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TickerACIC
SectorInsurance - Property & Casualty
Mkt cap$509M
EV / EBITDA2.6×
PostureHigh Velocity
Composite62/100
LensBuyer-side
SE-Cluster Research·Issuer Brief·Q2 2026CIK 1401521

American Coastal Insurance Corporation

ACICHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITY

American Coastal Insurance Corporation reads as an High Velocity (composite 62/100); Selective Buyer deploying $0 across 0 disclosed transactions, running flat vs the prior cycle · primary market Insurance.

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

Selective Buyer

Acquisition use is visible but targeted.

Composite score

62

/100

High Velocity dominates · Filing Intensity

Financial snapshot
Revenue$334M
EBITDA$163M
Enterprise value$423M
EV / Revenue1.3×
EV / EBITDA2.6×
P/EN/A
Cash$117M
Total debt$150M
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

22/100

Companies actively deploying disclosed capital into M&A

  • $373M disclosed buyer spend

Buyer Cadence

0/100

Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity

  • 243 8-Ks

Target Probability

18/100

Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings

  • 24 activism filings

Spin/Carve

0/100

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

  • 24 activism filings

Pressure Watch

18/100

Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure

  • 24 activism filings
  • Latest activism 7.3y ago; heavily discounted

Distress Watch

18/100

Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns

  • 24 activism filings

Restatement Risk

51/100

Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings

  • 1 non-reliance 8-K
  • 5 auditor changes
  • 7 NT late filings
  • Latest event 2.9y ago; discounted

Capital Velocity

Dominant
62/100

Issuers with the highest filing-activity intensity

  • 243 8-Ks
  • 5 form types

Quiet Power

0/100

Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence

  • Enterprise value $423M
  • 10-Q 64d 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: $286M · 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
§ 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.

As of this filing, we have not acquired any business operations nor entered into any definitive agreement with any target company.

10-KFY2007
§ 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

Insurance

Market spend (2023–2025)
$50.4B
Market spend (2020–2022)
$62.2B
Recent vs prior
−19%
Issuer rank in market
N/A
Share of market capital
0.0%

Valuation positioning

2.6×EV / EBITDA

ACIC trades at a -9.0-turn discount to the Insurance peer median of 11.6×.

EV / Revenue
1.3×
Net debt / EBITDA
0.2×
Peer median EV / EBITDA
11.6×

Trading comparables

FMP market data · 2026-05-10

CompanyEV / EBITDAEV / RevNet debt / EBITDARevenueM&A 2023–2025
14.9×3.6×2.8×$27.5B$10.2B
12.1×4.1×3.1×$6.4B$9.4B
11.2×2.3×-0.1×$61.1B$1.3B
8.2×0.6×-3.8×$76.9B$738M
American Coastal Insurance CorporationACIC
2.6×1.3×0.2×$334MN/A

Trading multiples from FMP market data; disclosed M&A spend from the SE-Cluster EDGAR 10-K corpus. Peer set = top disclosed buyers in Insurance. 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)212026-03-09
  • 10-Q (quarterly)582026-05-08
  • 8-K (event)2432026-05-05
  • Proxy / DEF 14A282026-04-01
  • Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)242019-03-20

Signals on file

  • critical

    Non-reliance disclosure

    2023-08-21

    1 Item 4.02 filing on file; financial-statement non-reliance.

  • elevated

    Auditor change

    2018-06-01

    5 Item 4.01 filings on file; certifying accountant change.

  • watch

    Late-filing notice

    2023-08-14

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

  • elevated

    Activism on file

    2019-03-20

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

  • info

    Signal

    Serial acquisition history

  • 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.