Is LEE diluting shareholders?

Read three numbers together: shares outstanding over time (22.3M as of 2026-07-31), warrants that can convert into new shares (600,000 reported), and how much cash runway remains (~128.7016783974012 months). A company short on cash with live registrations is structurally likely to issue shares.

Where do these numbers come from?

SEC EDGAR only: the XBRL company-facts API for shares, warrants and cash, and filing metadata for registrations and pricings. Every figure shows its source form, and nothing here is estimated by us beyond the arithmetic stated next to it.

Why might a warrant tranche be missing from the table?

The tranche table is built from the dimensions the company tagged in its own 10-Q or 10-K XBRL. A tranche the filer chose not to dimension does not appear, and its absence proves nothing: the exhibits remain the ground truth. Everything shown carries the filing it came from.

Dilution profile // every instrument, one screen, from SEC filings

LEE ENTERPRISES, Inc (LEE)

CIK 58361 · all EDGAR filings →

Overall dilution risk

HIGHworst of 4 computed sub-ratings (historical dilution)

= the worst band among the computed sub-ratings, no hidden weighting

Offering ability

LOWno live registration found

= is there a registration (S-1/S-3 family) on file without a later withdrawal

Overhead supply

LOWwarrants = 3% of O/S

= warrant shares outstanding divided by current shares outstanding (bands: 20% / 50%)

warrants only; converts, ATMs and equity lines are not in free structured data, so the true overhead is AT LEAST this

Historical dilution

HIGH+267% O/S in 3y

= share count now vs 3 years ago (bands: 30% / 100%); a reverse split pushes this negative

a reverse-split-sized cliff is in this window; read the chart

Cash need

LOW~128.7 months of runway

= cash vs trailing operating burn (bands: 6mo / 24mo; positive operating CF = low)

Same rating bands the category standard uses, but free, with the formula on the chip and the gaps in the data said out loud.

Shares outstanding over time

Latest: 22.3M shares as of Jul 31, 2026 (10-Q).

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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact

SourceSEC XBRL, cover-page share count

Fielddei:EntityCommonStockSharesOutstanding

As of2026-07-31

HowThe newest cover-page count as filed, whatever its age. The float checker applies a 200-day freshness rule and sets this beside the balance-sheet count.

Open the source document →

Share count fell from 44.96B to 51.7M between Nov 30, 2011 and Mar 25, 2012, a pattern consistent with a reverse split (roughly 1-for-870); simultaneous issuance can skew the raw ratio, so confirm in the filings. The red bar marks the cliff.

Cash runway

Self-funding

generates cash

Full breakdown: cash runway tool · source filing →

Warrants

Tranche	Warrants	Exercise price	Term	Notes
Rights Agreement	not tagged	$90	—	—

Tranches exactly as the company dimensioned them in its 10-Q filed Aug 7, 2026 →. Groupings can overlap (a “Series E and F” row is not additive with a “Series E” row), so do not sum this column. A tranche the filer did not tag is absent here, not absent from the cap table. DOWN-ROUND = the filer tagged price-protection accounting scoped to that tranche.

Warrants outstanding: 600,000 underlying shares, as reported Sep 25, 2022 (10-K).

Balance-sheet fair value of warrants: $1.3M as of Jun 27, 2021.

Rough fully diluted estimate: 22.9M = 22.3M O/S + 600,000 warrant shares. An estimate, not a filing figure: it ignores converts, options and RSUs, and the two inputs carry different as-of dates.

Convertible notes

No convertible-note facts tagged in the 10-Q filed Aug 7, 2026. If convertible notes exist, their terms live in exhibit prose for this filer and are not parsed; absence of a tag is not proof of absence. The exhibits are the ground truth.

Fully diluted build-up

Shares outstanding plus every potential-share instrument the filer tagged in XBRL, each at its own as-of date. An estimate assembled from filed figures, not a filing figure itself.

Shares outstanding	22.3M	Jul 31, 2026
+ Warrants (aggregate, as tagged) (if exercised)	600,000	Sep 25, 2022
Fully diluted estimate	22.9M	+2.7% vs O/S

Still excluded, because the filer does not tag them in countable form: employee options and RSUs, any instrument living only in exhibit prose, and instruments above missing a share count. Inputs carry different as-of dates, shown per row. Each figure traces to the tranche and note tables above and their cited filings.

Registrations and offerings

Last 12 months: 2 executed · 2 registered.

WITHDRAWNSep 11, 2026Registration withdrawnRW →

EFFECTIVEMar 20, 2026SEC declared a registration effective — selling can beginEFFECT →

REGISTEREDMar 6, 2026S-3 registration — capacity to sell shares, not a sale yetS-3 →

EXECUTEDFeb 5, 2026Unregistered share sale disclosed (8-K item 3.02)8-K →

EXECUTEDDec 30, 2025Unregistered share sale disclosed (8-K item 3.02)8-K →

REGISTEREDNov 10, 2025S-1 registration — capacity to sell shares, not a sale yetS-1 →

EFFECTIVEFeb 18, 2020SEC declared a registration effective — selling can beginEFFECT →

REGISTEREDFeb 10, 2020S-3 registration — capacity to sell shares, not a sale yetS-3 →

EFFECTIVEFeb 6, 2017SEC declared a registration effective — selling can beginEFFECT →

REGISTEREDFeb 3, 2017S-3/A registration — capacity to sell shares, not a sale yetS-3/A →

REGISTEREDJan 23, 2017S-3 registration — capacity to sell shares, not a sale yetS-3 →

UPDATEOct 29, 2014Prospectus update — often a resale registration, not necessarily new capital424B3 →

Full history and shelf status: offering checker · S-3 shelf checker

Source: SEC EDGAR XBRL company facts and filing metadata, fetched live and cached briefly. Share counts are cover-page figures with their form named. Warrant tranches and convertible notes come from the dimensioned facts in the latest 10-Q/10-K instance document, exactly as the company tagged them; untagged tranches and notes are absent, not disproven. Nothing on this page is manually verified and nothing is behind a login: what free data supports is shown, what it cannot support is stated. Not investment advice.

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