SEC Form 10-Q filed by Universal Safety Products Inc.

Statement of Management

Universal Safety Products, Inc., formerly “Universal Security Instruments, Inc.” (“we” or “the Company”) designs and markets a variety of popularly priced safety products which, during the period covered by this Quarterly Report, consisted primarily of smoke alarms, carbon monoxide alarms and related products. Most of our products require minimal installation and are designed for easy installation by the consumer without professional assistance and are sold through retail stores. We also market products to the electrical distribution trade through our wholly owned subsidiary, Universal Safety Electric, Inc., formerly, USI Electric, Inc. (“Universal Electric”). The electrical distribution trade includes electrical and lighting distributors as well as manufactured housing companies. Products sold by Universal Electric usually require professional installation.

Management had been seeking access to additional funding or other resources, or the right strategic business combination, which would allow the Company to drive long-term value for its shareholders while taking advantage of growth opportunities that the Company seeks to execute. In furtherance thereof, as previously announced on October 31, 2024, the Company entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement with Feit Electric Company, Inc. (“Feit”) pursuant to which Feit agreed to acquire the smoke and carbon monoxide alarm portion of the Company’s business and the non-tangible assets of the Company, including but not limited to the trade name of Universal Security Instruments, Inc. and Universal Electric, Inc. The Closing was subject to the approval of the transaction by the requisite vote of the shareholders of the Company. A special meeting of the shareholders to approve the sale and related actions was held on April 15, 2025, and the asset sale was approved. Accordingly on May 22, 2025, the Company closed on the asset sale to Feit pursuant to the terms of the Asset Purchase Agreement. The assets held for sale in accordance with the Asset Purchase Agreement at March 31, 2025, are shown separately in the financial statements accompanying this Quarterly Report and are valued at the lower of the assets carrying value or fair value less selling cost. The Company currently intends to continue importing and marketing its product lines other than smoke alarms and carbon monoxide alarms and is exploring other business opportunities to drive long-term value for our shareholders.

The condensed consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its wholly owned subsidiary Universal Electric. Except for the condensed consolidated balance sheet as of March 31, 2025, which was derived from audited financial statements, the accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements are unaudited. Significant inter-company accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation. In the opinion of the Company’s management, the interim condensed consolidated financial statements include all adjustments, consisting of only normal recurring adjustments, necessary for a fair presentation of the results for the interim periods. Certain information and footnote disclosures normally included in financial statements prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (US-GAAP) have been condensed or omitted. The interim condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the Company’s March 31, 2025, audited financial statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Form 10-K as filed on July 29, 2025. The interim operating results are not necessarily indicative of the operating results for the full fiscal year.

Line of Credit – Factor

The Company entered into an Agreement with Merchant Financial Group (Merchant) for the purpose of factoring the Company’s trade accounts receivable. Under the Agreement the Company may borrow eighty percent (80%) of eligible accounts receivable. The Agreement, as supplemented, provides for additional financing at the sole discretion of Merchant to be secured by inventory. The Agreement, which expires on January 6, 2026, provides for continuation of the program for successive two-year periods until terminated by one of the parties to the Agreement. The amount available to borrow from Merchant is approximately $45,000, and $348,000, at June 30, 2025 and March 31, 2025, respectively. Advances on factored trade accounts receivable are secured by all assets, are repaid periodically as collections are made by Merchant but are otherwise due upon demand, and bear interest at the prime commercial rate of interest, as published, plus two percent (effective rate 9.5% at June 30, 2025 and March 31, 2025, respectively). Advances under the Agreement are made at the sole discretion of Merchant, based on their assessment of the receivables and inventory, and our financial condition at the time of each request for an advance. At June 30, 2025, and March 31, 2025, there was $0 and $2,100,458 borrowed and outstanding under the factoring agreement, respectively. Collected cash maintained on deposit with the factor earns interest at the factor’s prime rate of interest less 2.5 percent (effective rate of 5.0% at June 30, 2025 and March 31, 2025, respectively.) Cash on deposit with the Factor at June 30, and March 31, 2025 amounted to $1,837,828 and 0, respectively.

Use of Estimates

The preparation of the condensed consolidated financial statements in conformity with US-GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ materially from those estimates.

Revenue Recognition

The Company’s primary source of revenue is the sale of safety and security products based upon purchase orders or contracts with customers. Revenue is recognized at a point in time once the Company has determined that the customer has obtained control over the product. Control is typically deemed to have been transferred to the customer when the product is shipped or delivered to the customer. Customers may not return, exchange or refuse acceptance of goods without our approval. Generally, the Company does not grant extended payment terms. Shipping and handling costs associated with outbound freight, after control over a product has transferred to a customer, are accounted for as a cost to complete the sale and are recorded in selling, general and administrative expense. Remaining performance obligations represent the transaction price of firm orders for satisfied or partially satisfied performance obligations on contracts with an original expected duration of one year or more. The Company’s contracts are predominantly short-term in nature with a contract term of one year or less. For those contracts, the Company has utilized the practical expedient in ASC Topic 606 exempting the Company from disclosure of the transaction price allocated to remaining performance obligations if the performance obligation is part of a contract that has an original expected duration of one year or less.

The amount of revenue recognized reflects the consideration which the Company expects to be entitled to receive in exchange for products sold. Purchase orders may contain stand-alone pricing applied to each of the multiple products ordered. Revenue is recorded at the transaction price net of estimates of variable consideration. The Company uses the expected value method based on historical data in considering the impact of estimates of variable consideration, which may include trade discounts, allowances, product returns (including rights of return) or warranty replacements. Estimates of variable consideration are included in revenue to the extent that it is probable that a significant reversal in the amount of cumulative revenue recognized will not occur.

Disaggregation of Revenue

The Company presents below revenue associated with sales of products acquired from Eyston Company Ltd. (Eyston) separately from revenue associated with sales of ground fault circuit interrupters (GFCI’s) and ventilation fans. The Company believes this disaggregation best depicts how our various product lines perform and are affected by economic factors. Revenue recognized by these categories for the three months ended June 30, 2025, and 2024 are as follows:

Concentrations

The Company is primarily a distributor of safety products for use in home and business under both its trade names and private labels for other companies. The Company acquires all of the smoke alarm and carbon monoxide alarm safety products that it sells from Eyston Company, Ltd. The Company had four customers in the three-month period ended June 30, 2025, that represented 16.5%, 15.4%, 12.8%, and 10.1% of the Company’s net sales, respectively. In addition, the Company had two customers that represented 19.1%, and 12.5% of the Company’s total trade accounts receivable at June 30, 2025.

The Company did not have any customers that exceeded ten percent of sales for the three-month period ended June 30, 2024. The Company had three customers that represented 13.2%, 10.4%, and 10.3% of the Company’s total trade accounts receivable at June 30, 2024.

Income Taxes

We calculate our interim tax provision in accordance with the guidance for accounting for income taxes in interim periods. We estimate the annual effective tax rate and apply that tax rate to our ordinary quarterly pre-tax income. The tax expense or benefit related to discrete events during the interim period is recognized in the interim period in which those events occurred.

The Company recognizes a liability or asset for the deferred tax consequences of temporary differences between the tax basis of assets or liabilities and their reported amounts in the condensed consolidated financial statements. These temporary differences may result in taxable or deductible amounts in future years when the reported amounts of the assets or liabilities are recovered or settled.

Management reviews net operating loss carry-forwards and income tax credit carry forwards to evaluate if those amounts are recoverable. The Company expects to use approximately $1,950,000 of its net operating loss carry-forwards in connection with the filing of its tax return for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2026. However, after a review of projected taxable income, the components of the deferred tax asset, and the current global economic conditions, it was determined that it is more likely than not that the tax benefits associated with the remaining components of the deferred tax assets will not be realized. This determination was made based on the Company’s prior history of losses from operations and the uncertainty as to whether the Company will generate sufficient taxable income to use the deferred tax assets prior to their expiration. Accordingly, a valuation allowance was established to fully offset the value of the remaining deferred tax assets. Our ability to realize the tax benefits associated with the deferred tax assets depends primarily upon the timing of future taxable income and the expiration dates of the components of the deferred tax assets. If sufficient future taxable income is generated, we may be able to offset a portion of future tax expenses.

The Company follows ASC 740-10 which provides guidance for tax positions related to the recognition and measurement of a tax position taken or expected to be taken in a tax return and requires that we recognize in our condensed consolidated financial statements the impact of a tax position, if that position is more likely than not to be sustained upon an examination, based on the technical merits of the position. Interest and penalties, if any, related to income tax matters are recorded as income tax expenses.

Accounts Receivable, Amount Due From Factor, and Allowance for Credit Losses

The Company assigns the majority of its trade receivables on a pre-approved non-recourse basis to Merchant Factors Corporation (Merchant or Factor) under a factoring agreement on an ongoing basis. At the time a receivable is assigned to our factor the credit risk associated with the credit worthiness of the debtor is assumed by the factor. The Company continues to bear any credit risk associated with sales to customers that are denied credit by the factor, dispute delivery, and/or have warranty issues related to the products sold.

Management considers amounts due from the Company’s factor to be “financing receivables”. Trade accounts receivable, foreign receivables, and receivables from our suppliers are not considered to be financing receivables.

Management assesses the credit risk of both its trade accounts receivables and its financing receivables based on the specific identification of accounts. A provision for credit losses is provided based on that assessment. Changes in the provision are charged to operations in the period the change is determined. Amounts ultimately determined to be uncollectible are eliminated from the receivable accounts and from the provision for credit losses in the period that the receivables’ status is determined to be uncollectible. Management considers the following factors when determining the collectability of specific customer accounts: customer creditworthiness, past transaction history with the customer, current industry trends, and changes in customer payment terms. Our normal collection cycle

Earnings per Common Share

Basic earnings per common share is computed based on the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the periods presented. Diluted earnings per common share is computed based on the weighted average number of common shares outstanding plus the effect of stock options and other potentially dilutive common stock equivalents. The dilutive effect of stock options and other potentially dilutive common stock equivalents is determined using the treasury stock method based on the Company’s average stock price. There were no potentially dilutive common stock equivalents outstanding during the three months ended June 30, 2025, or 2024. As a result, basic and diluted weighted average common shares outstanding are identical for the three-month periods ended June 30, 2025, and 2024.

Contingencies

From time to time, the Company is involved in various claims and routine litigation matters. In the opinion of management, after consultation with legal counsel, the outcomes of such matters are not anticipated to have a material adverse effect on the Company’s condensed consolidated financial position, results of operations, or cash flows in future years.

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Leases

The Company is a lessee in lease agreements for office space. Certain of the Company’s leases contain provisions for one or more options to terminate or extend the lease at the Company’s sole discretion. The Company’s leases are comprised of fixed lease payments, with its real estate leases including lease payments subject to a rate or index which may be variable. Certain real estate leases also include executory costs such as common area maintenance (non-lease component). As a practical expedient permitted under ASC 842, the Company has elected to account for the lease and non-lease components as a single lease component. The Company utilizes certain practical expedients for short-term leases including the election not to reassess its prior conclusions about lease identification, lease classification and initial direct costs, as well as the election not to separate lease and non-lease components for arrangements where the Company is a lessee. Lease payments, which may include lease components and non-lease components, are included in the measurement of the Company’s lease liabilities to the extent that such payments are either fixed amounts or variable lease amounts based on a rate or index (fixed in substance) as stipulated in the lease contract.

Effective April 2025, we extended our operating lease for a 15,000 square foot office and warehouse located in Baltimore County, Maryland to expire in October 2025. No option to continue the lease beyond October 2025 has been provided in the lease extension. Monthly rental expense, with common area maintenance, currently approximates $15,000.

The Company maintained an operating lease for office space in Naperville, Illinois. This lease, consisting of 3,400 square feet, and renewed on a month-to-month basis and expired on June 30, 2025. The Company did not renew the lease upon expiration. The monthly rental, with common area maintenance, was approximately $4,900 per month during the current fiscal period.

Rent expense, including common area maintenance, totaled approximately $43,000 and $39,000 for the three-month periods ended June 30, 2025, and 2024, respectively. None of the Company’s lease agreements contain any residual value guarantees or material restrictive covenants.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements Not Yet Adopted

In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-09, Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures, which is intended to improve income tax disclosure requirements by requiring (1) consistent categories and greater disaggregation of information in the rate reconciliation and (2) the disaggregation of income taxes paid by jurisdiction. The guidance makes several other changes to the income tax disclosure requirements. The guidance in this ASU is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2024. Early adoption is permitted for annual financial statements that have not yet been issued or made available for issuance. The Company is currently evaluating the effect this ASU will have on its consolidated financial statements and footnote disclosures.

Subsequent Events

On August 13, 2025 (the “Execution Date”), the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement (the “Agreement”) with SJC Lending LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“SJC”), pursuant to which the Company agreed to sell to SJC convertible promissory notes in the aggregate principal amount of up to $2,750,000 (the “Convertible Notes”) for a total purchase price of up to $2.5 million dollars (the “Loan”),

The consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Agreement, specifically the conversion of the Convertible Notes in an aggregate number in excess of 19.99% of the number of shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Common Stock”) on the Execution Date, are subject to various customary closing conditions as well as regulatory and Stockholder Approval.

The material terms of the Agreement and the Convertible Notes are summarized in Form 8-K, filed on August 14, 2025, and are included herein by reference.