Home / Auditor changes / Kestrel Group Ltd
Filed 2025-06-24 路 Form 8-K 路 Accession 0002055116-25-000007 micro
Price before filing: $24.2 (2025-06-23 close, split/dividend-adjusted)
Market cap at flag: $114.2M (2025-06-24) 路 Latest: $35.8M (2026-10-16)
| Window | KG | SPY | vs SPY | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 days | +4.5% | +5.7% | -1.2% | 2025-07-24 |
| 90 days | +19.4% | +11.4% | +8.0% | 2025-09-22 |
| 180 days | -56.5% | +14.8% | -71.3% | 2025-12-22 |
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.
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 2025-03-26 to 2025-07-24. 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.
"A copy of F&D's letter, dated as of June 23, 2025, is filed as Exhibit 16.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K. (b) Engagement of New Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm On June 18, 2025, the audit committee of the board of directors of Kestrel approved the engagement of Ernst & Young LLP ("E&Y") as Kestrel's new independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2025, and..."
Quoted from the filing. Source
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: dismissed
Disagreements reported: no
Audit firms named: Frazier & Deeter , LLC
Former auditor: Frazier & Deeter, LLC · New auditor: Ernst & Young LLP
Why this score: also within 90 days: Non-reliance / restatement
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