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TickerRCON
SectorOil & Gas Equipment & Services
Mkt cap$173M
EV / EBITDAN/A
PostureHigh Velocity
Composite62/100
LensTarget-side
SE-Cluster Research·Issuer Brief·Q2 2026CIK 1442620

Recon Technology, Ltd

RCONHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITY

Recon Technology, Ltd reads as High Velocity (composite 62/100); pressure / disclosure signals dominate the posture this cycle · primary market Energy Infrastructure.

Lens

Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)

$2.4B

−8%

vs $2.6B in 2020–2022

Disclosed transactions

N/A

−99%

2/3 active fiscal years in window

Buyer archetype

Transformational Buyer

Episodic but very large disclosed transactions drive the profile.

Composite score

62

/100

High Velocity dominates · Filing Intensity

Financial snapshot
Revenue$66M
EBITDAN/A
Enterprise value$136M
EV / Revenue3.0×
EV / EBITDAN/A
P/EN/A
Cash$14M
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

41/100

Companies actively deploying disclosed capital into M&A

  • $5.1B disclosed buyer spend

Buyer Cadence

0/100

Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity

  • 31 8-Ks

Target Probability

16/100

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

31/100

Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure

  • 8 activism filings
  • Latest activism 4.1y ago; discounted

Distress Watch

52/100

Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns

  • 10-Q 3480d stale
  • 8 activism filings

Restatement Risk

22/100

Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings

  • 1 non-reliance 8-K
  • 3 auditor changes
  • 2 NT late filings
  • Latest event 4.6y ago; discounted

Capital Velocity

Dominant
62/100

Issuers with the highest filing-activity intensity

  • 31 8-Ks
  • 5 form types

Quiet Power

0/100

Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence

  • Enterprise value $136M
  • 10-Q 3480d ago
  • 3 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: $2,637M · Peak count: 1

FYDisclosed buysDisclosed spendAvg ticketAudited tier
2025N/A$2.4BN/AN/A
2024N/AN/AN/AN/A
2023N/A$67MN/AN/A
2022N/AN/AN/AN/A
20211$2.6B$2.6BN/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
    100%

Strategy keywords

Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.

  • geographic_expansion
§ 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

Energy Infrastructure

Market spend (2023–2025)
$86.6B
Market spend (2020–2022)
$40.3B
Recent vs prior
+115%
Issuer rank in market
N/A
Share of market capital
0.0%

Valuation positioning

N/AEV / EBITDA

RCON trades at a -16.2-turn discount to the Energy Infrastructure peer median of 12.9×.

EV / Revenue
3.0×
Net debt / EBITDA
N/A
Peer median EV / EBITDA
12.9×

Trading comparables

FMP market data · 2026-05-10

CompanyEV / EBITDAEV / RevNet debt / EBITDARevenueM&A 2023–2025
19.9×11.8×9.3×$1.5B$1B
13.3×4.8×-0.3×$9.3B$3.7B
12.5×2.5×0.9×$35.9B$5.8B
7.0×2.7×-0.2×$58.3B$2.7B

Trading multiples from FMP market data; disclosed M&A spend from the SE-Cluster EDGAR 10-K corpus. Peer set = top disclosed buyers in Energy 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)222025-10-15
  • 10-Q (quarterly)252016-11-14
  • 8-K (event)312016-11-25
  • Proxy / DEF 14A62016-06-06
  • Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)82022-04-04

Signals on file

  • critical

    Non-reliance disclosure

    2011-12-06

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

  • elevated

    Auditor change

    2011-12-12

    3 Item 4.01 filings on file; certifying accountant change.

  • watch

    Late-filing notice

    2021-10-29

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

  • elevated

    Activism on file

    2022-04-04

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

  • info

    Signal

    Serial acquisition history

  • 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.