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TickerPERI
SectorInternet Content & Information
Mkt cap$457M
EV / EBITDA63.1×
PostureQuiet Issuer
Composite30/100
LensTarget-side
SE-Cluster Research·Issuer Brief·Q2 2026CIK 1338940

Perion Network Ltd.

PERIQUIET ISSUERQUIET

Perion Network Ltd. reads as Quiet Issuer (composite 30/100); pressure / disclosure signals dominate the posture this cycle · primary market Marketing & Data.

Lens

Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)

$129M

+102%

vs $64M in 2020–2022

Disclosed transactions

1

−67%

2/3 active fiscal years in window

Buyer archetype

Consistent Strategic Buyer

Meaningful spend appears across repeat years.

Composite score

30

/100

Quiet Issuer dominates · Quiet

Financial snapshot
Revenue$440M
EBITDA$6M
Enterprise value$408M
EV / Revenue0.9×
EV / EBITDA63.1×
P/EN/A
Cash$90M
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

23/100

Companies actively deploying disclosed capital into M&A

  • $438M disclosed buyer spend

Buyer Cadence

0/100

Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity

Target Probability

18/100

Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings

  • 18 activism filings

Spin/Carve

0/100

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

  • 18 activism filings

Pressure Watch

8/100

Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure

  • 18 activism filings
  • Latest activism 6.4y ago; heavily discounted

Distress Watch

30/100

Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns

  • Missing recent 10-Q
  • 18 activism filings

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 $408M
  • 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: $102M · Peak count: 2

FYDisclosed buysDisclosed spendAvg ticketAudited tier
20251$27M$27MN/A
2024N/A$102MN/AN/A
2023N/AN/AN/AN/A
2022N/A$10MN/AN/A
20211$35M$35MN/A
20202$19M$10MN/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
    20%
  • Bolt On
    20%
  • Horizontal Consolidation
    20%
  • Platform
    20%
  • Geographic Expansion
    20%

Strategy keywords

Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.

  • technology_acquisition
  • bolt_on
  • horizontal_consolidation
  • platform
  • geographic_expansion
  • tuck_in
§ 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.

The concentration of large companies within the industry and consolidation among participants within the digital advertising market could have a material adverse impact on our business

10-KFY2024

The digital advertising industry has experienced substantial evolution and consolidation in recent years and we expect this trend to continue

10-KFY2022

we may continue to acquire complementary products, technologies or businesses

10-KFY2025

We seek to expand and diversify our supply sources

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

Marketing & Data

Market spend (2023–2025)
$51.4B
Market spend (2020–2022)
$63.5B
Recent vs prior
−19%
Issuer rank in market
N/A
Share of market capital
0.0%

Valuation positioning

63.1×EV / EBITDA

PERI trades at a +40.7-turn premium to the Marketing & Data peer median of 22.4×.

EV / Revenue
0.9×
Net debt / EBITDA
N/A
Peer median EV / EBITDA
22.4×

Trading comparables

FMP market data · 2026-05-10

CompanyEV / EBITDAEV / RevNet debt / EBITDARevenueM&A 2023–2025
Perion Network Ltd.PERI
63.1×0.9×N/A$440M$129M
22.4×11.6×-0.2×$422.6B$3.2B

Trading multiples from FMP market data; disclosed M&A spend from the SE-Cluster EDGAR 10-K corpus. Peer set = top disclosed buyers in Marketing & Data. 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)252026-03-16
  • 10-Q (quarterly)0N/A
  • 8-K (event)0N/A
  • Proxy / DEF 14A0N/A
  • Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)182019-12-30

Signals on file

  • elevated

    Activism on file

    2019-12-30

    18 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.