Transportation and Logistics Systems, Inc.
TLSSHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITYTransportation and Logistics Systems, Inc. reads as High Velocity (composite 62/100); pressure / disclosure signals dominate the posture this cycle · primary market Industrial Services.
Lens
Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)
$700K
vs N/A in 2020–2022
Disclosed transactions
N/A
1/3 active fiscal years in window
Buyer archetype
Selective Buyer
Acquisition use is visible but targeted.
Composite score
62
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
- $1M disclosed buyer spend
Buyer Cadence
Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity
- 111 8-Ks
Target Probability
Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings
- 1 activism filings
Spin/Carve
Issuers showing spin-off, carve-out, or sum-of-parts posture
- 1 activism filings
Pressure Watch
Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure
- 1 activism filings
- Latest activism 13y ago; heavily discounted
Distress Watch
Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns
- 10-Q 240d stale
- 1 activism filings
Restatement Risk
Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings
Capital Velocity
DominantIssuers with the highest filing-activity intensity
- 111 8-Ks
- 4 form types
Quiet Power
Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence
- Enterprise value $1M
- 10-Q 240d ago
- 2 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.
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 Expansion100%
Strategy keywords
Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.
- geographic_expansion
- horizontal_consolidation
- bolt_on
Filing language.
Direct excerpts from acquisition disclosures and strategy sections: the verbs the buyer chose, in the filings they signed.
“our newly formed wholly-owned subsidiary, TLSS-FC, closed on an acquisition of all outstanding stock of Freight Connections, a New Jersey-based company offering an array of transportation, warehousing, consolidating, distribution, and local cartage services throughout the New York tri-state area.”
“the continuing trend toward consolidation in the trucking industry may result in more large carriers with greater financial resources and other competitive advantages, and we may have difficulty competing with them;”
“Until such time that we implement our growth through acquisition strategy, we expect to continue to generate operating losses in the foreseeable future”
“we have incurred recurring losses, including a loss from operations of $6,445,024 and $8,215,551 for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020”
“The Company issued to the Freight Connections Seller 178,911,844 shares of the Company’s common stock and 32,374 shares of the Company’s Series H preferred stock which is convertible into an aggregate of 323,740,000 shares of the Company’s common stock based on a conversion of 10,000 shares of common stock for each share of Series H preferred stock outstanding.”
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
Industrial Services
- Market spend (2023–2025)
- $65.5B
- Market spend (2020–2022)
- $39.6B
- Recent vs prior
- +65%
- Issuer rank in market
- N/A
- Share of market capital
- 0.0%
Valuation positioning
TLSS trades at a -9.4-turn discount to the Industrial Services peer median of 11.4×.
- EV / Revenue
- N/A
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 5.7×
- Peer median EV / EBITDA
- 11.4×
Trading comparables
FMP market data · 2026-05-10
| Company | EV / EBITDA | EV / Rev | Net debt / EBITDA | Revenue | M&A 2023–2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15.1× | 1.0× | -0.4× | $24.2B | $444M | |
Paychex, Inc.PAYX | 13.1× | 5.8× | 1.1× | $6.3B | $3.2B |
| 11.4× | 0.9× | 7.8× | $2.5B | $3.9B | |
| 11.3× | 4.5× | 0.2× | $16.4B | $931M | |
AZZ Inc.AZZ | 8.7× | 3.0× | 0.8× | $1.7B | $1.3B |
Transportation and Logistics Systems, Inc.TLSS | 2.0× | N/A | 5.7× | N/A | $700K |
Trading multiples from FMP market data; disclosed M&A spend from the SE-Cluster EDGAR 10-K corpus. Peer set = top disclosed buyers in Industrial Services. Bars scaled to the highest EV/EBITDA in the set.
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.
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)192026-03-30
- 10-Q (quarterly)592025-11-13
- 8-K (event)1112026-04-28
- Proxy / DEF 14A0N/A
- Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)12013-10-16
Signals on file
- elevated
Activism on file
2013-10-161 activist filing on file (13D, DFAN14A, PREC14A series).
- info
Signal
Serial acquisition history
- info
Signal
10-K strategy themes
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.