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TickerKUST
SectorAdvertising Agencies
Mkt cap$5M
EV / EBITDAN/A
PostureRestatement Risk
Composite70/100
LensTarget-side
SE-Cluster Research·Issuer Brief·Q2 2026CIK 1342958

Kustom Entertainment, Inc.

KUSTRESTATEMENT RISKFILING INTENSITY

Kustom Entertainment, Inc. reads as Restatement Risk (composite 70/100); pressure / disclosure signals dominate the posture this cycle · primary market Marketing & Data.

Lens

Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)

$514M

−94%

vs $8.6B in 2020–2022

Disclosed transactions

N/A

flat

1/3 active fiscal years in window

Buyer archetype

Platform Builder

Large and recent disclosed spend expands platforms or service-line scale.

Composite score

70

/100

Restatement Risk dominates · Filing Intensity

Financial snapshot
Revenue$14M
EBITDAN/A
Enterprise value$6M
EV / Revenue0.5×
EV / EBITDAN/A
P/EN/A
Cash$757K
Total debt$845K
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

43/100

Companies actively deploying disclosed capital into M&A

  • $9.1B disclosed buyer spend

Buyer Cadence

0/100

Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity

  • 295 8-Ks

Target Probability

16/100

Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings

  • 17 activism filings

Spin/Carve

0/100

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

  • 17 activism filings

Pressure Watch

13/100

Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure

  • 17 activism filings
  • Latest activism 10y ago; heavily discounted

Distress Watch

44/100

Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns

  • 10-Q 285d stale
  • 17 activism filings

Restatement Risk

Dominant
70/100

Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings

  • 4 auditor changes
  • 15 NT late filings
  • Latest event 5mo ago

Capital Velocity

62/100

Issuers with the highest filing-activity intensity

  • 295 8-Ks
  • 5 form types

Quiet Power

0/100

Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence

  • Enterprise value $6M
  • 10-Q 285d 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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Disclosed spend $MM Disclosed transactions (right axis)Peak spend year: $8,621M · Peak count: 1

FYDisclosed buysDisclosed spendAvg ticketAudited tier
2025N/A$514MN/AN/A
2024N/AN/AN/AN/A
2023N/AN/AN/AN/A
2022N/A$8.6BN/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

  • Tuck In
    25%
  • Bolt On
    25%
  • Platform
    25%
  • Horizontal Consolidation
    25%
§ 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

Trading comparables unavailable for this wedge.

§ 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)202026-04-13
  • 10-Q (quarterly)572025-11-12
  • 8-K (event)2952026-04-22
  • Proxy / DEF 14A382025-11-28
  • Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)172016-05-27

Signals on file

  • elevated

    Auditor change

    2025-05-09

    4 Item 4.01 filings on file; certifying accountant change.

  • watch

    Late-filing notice

    2026-03-31

    15 NT 10-K/10-Q filings on file.

  • elevated

    Activism on file

    2016-05-27

    17 activist filings on file (13D, DFAN14A, PREC14A series).

  • info

    Signal

    10-K strategy themes

  • info

    Signal

    Restatement risk

§ 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.