5/5WinVest Acquisition Corp. (WINV): Auditor change

Market data

Price before filing: $12.53 (2025-05-19 close, split/dividend-adjusted)
Market cap at flag: $3.2M (2025-05-20) · Latest: $2.6M (2026-10-13)

What happened next

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: no open-market insider sales or purchases reported.
30 days after: none reported.

Open-market purchases and sales (Form 4 codes P and S) by officers, directors and 10% owners, by transaction date, from 2025-02-19 to 2025-06-19. 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

"On May 14, 2025, the Company was notified by Marcum that Marcum resigned as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm as a result of such acquisition, and the Company's Audit Committee approved the resignation."

Quoted from the filing. Source

What this means

The company changed its outside auditor (8-K Item 4.01). A dismissal or resignation, especially near an annual report or with reported disagreements, is a warning sign. Changes caused by audit firms merging are usually routine.

Type: resigned
Disagreements reported: no
Former auditor: Marcum LLP · New auditor: CBIZ CPAs P.C.

Why this score: auditor resigned; also within 90 days: Late quarterly report (NT 10-Q)