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TickerBWMG
SectorLeisure
Mkt cap$3M
EV / EBITDA12.5×
PostureHigh Velocity
Composite70/100
LensTarget-side
SE-Cluster Research·Issuer Brief·Q2 2026CIK 1166708

Brownie’s Marine Group, Inc.

BWMGHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITY

Brownie’s Marine Group, Inc. reads as High Velocity (composite 70/100); pressure / disclosure signals dominate the posture this cycle · primary market Consumer Products.

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

Selective Buyer

Acquisition use is visible but targeted.

Composite score

70

/100

High Velocity dominates · Filing Intensity

Financial snapshot
Revenue$8M
EBITDA$422K
Enterprise value$5M
EV / Revenue0.7×
EV / EBITDA12.5×
P/EN/A
Cash$239K
Total debt$47K
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

36/100

Companies actively deploying disclosed capital into M&A

  • $1.8B disclosed buyer spend

Buyer Cadence

14/100

Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity

  • Filed within 60d
  • 103 8-Ks

Target Probability

20/100

Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings

  • 8 activism filings

Spin/Carve

0/100

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

  • 8 activism filings

Pressure Watch

16/100

Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure

  • 8 activism filings
  • Latest activism 11y ago; heavily discounted

Distress Watch

44/100

Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns

  • 10-Q 207d stale
  • 8 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

  • 103 8-Ks
  • 4 form types

Quiet Power

0/100

Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence

  • Enterprise value $5M
  • 10-Q 207d 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: $1,800M · Peak count: 1

FYDisclosed buysDisclosed spendAvg ticketAudited tier
2025N/AN/AN/AN/A
2024N/AN/AN/AN/A
2023N/AN/AN/AN/A
20221$1.8B$1.8BN/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

  • Technology Acquisition
    100%

Strategy keywords

Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.

  • technology_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.

According to Fortune Market Insight, the Diving and Snorkelling market will reach $2.2 billion, signalling readiness for broader adoption as more enthusiasts enter the market and established players expand product offerings.

10-KFY2026

Per the stated terms of the Asset Purchase Agreement, the purchase price for the Assets was $297,000, consisting of issuance of 100,000 of restricted shares of the Company’s common stock and $15,000

10-KFY2008

the Company acquired a granted European and pending U.S. Patent relating to active control releasable ballast systems for diving equipment

10-KFY2008

Except as otherwise indicated, and subject to applicable community property laws, the persons named in the table below have sole voting and investment power with respect to all shares of common stock held by them. Robert Carmichael owns 100% of the Company’s Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, each share of which has the number of votes 250 per share. The preferred stock votes with the Company’s common stock, except as otherwise required under Florida law. Accordingly, Mr. Carmichael owns approximately 55% of the combined voting power of the Common Stock and Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, voting as a single class and will control the outcome of any corporate transaction or other matter submitted to the shareholders for approval, including mergers, consolidations and the sale of all or substantially all of our assets, and also the power to prevent or cause a change in control.

10-KFY2015

As of December 31, 2015, Robert Carmichael, our only executive officer, beneficially owns approximately 55% of the combined voting power of the Common Stock and Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, voting as a single class and will control the outcome of any corporate transaction or other matter submitted to the shareholders for approval, including mergers, consolidations and the sale of all or substantially all of our assets, and also the power to prevent or cause a change in control.

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

Consumer Products

Market spend (2023–2025)
$145.2B
Market spend (2020–2022)
$102.1B
Recent vs prior
+42%
Issuer rank in market
N/A
Share of market capital
0.0%

Valuation positioning

12.5×EV / EBITDA

BWMG trades at a +0.4-turn premium to the Consumer Products peer median of 12.2×.

EV / Revenue
0.7×
Net debt / EBITDA
-0.5×
Peer median EV / EBITDA
12.2×

Trading comparables

FMP market data · 2026-05-10

CompanyEV / EBITDAEV / RevNet debt / EBITDARevenueM&A 2023–2025
15.7×2.3×2.0×$164.7B$24.6B
Brownie’s Marine Group, Inc.BWMG
12.5×0.7×-0.5×$8MN/A
8.7×1.3×-0.1×$10B$5.5B

Trading multiples from FMP market data; disclosed M&A spend from the SE-Cluster EDGAR 10-K corpus. Peer set = top disclosed buyers in Consumer Products. 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)182026-04-10
  • 10-Q (quarterly)582025-11-14
  • 8-K (event)1032025-12-01
  • Proxy / DEF 14A0N/A
  • Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)82015-06-23

Signals on file

  • elevated

    Activism on file

    2015-06-23

    8 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.