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TickerBTCS
SectorFinancial - Capital Markets
Mkt cap$106M
EV / EBITDAN/A
PostureHigh Velocity
Composite70/100
LensTarget-side
SE-Cluster Research·Issuer Brief·Q2 2026CIK 1436229

Btcs Inc.

BTCSHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITY

Btcs Inc. reads as High Velocity (composite 70/100); pressure / disclosure signals dominate the posture this cycle · primary market Financial Infrastructure.

Lens

Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)

$201M

new

vs N/A in 2020–2022

Disclosed transactions

N/A

flat

1/3 active fiscal years in window

Buyer archetype

Selective Buyer

Acquisition use is visible but targeted.

Composite score

70

/100

High Velocity dominates · Filing Intensity

Financial snapshot
Revenue$16M
EBITDAN/A
Enterprise value$177M
EV / Revenue10.8×
EV / EBITDAN/A
P/EN/A
Cash$2M
Total debt$200K
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

18/100

Companies actively deploying disclosed capital into M&A

  • $201M disclosed buyer spend

Buyer Cadence

12/100

Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity

  • Filed within 55d
  • 195 8-Ks

Target Probability

20/100

Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings

  • 8 activism filings

Spin/Carve

0/100

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

  • 8 activism filings

Pressure Watch

34/100

Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure

  • 8 activism filings
  • Latest activism 4.7y ago; discounted

Distress Watch

44/100

Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns

  • 10-Q 208d stale
  • 8 activism filings

Restatement Risk

0/100

Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings

Capital Velocity

Dominant
70/100

Issuers with the highest filing-activity intensity

  • 195 8-Ks
  • 5 form types

Quiet Power

0/100

Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence

  • Enterprise value $177M
  • 10-Q 208d ago
  • 1 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: $201M · Peak count: 1

FYDisclosed buysDisclosed spendAvg ticketAudited tier
2025N/A$201MN/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
§ 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

  • Geographic Expansion
    50%
  • Horizontal Consolidation
    50%

Strategy keywords

Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.

  • geographic_expansion
  • horizontal_consolidation
§ 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.

Consolidation through mergers, alliances, or capital aggregation may strengthen the competitive positions of existing participants by pooling resources and expanding capabilities.

10-KFY2025

Given our small team and relative lack of capital to many peers, we acknowledge that we face a competitive disadvantage in this landscape.

10-KFY2023

The potential for new entrants, as well as consolidation through mergers and alliances, presents ongoing competitive challenges.

10-KFY2024

Competition in the Company’s markets is further influenced by the potential for new entrants and industry consolidation.

10-KFY2025

Consolidation can strengthen the positions of existing competitors by pooling resources and broadening capabilities.

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

Financial Infrastructure

Market spend (2023–2025)
$186.1B
Market spend (2020–2022)
$98.1B
Recent vs prior
+90%
Issuer rank in market
N/A
Share of market capital
0.0%

Valuation positioning

N/AEV / EBITDA

BTCS trades at a -1278.5-turn discount to the Financial Infrastructure peer median of 16.2×.

EV / Revenue
10.8×
Net debt / EBITDA
N/A
Peer median EV / EBITDA
16.2×

Trading comparables

FMP market data · 2026-05-10

CompanyEV / EBITDAEV / RevNet debt / EBITDARevenueM&A 2023–2025
22.0×14.5×-0.4×$43B$1.8B
21.4×10.8×1.4×$7.9B$451M
16.2×8.2×3.2×$13.1B$10.3B
10.9×3.9×5.4×$8.8B$5.1B
2.3×2.7×-1.1×$187B$81.8B

Trading multiples from FMP market data; disclosed M&A spend from the SE-Cluster EDGAR 10-K corpus. Peer set = top disclosed buyers in Financial Infrastructure. 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)282026-03-26
  • 10-Q (quarterly)672025-11-13
  • 8-K (event)1952026-03-31
  • Proxy / DEF 14A92026-04-15
  • Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)82021-09-21

Signals on file

  • elevated

    Activism on file

    2021-09-21

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

  • 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.