Quarterly report [Sections 13 or 15(d)]

LEASES

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LEASES
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2026
Leases  
LEASES

Note 9. LEASES

 

The Company has one operating lease for its real estate and office space for the CAP/CLIA laboratory, as well as multiple finance leases for lab equipment in Texas that were acquired through the September 18, 2023 acquisition. In April 2024, the Company amended the lab space lease agreement which included two options to extend the lease for an additional three years on the exercise of each option. Management has not included these options in calculating the Operating lease right-of-use assets and Operating lease liabilities. During the first quarter of 2026, Operating lease assets and liabilities increased as a result of amending the lease due to an out-of-period adjustment described previously in Note 1. Additionally, the Company entered into an operating lease on September 1, 2024 for additional office space. The Company’s operating leases consist of office and lab space with remaining lease terms of 4.4 years as of March 31, 2026. The Company has finance leases consisting of office and lab equipment with remaining lease terms ranging from approximately 0.83 to 6.6 years as of March 31, 2026, for which the Company has determined that it will use the equipment for a major part of its remaining economic life.

 

The lease agreements generally do not provide an implicit borrowing rate. Therefore, the Company used a benchmark approach as of the date of inception of the leases to derive an appropriate incremental borrowing rate to discount remaining lease payments. The Company benchmarked itself against other companies of similar credit ratings and comparable quality and derived imputed interest rates ranging from 6.41% to 7.97% for the lease term lengths.

 

Leases with an initial term of 12 months or less are not recorded on the balance sheets. There are no material residual guarantees associated with any of the Company’s leases, and there are no significant restrictions or covenants included in the Company’s lease agreements. Certain leases include variable payments related to common area maintenance and property taxes, which are billed by the landlord, as is customary with these types of charges for office space. The Company has not entered into any lease arrangements with related parties, and the Company is not the sublessor in any arrangement.

 

The Company’s existing leases contain escalation clauses and renewal options. The Company has evaluated several factors in assessing whether there is reasonable certainty that the Company will exercise a contractual renewal option. For leases with renewal options that are reasonably certain to be exercised, the Company included the renewal term in the total lease term used in calculating the right-of-use asset and lease liability.

 

 

The components of lease expense, which are included in selling, general and administrative expense and depreciation and amortization for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, are as follows:

 

Components of lease expense:   2026     2025  
Amortization of right-of-use assets - finance lease   $ 75,527     $ 96,243  
Interest on lease liabilities - finance lease     12,269       13,081  
Operating lease cost     43,284       29,793  
Total lease cost   $ 131,080     $ 139,117  
                 
Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities:                
Operating cash flows from finance leases   $ 77,174     $ 100,266  
Operating cash flows from operating leases   $ 36,451     $ 29,197  

 

Operating leases:   March 31, 2026     December 31, 2025  
Operating lease right-of-use, assets   $ 651,430     $ 334,289  
Operating lease liability, current   $ 142,303     $ 139,220  
Operating lease liability, non-current   $ 545,157     $ 202,878  
Total operating lease liabilities   $ 687,460     $ 342,098  

 

Finance leases:   March 31, 2026     December 31, 2025  
Finance lease right-of-use asset, gross   $ 1,184,598     $ 1,184,598  
Accumulated amortization     (598,550 )     (523,023 )
Finance lease right-of-use asset, net   $ 586,048     $ 661,575  
Finance lease liability, current portion   $ 80,241     $ 139,490  
Finance lease liability, long-term     514,834       532,759  
Total finance lease liabilities   $ 595,075     $ 672,249  

 

Weighted-average remaining lease term:   March 31, 2026     December 31, 2025  
Operating leases (in years)     4.42       3.04  
Finance leases (in years)     6.53       6.18  

 

Weighted-average discount rate:   March 31, 2026     December 31, 2025  
Operating leases     6.87 %     7.28 %
Finance leases     6.76 %     6.86 %

 

Future minimum lease payments under non-cancellable lease as of March 31, 2026, are as follows:

 

    Operating Leases     Finance
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Remaining for 2026   $ 124,933     $ 89,822  
2027     172,488       111,708  
2028     179,367       111,708  
2029     186,553       111,708  
2030     127,651       111,708  
2031 and thereafter           201,495  
Total undiscounted cash flows     790,992       738,149  
Less discounting     (103,532 )     (143,074 )
Present value of lease liabilities   $ 687,460     $ 595,075