Coffee Holding Co., Inc.
JVARESTATEMENT RISKFILING INTENSITYCoffee Holding Co., Inc. reads as Restatement Risk (composite 94/100); pressure / disclosure signals dominate the posture this cycle · primary market Consumer Products.
Lens
Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)
$2M
vs N/A in 2020–2022
Disclosed transactions
2
2/3 active fiscal years in window
Buyer archetype
Consistent Strategic Buyer
Meaningful spend appears across repeat years.
Composite score
94
Restatement Risk dominates · Filing Intensity
Behavioral posture, nine reads.
Each index scores the issuer 0–100 against an EDGAR-anchored definition. Scores ≥ threshold elevate the issuer into the index's constituent set; the dominant index drives the masthead label.
Active Acquirer
Companies actively deploying disclosed capital into M&A
- $832M disclosed buyer spend
Buyer Cadence
Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity
- 164 8-Ks
Target Probability
Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings
- 25 activism filings
Spin/Carve
Issuers showing spin-off, carve-out, or sum-of-parts posture
- 25 activism filings
Pressure Watch
Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure
- 25 activism filings
- Latest activism 3.6y ago; discounted
Distress Watch
Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns
- 25 activism filings
Restatement Risk
DominantIssuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings
- 2 non-reliance 8-Ks
- 7 auditor changes
- 12 NT late filings
- Latest event 1.2y ago
Capital Velocity
Issuers with the highest filing-activity intensity
- 164 8-Ks
- 5 form types
Quiet Power
Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence
- Enterprise value $27M
- 10-Q 85d ago
- 3 active signals
Capital cadence.
Ten-year disclosed M&A activity. Bars show spend ($MM); ticks show recorded transaction count. Disclosure tier annotated where v6 audited corpus carries an entry.
Disclosed spend $MM Disclosed transactions (right axis)Peak spend year: $820M · Peak count: 1
| FY | Disclosed buys | Disclosed spend | Avg ticket | Audited tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | $800K | $800K | N/A |
| 2024 | 1 | $800K | $800K | N/A |
| 2023 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2022 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2021 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2020 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Strategy posture.
The buyer's playbook in terms of strategic archetype: what each disclosed move says about how they're deploying capital.
Archetype mix
- Geographic Expansion25%
- Platform25%
- Bolt On25%
- Horizontal Consolidation25%
Strategy keywords
Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.
- geographic_expansion
- platform
- bolt_on
- horizontal_consolidation
Filing language.
Direct excerpts from acquisition disclosures and strategy sections: the verbs the buyer chose, in the filings they signed.
“We intend to further expand the market presence of our branded products outside our primary Northeastern United States market through other acquisitions and strategic alliances as opportunities arise.”
“production activities previously performed at the Comfort Foods facility will be transitioned to the Company’s Second Empire, LLC (“Second Empire”) facility located in Port Chester, New York.”
“consolidating manufacturing operations into a single East Coast production hub will enhance operational efficiency and reduce duplicative overhead costs.”
“In November 2011, we acquired a 40% interest in Global Mark LLC (“Global Mark”), a new venture focusing on supply of instant coffee and related products.”
“On November 11, 2024, the Company purchased all of the assets of Empire Coffee Company”
Market context.
Where this issuer sits inside its SE-Cluster rollup wedge, with disclosed-spend rank plus trading comparables against the public peer set.
Primary market
Consumer Products
- Market spend (2023–2025)
- $145.2B
- Market spend (2020–2022)
- $102.1B
- Recent vs prior
- +42%
- Issuer rank in market
- N/A
- Share of market capital
- 0.0%
Valuation positioning
JVA trades at a -6.5-turn discount to the Consumer Products peer median of 12.2×.
- EV / Revenue
- 0.3×
- Net debt / EBITDA
- N/A
- Peer median EV / EBITDA
- 12.2×
Trading comparables
FMP market data · 2026-05-10
| Company | EV / EBITDA | EV / Rev | Net debt / EBITDA | Revenue | M&A 2023–2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15.7× | 2.3× | 2.0× | $164.7B | $24.6B | |
| 8.7× | 1.3× | -0.1× | $10B | $5.5B | |
Coffee Holding Co., Inc.JVA | 5.7× | 0.3× | N/A | $101M | $2M |
Trading multiples from FMP market data; disclosed M&A spend from the SE-Cluster EDGAR 10-K corpus. Peer set = top disclosed buyers in Consumer Products. Bars scaled to the highest EV/EBITDA in the set.
Buyer landscape.
Public buyers whose stated archetypes, target categories, and recent cadence align with this issuer as a plausible acquisition target. Scores cross EDGAR signal and disclosure overlap.
Likely buyers
No public buyers surface as a strong target-side fit on current signal.
Likely sellers / divestiture partners
No reciprocal divestiture / strategic-alternatives matches identified.
Filing activity & signal stream.
Filing cadence and event-driven signals visible on EDGAR. The signal stream below is curated from restatement / spin-carve / activism categories, providing context for any near-term call.
Filing cadence
- 10-K (annual)312026-01-28
- 10-Q (quarterly)712026-03-16
- 8-K (event)1642026-03-16
- Proxy / DEF 14A362025-10-29
- Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)252022-10-27
Signals on file
- critical
Non-reliance disclosure
2023-02-282 Item 4.02 filings on file; financial-statement non-reliance.
- elevated
Auditor change
2025-03-047 Item 4.01 filings on file; certifying accountant change.
- watch
Late-filing notice
2025-03-1712 NT 10-K/10-Q filings on file.
- elevated
Activism on file
2022-10-2725 activist filings on file (13D, DFAN14A, PREC14A series).
- info
Signal
Serial acquisition history
- info
Signal
10-K strategy themes
- info
Signal
Restatement risk
Audited corpus.
No audited record on file for this CIK in the current v6 corpus.
This issuer has not been extracted into the v6 audited acquirer corpus yet. The brief above pulls from ranking-level aggregates and issuer-index signal only.