaudited condensed..."

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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