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TheStreet in danger of being delisted by Nasdaq

TheStreet, the struggling financial news sšŸŽite co-founded by š’ŠŽJim Cramer, is in danger of getting delisted by Nasdaq because its share price has traded at below $1 for more than 30 business days.

The exchange will delist TheStreet on June 12 if its shares donā€™t trade above the dollar level for 10 straight days before that date, the news site disclosed in aź¦… regulatory filing.

Shares of TheStreet are down šŸ§ø40 percent this year ā€” and traded down 3.3 percent on Monday, to 89 cents.

Insiders, including Cramer, the companyā€™s largest shareholder with a 9.8 percent stake, have been buying up the stock on the cheap ā€” but the moves werenā€™t enough to offset the 973,951 shares that Raging Capital and itš’ˆ”s chairman, William Martin, dumped on Dec. 13, cutting its take from 9.3 percent in June to 6.3 percent.

The delisting warning comes only weeks afterāœØ Lake Street Capital initiated covāœ¤erage on Dec. 8 with a ā€œbuyā€ rating with a target price of $2 a share.

In the third quarter ended Sept. 30, the company swung to a loss of $1.2 million from a profit of $354,326, or 1 cent a share, iš“†n the year-earlier period.

Revenue fell 9 percent in the period, tšŸ¬o $15.2 million.

Wall Street is expecting more red inkļ潚Ÿ„‚ļæ½ in the current quarter.

David Callaway, formerly at USA Today, was brought in as the new CEO in July to replace Elisabeth DeMarse, who was forced out in February. He has been scrambling to reposition the company and cutļ·½ staff.

Even though he has no active ź§…role at TheStreet, Cramer, the host of CNBCā€™s ā€œMad Money,ā€ is still reaping some nice rewards at the sagging company.

While he draws no salary at TheStrš’…Œeet, Cramer will be paid a licensing fee by the company in 2016 of at least $2.5 million.

That is šŸŽ‰down from the $3 million in licensing fees paid in 2015.