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TickerUSBC
SectorHardware, Equipment & Parts
Mkt cap$3M
EV / EBITDA0.0×
PostureHigh Velocity
Composite70/100
LensTarget-side
SE-Cluster Research·Issuer Brief·Q2 2026CIK 1074828

Usbc, Inc.

USBCHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITY

Usbc, 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

new

vs N/A in 2020–2022

Disclosed transactions

1

new

1/3 active fiscal years in window

Buyer archetype

Selective Buyer

Acquisition use is visible but targeted.

Composite score

70

/100

High Velocity dominates · Filing Intensity

Financial snapshot
RevenueN/A
EBITDAN/A
Enterprise valueN/A
EV / RevenueN/A
EV / EBITDA0.0×
P/EN/A
Cash$4M
Total debt$4M
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

6/100

Companies actively deploying disclosed capital into M&A

  • $18M disclosed buyer spend

Buyer Cadence

18/100

Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity

  • Filed within 39d
  • 293 8-Ks

Target Probability

20/100

Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings

  • 14 activism filings

Spin/Carve

0/100

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

  • 14 activism filings

Pressure Watch

42/100

Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure

  • 14 activism filings
  • Latest activism 2y ago; discounted

Distress Watch

44/100

Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns

  • 10-Q 308d stale
  • 14 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

  • 293 8-Ks
  • 5 form types

Quiet Power

0/100

Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence

  • Market cap $3M
  • 10-Q 308d 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.

16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25

Disclosed spend $MM Disclosed transactions (right axis)Peak spend year: $15M · Peak count: 1

FYDisclosed buysDisclosed spendAvg ticketAudited tier
20251$15M$15MN/A
2024N/AN/AN/AN/A
2023N/AN/AN/AN/A
2022N/AN/AN/AN/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

  • Platform
    33%
  • Technology Acquisition
    33%
  • Talent Acquisition
    33%

Strategy keywords

Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.

  • platform
  • technology_acquisition
  • talent_acquisition
§ 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.

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

10-KFY2025

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.

10-KFY2012

in connection with the closing of a $125 million strategic controlling-interest acquisition

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

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

0.0×EV / EBITDA

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

CompanyEV / EBITDAEV / RevNet debt / EBITDARevenueM&A 2023–2025
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
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/AN/AN/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.

§ 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)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

    2024-06-03

    14 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.

Usbc, Inc.: Issuer Brief | SE-Cluster