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TickerLSAK
SectorSoftware - Infrastructure
Mkt cap$409M
EV / EBITDAN/A
PostureRestatement Risk
Composite92/100
LensTarget-side
SE-Cluster Research·Issuer Brief·Q2 2026CIK 1041514

Lesaka Technologies, Inc.

LSAKRESTATEMENT RISKFILING INTENSITY

Lesaka Technologies, Inc. reads as Restatement Risk (composite 92/100); pressure / disclosure signals dominate the posture this cycle · primary market Software & IT.

Lens

Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)

$13M

−58%

vs $30M in 2020–2022

Disclosed transactions

2

+100%

2/3 active fiscal years in window

Buyer archetype

Selective Buyer

Acquisition use is visible but targeted.

Composite score

92

/100

Restatement Risk dominates · Filing Intensity

Financial snapshot
Revenue$765M
EBITDA$32M
Enterprise valueN/A
EV / RevenueN/A
EV / EBITDAN/A
P/EN/A
Cash$91M
Total debt$202M
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

18/100

Companies actively deploying disclosed capital into M&A

  • $176M disclosed buyer spend

Buyer Cadence

22/100

Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity

  • Filed within 34d
  • 335 8-Ks

Target Probability

20/100

Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings

  • 32 activism filings

Spin/Carve

0/100

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

  • 32 activism filings

Pressure Watch

49/100

Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure

  • 32 activism filings
  • Latest activism 1.5y ago

Distress Watch

18/100

Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns

  • 32 activism filings

Restatement Risk

Dominant
92/100

Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings

  • 2 non-reliance 8-Ks
  • 1 auditor change
  • 7 NT late filings
  • Latest event 9mo ago

Capital Velocity

70/100

Issuers with the highest filing-activity intensity

  • 335 8-Ks
  • 5 form types

Quiet Power

0/100

Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence

  • Market cap $409M
  • 10-Q 34d ago
  • 3 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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Disclosed spend $MM Disclosed transactions (right axis)Peak spend year: $30M · Peak count: 2

FYDisclosed buysDisclosed spendAvg ticketAudited tier
20252$13M$6MN/A
2024N/A$200KN/AN/A
2023N/AN/AN/AN/A
20221$30M$30MN/A
2021N/AN/AN/AN/A
2020N/AN/AN/AN/A
§ 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

  • Geographic Expansion
    20%
  • Bolt On
    20%
  • Technology Acquisition
    20%
  • Platform
    20%
  • Talent Acquisition
    20%

Strategy keywords

Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.

  • geographic_expansion
  • bolt_on
  • technology_acquisition
  • platform
  • talent_acquisition
  • horizontal_consolidation
§ 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.

“The acquisition of Connect is strategically important for us because we believe that (i) the combination of complementary product offerings will assist us to drive stronger unit economics, (ii) the transaction facilitates expansion of our addressable market in the informal MSME sector”

10-KFY2022

“Acquisitions and strategic investments are an integral part of our long-term growth strategy as we seek to grow our business internationally and to deploy our technologies in new markets both inside and outside South Africa.”

10-KFY2018

“The purchase consideration will be settled through the combination of an issuance of 17,279,803 shares of the Company’s common stock and a ZAR 232 million payment in cash.”

10-KFY2024

“The acquisition of Connect Group during the year ended June 30, 2022, which significantly advanced our vision and is truly transformational for our company.”

10-KFY2022

“The Company incurred transaction-related expenditures of $2.3 million during the year ended June 30, 2024, related to the process to acquire Adumo.”

10-KFY2024
§ 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

Software & IT

Market spend (2023–2025)
$217.7B
Market spend (2020–2022)
$197.1B
Recent vs prior
+10%
Issuer rank in market
N/A
Share of market capital
0.0%

Valuation positioning

N/AEV / EBITDA

LSAK trades at a -36.4-turn discount to the Software & IT peer median of 14.3×.

EV / Revenue
N/A
Net debt / EBITDA
3.5×
Peer median EV / EBITDA
14.3×

Trading comparables

FMP market data · 2026-05-10

CompanyEV / EBITDAEV / RevNet debt / EBITDARevenueM&A 2023–2025
Oracle CorporationORCL
23.4×10.7×0.2×$64.1B$27.7B
Microsoft CorporationMSFT
15.5×9.8×0.0×$318.3B$75.4B
Salesforce, Inc.CRM
14.3×4.4×0.6×$41.5B$12.1B
Ss&c Technologies Holdings, Inc.SSNC
11.0×3.7×-0.1×$6.4B$1.7B
Fiserv, Inc.FISV
7.6×2.8×0.1×$21.1B$10M

Trading multiples from FMP market data; disclosed M&A spend from the SE-Cluster EDGAR 10-K corpus. Peer set = top disclosed buyers in Software & IT. 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)282026-02-04
  • 10-Q (quarterly)712026-05-06
  • 8-K (event)3352026-05-06
  • Proxy / DEF 14A352025-10-29
  • Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)322024-12-04

Signals on file

  • critical

    Non-reliance disclosure

    2025-09-10

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

  • elevated

    Auditor change

    2023-05-09

    1 Item 4.01 filing on file; certifying accountant change.

  • watch

    Late-filing notice

    2025-09-16

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

  • elevated

    Activism on file

    2024-12-04

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

  • info

    Signal

    Serial acquisition history

  • info

    Signal

    10-K strategy themes

  • 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.