Ault Alliance Anticipates Utilizing Previously Authorized Common Stock Repurchase Plan

Ault Alliance, Inc. (NYSE American: AULT), a diversified holding company (“Ault Alliance,” or the “Company”), today announced that it currently anticipates utilizing the stock repurchase program (the “Repurchase Program”) that was previously authorized by its Board of Directors (the “Board”) in December 2021. The Repurchase Program would start no earlier than two business days after the filing of the Company’s Form 10-Q for the quarter ending March 31, 2024.

Under the Repurchase Program, the Board authorized the Company to repurchase up to $50 million of common stock, which repurchases may be made on a discretionary basis from time to time through a variety of methods, including open market repurchases. The Company intends to enact a trading plan (the “Rule 10b5-1 Plan”) for the repurchases in compliance with the Rule 10b5-1 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), the rules of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and other applicable federal and state rules and regulations. The Rule 10b5-1 Plan will allow the Company to execute trades during periods when it would otherwise not be permitted to do so because it may be in possession of material non-public information, because of insider trading laws or self-imposed trading blackout periods. Under the Rule 10b5-1 Plan, the executing broker would have the authority, under the prices, terms and limitations set forth in the Rule 10b5-1 Plan, including compliance with Rule 10b-18 of the Exchange Act (“Rule 10b-18”), to repurchase shares on the Company’s behalf. In accordance with Rule 10b-18, the Repurchase Program is not intended to constitute a going-private transaction.

The timing and number of shares repurchased, if any, will depend on a variety of factors, including further Board approval, available financing as well as the Company’s cash position, the price and trading volume of the Company’s, general business and market conditions and restrictions on stock repurchases in existing loan agreements, among other items, in each case at the time when the Company may initiate share repurchases pursuant to the Rule 10b5-1 Plan. The Company intends to finance the repurchases from several sources, including excess cash flow from operations, as and when available, and proceeds from future borrowing arrangements or financings. The repurchase program is set to expire on December 15, 2024, but may be modified, suspended, or discontinued at any time prior thereto at the Company’s discretion. Any shares repurchased under the Repurchase Program will be returned to treasury and will reduce the public float of common stock. The potential institution of the Repurchase Program is, in the view of the Company’s management, another step towards enhancing stockholder value and would follow the Company’s previously announced return to treasury of 101,362 shares of the Company’s 13% Series D cumulative redeemable perpetual preferred stock and 679,969 shares of common stock, which were acquired by the Company’s wholly owned subsidiary, Ault Lending, LLC at the end of December 2023 upon liquidation of a related party hedge fund.