ABAT — what changed in the latest 10-Q
A section-by-section comparison of ABAT's newest periodic SEC filing (10-K/10-Q) against the prior same-form filing: paragraphs added and removed per section, with verbatim excerpts. Purely a deterministic text diff — no similarity scores, no directional read, not investment advice.
Comparing 10-Q · 2026-05-11 vs the prior 10-Q · 2026-02-05
| Section | Outcome | Added | Removed | Minor | Unchanged |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MD&A | Text added/removed | +35 | −31 | ~11 | 13 |
| Market risk (Item 3) | Text added/removed | 0 | 0 | ~1 | 0 |
| Controls & procedures | Text added/removed | +5 | −4 | ~7 | 5 |
| Legal proceedings | No paragraph-level changes | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Risk factors | No paragraph-level changes | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Counts are paragraphs; added/removed means text added or removed vs the prior filing — no direction or judgement implied.
Not shown (absent or not faithfully extractable): Other information
Representative excerpts
Up to 5 excerpts of about 300 characters per section, quoted verbatim from the two SEC filings.
MD&A
Text added vs the prior filing · source: 10-Q · 2026-05-11
● The Company had cash and cash equivalents of $38.5 million as of March 31, 2026, of which $37.7 million was unrestricted. This was a $30.2 million increase in unrestricted cash from June 30, 2025.
A reconciliation of cost of goods sold to cash cost of goods sold and adjusted gross margin
(both are a non-GAAP measure) for the three months ended March 31, 2026 was as follows:
● The Company has achieved a critical milestone this quarter, with the achievement of its first positive gross profit on revenue of $0.7 million.
● Excluding non-cash items, such as stock-based compensation and depreciation, the Company achieved an adjusted gross profit (a non-GAAP measure) of $2.0 million.
Text removed vs the prior filing · source: 10-Q · 2026-02-05
The Company has completed the construction and commissioning of its lithium hydroxide (“LiOH”) pilot plant. The construction and commissioning of this pilot plant enables the Company to demonstrate its technologies for accessing the lithium housed in its unconventional resource, Tonopah Flats Lithiu…
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A reconciliation of cost of goods sold to cash cost of goods sold and adjusted gross margin (both are a non-GAAP measure) for the three months ended December 31, 2025 was as follows:
● Gross loss on revenue was $1.6 million. However, excluding non-cash items, such as stock-based compensation and depreciation, adjusted gross loss (a non-GAAP measure) was $0.1 million.
● The Company had cash and cash equivalents of $48.7 million at December 31, 2025, of which $47.9 million was unrestricted. This was a $40.4 million increase in unrestricted cash from June 30, 2025.
Controls & procedures
Text added vs the prior filing · source: 10-Q · 2026-05-11
The Company did not maintain a sufficient complement of personnel with the appropriate level of technical accounting expertise to effectively identify, evaluate, and design controls related to complex transactions. Additionally, the Company did not maintain adequate segregation of duties within its …
●We will hire additional personnel with appropriate level of technical accounting expertise to effectively identify, evaluate and design controls related to complex transactions.
●On January 25, 2026, the Board of Directors of the Company appointed Alejandro Flores Arteaga to serve as Chief Financial Officer of the Company, effective February 9, 2026. Jesse Deutsch, the Interim Chief Financial Officer, retired from the Company effective February 9, 2026.
We will consider the material weaknesses remediated when the relevant controls have been fully implemented, have operated for a sufficient period of time, and when management has concluded, through testing, that these controls are operating effectively. We expect to remediate the material weaknesses…
Except with respect to the changes in connection with the implementation of the initiatives to remediate the material weaknesses noted above, there were no changes in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the three months ended March 31, 2026 that have material…
Text removed vs the prior filing · source: 10-Q · 2026-02-05
The Company did not maintain proper segregation of duties related to accounting processes. As a consequence, the internal control deficiency related to the design and operation of process-level controls was determined to be pervasive throughout the Company’s financial reporting processes.
● On January 25, 2026, the Board of Directors of the Company appointed Alejandro Flores Arteaga to serve as Chief Financial Officer of the Company, effective February 9, 2026. Jesse Deutsch, the Interim Chief Financial Officer, will retire from the Company effective February 9, 2026.
We will consider the material weakness remediated when the relevant controls have been fully implemented, have operated for a sufficient period of time, and when management has concluded, through testing, that these controls are operating effectively. We expect to remediate the material weakness by …
Except with respect to the changes in connection with the implementation of the initiatives to remediate the material weakness noted above, there were no changes in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the six months ended December 31, 2025 that have materiall…
How to read Risk Factors (Item 1A) in a 10-Q
A 10-Q risk-factor section usually takes one of three forms; this page classifies it as one of:
- Pointer — the filer states there have been no material changes and points back to the annual 10-K risk factors; there is no own risk text to compare this quarter.
- Partial update — the filer carves out specific updated risks ("except as set forth below"); the excerpts show exactly what is new this quarter.
- Restated in full — the quarter carries the complete risk-factor text. When the prior quarter was only a pointer there is no prior full text to diff against, so the page flags the section as restated instead.
This describes the filing structure only — it is never a judgement on whether risk went up or down.
Source: text-level diff of the two SEC EDGAR filings · deterministic (no AI-generated content) · for reference only · not investment advice