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SEC comment letters for SEC reporting preparers

For controllers and SEC reporting managers: what the staff asks about in periodic reports, how companies responded, and what to check in your own filing. 364 staff comments (251 paired with a company response) from 441 letters and 200 companies, last 12 months.

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Segment Reporting (ASC 280)65 comments · 52 with responsesNon-GAAP: Reconciliation & Usefulness48 comments · 34 with responsesMD&A: Results & Known Trends47 comments · 35 with responsesFunds & BDCs (ASC 946, N-CSR)46 comments · 42 with responsesBusiness Description (Item 101)38 comments · 15 with responsesKPIs, Metrics & Earnings Calls38 comments · 24 with responsesExhibits, Certifications & Signatures32 comments · 20 with responsesIFRS & Foreign Private Issuers26 comments · 8 with responsesFair Value & Investments19 comments · 17 with responsesASC 606: Revenue Recognition16 comments · 12 with responsesNon-GAAP: Adjustments & Labels16 comments · 12 with responsesChina-Based Issuers14 comments · 11 with responsesGoodwill & Asset Impairment14 comments · 13 with responsesRisk Factors14 comments · 3 with responsesICFR & Disclosure Controls12 comments · 7 with responsesCapitalization, Equity & Escrow12 comments · 9 with responsesFinancial Statement Requirements (Reg S-X)11 comments · 10 with responsesEarnings per Share (ASC 260)10 comments · 7 with responsesNon-GAAP: Equal Prominence8 comments · 5 with responsesConcentrations & Receivables8 comments · 6 with responsesLiquidity & Capital Resources7 comments · 6 with responsesFiler Status & Cover Page7 comments · 4 with responsesStatement of Cash Flows (ASC 230)7 comments · 5 with responsesBusiness Combinations & Significance6 comments · 4 with responsesIncome Taxes6 comments · 5 with responsesErrors, Restatements & Item 4.026 comments · 4 with responsesAuditor & Audit Report6 comments · 4 with responsesR&D Expense Disclosure5 comments · 2 with responsesDebt, Equity & Derivatives4 comments · 3 with responsesASC 606: Principal vs. Agent4 comments · 4 with responsesOil, Gas & Mining (S-K 1200/1300)4 comments · 3 with responsesLeases (ASC 842)3 comments · 3 with responsesProxy & Shareholder Proposals2 comments · 2 with responsesCybersecurity (Item 1C)2 comments · 1 with responsesRelated Parties2 comments · 1 with responsesInsurance & Credit Loss Reserves1 comments · 0 with responsesRecently Issued Standards (SAB 74)1 comments · 0 with responsesCrypto Assets1 comments · 1 with responses

Latest staff comments

PennantPark Floating Rate Capital Ltd. (PFLA, PFLT) · 2026-07-30 · · Comment 1 Awaiting / response not in dataset
Staff comment: In the Schedule of Investments, please disclose the class of shares held of other registered funds as part of the title of “issue.” The Company will revise future disclosure to include the class of shares of each of its investments in other registered funds. letter →
Funds & BDCs (ASC 946, N-CSR)
PennantPark Floating Rate Capital Ltd. (PFLA, PFLT) · 2026-07-30 · · Comment 2 Awaiting / response not in dataset
Staff comment: The Staff notes that the Company engaged in more than one kind of debt transaction. The Staff notes that the average dollar amounts of borrowings and average interest rate was disclosed individually by type of debt but not disclosed in aggregate across the Company. Please update in future filings to also include the aggregate disclosure required by Regulation § S-X 6-07.3. The Company acknowledges the Staff’s comment. The Company respectfully directs the Staff to the language of Regulation § S-X 6-07.3 which states (emphasis added): “ Provide in the body of the statements or in the footnotes , the average dollar amount of borrowings and the average interest rate .” The Company has provided… letter →
Funds & BDCs (ASC 946, N-CSR)
PennantPark Floating Rate Capital Ltd. (PFLA, PFLT) · 2026-07-30 · · Comment 3 Awaiting / response not in dataset
Staff comment: Please discuss in correspondence how the Company has complied with the Financial Highlights presentation requirements given the Company has filed a registration statement pursuant to General Instruction A.2 of Form N-2. See Division of Investment Management Dear CFO Item 2023-01 (“Item 2023-01”). The Company supplementally confirms that, while its registration statement on Form N-2 (File No. 333-279726, declared effective by the Staff on July 17, 2024) includes 10 years of financial highlights on page 9, the Company will revise future disclosures on Form 10-K to comply with Item 2023-01. * * * If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the undersigned by telephone at (617)… letter →
Funds & BDCs (ASC 946, N-CSR)
Lionsgate Studios Corp. (LION) · 2026-07-21 · Form 10-K for Fiscal Year Ended March 31, 2026 · Comment 1 Agreed to revise
Staff comment: We note your disclosure of gross contribution and gross contribution as a percentage of revenue for each of your segments. Please explain how you determined that these were not non-GAAP measures which would require a reconciliation to the most comparable GAAP measure. In this regard, we note that you disclose segment profit as your primary measure of segment performance. As gross contribution would appear to be an additional measure of segment performance, it would appear to be subject to Item 10(e)(1)(i) of Regulation S- K as it is not required to be disclosed by ASC 280. Please also explain how you determined which measure of segment performance was determined in accordance with the… letter →
Company response: We respectfully submit below the response of Lionsgate Studios Corp., a British Columbia, Canada corporation (“Lionsgate,” the “Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), to the comment from the United States Securities and Exchange Commission staff (the “Staff”) regarding our Annual Report on Form 10-K for fiscal year ended March 31, 2026 contained in your letter dated July 21, 2026. For your convenience, we have included your original comments below in italics, immediately followed by our response. Form 10-K for Fiscal Year Ended March 31, 2026 Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations Segment Results of Operations and Non-GAAP Measures, page 52 Comment 1… response letter →
Non-GAAP: Reconciliation & UsefulnessSegment Reporting (ASC 280)
COMPUGEN LTD (CGEN) · 2026-07-17 · . Form 20-F for Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2025 · Comment 1 Agreed to revise
Staff comment: Considering the significant research and development expenses you have historically incurred and expect to continue to incur, in future filings, please expand your disclosures to include disaggregated disclosures for your research and development expenses, for example by product candidates, by program, and/or by nature of costs. Please also disclose whether you track external costs by product candidates and/or by program, and if not, please disclose that fact and the reason in future filings. Note 2. Significant Accounting Policies j. Revenue Recognition, page F-16 letter →
Company response: The Company acknowledges the Staff’s Comment and respectfully advises the Staff that the Company tracks external research and development expenses on a clinical trial-specific basis while aggregating such expenses for its preclinical studies. The Company undertakes to provide disclosure substantially in the form presented below in its future filings with the Commission. Research and development expenses consist primarily of costs incurred for the discovery and development of our product candidates. Given the number of programs that we have and, because some of our clinical trials may combine more than one program, we track the external research and development costs incurred per clinical… response letter →
ASC 606: Revenue RecognitionR&D Expense DisclosureBusiness Description (Item 101)
COMPUGEN LTD (CGEN) · 2026-07-17 · . Form 20-F for Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2025 · Comment 2 Agreed to revise
Staff comment: As it relates to your 2023 Gilead License Agreement, you disclose that you identified three distinct performance obligations and that the transaction price was allocated to these performance obligations based on their relative standalone selling price. Please revise your future filings to quantify the amount of the transaction price allocated to each unsatisfied (or partially satisfied) performance obligation as of the end of each reporting period and an explanation as to the period over which you expect to recognize the remaining revenue. In this regard, we note that $35.9 million remains unrecognized as deferred revenue, and that you expect to recognize 31% of the remaining performance… letter →
Company response: The Company respectfully advises the Staff that, upon inception of the 2023 Gilead License Agreement, it identified three performance obligations. The agreement also provided Gilead with an option to purchase drug supply of GS-0321. The Company concluded that this option did not provide a material right and therefore did not represent a separate performance obligation. During the first half of 2026, Gilead exercised its option to purchase additional goods and services related to the supply of GS-0321. The Company undertakes to update its disclosure in future filings with the Commission to reflect the exercise of this option. The Company further advises the Staff that revenue associated with… response letter →
ASC 606: Revenue RecognitionKPIs, Metrics & Earnings Calls
Kayne Anderson BDC, Inc. (KBDC) · 2026-07-13 · Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025 · Comment 1 Agreed to revise
Staff comment: In the footnote to the schedule of investments that identifies Level 3 holdings, please disclose that the value was determined using significant unobservable inputs as required by Article 12-12, footnote 9 of Regulation S-X. letter →
Company response: The Company acknowledges the Staff’s comment and confirms that in the future it will revise the footnote to the Schedule of Investments in its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and its next Annual Report on Form 10-K to reflect that the value of Level 3 holdings was determined using significant unobservable inputs as required by Article 12-12, footnote 9 of Regulation S-X consistent with the following: Unless otherwise noted, security is a Level 3 holding. As of December 31, 2025, the aggregate value of Level 3 securities held by the Company was $2,151,743. The value of each investment was determined using unobservable inputs. See Note 5 – Fair Value. response letter →
Fair Value & InvestmentsFunds & BDCs (ASC 946, N-CSR)
Kayne Anderson BDC, Inc. (KBDC) · 2026-07-13 · Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025 · Comment 2 Agreed to revise
Staff comment: Please disclose the amount of income generated that is non-recurring and describe the impact of non-recurring fees on earnings and/or yield in the MD&A or in the financial statements. letter →
Company response: The Company acknowledges the Staff’s comment and confirms that in the future it will include disclosure regarding non-recurring income in the MD&A or in the notes to its financial statements in its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and its next Annual Report on Form 10-K consistent with the following: Revenue Recognition We do not accrue as a receivable interest on loans and debt securities for accounting purposes if we have reason to doubt our ability to collect such interest. OIDs, upfront loan origination fees, amendment fees, market discounts or premiums are accreted or amortized using the effective interest method as interest income. We record prepayment premiums on loans and debt… response letter →
MD&A: Results & Known Trends
Kayne Anderson BDC, Inc. (KBDC) · 2026-07-13 · Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025 · Comment 3 Responded
Staff comment: Please supplementally provide the percentage of the BDC’s net assets invested in unitranche loans. The Staff may have additional comments depending on the amount. letter →
Company response: As of March 31, 2026, the Company invested 4.6% of its net assets in unitranche loans, consisting of debt investments in three entities: Arborworks Acquisition, LLC; PMFC Holding, LLC; and Centerline Communications, LLC. response letter →
Funds & BDCs (ASC 946, N-CSR)
Kayne Anderson BDC, Inc. (KBDC) · 2026-07-13 · Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025 · Comment 4 Agreed to revise
Staff comment: Please include incentive fee examples in future 10-K filings. letter →
Company response: The Company acknowledges the Staff’s comment and confirms that in the future it will include incentive fee examples in its next Annual Report on Form 10-K consistent with the examples provided on pages 127-134 of its Registration Statement on Form N-2 (File No. 333-278414), filed by the Company with the Commission on May 13, 2024, and declared effective on May 21, 2024. * * * * response letter →
Funds & BDCs (ASC 946, N-CSR)
Charlton Aria Acquisition Corp (CHAR, CHARR, CHARU) · 2026-06-04 · Form 10-K for Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2025 · Comment 1 Agreed to revise
Staff comment: In future periodic filings, please revise your officer certifications to include the introductory language within paragraph 4 and the entirety of paragraph 4(b) pertaining to internal control over financial reporting. Refer to Item 601(b)(31)(i) of Regulation S-K. letter →
Company response: We hereby confirm that in future periodic filings, we will revise our officer certifications to include introductory language within paragraph 4 and the entirety of paragraph 4(b) pertaining to internal control over financial reporting. We appreciate the assistance the Staff has provided with its comments. response letter →
ICFR & Disclosure ControlsExhibits, Certifications & Signatures
New Fortress Energy Inc. (NFE) · 2026-05-27 · · Comment 1 Agreed to revise
Staff comment: We note that your Charter Amendment Proposal contains Proposals 3A through 3G, and Proposal 3H that is "conditioned upon the receipt of the requisite vote on Proposals 3A through 3G," to approve the proposed Amended Certificate of Incorporation, which includes Securities and Exchange Commission the approval of all other changes in the Amended Certificate of Incorporation in connection with replacing the Certificate of Incorporation with the proposed Amended Certificate of Incorporation. However, we note that your form of proxy filed includes Proposal 3 as one proposal for shareholders to vote upon. Please provide your analysis as to why you are not required to unbundle this proposal and… letter →
Company response: The Company respectfully acknowledges the Staff’s comment and has revised its disclosure throughout the Proxy Statement and on the proxy card to make clear the separation of Proposal 3 into individual proposals 3A through 3H. The Company has also added additional disclosure regarding the conditionality of each proposal on the other proposals included in the Proxy Statement. * * * * * response letter →
Proxy & Shareholder Proposals
MARCUS CORP (MCS) · 2026-05-14 · The oration Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2025 · Comment 1 · Consolidated Statements of Operations, page 55 Responded
Staff comment: Please tell us how you computed the fiscal 2024 debt conversion expense referencing authoritative literature you relied upon. In doing so, please explain why the repurchase impacted equity as evidenced by the "Convertible Senior note repurchase" line item in your Consolidated Statements of Shareholders' Equity. letter →
Company response: The Company evaluated the accounting for the 2024 convertible senior note repurchases in accordance with ASC 470-20-40-13 through 40-17, which addresses the accounting for changes made by the debtor to the conversion privileges for the purpose of inducing conversion. AUSTIN | BOSTON | BRUSSELS | CHICAGO | DALLAS | DENVER | DETROIT | HOUSTON | JACKSONVILLE | LOS ANGELES MADISON | MEXICO CITY | MIAMI | MILWAUKEE | NASHVILLE | NEW YORK | ORLANDO | RALEIGH | SACRAMENTO | SALT LAKE CITY | SAN DIEGO | SAN FRANCISCO | SILICON VALLEY | TALLAHASSEE | TAMPA | TOKYO | WASHINGTON, D.C. 4912-7375-8879.1 U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission The Company determined that both criteria in paragraph… response letter →
Debt, Equity & Derivatives
UMH PROPERTIES, INC. (UMH, UMH-PD) · 2026-05-07 · Form 10-K for the Year Ended December 31, 2025 Response dated May 4, 2026 · Comment 1 · Note 1 - Organization, page 72 Awaiting / response not in dataset
Staff comment: We note from your response to our prior comment 1 that management views the company as a single segment. Please clarify if this single segment is managed on a consolidated basis. If you determine the company has a single segment that is managed on a consolidated basis, please revise your disclosure to report consolidated net income or loss, as reported on your consolidated statement of income (loss), as the required measure of segment profit or loss or tell us how you determined it was not the measure required to be disclosed. Note that if the chief operating decision makers ("CODMs") use more than one measure of segment profit or loss, the measure required to be disclosed shall be that… letter →
Segment Reporting (ASC 280)
FiEE, Inc. (FIEE) · 2026-04-30 · · Comment 1 · General Agreed to revise
Staff comment: We note that beginning in March 2025, the Company has derived all its revenues from Hong Kong. Please revise your filing to provide specific and prominent disclosures about the legal and operational risks associated with having your business in this location, consistent with the guidance in our Sample Letter to Companies Regarding China-Specific Disclosures and our Sample Letter to China-Based Companies, which were posted to our website July 17, 2023, and on December 20, 2021. U.S. letter →
Company response: The Company acknowledges the Staff’s comment and respectfully advises the Staff that the Company has revised the disclosure beginning on page 1 of the Form 10-K/A and beginning on page 4 of the Public Filing Form S-3 to address the legal and operational risks associated with having the Company’s revenue generating business in Hong Kong. Additionally, the Company has revised the disclosure beginning on page 13 of the Form 10-K/A to include risk factors related to doing business in Hong Kong. Please note that the Form 10-K/A is incorporated by reference into the Public Filing Form S-3. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Division of Corporation Finance Office of Technology If you should… response letter →
China-Based IssuersBusiness Description (Item 101)

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