Is LPCN diluting shareholders?

Read three numbers together: shares outstanding over time (8.2M as of 2026-08-03), warrants that can convert into new shares (1.4M reported), and how much cash runway remains (~6.121797764734798 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

Lipocine Inc. (LPCN)

CIK 1535955 · all EDGAR filings →

Overall dilution risk

HIGHworst of 4 computed signals (offering ability)

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

Offering ability

HIGHS-3/A on file 2024-04-23

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

no structured fee data on the live registrations, so this is a yes/no, not a size

Overhead supply

LOWwarrants = 17% 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

MEDIUM+55% 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

MEDIUM~6.1 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: 8.2M shares as of Aug 3, 2026 (10-Q). Share count fell from 88.5M to 5.3M between May 9, 2023 and Aug 8, 2023, a pattern consistent with a reverse split (roughly 1-for-17); simultaneous issuance can skew the raw ratio, so confirm in the filings. The red bar marks the cliff.

Cash runway

~6 months of cash left

burning $2.4M / quarter

Full breakdown: cash runway tool · source filing →

Warrants

Warrants outstanding: 1.4M underlying shares, as reported Jun 30, 2020 (10-Q).

Reported exercise price: $0.5 (aggregate figure as tagged; individual tranches vary).

Balance-sheet fair value of warrants: $3,586 as of Sep 30, 2024.

Rough fully diluted estimate: 9.6M = 8.2M O/S + 1.4M 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 4, 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	8.2M	Aug 3, 2026
+ Warrants (aggregate, as tagged) (if exercised)	1.4M	Jun 30, 2020
Fully diluted estimate	9.6M	+16.7% 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

S-3Nov 22, 2023no structured fee exhibit in this filing (predates fee-data XBRL or fee deferred)filing →

Last 12 months: 1 executed · 0 registered.

EXECUTEDFeb 26, 2026Shelf takedown priced — shares or notes (small-caps: usually shares; open the filing to confirm)424B5 →

EXECUTEDApr 26, 2024Shelf takedown priced — shares or notes (small-caps: usually shares; open the filing to confirm)424B5 →

EFFECTIVEApr 25, 2024SEC declared a registration effective — selling can beginEFFECT →

REGISTEREDApr 23, 2024S-3/A registration — capacity to sell shares, not a sale yetS-3/A →

REGISTEREDNov 22, 2023S-3 registration — capacity to sell shares, not a sale yetS-3 →

EXECUTEDApr 3, 2023Shelf takedown priced — shares or notes (small-caps: usually shares; open the filing to confirm)424B5 →

EXECUTEDJan 27, 2021Shelf takedown priced — shares or notes (small-caps: usually shares; open the filing to confirm)424B5 →

EXECUTEDJan 25, 2021Shelf takedown priced — shares or notes (small-caps: usually shares; open the filing to confirm)424B5 →

EFFECTIVENov 23, 2020SEC declared a registration effective — selling can beginEFFECT →

REGISTEREDNov 13, 2020S-3 registration — capacity to sell shares, not a sale yetS-3 →

EXECUTEDAug 21, 2020Shelf takedown priced — shares or notes (small-caps: usually shares; open the filing to confirm)424B5 →

EXECUTEDAug 6, 2020Shelf takedown priced — shares or notes (small-caps: usually shares; open the filing to confirm)424B5 →

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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