Servisfirst Bancshares, Inc.
SFBSHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITYServisfirst Bancshares, Inc. reads as an High Velocity (composite 70/100); Selective Buyer deploying $0 across 0 disclosed transactions, running flat vs the prior cycle · primary market Regional Banking.
Lens
Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)
N/A
vs N/A in 2020–2022
Disclosed transactions
N/A
0/3 active fiscal years in window
Buyer archetype
Selective Buyer
Acquisition use is visible but targeted.
Composite score
70
High Velocity dominates · Filing Intensity
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
Companies actively deploying disclosed capital into M&A
- $21M disclosed buyer spend
Buyer Cadence
Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity
- Filed within 34d
- 240 8-Ks
Target Probability
Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings
Spin/Carve
Issuers showing spin-off, carve-out, or sum-of-parts posture
- 4 spin pre-registrations
- Latest event 18y ago; heavily discounted
Pressure Watch
Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure
Distress Watch
Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns
Restatement Risk
Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings
- 4 auditor changes
- 1 NT late filing
- Latest event 2.3y ago; discounted
Capital Velocity
DominantIssuers with the highest filing-activity intensity
- 240 8-Ks
- 4 form types
Quiet Power
Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence
- Enterprise value $5.8B
- 10-Q 34d ago
- 3 active signals
Capital cadence.
No disclosed M&A capital in the 10-year window.
This issuer has not disclosed material acquisition spend or count in the last ten fiscal years.
Filing language.
Direct excerpts from acquisition disclosures and strategy sections: the verbs the buyer chose, in the filings they signed.
“merging or consolidating with any other bank holding company.”
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
Regional Banking
- Market spend (2023–2025)
- $245.7B
- Market spend (2020–2022)
- $72.8B
- Recent vs prior
- +238%
- Issuer rank in market
- N/A
- Share of market capital
- 0.0%
Valuation positioning
SFBS trades at a +3.6-turn premium to the Regional Banking peer median of 12.3×.
- EV / Revenue
- 5.7×
- Net debt / EBITDA
- N/A
- Peer median EV / EBITDA
- 12.3×
Trading comparables
FMP market data · 2026-05-10
| Company | EV / EBITDA | EV / Rev | Net debt / EBITDA | Revenue | M&A 2023–2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16.7× | 3.7× | -0.9× | $13.7B | $12.7B | |
Servisfirst Bancshares, Inc.SFBS | 15.9× | 5.7× | N/A | $1B | N/A |
| 13.9× | 3.0× | -0.7× | $58.4B | $126.1B | |
| 10.7× | 3.2× | -2.1× | $3.4B | $7B | |
| 9.3× | 2.2× | -0.3× | $14.5B | $72.6B |
Trading multiples from FMP market data; disclosed M&A spend from the SE-Cluster EDGAR 10-K corpus. Peer set = top disclosed buyers in Regional Banking. Bars scaled to the highest EV/EBITDA in the set.
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.
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)212026-02-27
- 10-Q (quarterly)582026-05-06
- 8-K (event)2402026-04-20
- Proxy / DEF 14A272026-04-06
- Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)0N/A
Signals on file
- elevated
Auditor change
2022-06-034 Item 4.01 filings on file; certifying accountant change.
- watch
Late-filing notice
2024-03-011 NT 10-K/10-Q filing on file.
- elevated
Spin registration
2008-05-274 Form 10-12 filings on file; pre-spin registration.
- info
Signal
Serial acquisition history
- info
Signal
Spin/Carve candidate
- info
Signal
Restatement risk
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.