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TickerAUDC
SectorCommunication Equipment
Mkt cap$226M
EV / EBITDA12.2×
PostureQuiet Issuer
Composite24/100
LensBuyer-side
SE-Cluster Research·Issuer Brief·Q2 2026CIK 1086434

Audiocodes Ltd.

AUDCQUIET ISSUERQUIET

Audiocodes Ltd. reads as an Quiet Issuer (composite 24/100); Consistent Strategic Buyer deploying $0 across 0 disclosed transactions, down 100% vs the prior cycle · primary market Connectivity.

Lens

Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)

N/A

−99%

vs N/A in 2020–2022

Disclosed transactions

N/A

−99%

0/3 active fiscal years in window

Buyer archetype

Consistent Strategic Buyer

Meaningful spend appears across repeat years.

Composite score

24

/100

Quiet Issuer dominates · Quiet

Financial snapshot
Revenue$247M
EBITDA$18M
Enterprise value$222M
EV / Revenue0.9×
EV / EBITDA12.2×
P/EN/A
Cash$45M
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

  • $140M disclosed buyer spend

Buyer Cadence

4/100

Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity

Target Probability

2/100

Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings

Spin/Carve

0/100

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

Pressure Watch

2/100

Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure

Distress Watch

12/100

Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns

  • Missing recent 10-Q

Restatement Risk

0/100

Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings

Capital Velocity

22/100

Issuers with the highest filing-activity intensity

Quiet Power

0/100

Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence

  • Enterprise value $222M
  • 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: $4M · Peak count: 1

FYDisclosed buysDisclosed spendAvg ticketAudited tier
2025N/AN/AN/AN/A
2024N/AN/AN/AN/A
2023N/AN/AN/AN/A
20221$3M$3MN/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

  • Bolt On
    33%
  • Technology Acquisition
    33%
  • Geographic Expansion
    33%

Strategy keywords

Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.

  • bolt_on
  • technology_acquisition
  • geographic_expansion
§ 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.

AudioCodes leveraged the Active Communications Europe acquisition and promoted several products around Microsoft Skype for Business

10-KFY2016

AudioCodes acquired Active Communications Europe to further strengthen our ability to provide advanced software solutions

10-KFY2016

this acquisition will improve our ability to serve the growing market for Microsoft Skype for Business Online

10-KFY2015

The Group paid $ 10,000 in cash at the closing of the transaction. An additional payment is required to be made in April 2005 based on the achievement of revenue milestones and additional terms by the Ai-Logix business during 2004 and 2005. The contingent payment will be recorded as part of the acquisition cost as additional goodwill in accordance with the provisions of SFAS No. 141. This payment may be made, at the Group’s option, in cash or by issuance of AudioCodes Ltd.’s Ordinary shares. In the event that the Group elects to make this payment by issuing Ordinary shares, it will be required to register such shares for sale under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933.

10-KFY2005

we acquired Active Communications Europe, a leading provider of communications solutions

10-KFY2015
§ 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

Connectivity

Market spend (2023–2025)
$58.6B
Market spend (2020–2022)
$121.1B
Recent vs prior
−52%
Issuer rank in market
N/A
Share of market capital
0.0%

Valuation positioning

12.2×EV / EBITDA

AUDC trades at a +4.3-turn premium to the Connectivity peer median of 7.9×.

EV / Revenue
0.9×
Net debt / EBITDA
N/A
Peer median EV / EBITDA
7.9×

Trading comparables

FMP market data · 2026-05-10

CompanyEV / EBITDAEV / RevNet debt / EBITDARevenueM&A 2023–2025
23.8×6.8×0.9×$59.1B$26.6B
20.2×6.1×-0.1×$11.9B$4.9B
Audiocodes Ltd.AUDC
12.2×0.9×N/A$247MN/A
7.9×2.8×0.4×$139.1B$60M
6.1×2.6×-0.1×$126.5B$3.7B
6.1×2.5×N/A$59.8B$5.1B

Trading multiples from FMP market data; disclosed M&A spend from the SE-Cluster EDGAR 10-K corpus. Peer set = top disclosed buyers in Connectivity. Bars scaled to the highest EV/EBITDA in the set.

§ VI·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

Target landscape.

Public-issuer targets that fit this buyer's archetype and target categories from filing-derived signal. Scores reflect cross-signal fit; reasons cite the EDGAR-anchored facts that drove the match.

No qualifying public-issuer targets surfaced from the current signal mix.

Stated target categories

No target categories enumerated in the audited corpus for this issuer.

§ 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)262026-03-30
  • 10-Q (quarterly)0N/A
  • 8-K (event)0N/A
  • Proxy / DEF 14A0N/A
  • Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)0N/A

Signals on file

  • 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.