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TickerZUMZ
SectorApparel - Retail
Mkt cap$426M
EV / EBITDA12.4×
PostureHigh Velocity
Composite70/100
LensBuyer-side
SE-Cluster Research·Issuer Brief·Q2 2026CIK 1318008

Zumiez Inc.

ZUMZHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITY

Zumiez Inc. reads as an High Velocity (composite 70/100); Consistent Strategic Buyer deploying $0 across 0 disclosed transactions, running flat vs the prior cycle · primary market Consumer Products.

Lens

Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)

N/A

flat

vs N/A in 2020–2022

Disclosed transactions

N/A

flat

0/3 active fiscal years in window

Buyer archetype

Consistent Strategic Buyer

Meaningful spend appears across repeat years.

Composite score

70

/100

High Velocity dominates · Filing Intensity

Financial snapshot
Revenue$929M
EBITDA$40M
Enterprise value$497M
EV / Revenue0.5×
EV / EBITDA12.4×
P/EN/A
Cash$128M
Total debt$6M
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

27/100

Companies actively deploying disclosed capital into M&A

  • $123M disclosed buyer spend

Buyer Cadence

32/100

Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity

  • Filed within 46d
  • 322 8-Ks

Target Probability

4/100

Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings

Spin/Carve

0/100

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

Pressure Watch

14/100

Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure

Distress Watch

19/100

Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns

  • 10-Q 187d stale

Restatement Risk

0/100

Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings

Capital Velocity

Dominant
70/100

Issuers with the highest filing-activity intensity

  • 322 8-Ks
  • 4 form types

Quiet Power

20/100

Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence

  • Enterprise value $497M
  • 10-Q 187d 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: $5M · Peak count: 1

FYDisclosed buysDisclosed spendAvg ticketAudited tier
2025N/AN/AN/AN/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

  • Geographic Expansion
    50%
  • Bolt On
    50%

Strategy keywords

Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.

  • geographic_expansion
  • bolt_on
  • platform
§ 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.

continued investments domestically and internationally in technology and people aimed at enhancing the consumer experience

10-KFY2013

build out our infrastructure in Europe where we are in the early stages of growth after the acquisition of Blue Tomato

10-KFY2013

we acquired Blue Tomato, a leading European multi-channel retailer for board sports and related apparel and footwear

10-KFY2012

A controlling shareholder would have significant influence over, and may have the ability to control, matters requiring approval by our shareholders, including the election of directors and approval of mergers, consolidations, sales of assets, recapitalizations and amendments to our articles of incorporation. Furthermore, a controlling shareholder may take actions with which other shareholders do not agree, including actions that delay, defer or prevent a change of control of the company and that could cause the price that investors are willing to pay for the company’s stock to decline.

10-KFY2022

the acquisition allows us to enter into the European marketplace

10-KFY2012
§ 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

12.4×EV / EBITDA

ZUMZ trades at a +0.2-turn premium to the Consumer Products peer median of 12.2×.

EV / Revenue
0.5×
Net debt / EBITDA
-3.1×
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
Zumiez Inc.ZUMZ
12.4×0.5×-3.1×$929MN/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

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)222026-03-12
  • 10-Q (quarterly)642025-12-04
  • 8-K (event)3222026-03-12
  • Proxy / DEF 14A392026-04-24
  • 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.

Zumiez Inc.: Issuer Brief | SE-Cluster