Entravision Communications Corporation
EVCHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITYEntravision Communications Corporation reads as High Velocity (composite 70/100); pressure / disclosure signals dominate the posture this cycle · primary market Media & Education.
Lens
Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)
$16M
vs $21M in 2020–2022
Disclosed transactions
1
2/3 active fiscal years in window
Buyer archetype
Consistent Strategic Buyer
Meaningful spend appears across repeat years.
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
- $288M disclosed buyer spend
Buyer Cadence
Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity
- Filed within 35d
- 245 8-Ks
Target Probability
Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings
- 26 activism filings
Spin/Carve
Issuers showing spin-off, carve-out, or sum-of-parts posture
- 26 activism filings
Pressure Watch
Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure
- 26 activism filings
- Latest activism 3y ago; discounted
Distress Watch
Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns
- 26 activism filings
Restatement Risk
Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings
Capital Velocity
DominantIssuers with the highest filing-activity intensity
- 245 8-Ks
- 5 form types
Quiet Power
Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence
- Enterprise value $659M
- 10-Q 35d ago
- 2 active signals
Capital cadence.
Ten-year disclosed M&A activity. Bars show spend ($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: $33M · Peak count: 2
| FY | Disclosed buys | Disclosed spend | Avg ticket | Audited tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2024 | 1 | $9M | $9M | N/A |
| 2023 | N/A | $7M | N/A | N/A |
| 2022 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2021 | 1 | $21M | $21M | 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
- Geographic Expansion25%
- Horizontal Consolidation25%
- Bolt On25%
- Technology Acquisition25%
Strategy keywords
Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.
- geographic_expansion
- horizontal_consolidation
- bolt_on
- technology_acquisition
Filing language.
Direct excerpts from acquisition disclosures and strategy sections: the verbs the buyer chose, in the filings they signed.
“we have focused our strategy more on acquisitions of high-growth digital advertising companies in new markets for us, primarily in emerging economies, in Asia and Africa, in addition to emerging economies where we already had a presence, such as Latin America, as well as Europe.”
“Historically, our acquisition strategy has been focused on increasing our presence in those markets in which we already compete, as well as expanding our operations into U.S. Hispanic markets where we do not own properties.”
“More recently, in order to enhance our product portfolio in our digital segment, we have focused our strategy more on acquisitions of high-growth digital advertising companies in new markets for us”
“Historically, our acquisition strategy was focused on increasing our television and radio broadcasting presence in those markets in which we already compete”
“we now also focus on advertisers attempting to reach online users throughout the world.”
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
Media & Education
- Market spend (2023–2025)
- $31.8B
- Market spend (2020–2022)
- $74.8B
- Recent vs prior
- −57%
- Issuer rank in market
- N/A
- Share of market capital
- 0.0%
Valuation positioning
EVC trades at a -4.5-turn discount to the Media & Education peer median of 12.1×.
- EV / Revenue
- 1.2×
- Net debt / EBITDA
- -0.6×
- Peer median EV / EBITDA
- 12.1×
Trading comparables
FMP market data · 2026-05-10
| Company | EV / EBITDA | EV / Rev | Net debt / EBITDA | Revenue | M&A 2023–2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21.6× | 2.0× | -0.2× | $8.8B | $55M | |
| 19.2× | 1.5× | -3.6× | $25.6B | $196M | |
Entravision Communications CorporationEVC | 7.6× | 1.2× | -0.6× | $553M | $16M |
| 4.9× | 1.8× | 2.2× | $37.2B | $100M | |
| 3.0× | 0.2× | 14.1× | $2.1B | $14M |
Trading multiples from FMP market data; disclosed M&A spend from the SE-Cluster EDGAR 10-K corpus. Peer set = top disclosed buyers in Media & Education. 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)262026-03-05
- 10-Q (quarterly)782026-05-05
- 8-K (event)2452026-05-05
- Proxy / DEF 14A282026-04-20
- Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)262023-06-13
Signals on file
- elevated
Activism on file
2023-06-1326 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.