DUOS TECHNOLOGIES GROUP, INC. - Quarter Report: 2019 June (Form 10-Q)

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-Q

For the transition period from ________________ to ________________ 

Commission file number 000-55497

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (904) 652-1616

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes þ  No ¨

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

If an emerging growth company, indicate by checkmark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ¨

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes ¨  No þ

As of August 12, 2019, Duos Technologies Group, Inc. had outstanding 25,430,224 shares of common stock, par value $0.001 per share.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART I FINANCIAL INFORMATION

Item 1. Financial Statements.

DUOS TECHNOLOGIES GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

(Continued)

See accompanying notes to the unaudited consolidated financial statements.

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CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS (CONTINUED)

See accompanying notes to the unaudited consolidated financial statements.

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

(Unaudited)

See accompanying notes to the unaudited consolidated financial statements.

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STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY (DEFICIT)

For the Three and Six Months Ended June 30, 2018 and 2019

See accompanying notes to the unaudited consolidated financial statements.

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

(Unaudited)

See accompanying notes to the unaudited consolidated financial statements.

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CONDENSED NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

June 30, 2019

(Unaudited)

NOTE 1 – NATURE OF OPERATIONS, BASIS OF PRESENTATION AND SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Nature of Operations

Duos Technologies Group, Inc. (the “duostech Group”), through its operating subsidiaries, Duos Technologies, Inc. (“duostech”) and TrueVue360, Inc (“TrueVue360”, duostech Group and duostech, collectively the “Company”) is primarily engaged in the design and deployment of state-of-the-art, artificial intelligence driven intelligent technologies systems. duostech converges traditional security measures with information technologies to create “actionable intelligence.” duostech’s IP is built upon two of its core technology platforms (praesidium® and centraco®), both distributed as licensed software suites, and natively embedded within engineered turnkey systems. praesidium® is a modular suite of analytics applications which process and simultaneously analyze data streams from a virtually unlimited number of conventional sensors and/or data points. Native algorithms compare analyzed data against user-defined criteria and rules in real time and automatically report any exceptions, deviations and/or anomalies. This application suite also includes a broad range of conventional operational system components and sub-systems, including an embedded feature-rich video management engine and a proprietary Alarm Management Service (AMS). This unique service provides continuous monitoring of all connected devices, processes, equipment and sub-systems, and automatically communicates to the front end-user interface, if and when an issue, event or performance anomalies are detected. centraco® is a comprehensive user interface that includes the functionalities of a Physical Security Information Management (PSIM) system as well as those of an Enterprise Information System (EIS). This multi-layered interface can be securely installed as a stand-alone application suite inside a local area network or pushed outside a wide area network using the same browser-based interface. It leverages industry standards for data security, access, and encryption as appropriate. The platform also operates as a cloud-hosted solution.

The Company provides a broad range of sophisticated intelligent technology solutions with an emphasis on security, inspection and operations for critical infrastructure within a variety of industries including transportation, retail, law enforcement, oil, gas and utilities sectors. In January 2019, the Company launched a dedicated Artificial Intelligence software platform, truevue360™, through its subsidiary TrueVue360 with the objective of focusing the Company’s advanced intelligent technologies in the areas of Artificial Intelligent, Deep Machine Learning and Advance Algorithms to further support our business growth.  Consequently, our business operations are now in three business units: intelligent technologies, AI/machine learning platforms and IT asset management.

The Company’s strategy includes expansion of its technology base through organic development efforts, strategic partnerships, and growth through accretive acquisitions. The Company provides its broad range of technology solutions with an emphasis on mission critical security, inspection and operations within the rail transportation, commercial, petrochemical, government, and banking sectors. The Company also offers professional and consulting services for large data centers.

Basis of Presentation

The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) for interim financial information and with the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 8 of Regulation S-X. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and footnotes required by U.S. GAAP for complete financial statements. In the opinion of management, all adjustments (all of which are of a normal recurring nature) considered necessary for a fair presentation have been included. Operating results for the six months ended June 30, 2019 are not indicative of the results that may be expected for the year ending December 31, 2019 or for any other future period. These unaudited consolidated financial statements and the unaudited condensed notes thereto should be read in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements and notes thereto included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on April 15, 2019.

Principles of Consolidation

The consolidated financial statements include duostech Group and its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Duos Technologies, Inc. and TrueVue 360, Inc. All inter-company transactions and balances are eliminated in consolidation.

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CONDENSED NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

June 30, 2019

(Unaudited)

Use of Estimates

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosures of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results may differ from these estimates. The most significant estimates in the accompanying consolidated financial statements include the allowance on accounts receivable, valuation of deferred tax assets, valuation of intangible and other long-lived assets, estimates of net contract revenues and the total estimated costs to determine progress towards contract completion, valuation of derivatives, valuation of warrants issued with debt, valuation of beneficial conversion features in convertible debt, and valuation of stock-based awards. We base our estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions that we believe are reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. Actual results may differ from these estimates.

Concentrations

Cash Concentrations

Cash is maintained at financial institutions and at times, balances may exceed federally insured limits. We have not experienced any losses related to these balances. There were no amounts on deposit in excess of federally insured limits at June 30, 2019.

Significant Customers and Concentration of Credit Risk

The Company had certain customers whose revenue individually represented 10% or more of the Company’s total revenue, or whose accounts receivable balances individually represented 10% or more of the Company’s total accounts receivable, as follows:

For the six months ended June 30, 2019, two customers accounted for 69%, and 12% of revenues. For the six months ended June 30, 2018, two customers accounted for 56% and 14% of revenues.

At June 30, 2019, four customers accounted for 25%, 17%, 13% and 10% of accounts receivable. At December 31, 2018, two customers accounted for 58% and 34% of accounts receivable.

Geographic Concentration

Approximately 72% of revenue is generated from two customers outside of the United States.

Fair Value of Financial Instruments and Fair Value Measurements

We measure our financial assets and liabilities in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. For certain of our financial instruments, including cash and cash equivalents, accounts receivable, accounts payable and accrued liabilities, the carrying amounts approximate fair value due to their short maturities. Amounts recorded for notes payable, net of discount, and loans payable also approximate fair value because current interest rates available to us for debt with similar terms and maturities are substantially the same.

We follow accounting guidance for financial assets and liabilities. This standard defines fair value, provides guidance for measuring fair value and requires certain disclosures. This standard does not require any new fair value measurements, but rather applies to all other accounting pronouncements that require or permit fair value measurements. This guidance does not apply to measurements related to share-based payments. This guidance discusses valuation techniques, such as the market approach (comparable market prices), the income approach (present value of future income or cash flow), and the cost approach (cost to replace the service capacity of an asset or replacement cost).

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CONDENSED NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

June 30, 2019

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The guidance utilizes a fair value hierarchy that prioritizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to measure fair value into three broad levels. The following is a brief description of those three levels:

Level 1: Observable inputs such as quoted prices (unadjusted) in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.

Level 2: Inputs, other than quoted prices that are observable, either directly or indirectly. These include quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities in active markets and quoted prices for identical or similar assets or liabilities in markets that are not active.

Level 3: Unobservable inputs in which little or no market data exists, therefore developed using estimates and assumptions developed by us, which reflect those that a market participant would use.

Software Development Costs

Software development costs incurred prior to establishing technological feasibility are charged to operations and included in research and development costs. The technological feasibility of a software product is established when the Company has completed all planning, designing, coding, and testing activities that are necessary to establish that the product meets its design specifications, including functionality, features, and technical performance requirements. Software development costs incurred after establishing technological feasibility for software sold as a perpetual license, as defined within ASC 985-20 (Software – Costs of Software to be sold, Leased, or Marketed) are capitalized and amortized on a product-by-product basis when the product is available for general release to customers.

Earnings (Loss) Per Share

Basic earnings per share (EPS) are computed by dividing net loss applicable to common stock by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding. Diluted net loss per common share is computed by dividing the net loss applicable to common stock by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding for the period and, if dilutive, potential common shares outstanding during the period. Potential common shares consist of the incremental common shares issuable upon the exercise of stock options, stock warrants, convertible debt instruments, convertible preferred stock or other common stock equivalents. Potentially dilutive securities are excluded from the computation if their effect is anti-dilutive. At June 30, 2019, there was an aggregate of 20,825,984 outstanding warrants to purchase shares of common stock. At June 30, 2019, there was an aggregate of 2,162,000 shares of employee stock options to purchase shares of common stock. Also, at June 30, 2019, 5,660,000 common shares were issuable upon conversion of Series B convertible preferred stock, all of which were excluded from the computation of dilutive earnings per share because their inclusion would have been anti-dilutive.

Revenue Recognition

As of January 1, 2018, the Company adopted Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (“ASC 606”), that affects the timing of when certain types of revenues will be recognized. The basic principles in ASC 606 include the following: a contract with a customer creates distinct unrecognized contract assets and performance obligations; satisfaction of a performance obligation creates revenue; and a performance obligation is satisfied upon transfer of control to a good or service to a customer.

Revenue is recognized for sales of systems and services over time using cost-based input methods, in which significant judgement is required to evaluate assumptions including the amount of net contract revenues and the total estimated costs to determine our progress towards contract completion and to calculate the corresponding amount of revenue to recognize.

Revenue is recognized by evaluating our revenue contracts with customers based on the five-step model under ASC 606:

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Identify the contract with the customer;

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Identify the performance obligations in the contract;

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Determine the transaction price;

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Allocate the transaction price to separate performance obligations; and

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Recognize revenue when (or as) each performance obligations is satisfied.

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CONDENSED NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

June 30, 2019

(Unaudited)

Accordingly, the Company now bases its revenue recognition on ASC 606-10-25-27, where control of a good or service transfers over time if the entity’s performance does not create an asset with an alternative use to the entity and the entity has an enforceable right to payment for performance completed to date including a profit margin or reasonable return on capital. Control is deemed to pass to the customer instantaneously as the goods are manufactured and revenue is recognized accordingly.

In addition, the Company has adopted ASC 606-10-55-21 such that if the cost incurred is not proportionate to the progress in satisfying the performance obligation, we adjust the input method to recognize revenue only to the extent of the cost incurred. Therefore, the Company will recognize revenue at an equal amount to the cost of the goods to satisfy the performance obligation. To accurately reflect revenue recognition based on the input method, the Company has adopted the implementation guidance as set out in ASC-606-10-55-187 through 192.

Segment Information

The Company operates in one reportable segment.

Stock Based Compensation

The Company accounts for employee stock-based compensation in accordance with ASC 718-10, “Share-Based Payment,” which requires the measurement and recognition of compensation expense for all share-based payment awards made to employees and directors including employee stock options, restricted stock units, and employee stock purchases based on estimated fair values.

In June 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-07, Compensation – Stock Compensation (Topic 718). This update is intended to reduce cost and complexity and to improve financial reporting for share-based payments issued to non-employees (for example, service providers, external legal counsel, suppliers, etc.). The ASU expands the scope of Topic 718, Compensation—Stock Compensation, which currently only includes share-based payments issued to employees, to also include share-based payments issued to non-employees for goods and services. Consequently, the accounting for share-based payments to non-employees and employees will be substantially aligned. This standard will be effective for financial statements issued by public companies for the annual and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2018. Early adoption of the standard is permitted. The standard will be applied in a retrospective approach for each period presented. Management implemented this standard on January 1, 2019.

Determining Fair Value Under ASC 718-10

The Company estimates the fair value of stock options granted using the Black-Scholes option-pricing formula. This fair value is then amortized on a straight-line basis over the requisite service periods of the awards, which is generally the vesting period. The Company’s determination of fair value using an option-pricing model is affected by the stock price as well as assumptions regarding the number of highly subjective variables.

The Company estimates volatility based upon the historical stock price of the Company and estimates the expected term for employee stock options using the simplified method for employees and directors and the contractual term for non-employees. The risk-free rate is determined based upon the prevailing rate of United States Treasury securities with similar maturities.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

From time to time, the FASB or other standards setting bodies will issue new accounting pronouncements. Updates to the FASB ASC are communicated through issuance of an Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”).

In August 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-13, “Changes to Disclosure Requirements for Fair Value Measurements”, which will improve the effectiveness of disclosure requirements for recurring and nonrecurring fair value measurements. The standard removes, modifies, and adds certain disclosure requirements, and is effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2019. The Company will be evaluating the impact this standard will have on the Company’s financial statements.

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CONDENSED NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

June 30, 2019

(Unaudited)

Management does not believe that any other recently issued, but not yet effective accounting pronouncements, if adopted, would have a material effect on the accompanying financial statements.

NOTE 2 – LIQUIDITY

As reflected in the accompanying unaudited consolidated financial statements, the Company had a net loss of $1,905,622 for the six months ended June 30, 2019. During the same period, cash used in operating activities was $2,711,334. The working capital deficit and accumulated deficit as of June 30, 2019 were $543,920 and $32,175,455, respectively. In previous financial reports, the Company had raised substantial doubt about continuing as a going concern. This was principally due to a lack of working capital prior to a capital raise which was completed in late 2017 (the “2017 Offering”). Prior to this event, the Company was carrying significant debt obligations including a senior secured note with cash interest payments.

After the 2017 Offering, management paid down all debt which eliminated monthly obligations for interest payments other than for normal course of business financing, secured sufficient working capital for ongoing operations and was successful in closing business and establishing a backlog such that we were breakeven or profitable in two of the last four quarters excluding the current quarter. The Company has been successful in increasing its ongoing working, capital with $2,164,019 in warrant executions during the first half of 2019 and has secured approximately $151,250 in additional warrant conversions. Additionally, the Company continues to be successful in identifying, closing and executing large contracts in the Freight railroad industry. We expect to receive a substantial order in the third quarter from an existing client which will substantially boost our cash reserves in the short term.

Management continues to believe that we have alleviated the substantial doubt for the Company to continue as a going concern. We are executing the plan to grow our business and achieve profitability without the requirement to raise additional capital for existing operations other than encouraging early conversions of cash warrants. Ultimately, the continuation of the Company as a going concern is dependent upon the ability of the Company to continue executing the plan described above, generate sufficient revenue and to attain consistently profitable operations. Additionally, the Company expects potential further warrant exercises, in addition to potential capital raises of its equity or debt securities, though no guarantees can be made with respect to the foregoing. Management will continue to evaluate these plans in future filings.

NOTE 3 – SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT COSTS

At June 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, the Company capitalized $60,000, relating to the development of new software products. These software products were developed by a third-party and had passed the preliminary project stage prior to capitalization.

Software development costs consisted of the following at June 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018:

Amortization expense of software development costs for the six months ended June 30, 2019 and 2018 was $10,000 and $10,000, respectively.

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CONDENSED NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

June 30, 2019

(Unaudited)

NOTE 4 – DEBT

Notes Payable - Financing Agreements

The Company’s notes payable relating to financing agreements classified as current liabilities consist of the following as of:

The Company entered into an agreement on December 23, 2018 with its insurance provider by executing a $25,066 note payable (Insurance Note 1) issued to purchase an insurance policy, secured by that policy with an annual interest rate of 9.29% payable in monthly installments of principal and interest totaling $2,172 through September 23, 2019. The balance of Insurance Note 1 as of June 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018 was $6,418 and $25,066, respectively.

The Company entered into an agreement on April 15, 2018 with its insurance provider by executing a $49,000 note payable (Insurance Note 2) issued to purchase an insurance policy, secured by that policy with an annual interest rate of 10.75% payable in monthly installments of principal and interest totaling $4,378 through February 15, 2019. The policy renewed on April 15, 2019 in the amount of $51,940 with an annual interest rate of 6.36% payable in monthly installments of principal and interest totaling $5,326. At June 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, the balance of Insurance Note 2 was $31,438 and $8,501, respectively.

The Company entered into an agreement on September 15, 2018 renewing with its insurance provider by executing a $15,810 note payable (Insurance Note 3), secured by that policy, with an annual interest rate of 10.75% payable in monthly installments of principal and interest totaling $1,660 through July 15, 2019. At June 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, the balance of Insurance Note 3 was $1,645 and $14,763, respectively.

The Company entered into an agreement on February 3, 2018 with its insurance provider by executing a $127,561 note payable (Insurance Note 4) issued to purchase an insurance policy, secured by that policy with an annual interest rate of 8.80% payable in monthly installments of principal and interest totaling $13,276 through November 3, 2018. The policy renewed on February 3, 2019 in the amount of $141,058 with an annual interest rate of 6.36% payable in monthly installments of principal and interest totaling $14,520. At June 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, the balance of Insurance Note 4 was $85,528 and zero, respectively.

NOTE 5 – LINE OF CREDIT

The Company assumed a line of credit with Wells Fargo Bank upon merger with ISA on April 1, 2015. The line of credit provided for borrowings up to $40,000 but is now closed to future borrowing. The balance as of June 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, was $28,704 and $31,201, respectively, including accrued interest. This line of credit has no maturity date. The annual interest rate is 12% at June 30, 2019. The former CEO of ISA is the personal guarantor.

NOTE 6 – COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

Delinquent Payroll Taxes Payable

As of the date hereof, the Company has paid its payroll taxes in full. However, the Company had previously appealed to the IRS for a reduction of penalty payments assessed for the late payment of payroll taxes. The IRS has since responded, and the Company will be required to repay the penalties in connection with the delinquent payroll taxes. The Company has started making monthly payments in the amount of $15,000 starting in July 2018 to pay down the accrued late fees. At June 30, 2019, the payroll taxes payable balance of $120,964 includes accrued late fees in the amount of $63,572.

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CONDENSED NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

June 30, 2019

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Licensing Agreement

The Company has entered into a new software license and configuration services agreement with a third-party vendor. The annual support and maintenance fees of approximately $300,000 include support and updates to the vendor’s Gateway software and customer access to their services (including web application, mobile application, and associated APIs) for gateway configuration, gateway monitoring and management, application configuration, application management, and automatic model updates.

The Company has also entered into a SaaS Agreement with the same vendor that is an Amazon AWS-hosted software service enabling the automation of visual observation tasks using deep convolutional neural networks and other computer vision techniques. It consists of a public API, web application, iPhone application, and associated backend services. The system supports the labeling of example image data, the automatic building of classification, detection, localization, measuring and counting applications based on the labeled example data, and the run-time deployment of the trained application models.

NOTE 7 – OPERATING LEASE OBLIGATIONS

The Company has two operating lease agreements for office and warehouse space of approximately 12,708 square feet located in Jacksonville, Florida. On April 1, 2019, the Company increased the office square feet from 8,308 to 10,203 office space. The Company now has a total of office and warehouse space of approximately 14,603 square feet. The current lease was amended on May 1, 2016 and again on April 1, 2019 and ends on October 31, 2021. The rent is subject to an annual escalation of 3%, beginning May 1, 2017. The Company entered a new lease agreement of office and warehouse space on June 1, 2018 and ending May 31, 2021.

In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-02 Leases (Topic 842) (“ASU 2016-02”), which requires all leases with a term greater than 12 months to be recognized on the balance sheet, while lease expenses would continue to be recognized in the statement of operations in a manner similar to current accounting guidance. We adopted ASU 2016-02 effective January 1, 2019, on a modified retrospective basis, without adjusting comparative periods presented. Effective January 1, 2019, the Company established a right-of-use model (ROU) asset and operating lease liability in the amount of $597,103. The right of use asset balance at June 30, 2019 was $565,926, the operating lease liability – current portion was $237,470 and the operating lease liability – long term portion was $354,932. This is the Company’s only lease whose term is greater than 12 months. The adoption of ASU 2016-02 did not materially affect our consolidated statement of operations or our consolidated statements of cash flows. We made an accounting policy election to keep leases with an initial term of 12 months or less off the balance sheet and to recognize all lease payments for leases with a term greater than 12 months on a straight-line basis over the lease term in our consolidated statements of operations.

NOTE 8 – STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY 

Common stock issued for exercise of warrants

During the first quarter of 2019, the Company entered into an agreement with two shareholders who were also holders of warrants to purchase shares of common stock in the aggregate amount of 3,000,000 shares, to reduce the exercise price of these warrants to $0.55 from the original exercise price of $0.65 based on immediate exercise. Both shareholders exercised these warrants in March 2019 for proceeds to the Company of $1,650,000.  The Company also accepted warrant exercises in the second quarter of 2019 from three additional shareholders who were also holders of warrants to purchase shares of common stock in the aggregate amount of 934,581 shares. The exercise price of these warrants was also lowered to $0.55 from the original exercise price of $0.65 based on immediate exercise for further proceeds to the Company of $514,020. Further, during the second quarter of 2019, the Company issued 138,292 shares of common stock upon the cashless exercise of 651,982 common stock warrants.

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CONDENSED NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

June 30, 2019

(Unaudited)

Stock-Based Compensation

Stock-based compensation expense recognized under ASC 718-10 for the six months ended June 30, 2019, was $28,134 for stock options granted to employees and directors. This expense is included in selling, general and administrative expenses in the unaudited consolidated statements of operations. Stock-based compensation expense recognized during the period is based on the value of the portion of share-based payment awards that is ultimately expected to vest during the period. At June 30, 2019, the total compensation cost for stock options not yet recognized was $13,887. This cost will be recognized over the remaining vesting term of the options of approximately one year.

Employee Stock Options

A maximum of 2,500,000 shares were made available for grant under the 2016 Plan, as amended, and all outstanding options under the Plan provide a cashless exercise feature. The identification of individuals entitled to receive awards, the terms of the awards, and the number of shares subject to individual awards, are determined by our Board of Directors or the Compensation Committee, at their sole discretion. The aggregate number of shares with respect to which options or stock awards may be granted under the 2016 Plan and the purchase price per share, if applicable, shall be adjusted for any increase or decrease in the number of issued shares resulting from a stock dividend, stock split, reverse stock split, recapitalization or similar event. As of June 30, 2019, and December 31, 2018, options to purchase 2,162,000 shares of common stock and 2,242,000 shares of common stock were outstanding under the 2016 Plan, respectively.

The Company has no expired employee stock options under the 2016 Plan at June 30, 2019.

On January 29, 2019, the Board of Directors appointed a new independent director and Chairman of the Compensation Committee. As a result of the appointment, the new director was granted 120,000 stock options exercisable at $1.00 per share vesting one year from the date of grant. On March 31, 2019, the President and Chief Operating Officer of Duos Technologies Inc., resigned from her positions. Due to the resignation, the individual forfeited 200,000 stock options previously granted.

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CONDENSED NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

June 30, 2019

(Unaudited)

Warrants

The following is a summary of activity for warrants to purchase common stock for the six months ended June 30, 2019: