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TickerJAKK
SectorLeisure
Mkt cap$266M
EV / EBITDA10.6×
PostureHigh Velocity
Composite70/100
LensTarget-side
SE-Cluster Research·Issuer Brief·Q2 2026CIK 1009829

JAKKS Pacific, Inc.

JAKKHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITY

JAKKS Pacific, Inc. reads as High Velocity (composite 70/100); pressure / disclosure signals dominate the posture this cycle · primary market Consumer Products.

Lens

Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)

N/A

flat

vs N/A in 2020–2022

Disclosed transactions

N/A

flat

0/3 active fiscal years in window

Buyer archetype

Consistent Strategic Buyer

Meaningful spend appears across repeat years.

Composite score

70

/100

High Velocity dominates · Filing Intensity

Financial snapshot
Revenue$564M
EBITDA$24M
Enterprise value$252M
EV / Revenue0.4×
EV / EBITDA10.6×
P/EN/A
Cash$63M
Total debt$5M
as of 2026-05-10
§ I·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

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

26/100

Companies actively deploying disclosed capital into M&A

  • $477M disclosed buyer spend

Buyer Cadence

22/100

Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity

  • Filed within 39d
  • 258 8-Ks

Target Probability

20/100

Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings

  • 37 activism filings

Spin/Carve

0/100

Issuers showing spin-off, carve-out, or sum-of-parts posture

  • 37 activism filings

Pressure Watch

34/100

Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure

  • 37 activism filings
  • Latest activism 3.3y ago; discounted

Distress Watch

18/100

Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns

  • 37 activism filings

Restatement Risk

0/100

Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings

Capital Velocity

Dominant
70/100

Issuers with the highest filing-activity intensity

  • 258 8-Ks
  • 5 form types

Quiet Power

0/100

Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence

  • Enterprise value $252M
  • 10-Q 39d ago
  • 2 active signals
§ II·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

Capital cadence.

No disclosed M&A capital in the 10-year window.

This issuer has not disclosed material acquisition spend or count in the last ten fiscal years.

§ III·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

Strategy posture.

The buyer's playbook in terms of strategic archetype: what each disclosed move says about how they're deploying capital.

Archetype mix

  • Bolt On
    25%
  • Tuck In
    25%
  • Horizontal Consolidation
    25%
  • Geographic Expansion
    25%

Strategy keywords

Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.

  • bolt_on
  • tuck_in
  • horizontal_consolidation
  • geographic_expansion
§ IV·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

Filing language.

Direct excerpts from acquisition disclosures and strategy sections: the verbs the buyer chose, in the filings they signed.

Over the decades, the toy industry has experienced substantial consolidation among both toy companies and toy retailers. We believe that the ongoing consolidation of toy companies provides us with increased growth opportunities due to retailers’ desire to not be entirely dependent upon a few dominant toy companies.

10-KFY2025

Finally, our acquisition strategy involves a number of risks, each of which could adversely affect our operating results, including difficulties in integrating acquired businesses or product lines, assimilating new facilities and personnel and harmonizing diverse business strategies and methods of operation, diversion of management attention from operation of our existing business, loss of key personnel from acquired companies, and failure of an acquired business to achieve targeted financial results.

10-KFY2025
§ V·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

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

10.6×EV / EBITDA

JAKK trades at a -1.6-turn discount to the Consumer Products peer median of 12.2×.

EV / Revenue
0.4×
Net debt / EBITDA
-2.4×
Peer median EV / EBITDA
12.2×

Trading comparables

FMP market data · 2026-05-10

CompanyEV / EBITDAEV / RevNet debt / EBITDARevenueM&A 2023–2025
15.7×2.3×2.0×$164.7B$24.6B
JAKKS Pacific, Inc.JAKK
10.6×0.4×-2.4×$564MN/A
8.7×1.3×-0.1×$10B$5.5B

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.

§ VI·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

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.

§ VII·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

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)332026-03-02
  • 10-Q (quarterly)872026-05-01
  • 8-K (event)2582026-05-01
  • Proxy / DEF 14A372026-04-22
  • Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)372023-02-09

Signals on file

  • elevated

    Activism on file

    2023-02-09

    37 activist filings on file (13D, DFAN14A, PREC14A series).

  • info

    Signal

    Serial acquisition history

  • info

    Signal

    10-K strategy themes

§ VIII·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

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.