Natural Health Trends Corp. filed SEC Form 8-K: Leadership Update

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 SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

 

 

 

 

 NATURAL HEALTH TRENDS CORP.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter) 

 

 

 609 Deep Valley Drive, Suite 395, Rolling Hills Estates, California, 90274

(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)

 

(310) 541-0888

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

 

 

 

 

 

On April 1, 2025, the Board of Directors of Natural Health Trends Corp. (the “Company”), upon the approval and recommendation of its Compensation Committee, approved the grant of certain awards (the “Awards”) under the Company’s Phantom Equity Plan (the “Plan”). Chris T. Sharng, the Company’s President, was granted an Award of 124,850 phantom shares, and Timothy S. Davidson, the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President and Corporate Secretary, was granted an Award of 41,788 phantom shares. Phantom share awards were also made to certain other Company employees and to the Company’s non-employee directors.

 

Each Award has a vesting period of two years, with 12.5% of the Award eligible to vest in each of the eight calendar quarters during the vesting period, beginning with the second quarter of 2025, subject to satisfaction of the conditions outlined below. For Awards to vest as to a particular quarter, the employee or director must be continuously employed by (or in the case of directors, providing services to) the Company for the entire quarter. The Awards are subject to a maximum payment value of $12.00 per phantom share, and the grantees are not entitled to any dividend or dividend equivalent payments with respect to the Awards. As a condition to the grant of the Awards to each employee grantee, the grantee agreed not to sell or otherwise transfer any shares of the Company’s common stock held by him or her until all phantom shares subject to the Award are vested or forfeited.

 

One-half of the Award eligible to vest in each calendar quarter (the “Financial Results-Based Award”, representing 6.25% of the aggregate Award amount) will vest if the service condition is met for the quarter and if the Company attains positive operating profit for the quarter of at least $150,000. If these conditions are not met, the Financial Results-Based Award for the quarter will be forfeited.

 

The other half of the Award eligible to vest in each calendar quarter (the “Stock Appreciation-Based Award”, or 6.25% of the aggregate Award amount) will vest if the service condition is met for the quarter and if two additional conditions are satisfied: (a) a stock appreciation condition, which will be satisfied if the average closing price of the Company’s common stock over the last month of the applicable quarter exceeds the average closing price of the Company’s common stock over the last month of the previous calendar year; and (b) an additional financial performance condition, which will be satisfied if the Company attains positive operating profit for the quarter of at least $300,000. If the stock appreciation condition is not met for the applicable quarter, the Stock Appreciation-Based Award for the quarter will be forfeited. If the stock appreciation condition is met for this portion of the Award but the additional financial performance condition is not met for the quarter, the Stock Appreciation-Based Award for the quarter will not be forfeited but will be carried forward to a future quarter during the two-year vesting period of the Award. Any portion of an Award carried forward may vest at the end of a subsequent quarter during the two-year vesting period if the Company’s operating profit for that quarter exceeds by $150,000 the sum of (a) the amount necessary to satisfy the Financial Results-Based Award for the quarter (i.e. $150,000), (b) the additional amount, if any, used to satisfy the additional financial performance condition for a Stock Appreciation-Based Award that vests for the quarter (i.e., $150,000 if the current quarter’s Stock Appreciation-Based Award vests, or $0 if it does not vest) and (c) the additional amount, if any used to satisfy the vesting conditions of any other carried-forward awards to which this test is previously applied.

 

The foregoing description of the Plan and Awards does not purport to be complete, and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the complete text of the Plan, which was filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed May 5, 2021, and the revised form of award agreement, which will be filed as an exhibit to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ending March 31, 2025.

 

 

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

Date: April 2, 2025