MDWerks, Inc. 10-K

ITEM 5. MARKET FOR REGISTRANT’S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS AND ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES Market Information Our common stock is eligible for unsolicited quotes only on the OTC Market Group, Inc. QB Market under the symbol “MDWK”. The OTC Market is a network of security dealers who buy and sell stock. The dealers are connected by a computer network that provides information on current “bids” and “asks”, as well as volume information. Unsolicited-only stocks have a higher risk of wider spreads, increased volatility, and price dislocations. Investors may have difficulty selling this stock. An initial review by a broker-dealer under SEC Rule 15c2-11 is required for brokers to publish competing quotes and provide continuous market making. The trading market for the common stock has been extremely limited and sporadic. The following table sets forth for the respective periods indicated the prices of our common stock in this market. Such prices are based on inter-dealer bid and asked prices, without markup, markdown, commissions, or adjustments and may not represent actual transactions. Fiscal Year 2024 High Low Quarter Ended March 31, 2024 $ 0.25 $ 0.06 Quarter Ended June 30, 2024 $ 0.24 $ 0.01 Quarter Ended September 30, 2024 $ 0.22 $ 0.01 Quarter Ended December 31, 2024 $ 0.21 $ 0.06 Fiscal Year 2023 Quarter Ended March 31, 2023 $ 0.05 $ 0.05 Quarter Ended June 30, 2023 $ 0.00 $ 0.00 Quarter Ended September 30, 2023 $ 0.03 $ 0.03 Quarter Ended December 31, 2023 $ 0.05 $ 0.05 Holders of Common Stock As of March 18, 2025, there were approximately 355 record holders of our common stock. The number of record holders does not include beneficial owners of common stock whose shares are held in the names of banks, brokers, nominees or other fiduciaries. Dividend Policy We have not declared or paid any dividends on our common stock since our inception. We currently intend to reinvest all cash resources to finance the development and growth of our business. As a result, we do not intend to pay dividends on our common stock in the foreseeable future. Any future determination to pay dividends will be at the discretion of our board of directors and will depend on the financial condition, earnings, legal requirements, restrictions in its debt agreements and any other factors that our board of directors deems relevant. In addition, as a holding company, our ability to pay dividends depends on our receipt of cash dividends from our operating subsidiaries, which may further restrict our ability to pay dividends as a result of the laws of their respective jurisdictions of organization, agreements of our subsidiaries or covenants under future indebtedness that we or our subsidiaries may incur. 17 Clawback Policy On January 1, 2024, the Company’s Board of Directors adopted a Compensation Recovery Policy (the “Policy”). The Policy is intended to further the Company’s pay-for-performance philosophy and to comply with applicable law by providing for the reasonably prompt recovery of certain incentive-based compensation received by executive officers in the event of an accounting restatement. The Policy is intended to comply with, and will be interpreted in a manner consistent with, Section 10D of the Exchange Act, with Exchange Act Rule 10D-1 and with the Nasdaq listing standards. Pursuant to the Policy, if the Company is required to prepare an accounting restatement due to the material noncompliance by the Company with any financial reporting requirement under the securities laws, including any required accounting restatement to correct an error in previously issued financial statements that is material to the previously issued financial statements, or that would result in a material misstatement if the error were corrected in the current period or left uncorrected in the current period (an “Accounting Restatement”), then the Compensation Committee must determine the Excess Compensation (as hereinafter defined), if any, that must be recovered. The Company’s obligation to recover Excess Compensation is not dependent on if or when the restated financial statements are filed. The Company must recover Excess Compensation reasonably promptly and executive officers are required to repay Excess Compensation to the Company, subject to the terms of the Policy. The Policy applies to certain incentive-based compensation that is received on or after January 1, 2024 during the three completed fiscal years immediately preceding the Accounting Restatement determination date, as provided in the Policy (the “Covered Period”) while the Company has a class of securities listed on a national securities exchange. The incentive-based compensation is considered “Clawback Eligible Incentive-Based Compensation” if the incentive-based compensation is received by a person after such person became an executive officer and the person served as an executive officer at any time during the performance period to which the incentive-based compensation applies. The “Excess Compensation” that is subject to recovery under the Policy is the amount of Clawback Eligible Incentive-Based Compensation that exceeds the amount of Clawback Eligible Incentive-Based Compensation that otherwise would have been received had such Clawback Eligible Incentive-Based Compensation been determined based on the restated amounts (this is referred to in the listing standards as “erroneously awarded incentive-based compensation”). Transfer Agent The Transfer Agent for shares of the Company’s securities is EQ by Equiniti, formerly known as Corporate Stock Transfer, located at 1110 Centre Pointe Curve, Suite 101, Mendota Heights, Minnesota 55120. Unregistered Sales of Securities The following information represents securities sold by us that has not been previously included in a Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q or a Current Report of Form 8-K which were not registered under the Securities Act. Included are new issues, securities issued in exchange for property, services or other securities, securities issued upon conversion from our other share classes and new securities resulting from the modification of outstanding securities. We issued all of the securities listed below pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act (the “Securities Act”), or Regulation D or Regulation S promulgated thereunder. During the quarter ended December 31, 2024, the Company sold 700,000 shares of common stock in exchange for cash proceeds of $105,000. ITEM 6. RESERVED.