Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity
ITEM 5. MARKET FOR THE REGISTRANT'S COMMON EQUITY AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS AND ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES.
Market Information
Our common stock is traded on the Nasdaq Global Market under the symbol “NEWT.” The last reported price for our common stock on March 9, 2026 was $12.11 per share.
Holders
As of March 9, 2026, there were approximately 84 holders of record of our common stock.
Sales of Unregistered Securities
On September 16, 2025, the Company, entered into a Securities Purchase and Exchange Agreement (the “Purchase and Exchange Agreement”) with Patriot Financial Partners IV, L.P. and Patriot Financial Partners Parallel IV, L.P. (together, “Patriot”). Pursuant to the Purchase and Exchange Agreement, Patriot and the Company agreed that in exchange (the “Exchange”) for (i) all of the 20,000 outstanding shares of the Company’s Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, par value $0.02 per share (the “Series A Preferred Stock”) originally issued to Patriot for an aggregate purchase price of $20 million (the “Original Transaction”) and (ii) $10 million in cash, the Company issued to Patriot 2,307,692 shares (the “Shares”) of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.02 per share (“Common Stock”).
The Exchange was undertaken as a private placement transaction in reliance on Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). The Company relied upon this exemption from registration based in part on representations made by Patriot in the Purchase and Exchange Agreement. The Shares have not been registered under the Securities Act and may not be offered or sold absent registration or an applicable exemption from registration. Pursuant to the Purchase and Exchange Agreement, Patriot is subject to restrictions on transferring the Shares for two years following the date of the Purchase and Exchange Agreement without the Company’s consent, subject to certain customary exceptions. The Purchase and Exchange Agreement also contains customary representations, warranties and covenants. The Exchange closed concurrently with execution of the Purchase and Exchange Agreement. The Purchase and Exchange Agreement also made certain non-substantive amendments to the Investor Rights Agreement, dated as of February 3, 2023, entered into by and between the Company and Patriot (the “Investor Rights Agreement”) and the Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of February 3, 2023, entered into by and between the Company and Patriot (the “Registration Rights Agreement”) in order to reflect the occurrence of the Exchange. The Investor Rights Agreement and the Registration Rights Agreement are described in greater detail in Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on February 7, 2023 (the “February 7 8-K”) and exhibits 4.1 and 4.2 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended March 31, 2023. The Exchange had no effect on Patriot’s outstanding warrants to purchase, in the aggregate, 47,540 shares of Common Stock which are also described in greater detail in the February 7 8-K.
Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
On November 1, 2024, the Company’s Board of Directors approved a new stock repurchase program granting the Company authority to repurchase up to 1.0 million shares of Company common stock during the following twelve months. On November 7, 2025, the Company’s Board of Directors approved a twelve month extension of the stock repurchase program.
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Period (a)
Total Number of Shares Purchased (b)
Average Price Paid per Share (c)
Total Number of Shares Purchased as Part of Publicly Announced Plans or Programs (d)
Maximum Number of Shares that May Yet Be Purchased Under the Plans or Programs
January 1, 2025 - January 31, 2025 — $ — — 970
February 1, 2025 - February 28, 2025 — — — 970
March 1, 2025 - March 31, 2025 — — — 970
April 1, 2025 - April 30, 2025 — — — 970
May 1, 2025 - May 31, 2025 — — — 970
June 1, 2025 - June 30, 2025 16 10.42 16 954
July 1, 2025 - July 31, 2025 — — — 954
August 1, 2025 - August 31, 2025 — — — 954
September 1, 2025 - September 30, 2025 — — — 954
October 1, 2025 - October 31, 2025 — — — 954
November 1, 2025 - November 30, 2025 101 10.18 101 853
December 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025 26 11.40 26 827
Total 143 $ 10.43
Dividends
The Company declared common dividends of $0.19 per share for the first, second, third and fourth quarters of 2025 and 2024. The Company’s ability to continue to pay common stock dividends is subject to, among other things, Board approval and limitations on capital distributions in the event of a breach of any regulatory capital buffers, with the degree of such restrictions based on the extent to which the buffers are breached.
We can offer no assurance that we will achieve results that will permit the payment of any cash distributions. See “Item 1. Business.”
Securities Authorized for Issuance Under Equity Compensation Plans
The Company has a stock-based compensation plan as discussed in NOTE 20—BENEFIT PLANS. Securities authorized for issuance under equity compensation plans as of December 31, 2025:
Plan Category (a)
Number of securities to be issued upon exercise of outstanding options, warrants and rights (b)
Weighted-average exercise price of outstanding options, warrants and rights (c)
Number of securities remaining available for future issuance under equity compensation plans (excluding securities reflected in column (a))
Equity compensation plans approved by security holders None None 1,783,940 shares
Equity compensation plans not approved by security holders None None None
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Stock Performance Graph
The following graph compares the return on our common stock with that of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Stock Index, the NASDAQ Composite Index, the Russell 2000, and S&P Small Cap 600 for the period from December 31, 2020 through December 31, 2025. The graph assumes that, on January 1, 2021, a person invested $100 in each of our common stock, the Nasdaq Composite, S&P 500 Index, Russell 2000 and S&P Small Cap 600. The graph measures total shareholder return, which takes into account both changes in stock price and dividends. It assumes that dividends paid are invested in like securities.
Source: Bloomberg
ITEM 6. [RESERVED].
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