The dividend is 12.5% a year, paid monthly.
“Monthly” is the calendar. 12.5% is the year.
On 17 August 2026, NextNRG, Inc. filed a Form 8-K for an event dated 13 August 2026. The dividend sentence is the tell. Exhibit 3.1 names a “mandatory monthly dividend.” A reader who stopped at “monthly” and “12.5%” would treat 12.5% as a monthly rate.
The same sentence, and the 8-K that points to it, accession 0001493152-26-038535, prints an annual rate, payable monthly.
On 13 August 2026 the company and an institutional investor entered a Securities Purchase Agreement for a new series, Series C Convertible Non-Voting Preferred Stock, for an aggregate purchase price of $27.2 million. At the initial closing the company issued 1,000,000 shares for $9.2 million. A portion of that price was paid by surrender of a $2,000,000 senior secured convertible note, which was cancelled. The 8-K states an initial conversion price of $0.75. This memo does not interpret conversion, alternate conversion, or anti-dilution. The holding language is the dividend.
Item 1.01, under Series C Preferred Stock, Dividends, states the coupon this way.
pays a mandatory dividend at an annual rate of 12.5% of the aggregate Stated Value, payable monthly in arrears in either cash or shares of Common Stock on the first calendar day
That paragraph is in Item 1.01. A stranger can open the filing and match it. 12.5% is the annual rate of the aggregate Stated Value. Monthly is when it is paid, in arrears, in cash or Common Stock, on the first calendar day of each calendar month.
The 8-K says the description is not complete and is qualified by the exhibits. Exhibit 3.1, §3, is the Certificate of Designation on the dividend.
Each share of Series C Preferred Stock shall pay a mandatory monthly dividend, at an annual rate equal to the product of multiplying (i) the aggregate Stated Value of the shares of Series C Preferred Stock held by each Holder, by (ii) twelve and one half percent (12.5%). Such dividend shall be payable monthly in arrears
“Mandatory monthly dividend” is the name of the payment. “Annual rate” and “twelve and one half percent (12.5%)” are the rate. The two documents agree. A 12.5% monthly rate is not in either.
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The year-later object
On 17 August 2027 the interesting fact will not be whether a name “beat” a quarter. It will be whether Series C that, in August 2026, printed a 12.5% annual dividend of Stated Value payable monthly in arrears — not a 12.5% monthly rate — was still outstanding on that coupon, had been converted, or had been redeemed. The mechanism is the receipt. The stock is not.