Usbc, Inc.
USBCHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITYUsbc, Inc. reads as High Velocity (composite 70/100); pressure / disclosure signals dominate the posture this cycle · primary market Semis & Hardware.
Lens
Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)
$15M
vs N/A in 2020–2022
Disclosed transactions
1
1/3 active fiscal years in window
Buyer archetype
Selective Buyer
Acquisition use is visible but targeted.
Composite score
70
High Velocity 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
- $18M disclosed buyer spend
Buyer Cadence
Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity
- Filed within 39d
- 293 8-Ks
Target Probability
Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings
- 14 activism filings
Spin/Carve
Issuers showing spin-off, carve-out, or sum-of-parts posture
- 14 activism filings
Pressure Watch
Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure
- 14 activism filings
- Latest activism 2y ago; discounted
Distress Watch
Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns
- 10-Q 308d stale
- 14 activism filings
Restatement Risk
Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings
Capital Velocity
DominantIssuers with the highest filing-activity intensity
- 293 8-Ks
- 5 form types
Quiet Power
Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence
- Market cap $3M
- 10-Q 308d ago
- 2 active signals
Capital cadence.
Ten-year disclosed M&A activity. Bars show spend ($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: $15M · Peak count: 1
| FY | Disclosed buys | Disclosed spend | Avg ticket | Audited tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | $15M | $15M | N/A |
| 2024 | N/A | N/A | N/A | 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
- Platform33%
- Technology Acquisition33%
- Talent Acquisition33%
Strategy keywords
Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.
- platform
- technology_acquisition
- talent_acquisition
Filing language.
Direct excerpts from acquisition disclosures and strategy sections: the verbs the buyer chose, in the filings they signed.
“Mr. Kidd and his veteran team of finance and technology leaders who are part of the USBC founding team collectively bring with them decades of technology and fintech experience”
“As used herein, “Change of Control” is defined as any one of the following occurrences: (a) Company is party to a merger or consolidation with or into another entity (or group of entities) (except a merger or consolidation in which the holders of capital stock of the Company immediately prior to such merger or consolidation continue to hold (solely in respect of their interests in the Company’s capital stock immediately prior to such merger or consolidation) at least 50% of the voting power of the capital stock of the Company or the surviving or acquiring entity); (b) the closing of the transfer (whether by merger, consolidation or otherwise), in one transaction or a series of related transactions, to a corporation, person or group of affiliated persons (other than an underwriter of the Company’s securities), of the Company’s securities if, after such closing, such person or group of affiliated persons would hold 50% or more of the outstanding voting stock of the Company, or (c) a sale, lease, assignment, transfer or disposal of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company (other than a pledge of such assets or grant of a security interest therein to a commercial lender in connection with a commercial lending or similar transaction); provided that the following shall not be considered a Change of Control: an equity financing of the Company in which the Company issues shares of its Common Stock or Preferred Stock.”
“in connection with the closing of a $125 million strategic controlling-interest acquisition”
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
Semis & Hardware
- Market spend (2023–2025)
- $118.8B
- Market spend (2020–2022)
- $89.3B
- Recent vs prior
- +33%
- Issuer rank in market
- N/A
- Share of market capital
- 0.0%
Valuation positioning
USBC trades at a -19.5-turn discount to the Semis & Hardware peer median of 19.5×.
- EV / Revenue
- N/A
- Net debt / EBITDA
- N/A
- Peer median EV / EBITDA
- 19.5×
Trading comparables
FMP market data · 2026-05-10
| Company | EV / EBITDA | EV / Rev | Net debt / EBITDA | Revenue | M&A 2023–2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Entegris, Inc.ENTG | 30.8× | 8.0× | 3.8× | $3.2B | $6B |
| 21.7× | 6.6× | -0.1× | $25.9B | $6.9B | |
| 19.5× | 4.5× | 2.8× | $4.7B | $1.8B | |
Qualcomm Inc.QCOM | 18.1× | 5.4× | -0.4× | $44.5B | $997M |
| 14.5× | 3.5× | -0.2× | $18.5B | $3.1B | |
Usbc, Inc.USBC | 0.0× | N/A | N/A | N/A | $15M |
Trading multiples from FMP market data; disclosed M&A spend from the SE-Cluster EDGAR 10-K corpus. Peer set = top disclosed buyers in Semis & Hardware. 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)252026-04-27
- 10-Q (quarterly)572025-08-05
- 8-K (event)2932026-05-01
- Proxy / DEF 14A172025-08-26
- Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)142024-06-03
Signals on file
- elevated
Activism on file
2024-06-0314 activist filings on file (13D, DFAN14A, PREC14A series).
- info
Signal
Serial acquisition history
- info
Signal
10-K strategy themes
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.