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TickerCODA
SectorAerospace & Defense
Mkt cap$137M
EV / EBITDA14.6×
PostureHigh Velocity
Composite62/100
LensBuyer-side
SE-Cluster Research·Issuer Brief·Q2 2026CIK 1334325

Coda Octopus Group, Inc.

CODAHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITY

Coda Octopus Group, Inc. reads as an High Velocity (composite 62/100); Consistent Strategic Buyer deploying $9M across 2 disclosed transactions, newly disclosed vs the prior cycle · primary market A&D Components.

Lens

Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)

$9M

new

vs N/A in 2020–2022

Disclosed transactions

2

new

2/3 active fiscal years in window

Buyer archetype

Consistent Strategic Buyer

Meaningful spend appears across repeat years.

Composite score

62

/100

High Velocity dominates · Filing Intensity

Financial snapshot
Revenue$28M
EBITDA$7M
Enterprise value$107M
EV / Revenue3.8×
EV / EBITDA14.6×
P/EN/A
Cash$30M
Total debt$573K
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

16/100

Companies actively deploying disclosed capital into M&A

  • $201M disclosed buyer spend

Buyer Cadence

2/100

Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity

  • 64 8-Ks

Target Probability

6/100

Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings

  • 1 activism filings

Spin/Carve

0/100

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

  • 1 activism filings

Pressure Watch

12/100

Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure

  • 1 activism filings
  • Latest activism 17y ago; heavily discounted

Distress Watch

5/100

Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns

  • 1 activism filings

Restatement Risk

0/100

Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings

Capital Velocity

Dominant
62/100

Issuers with the highest filing-activity intensity

  • 64 8-Ks
  • 5 form types

Quiet Power

0/100

Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence

  • Enterprise value $107M
  • 10-Q 70d 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.

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19
20
21
22
23
24
25

Disclosed spend $MM Disclosed transactions (right axis)Peak spend year: $10M · Peak count: 1

FYDisclosed buysDisclosed spendAvg ticketAudited tier
20251$5M$5MN/A
20241$5M$5MN/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

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

Strategy keywords

Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.

  • bolt_on
  • geographic_expansion
  • 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.

Our PIPE technology generates multiple 3D images simultaneously in real time using different sonar/acoustic parameters (such as different beamforming methods, frequency, range, field of view, pulse length and other acoustic filters or shading).

10-KFY2023

Central to this evolution is the development of smarter vehicles equipped with tools like the Echoscope® which deliver real-time, three-dimensional data (live XYZ data) for informed real time decision-making.

10-KFY2025

The Company’s 6D Sonars process and utilize much more of the data acquired by the sonar. 6D Sonars generate multiple real time 3D Full Time Series Images.

10-KFY2023

All next-generation defense vehicle programs share a common objective of integrating advanced technologies and enhanced capabilities.

10-KFY2025

The Company acquired PAL to gain access to its expertise in acoustic and medical imaging technologies.

10-KFY2024
§ 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

A&D Components

Market spend (2023–2025)
$32.8B
Market spend (2020–2022)
$12.9B
Recent vs prior
+153%
Issuer rank in market
N/A
Share of market capital
0.0%

Valuation positioning

14.6×EV / EBITDA

CODA trades at a -10.0-turn discount to the A&D Components peer median of 24.6×.

EV / Revenue
3.8×
Net debt / EBITDA
-4.1×
Peer median EV / EBITDA
24.6×

Trading comparables

FMP market data · 2026-05-10

CompanyEV / EBITDAEV / RevNet debt / EBITDARevenueM&A 2023–2025
34.2×9.3×1.8×$4.6B$3.3B
31.5×2.4×-0.9×$92.2B$1.4B
29.1×6.6×-0.8×$48.4BN/A
20.1×10.1×5.7×$9.5B$3.5B
19.5×3.0×1.9×$90.4BN/A
16.0×2.6×-0.1×$22.5B$13.4B
Coda Octopus Group, Inc.CODA
14.6×3.8×-4.1×$28M$9M

Trading multiples from FMP market data; disclosed M&A spend from the SE-Cluster EDGAR 10-K corpus. Peer set = top disclosed buyers in A&D Components. 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)162026-02-26
  • 10-Q (quarterly)392026-03-17
  • 8-K (event)642025-09-16
  • Proxy / DEF 14A92025-08-14
  • Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)12009-11-18

Signals on file

  • elevated

    Activism on file

    2009-11-18

    1 activist filing 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.