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TickerBKYI
SectorSecurity & Protection Services
Mkt cap$3M
EV / EBITDAN/A
PostureRestatement Risk
Composite100/100
LensTarget-side
SE-Cluster Research·Issuer Brief·Q2 2026CIK 1019034

BIO-key International, Inc.

BKYIRESTATEMENT RISKFILING INTENSITY

BIO-key International, Inc. reads as Restatement Risk (composite 100/100); pressure / disclosure signals dominate the posture this cycle · primary market Industrial Services.

Lens

Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)

$624M

+999%

vs $4M in 2020–2022

Disclosed transactions

2

flat

2/3 active fiscal years in window

Buyer archetype

Selective Buyer

Acquisition use is visible but targeted.

Composite score

100

/100

Restatement Risk dominates · Filing Intensity

Financial snapshot
Revenue$6M
EBITDAN/A
Enterprise value$824K
EV / Revenue0.1×
EV / EBITDAN/A
P/EN/A
Cash$2M
Total debtN/A
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

24/100

Companies actively deploying disclosed capital into M&A

  • $628M disclosed buyer spend

Buyer Cadence

1/100

Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity

  • 254 8-Ks

Target Probability

18/100

Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings

  • 13 activism filings

Spin/Carve

0/100

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

  • 13 activism filings

Pressure Watch

14/100

Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure

  • 13 activism filings
  • Latest activism 8.1y ago; heavily discounted

Distress Watch

55/100

Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns

  • 10-Q 239d stale
  • 10-K 444d stale
  • 13 activism filings

Restatement Risk

Dominant
100/100

Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings

  • 4 non-reliance 8-Ks
  • 5 auditor changes
  • 23 NT late filings
  • Latest event 3mo ago

Capital Velocity

62/100

Issuers with the highest filing-activity intensity

  • 254 8-Ks
  • 5 form types

Quiet Power

0/100

Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence

  • Enterprise value $800K
  • 10-Q 239d ago
  • 2 active signals
§ II·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

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.

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18
19
20
21
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24
25

Disclosed spend $MM Disclosed transactions (right axis)Peak spend year: $624M · Peak count: 1

FYDisclosed buysDisclosed spendAvg ticketAudited tier
2025N/AN/AN/AN/A
20241$624M$624MN/A
20231$600K$600KN/A
20221$2M$2MN/A
2021N/AN/AN/AN/A
20201$2M$2MN/A
§ 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.

Awards under the Company’s 2015 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2015 Plan”) may be subject to acceleration of vesting and exercisability upon or after a “Change in Control” as may be provided in the award agreement for such award but in the absence of such provision, no such acceleration shall occur.

10-KFY2016

The Company’s 1999 Stock Option Plan and 2004 Stock Incentive Plan (the “1999 Plan” and together with the 2004 Plan, the “Plans”) provide for the acceleration of the vesting of unvested options upon a “Change in Control” of the Company.

10-KFY2014

A Change in Control under the 2015 Plan generally means (i) the acquisition by a person or entity of more than 50% of our combined voting power other than by merger, consolidation or similar transaction; (ii) a consummated merger, consolidation or similar transaction immediately after which our stockholders cease to own more than 50% of the combined voting power of the surviving entity; (iii) a complete dissolution or liquidation of the company, except for a liquidation into a parent corporation; (iv) a consummated sale, lease or exclusive license or other disposition of all or substantially of our consolidated assets; or (v) when a majority of our board of directors becomes composed of individuals whose nomination, appointment, or election was not approved by a majority of our board members or their approved successors. As of the date of this report, no awards have been issued under the 2015 Plan.

10-KFY2015

In the event of any change in the outstanding shares of our common stock by reason of a stock dividend, stock split, combination of shares, recapitalization, merger, consolidation, transfer of assets, reorganization, conversion or what the board deems to be similar circumstances, the number and kind of shares subject to outstanding options, and the exercise price of such options shall be appropriately adjusted in a manner to be determined in the sole discretion of the board.

10-KFY2016
§ 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

Industrial Services

Market spend (2023–2025)
$65.5B
Market spend (2020–2022)
$39.6B
Recent vs prior
+65%
Issuer rank in market
N/A
Share of market capital
0.0%

Valuation positioning

N/AEV / EBITDA

BKYI trades at a -11.6-turn discount to the Industrial Services peer median of 11.4×.

EV / Revenue
0.1×
Net debt / EBITDA
N/A
Peer median EV / EBITDA
11.4×

Trading comparables

FMP market data · 2026-05-10

CompanyEV / EBITDAEV / RevNet debt / EBITDARevenueM&A 2023–2025
15.1×1.0×-0.4×$24.2B$444M
13.1×5.8×1.1×$6.3B$3.2B
11.4×0.9×7.8×$2.5B$3.9B
11.3×4.5×0.2×$16.4B$931M
8.7×3.0×0.8×$1.7B$1.3B

Trading multiples from FMP market data; disclosed M&A spend from the SE-Cluster EDGAR 10-K corpus. Peer set = top disclosed buyers in Industrial Services. 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)212025-04-23
  • 10-Q (quarterly)552025-11-14
  • 8-K (event)2542026-04-29
  • Proxy / DEF 14A242026-03-16
  • Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)132018-06-11

Signals on file

  • critical

    Non-reliance disclosure

    2024-04-22

    4 Item 4.02 filings on file; financial-statement non-reliance.

  • elevated

    Auditor change

    2024-04-30

    5 Item 4.01 filings on file; certifying accountant change.

  • watch

    Late-filing notice

    2026-03-31

    23 NT 10-K/10-Q filings on file.

  • elevated

    Activism on file

    2018-06-11

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

  • info

    Signal

    Serial acquisition history

  • info

    Signal

    Restatement risk

§ 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.

BIO-key International, Inc.: Issuer Brief | SE-Cluster