BIO-key International, Inc.
BKYIRESTATEMENT RISKFILING INTENSITYBIO-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
vs $4M in 2020–2022
Disclosed transactions
2
2/3 active fiscal years in window
Buyer archetype
Selective Buyer
Acquisition use is visible but targeted.
Composite score
100
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
- $628M disclosed buyer spend
Buyer Cadence
Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity
- 254 8-Ks
Target Probability
Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings
- 13 activism filings
Spin/Carve
Issuers showing spin-off, carve-out, or sum-of-parts posture
- 13 activism filings
Pressure Watch
Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure
- 13 activism filings
- Latest activism 8.1y ago; heavily discounted
Distress Watch
Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns
- 10-Q 239d stale
- 10-K 444d stale
- 13 activism filings
Restatement Risk
DominantIssuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings
- 4 non-reliance 8-Ks
- 5 auditor changes
- 23 NT late filings
- Latest event 3mo ago
Capital Velocity
Issuers with the highest filing-activity intensity
- 254 8-Ks
- 5 form types
Quiet Power
Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence
- Enterprise value $800K
- 10-Q 239d ago
- 2 active signals
Capital cadence.
Ten-year disclosed M&A activity. Bars show spend ($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: $624M · Peak count: 1
| FY | Disclosed buys | Disclosed spend | Avg ticket | Audited tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2024 | 1 | $624M | $624M | N/A |
| 2023 | 1 | $600K | $600K | N/A |
| 2022 | 1 | $2M | $2M | N/A |
| 2021 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2020 | 1 | $2M | $2M | N/A |
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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
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
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
| Company | EV / EBITDA | EV / Rev | Net debt / EBITDA | Revenue | M&A 2023–2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15.1× | 1.0× | -0.4× | $24.2B | $444M | |
Paychex, Inc.PAYX | 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 | |
AZZ Inc.AZZ | 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.
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)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
2024-04-224 Item 4.02 filings on file; financial-statement non-reliance.
- elevated
Auditor change
2024-04-305 Item 4.01 filings on file; certifying accountant change.
- watch
Late-filing notice
2026-03-3123 NT 10-K/10-Q filings on file.
- elevated
Activism on file
2018-06-1113 activist filings on file (13D, DFAN14A, PREC14A series).
- info
Signal
Serial acquisition history
- 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.