Departure · 16 October 2026
LQR House Inc.
YHC · Listed
Key facts
- How the CEO left
- Resignation
- Planned or abrupt
- Abrupt
- Successor
- External hire
- Outgoing CEO stays as
- Leaves the company
- Signs it was forced
- None stated
- Other news alongside
- Restructuring, Merger or acquisition
- Effective
- 16 October 2026
- Reason given
- Strategic pivot toward New Zealand-based acquisition and technology agreement with ByteDance
Read from the filing and press release by a language model (Google Gemini), told to use only that text. It can make mistakes; the quotes below are the source.
The announcement
Resignation of Chief Executive Officer Effective October 16, 2026, Mr. Sean Dollinger resigned as Chief Executive Officer of the Company and from all other positions held by him as an officer, director, employee, manager, authorized signatory or representative of the Company and its subsidiaries and affiliates.
Sentences matched by our CEO change rules, from the first filing. Read the 8-K on SEC EDGAR ↗
Share price reaction
The filing reached SEC EDGAR on 16 October 2026 at 17:30 New York time, after the market closed, so day 0 is the next trading day, 19 October 2026. Day 0 is marked by the vertical line.
| Window | YHC | S&P 500 | Abnormal |
|---|---|---|---|
| Days 0 to +1 | +3.5% | +0.8% | +6.9% |
| Days 0 to +3 | +45.3% | +0.1% | +48.9% |
| 1 month (days 0 to +21)so far, 7 of 22 days | +44.8% | +0.8% | +55.1% |
| 3 months (days 0 to +63)so far, 7 of 64 days | +44.8% | +0.8% | +55.1% |
The abnormal return is the stock's return beyond what its usual relationship with the market (beta -0.04) predicts. A single stock's move can reflect other news on the same days, so it describes what happened rather than measuring the effect of the CEO change; averages across many events are on the Research design page as they are completed.
News coverage
- LQR House Inc. Announces CEO Transition ↗
wallstreet-online.de · 16 October 2026 · Tone: neutral
- LQR House (NASDAQ: YHC) names Leo Chen CEO as Dollinger steps down ↗
tickerreport.com · 17 October 2026 · Tone: neutral
Headlines from the day before the filing to three days after, found in the GDELT news index by company name, so an occasional match may be about something else. Tone is FinBERT's reading of the headline alone, a language model trained on financial news; it is not our view of the change.