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Critical Audit Matters
−Removed: The critical audit matters communicated below are matters arising from the current period audit of the financial statements that were communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that:
+Added: The critical audit matter communicated below is a matter arising from the current period audit of the financial statements that was communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that:
(1) relates to accounts or disclosures that are material to the financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective, or complex judgments.
−Removed: The communication of the critical audit matters does not alter in any way our opinion on the financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matters below, providing a separate opinion on the critical audit matter or on the accounts or disclosures to which they relate.
+Added: The communication of the critical audit matter does not alter in any way our opinion on the financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matter below, providing a separate opinion on the critical audit matter or on the accounts or disclosures to which it relates.
Equity Investment in Unconsolidated Affiliate
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We also visited the factories in India to test the existence of the factories, equipment, and inventory, and to observe operations of the affiliated entity.
−Removed: Provision for Income Taxes
−Removed: As more fully described in Note 10 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company’s net deferred income tax liabilities were $503,000 as of December 31, 2024, and income tax expense was $1,091,000 for the year ended December 31, 2024.
−Removed: As a global organization, the Company files income tax returns in the U.S.
−Removed: federal jurisdiction and various state and foreign jurisdictions.
−Removed: Auditing the Company’s provision for income taxes was complex and required a high degree of auditor judgment, subjectivity and effort in performing procedures and evaluating audit evidence relating to (i) management's assessment of complex tax laws and regulations as it relates to determining the provision for income taxes, (ii) management's assessment of the realizability of deferred tax assets, specifically related to available tax planning strategies and (iii) evaluating whether the data utilized in the calculations of the provision for income taxes, and deferred tax assets and liabilities were appropriate and consistent with evidence obtained in other areas of the audit.
−Removed: Our testing of the Company’s provision for income taxes included, among others (i) testing the accuracy of the provision for income taxes, which included the effective tax rate reconciliation and permanent and temporary differences, (ii) evaluating whether the data utilized in the calculations of the provision for income taxes and deferred tax assets and liabilities were appropriate and consistent with evidence obtained in other areas of the audit, (iii) evaluating the identification of accruals for unrecognized tax benefits and the reasonableness of the more likely than not determination in consideration of court decisions, legislative actions, statutes of limitations, and developments in tax examinations by jurisdiction, and (iv) evaluating the reasonableness of management’s assessment of the realizability of its deferred tax assets based on expectations of the ability to utilize its tax attributes through testing of historical and estimated future taxable income.
−Removed: /s/ Tanner LLC
+Added: /s/ Tanner LLP
March 11, 2026
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Years Ended December 31,
−Removed: Other comprehensive income (loss)- foreign currency translation gain (loss)
+Added: Other comprehensive loss - foreign currency translation loss
Comprehensive income
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Common stock repurchased and retired
−Removed: Cancellation of stock options
Treasury stock excise tax
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Stock-based compensation expense
−Removed: Total comprehensive income
+Added: Total comprehensive income (loss)
Balance as of December 31, 2024
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Treasury stock excise tax
−Removed: Options exercised
Stock-based compensation expense
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Net cash used in financing activities
−Removed: Increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents
+Added: Decrease in cash and cash equivalents
Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of the year
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The Company considers all highly liquid investments purchased with an original maturity of three months or less to be cash equivalents.
−Removed: The Company’s cash and cash equivalents primarily consists of cash in bank and money market accounts.
+Added: The Company’s cash and cash equivalents primarily consists of cash in banks and money market accounts.
Investments are classified as available-for-sale in accordance with U.S.
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Account balances are charged against the allowance when management determines that the probability for collection of an account balance is remote.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2024, 2023, and 2022, the Company had accounts receivable totally $ 4,894,222 , $ 6,545,000 and $ 6,973,000 , respectively.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2024 and 2023, the Company had recorded an allowance for credit losses on accounts receivable of $ 35,000 for both periods respectively.
+Added: As of December 31, 2025 and 2024, the Company had accounts receivable totaling $ 8,138,000 and $ 4,894,000 , respectively.
+Added: As of December 31, 2025 and 2024, the Company had recorded an allowance for credit losses on accounts receivable of $ 46,000 and $ 35,000 respectively.
Inventories include freight-in, materials, labor and overhead costs and are stated at the lower of cost or net realizable value.
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ASC 718 requires companies to record compensation expense for the value of all outstanding and unvested share-based awards, including employee stock options.
−Removed: For the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, there were 0 and 46,400 stock options granted, respectively, under the Company’s stock option plan.
+Added: For the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, there were no stock options granted under the Company’s stock option plan.
The Company recognized $ 55,000 and $ 59,000 in stock-based compensation expense for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively, related to outstanding options.
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In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-09, Income Taxes (“Topic 740”):
−Removed: Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures.
−Removed: These amendments address investor requests for enhanced transparency regarding income tax information.
−Removed: Specifically, they improve income tax disclosures related to rate reconciliation and income taxes paid.
−Removed: ASU 2023-09 became effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024, with early adoption permitted.
−Removed: The Company is evaluating the impact the adoption of this guidance will have on its consolidated financial statements.
+Added: Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures to expand the disclosure requirements for income taxes, specifically related to the rate reconciliation and income taxes paid.
+Added: ASU 2023-09 was effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2024.
+Added: The Company adopted this pronouncement and the related disclosure for the year ended December 31, 2025, and revised its income tax disclosures in Note 14 – “Income Taxes” on a retrospective basis.
+Added: In November 2024, the FASB issued ASU 2024-03, Income Statement—Reporting Comprehensive Income—Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (“Subtopic 220-40”):
+Added: Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses (“ASU 2024-03”), which requires disclosure about the types of costs and expenses included in certain expense captions presented on the income statement.
+Added: The new disclosure requirements are effective for the Company’s annual periods beginning after December 15, 2026, and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2027, with early adoption permitted.
+Added: The Company is evaluating the impact of this pronouncement on its related disclosures.
+Added: In July 2025, the FASB issued ASU 2025-05, Financial Instruments—Credit Losses (“Topic 326”):
+Added: Measurement of Credit Losses for Accounts Receivable and Contract Assets, which provides a practical expedient to assume that conditions as of the balance sheet date remain unchanged over the life of the asset when estimating expected credit losses for current accounts receivable and current contract assets arising from transactions accounted for under Topic 606.
+Added: The amendment is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2025.
+Added: Early adoption is permitted.
+Added: The amendments in this update should be applied on a prospective basis.
+Added: The Company is evaluating the impact of this pronouncement on the Company’s consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.
Management periodically reviews new accounting standards that are issued.
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Total net property and equipment
−Removed: Depreciation and amortization expense for property and equipment was $ 873,000 and $ 925,000 for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
−Removed: Goodwill and Intangible Assets
+Added: Depreciation and amortization expense for property and equipment were $ 925,000 and $ 873,000 for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
Management evaluates goodwill for impairment on an annual basis (in the fourth quarter), and no impairment charge was identified for the years presented.
−Removed: Definite-lived intangible assets, consisting of patents and trademarks, are amortized over their useful lives.
−Removed: Amortization expense for intangible assets was $ 0 and $ 1,000 for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
−Removed: There is no estimated future amortization expense related to definite-lived intangible assets as of December 31, 2024.
Equity Investments in Unconsolidated Affiliate
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Option Activity
−Removed: The 2004 Stock Option Plan (the “2004 Plan”) is an equity compensation plan that provided for grants of stock options to eligible individuals.
+Added: The 2004 Stock Option Plan (the “2004 Plan”) was an equity compensation plan that provided for grants of stock options to eligible individuals.
The 2004 Plan was intended to recognize the contributions made to the Company by key employees of the Company, provide key employees with additional incentive to devote themselves to the future success of the Company and improve the ability of the Company to attract, retain and motivate individuals.
−Removed: The 2004 Plan also is intended as an incentive to certain members of the Board of Directors of the Company to continue to serve on the Board of Directors and to devote themselves to the future success of the Company.
+Added: The 2004 Plan also was intended as an incentive to certain members of the Board of Directors of the Company to continue to serve on the Board of Directors and to devote themselves to the future success of the Company.
The 2004 Plan provided for a total of 5,000,000 common shares eligible for issuance.
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The 2020 Incentive Plan provides for the grant of incentive and nonqualified stock options, stock appreciation rights, awards of restricted stock and restricted stock units, performance share awards, cash awards and other equity-based awards to employees (including officers), consultants and non-employee directors of the Company and its affiliates.
−Removed: A total of 1,800,000 shares of the Company’s common stock are reserved for issuance under the 2020 Incentive Plan, plus the number of shares underlying any award granted under the 2004 Option Plan that expires, terminates or is cancelled or forfeited under the terms of the 2004 Option Plan.
+Added: A total of 1,800,000 shares of the Company’s common stock were reserved for issuance under the 2020 Incentive Plan, plus the number of shares underlying any award granted under the 2004 Option Plan that expires, terminates or is cancelled or forfeited under the terms of the 2004 Option Plan.
As a result of the approval of the 2020 Incentive Plan, no future equity awards will be made pursuant to the 2004 Option Plan.
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Options outstanding, December 31, 2023
−Removed: Granted to employees and directors
−Removed: Canceled/expired/forfeited
Options outstanding, December 31, 2024
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Options exercisable, December 31, 2025
−Removed: Stock options to purchase 61,100 and 292,766 shares of common stock were outstanding as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
−Removed: All of the stock options were included in the computation of the weighted-average number of dilutive common shares outstanding for the year ended December 31, 2024.
−Removed: All except 46,400 of the stock options, which were anti-dilutive, were included in the computation of the weighted-average number of dilutive common shares outstanding for the year ended December 31, 2023.
−Removed: Alpha Pro Tech, Ltd.
−Removed: Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
+Added: Stock options to purchase 61,100 shares of common stock were outstanding as of both December 31, 2025 and 2024.
+Added: All of the stock options were included in the computation of the weighted-average number of dilutive common shares outstanding for both the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024.
The Company used the Black-Scholes option-pricing model to value the options.
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The Company accounts for option forfeitures as they occur.
+Added: Alpha Pro Tech, Ltd.
+Added: Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
The following table summarizes information about stock options as of December 31, 2025:
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Contract Life
−Removed: Intrinsic Value
Average Exercise
−Removed: Contract Life
+Added: Weighted Average Remaining Contract Life
The intrinsic value is the amount by which the market value of the underlying common stock exceeds the exercise price of the respective stock options.
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As of December 31, 2025, $ 33,000 of total unrecognized compensation cost related to stock options was expected to be recognized over a weighted-average remaining period of 0.74 years.
−Removed: Cash received from 231,666 options exercised for the year ended December 31, 2024, was $ 832,000 .
The holders of the Company’s common stock are entitled to receive such dividends as may be declared by the Board of Directors of the Company from time to time to the extent that funds are legally available for payment thereof.
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The accumulated other comprehensive loss on equity in unconsolidated affiliate was $ 1,947,000 and $ 1,499,000 as of December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
−Removed: Alpha Pro Tech, Ltd.
−Removed: Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
+Added: President Trump signed into laws the One Big Beautiful Bill Act “OBBBA” on July 4, 2025.
+Added: This bill included various tax provisions, many of which are applicable for most, if not all, of the 2025 tax year.
+Added: Most impactful for the Company are changes related to section 174 for R&D expenditures and section 168 for bonus depreciation.
+Added: The OBBBA enacted new Section 174A, which permanently allows taxpayers to fully expense domestic research or experimental expenditures paid or incurred in taxable years beginning after December 31, 2024.
+Added: Foreign R&D expenditures must still be capitalized and amortized over 15 years.
+Added: Additionally, the new rules provide options to account for any remaining unamortized domestic R&D expenditures paid or incurred in the taxable years beginning after December 31, 2021 and before January 1, 2025.
+Added: Taxpayers may continue to amortize such unamortized amounts over the remaining five-year period;
+Added: alternatively, they may elect to deduct any remaining unamortized domestic expenditures either entirely in the first tax year beginning after December 31, 2024, or ratably over two taxable years.
+Added: The Company is electing to deduct these remaining unamortized costs entirely in 2025.
+Added: The OBBBA also permanently restored 100% bonus depreciation under Section 168(k) for qualified property acquired and placed in service after January 19, 2025.
+Added: This reverses the phasedown schedule enacted under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“TCJA”), which would have reduced bonus depreciation to 40% for property placed into service in 2025 and eliminated it entirely by 2027.
+Added: The Company is claiming 40% bonus on any 2025 assets placed in service before January 19 and 100% bonus on all remaining assets placed in service through the remainder of the year.
The provision (benefit) for income taxes consisted of the following:
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Provision for income taxes
+Added: Alpha Pro Tech, Ltd.
+Added: Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Deferred income tax assets (liabilities) consisted of the following:
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Accrued expenses and inventory
−Removed: Right of Use Asset
+Added: Right of use of asset
Foreign exchange
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Provision for income taxes
+Added: Cash paid for taxes:
+Added: For the Years Ended December 31,
+Added: Total taxes paid, net of refunds
+Added: Foreign taxes paid were all paid Canada.
+Added: In 2025, taxes paid to Illinois was $ 79,000 , which exceeded 5% of total income taxes paid.
Operating Lease Commitments:
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Legal Proceedings
−Removed: On June 7, 2022, the Company filed a lawsuit (the “Lawsuit”) in the Fourth Judicial District Court of Utah naming as defendants Mechanized Concepts, LLC, Matthew D.
−Removed: Collegee, Collegee Machine, Engineering, Design, LLC, Joseph Collegee d/b/a/ Collegee Machine, and Justin Staub (collectively, the “Defendants”).
−Removed: The Lawsuit relates to certain equipment ordered from Defendants and paid for by the Company, which Defendants never delivered.
−Removed: In the Lawsuit the Company is seeking the following relief:
−Removed: compensatory damages in the amount $ 490,000 , representing the money the Company paid for the machines it never received, lost profits in the form of mask sales it could have made if Defendants had delivered the machines on the promised date and other monetary and equitable relief.
−Removed: In 2022, the Company had written off the $ 490,000 balance of the deposit paid for the equipment, pending any recovery in the Lawsuit.
−Removed: As of the date hereof, no counterclaims have been asserted against the Company.
−Removed: The Company believes there would not be any meritorious claims against the Company in the Lawsuit.
−Removed: The Lawsuit is in its early stages and the final outcome, including the potential amount of any recovery for the Company’s claims, is uncertain.
The Company is subject to various pending and threatened litigation actions in the ordinary course of business.
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The Company contributes an additional 0.5 % of gross earnings for those employees contributing 1% of their gross earnings and contributes 1 % of gross earnings for those employees contributing between 2% and 12% of their gross earnings.
−Removed: The total amounts contributed to the plans by the Company were $ 46,000 and $ 48,000 for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
+Added: The total amounts contributed to the plans by the Company was $ 46,000 for both years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024.
The Company does not have any other significant pension, profit sharing or similar plans established for its employees.
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The Company accrued $ 246,000 for the year ended December 31, 2025, compared to $ 264,000 for 2024, in connection with the bonus.
−Removed: Alpha Pro Tech, Ltd.
−Removed: Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Activity of Business Segments
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A portion of the Company’s equity in income of unconsolidated affiliate (Harmony) is included in the total segment income for the Disposable Protective Apparel segment.
+Added: Alpha Pro Tech, Ltd.
+Added: Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
The accounting policies of the segments are the same as those described previously under Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (see Note 2).
Segment data excludes charges allocated to the principal executive office and other corporate unallocated expenses and income taxes.
−Removed: The Company evaluates the performance of its segments and allocates resources to them based primarily on net sales.
+Added: The chief operating decision maker (“CODM”) of the Company is the Company’s chief executive officer.
+Added: The CODM assesses performance and decides how to allocate resources, including (1) employees, and (2) financial or capital resources, based on net sales.
+Added: The following table provides segment information as described below:
+Added: Years Ended December 31,
+Added: Years Ended December 31,
+Added: Building Supply
+Added: Disposable Protective Apparel
+Added: Segment sales
+Added: Cost of goods sold
+Added: Selling, general and administrative
+Added: Depreciation and amortization
+Added: Segment net income
The following table presents net sales for each segment:
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Related Party Transactions
−Removed: During 2024, the Company’s only material related party transactions were the Company’s transactions with its non-consolidated affiliate, Harmony.
−Removed: ( see Note 6.)
+Added: During 2025, the Company’s only material related party transactions were the Company’s transactions with its non-consolidated affiliate, Harmony (see Note 6.)
Subsequent Events
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