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SEC Comment Letter for ENGLOBAL CORP (ENG) (CIK 0000933738) — Feb 12, 2021

ENGLOBAL CORP (ENG) (CIK 0000933738)
Date: Feb. 12, 2021 · CIK: 0000933738 · Accession: 0000000000-21-001838

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File numbers found in text: 333-252572

Date
February 12, 2021
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Form
UPLOAD
Company
ENGLOBAL CORP (ENG) (CIK 0000933738)

Letter

United States securities and exchange commission logo February 12, 2021 Mark Hess Chief Financial Officer ENGLOBAL CORP 654 North Sam Houston Parkway East Suite 400 Houston, TX 77060-5914 Re:ENGLOBAL CORP Registration Statement on Form S-3 Filed January 29, 2021 File No. 333-252572 Dear Mr. Hess: We have limited our review of your registration statement to those issues we have addressed in our comments. In some of our comments, we may ask you to provide us with information so we may better understand your disclosure. Please respond to this letter by amending your registration statement and providing the requested information. If you do not believe our comments apply to your facts and circumstances or do not believe an amendment is appropriate, please tell us why in your response. After reviewing any amendment to your registration statement and the information you provide in response to these comments, we may have additional comments. Registration Statement on Form S-3 filed January 29, 2021 Sales Agreement Prospectus Cover Page, page i 1.Describe the recent price volatility in your common stock and briefly disclose any known risks of investing in your common stock under these circumstances. 2.Please add, for comparison purposes, disclosure of the sale price of your common stock prior to the recent price volatility in your stock. For example, please disclose the price at which your stock was trading 30 days prior to your filing. 3.Describe any recent change in your financial condition or results of operations, such as your earnings, revenues or other measure of company value that is consistent with the

FirstName LastNameMark Hess Comapany NameENGLOBAL CORP February 12, 2021 Page 2 FirstName LastNameMark Hess ENGLOBAL CORP February 12, 2021 Page 2 recent change in your stock price. If no such change to your financial condition or results of operations exists, disclose that fact. Prospectus Summary The Offering, page 3 4.We note that the number of “Common Stock to be outstanding after this offering” reflects the number of shares to be issued in this offering based on the market price of your common stock at $7.44 per share (which significantly exceeds your historical average price per share). Please revise to disclose the price at which your common stock was trading 30 days prior to your filing and the corresponding number of shares of common stock that would be issued in this offering based on that historical price. Risk Factors, page 4 5.We note your registration statement for $100,000,000, which includes up to $25,000,000 of common stock in your sales agreement prospectus, as well as an additional $75,000,000 of common stock and/or preferred stock. To the extent you expect to conduct additional offerings in the future to fund your operations or provide liquidity, include risk factor disclosure that addresses the dilutive impact of those offerings on investors that may purchase shares in this offering at a significantly higher price. Risks Related to our Common Stock and the Offering "There may be future dilution of our common stock ... ", page 4 6.We note your disclosure on the cover page of your sales agreement prospectus that you intend to sell up to $25,000,000 of common stock. Please revise this risk factor to state that the sale of shares in this offering will increase the supply of available shares, which may result in a decrease in your stock price. "Our Stock price could be volatile ... ", page 5 7.We note your disclosure that “[t]he stock market has from time to time experienced significant price and volume fluctuations that may be unrelated to the operating performance of particular companies” and your disclosure that “[d]uring the past twelve months, the sales price of our stock ranged from a low of $0.46 per share in March 2020, to a high of $9.40 per share in January 2021.” Your disclosure should also address the potential for rapid and substantial decreases in your stock price, including decreases unrelated to your operating performance or prospects. To the extent recent increases in your stock price are significantly inconsistent with improvements in actual or expected operating performance, financial condition or other indicators of value, discuss the inconsistencies and where relevant, quantify them. If you lack information to do, explain why. 8.Please consider whether your recent increase in price volatility exposes your common stock to short sale risk. If so, please consider disclosing the risks associated with your

FirstName LastNameMark Hess Comapany NameENGLOBAL CORP February 12, 2021 Page 3 FirstName LastName Mark Hess ENGLOBAL CORP February 12, 2021 Page 3 common stock being “shorted” and the ultimate effects that such actions could have on this at-the-market offering. Please also include a risk factor addressing the effects of a potential “short squeeze” due to a sudden increase in demand for your common stock. Among other things, your disclosure should describe what typically happens following a short squeeze and address the impact on investors that purchase shares during that time. We remind you that the company and its management are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review, comments, action or absence of action by the staff. Refer to Rules 460 and 461 regarding requests for acceleration. Please allow adequate time for us to review any amendment prior to the requested effective date of the registration statement. Please contact Cara Wirth at 202-551-7127 or Mara Ransom at 202-551-3264 with any other questions. Sincerely, Division of Corporation Finance Office of Trade & Services

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United States securities and exchange commission logo
February 12, 2021
Mark Hess
Chief Financial Officer
ENGLOBAL CORP
654 North Sam Houston Parkway East
Suite 400
Houston, TX 77060-5914
Re:ENGLOBAL CORP
Registration Statement on Form S-3
Filed January 29, 2021
File No. 333-252572
Dear Mr. Hess:
            We have limited our review of your registration statement to those issues we have
addressed in our comments.  In some of our comments, we may ask you to provide us with
information so we may better understand your disclosure.
            Please respond to this letter by amending your registration statement and providing the
requested information.  If you do not believe our comments apply to your facts and
circumstances or do not believe an amendment is appropriate, please tell us why in your
response.
            After reviewing any amendment to your registration statement and the information you
provide in response to these comments, we may have additional comments.
Registration Statement on Form S-3 filed January 29, 2021
Sales Agreement Prospectus
Cover Page, page i
1.Describe the recent price volatility in your common stock and briefly disclose any known
risks of investing in your common stock under these circumstances.
2.Please add, for comparison purposes, disclosure of the sale price of your common stock
prior to the recent price volatility in your stock.  For example, please disclose the price at
which your stock was trading 30 days prior to your filing.
3.Describe any recent change in your financial condition or results of operations, such as
your earnings, revenues or other measure of company value that is consistent with the

 FirstName LastNameMark Hess
 Comapany NameENGLOBAL CORP
 February 12, 2021 Page 2
 FirstName LastNameMark Hess
ENGLOBAL CORP
February 12, 2021
Page 2
recent change in your stock price.  If no such change to your financial condition or results
of operations exists, disclose that fact.
Prospectus Summary
The Offering, page 3
4.We note that the number of “Common Stock to be outstanding after this offering” reflects
the number of shares to be issued in this offering based on the market price of your
common stock at $7.44 per share (which significantly exceeds your historical average
price per share).  Please revise to disclose the price at which your common stock was
trading 30 days prior to your filing and the corresponding number of shares of common
stock that would be issued in this offering based on that historical price.
Risk Factors, page 4
5.We note your registration statement for $100,000,000, which includes up to $25,000,000
of common stock in your sales agreement prospectus, as well as an additional $75,000,000
of common stock and/or preferred stock.  To the extent you expect to conduct additional
offerings in the future to fund your operations or provide liquidity, include risk factor
disclosure that addresses the dilutive impact of those offerings on investors that may
purchase shares in this offering at a significantly higher price.
Risks Related to our Common Stock and the Offering
"There may be future dilution of our common stock ... ", page 4
6.We note your disclosure on the cover page of your sales agreement prospectus that you
intend to sell up to $25,000,000 of common stock.  Please revise this risk factor to state
that the sale of shares in this offering will increase the supply of available shares, which
may result in a decrease in your stock price.
"Our Stock price could be volatile ... ", page 5
7.We note your disclosure that “[t]he stock market has from time to time experienced
significant price and volume fluctuations that may be unrelated to the operating
performance of particular companies” and your disclosure that “[d]uring the past twelve
months, the sales price of our stock ranged from a low of $0.46 per share in March 2020,
to a high of $9.40 per share in January 2021.”  Your disclosure should also address the
potential for rapid and substantial decreases in your stock price, including decreases
unrelated to your operating performance or prospects.  To the extent recent increases in
your stock price are significantly inconsistent with improvements in actual or expected
operating performance, financial condition or other indicators of value, discuss the
inconsistencies and where relevant, quantify them.  If you lack information to do, explain
why.
8.Please consider whether your recent increase in price volatility exposes your common
stock to short sale risk.  If so, please consider disclosing the risks associated with your

 FirstName LastNameMark Hess
 Comapany NameENGLOBAL CORP
 February 12, 2021 Page 3
 FirstName LastName
Mark Hess
ENGLOBAL CORP
February 12, 2021
Page 3
common stock being “shorted” and the ultimate effects that such actions could have on
this at-the-market offering.  Please also include a risk factor addressing the effects of a
potential “short squeeze” due to a sudden increase in demand for your common stock.
Among other things, your disclosure should describe what typically happens following a
short squeeze and address the impact on investors that purchase shares during that time.
            We remind you that the company and its management are responsible for the accuracy
and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review, comments, action or absence of
action by the staff.
            Refer to Rules 460 and 461 regarding requests for acceleration.  Please allow adequate
time for us to review any amendment prior to the requested effective date of the registration
statement.
            Please contact Cara Wirth at 202-551-7127 or Mara Ransom at 202-551-3264 with any
other questions.
Sincerely,
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Trade & Services