Annual report pursuant to Section 13 and 15(d)

Stockholders' Equity

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Stockholders' Equity
 12 Months Ended
Jan. 29, 2023
Stockholders' Equity Note [Abstract]  
STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY Stockholders' Equity
Common Stock Warrants
On June 29, 2018, the Company issued 281,750 warrants with a five-year term to Roth Capital Partners, LLC as part of the underwriting agreement in connection with the Company's IPO. The warrants remain outstanding as of January 29, 2023. Warrants may be exercised on a cashless basis, where the holders receive fewer shares of common stock in lieu of a cash payment to the Company. In fiscal 2023, there were no exercises of warrants. In fiscal 2022, 5,625 warrants were exercised, which resulted in the issuance of 10,956 common shares. There were 98 warrants that expired as of January 30, 2022. In fiscal 2021, 738,897 warrants were exercised on a cashless basis and resulted in the issuance of 439,447 common shares.
The following represents warrant activity during fiscal 2023, 2022, and 2021:
Average exercise price Number of warrants Weighted average remaining contractual life (in years)
Outstanding at February 2, 2020 16.83 1,039,120  1.93
Warrants issued — —  —
Expired and canceled — —  —
Exercised 16.00 (745,147) 0.41
Outstanding at January 31, 2021 19.07  293,973  2.57
Warrants issued —  —  — 
Expired and canceled 9.83  (98) — 
Exercised 16.00  (12,125) 0.09
Outstanding at January 30, 2022 19.20  281,750  1.41
Warrants issued —  —  — 
Expired and canceled —  —  — 
Exercised —  —  — 
Outstanding at January 29, 2023 $ 19.20  281,750  0.41
Equity Incentive Plans
The Company adopted the 2017 Equity Plan which provides for awards in the form of options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock awards, restricted stock units, performance shares, performance units, cash-based awards and other stock-based awards. All awards shall be granted within 10 years from the effective date of the 2017 Equity Plan. In June 2020, the stockholders of the Company approved an amendment to the 2017 Equity Plan that increased the number of shares of common stock reserved for issuance under the 2017 Equity Plan by 690,000 shares of common stock. The number of shares of common stock reserved for issuance under the 2017 Equity Plan increased from 1,414,889 to 2,104,889 shares of common stock. In fiscal 2023, the 2017 Equity Plan was amended and restated to, among other things, increase the shares of our common stock authorized and reserved for issuance by 550,000 shares, which increased the number of shares of common stock reserved for issuance under the 2017 Equity Plan to 2,654,889 shares of common stock.
Stock Options
In June 2019, the Company granted 495,366 nonstatutory stock options to certain officers of the Company with an option price of $38.10 per share. 100% of the stock options are subject to vesting on the third anniversary of the date of grant if the officers are still employed by the Company and the average closing price of the Company’s common stock for the prior 40 consecutive trading days has been at least $75 by the third anniversary of the grant. Both the employment and the market condition were required to be satisfied no later than June 5, 2022 or the options would terminate. These options were valued using a Monte Carlo simulation model to account for the path dependent market conditions that stipulate when and whether or not the options shall vest. The stock options were modified to extend the term of the options through June 5, 2024. This resulted in additional compensation of approximately $0.9 million, of which, $0.3 million was recorded upon modification and the remaining expense was recognized over the remaining expected term. The market condition was met on June 5, 2021, which was the date on which the average closing price of the Company’s common stock had been at least $75 for 40 consecutive trading days. As a result of the market condition being met, the Company accelerated the amortization and recognized additional stock-based compensation expense during fiscal year 2022 of approximately $0.9 million. The awards vested and became exercisable on June 5, 2022.
The following summarizes the activity of our stock options as of January 29, 2023, January 30, 2022, and January 31, 2021 and the changes during fiscal years then ended (in thousands, except share and per share amounts) :
Number of options Weighted average exercise price Weighted average remaining contractual life (in years) Aggregate intrinsic value
Outstanding at February 2, 2020 495,366  $ 38.10  2.34 $ — 
Granted —  — 
Canceled and forfeited —  — 
Outstanding at January 31, 2021 495,366  38.10  3.35 9,135 
Granted —  — 
Canceled and forfeited —  — 
Outstanding at January 30, 2022 495,366  38.10  2.35 6,162 
Granted —  — 
Canceled and forfeited —  — 
Outstanding and exercisable at January 29, 2023 495,366  $ 38.10  1.35 $ — 
Restricted Stock Units
The following table summarizes the activity for the Company's unvested restricted stock units as of January 29, 2023, January 30, 2022, January 31, 2021, and changes during fiscal years then ended, is presented below:
Number of shares Weighted average grant date fair value
Unvested at February 2, 2020 183,053  $ 21.34 
Granted 627,940  16.94 
Forfeited (5,701) 11.86 
Vested (149,734) 16.24 
Unvested at January 31, 2021 655,558  18.86 
Granted 94,985  78.53 
Forfeited (42,516) 22.67 
Vested (174,694) 19.57 
Unvested at January 30, 2022 533,333  28.41 
Granted 289,625  44.20 
Forfeited (62,186) 29.09 
Vested (120,516) 36.03 
Unvested at January 29, 2023 640,256  $ 34.50 

Equity-based compensation expense was approximately $10.5 million, $5.9 million, and $4.7 million for fiscal 2023, 2022, and 2021 respectively. In fiscal 2023, The Company recognized $4.3 million related to performance stock units granted in fiscal 2021 with a three year term, which met the performance target of $550 million in net sales and $50 million in Adjusted EBITDA for fiscal 2023.

The total unrecognized equity based compensation cost related to unvested restricted stock unit awards was approximately $4.2 million as of January 29, 2023 and will be recognized in operations over a weighted average period of 1.95 years.