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TickerSOWG
SectorPackaged Foods
Mkt cap$1M
EV / EBITDAN/A
PostureHigh Velocity
Composite70/100
LensTarget-side
SE-Cluster Research·Issuer Brief·Q2 2026CIK 1490161

Sow Good Inc.

SOWGHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITY

Sow Good Inc. reads as High Velocity (composite 70/100); pressure / disclosure signals dominate the posture this cycle · primary market Consumer Products.

Lens

Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)

N/A

−99%

vs N/A in 2020–2022

Disclosed transactions

N/A

−99%

0/3 active fiscal years in window

Buyer archetype

Consistent Strategic Buyer

Meaningful spend appears across repeat years.

Composite score

70

/100

High Velocity dominates · Filing Intensity

Financial snapshot
RevenueN/A
EBITDAN/A
Enterprise value$1M
EV / RevenueN/A
EV / EBITDAN/A
P/EN/A
Cash$1M
Total debt$699K
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

14/100

Companies actively deploying disclosed capital into M&A

  • $65M disclosed buyer spend

Buyer Cadence

16/100

Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity

  • Filed within 35d
  • 181 8-Ks

Target Probability

20/100

Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings

  • 13 activism filings

Spin/Carve

2/100

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

  • 6 spin pre-registrations
  • Latest event 16y ago; heavily discounted
  • 13 activism filings

Pressure Watch

20/100

Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure

  • 13 activism filings
  • Latest activism 5.5y ago; heavily discounted

Distress Watch

44/100

Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns

  • 10-Q 207d stale
  • 13 activism filings

Restatement Risk

33/100

Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings

  • 1 non-reliance 8-K
  • 1 auditor change
  • 5 NT late filings
  • Latest event 2.8y ago; discounted

Capital Velocity

Dominant
70/100

Issuers with the highest filing-activity intensity

  • 181 8-Ks
  • 5 form types

Quiet Power

0/100

Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence

  • Enterprise value $1M
  • 10-Q 207d ago
  • 4 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: $10M · 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
20211$10M$10MN/A
20201$10M$10MN/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
    33%
  • Tuck In
    33%
  • Platform
    33%

Strategy keywords

Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.

  • geographic_expansion
  • talent_acquisition
  • bolt_on
  • platform
§ 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.

Our corporate strategy is the acquisition, exploration, development and production of crude oil and natural gas properties, primarily in the Bakken and Three Forks trends in North Dakota and Montana.

10-KFY2014

Looking forward, we are pursuing the following objectives: Access appropriate capital markets to fund continued acreage acquisition and drilling activities;

10-KFY2014

acquired approximately $2.2 million in cash and certain assets and agreements related to the Seller’s freeze-dried fruits and vegetables business

10-KFY2020

acquired assets and agreements related to the Seller’s freeze-dried fruits and vegetables business for human consumption

10-KFY2021

entered into certain employment and registration rights agreements

10-KFY2021
§ 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

Consumer Products

Market spend (2023–2025)
$145.2B
Market spend (2020–2022)
$102.1B
Recent vs prior
+42%
Issuer rank in market
N/A
Share of market capital
0.0%

Valuation positioning

N/AEV / EBITDA

SOWG trades at a -12.5-turn discount to the Consumer Products peer median of 12.2×.

EV / Revenue
N/A
Net debt / EBITDA
N/A
Peer median EV / EBITDA
12.2×

Trading comparables

FMP market data · 2026-05-10

CompanyEV / EBITDAEV / RevNet debt / EBITDARevenueM&A 2023–2025
15.7×2.3×2.0×$164.7B$24.6B
8.7×1.3×-0.1×$10B$5.5B

Trading multiples from FMP market data; disclosed M&A spend from the SE-Cluster EDGAR 10-K corpus. Peer set = top disclosed buyers in Consumer Products. 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)172026-03-31
  • 10-Q (quarterly)492025-11-14
  • 8-K (event)1812026-05-05
  • Proxy / DEF 14A72025-04-30
  • Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)132020-11-25

Signals on file

  • critical

    Non-reliance disclosure

    2020-05-15

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

  • elevated

    Auditor change

    2023-08-23

    1 Item 4.01 filing on file; certifying accountant change.

  • watch

    Late-filing notice

    2023-05-16

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

  • elevated

    Spin registration

    2010-06-11

    6 Form 10-12 filings on file; pre-spin registration.

  • elevated

    Activism on file

    2020-11-25

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

  • info

    Signal

    Serial acquisition history

  • info

    Signal

    10-K strategy themes

  • info

    Signal

    Spin/Carve candidate

§ 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.