ESS Metron acquisition immediate share issuance
Company: Riot
What the later record shows
Not a promise: a reported event · happened December 1, 2021
The claim reports shares issued at the December 1, 2021 closing. Later filings confirm that 645,248 shares were issued to the sellers at closing.
“Subsequently, we registered for resale the 645,248 shares issued to the sellers at the closing of the ESS Metron Acquisition.”
2022-11-22 · Riot 10-K/A filed 2022-11-23 View cached copy (2026-09-13)Live source ↗
Checked October 10, 2026 against filings, releases and reporting published after the claim was made. Quotes are verbatim from the linked documents.
The claim, verbatim
Riot issued 645,248 shares of common stock at closing as part of acquisition consideration for ESS Metron
Source (primary)
Riot 8-K filed 2021-12-01 (SEC EDGAR, sec_filing)
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Quote: “At the closing of the Acquisition, Riot paid to the Sellers the Cash Consideration and issued to the Sellers a portion of the Share Consideration consisting of 645,248 shares of Common Stock”
How we checked this
Checked on October 11, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The 8-K states that at closing Riot issued the Sellers 645,248 shares of common stock as a portion of the share consideration, and repeats this in Item 3.02.
Confirmed in the source:
- At the closing of the ESS Metron acquisition, Riot issued 645,248 shares of its common stock to the Sellers
- The 645,248 shares were a portion of the share consideration for the acquisition
What we did: Read our cached copy of SEC EDGAR (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1167419/000155335021001128/riot_8k.htm) in full (20,613 characters, retrieved September 13, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms Riot 8-K filed 2021-12-01
Quote: “At the closing of the Acquisition, Riot paid to the Sellers the Cash Consideration and issued to the Sellers a portion of the Share Consideration consisting of 645,248 shares of Common Stock”