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TickerNFBK
SectorBanks - Regional
Mkt cap$586M
EV / EBITDA57.1×
PostureHigh Velocity
Composite70/100
LensTarget-side
SE-Cluster Research·Issuer Brief·Q2 2026CIK 1493225

Northfield Bancorp, Inc.

NFBKHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITY

Northfield Bancorp, Inc. reads as High Velocity (composite 70/100); pressure / disclosure signals dominate the posture this cycle · primary market Regional Banking.

Lens

Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)

N/A

flat

vs N/A in 2020–2022

Disclosed transactions

N/A

flat

0/3 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$266M
EBITDA$26M
Enterprise value$1.5B
EV / Revenue5.5×
EV / EBITDA57.1×
P/EN/A
Cash$164M
Total debt$666M
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

  • $200M disclosed buyer spend

Buyer Cadence

14/100

Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity

  • Filed within 42d
  • 183 8-Ks

Target Probability

32/100

Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings

  • Control-process language

Spin/Carve

0/100

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

Pressure Watch

25/100

Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure

  • Control-process filings

Distress Watch

26/100

Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns

  • 10-Q 214d stale

Restatement Risk

3/100

Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings

  • 1 auditor change
  • Latest event 3.2y ago; discounted

Capital Velocity

Dominant
70/100

Issuers with the highest filing-activity intensity

  • 183 8-Ks
  • 4 form types

Quiet Power

0/100

Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence

  • Enterprise value $1.5B
  • 10-Q 214d ago
  • 5 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: $14M · 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
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

  • Bolt On
    50%
  • Geographic Expansion
    50%

Strategy keywords

Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.

  • bolt_on
  • geographic_expansion
§ 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.

On November 2, 2012, Northfield Bancorp, MHC, Northfield-Federal and Northfield Bank acquired Flatbush Federal Bancorp, MHC, Flatbush Federal Bancorp, Inc. and Flatbush Federal Savings & Loan Association (“the Merger”).

10-KFY2012

On July 1, 2020, the Company completed its acquisition of VSB Bancorp, Inc. (“Victory”), parent company of Victory State Bank, in a stock transaction

10-KFY2020

the acquisition of Hopewell Valley in 2016 further allowed the Company to expand its commercial and industrial lending in New Jersey and Pennsylvania

10-KFY2016

Victory State Bank operated six branch offices in Staten Island, New York (two of which were subsequently consolidated with existing branches).

10-KFY2020

Principles of Consolidation and Basis of Presentation: As of the dates of the financial statements, the transaction contemplated by the Plan of Conversion and Reorganization has not been completed and consequently, the operations of Northfield-Delaware, have not yet begun and there are no transactions to report. As of the dates of the financial statements, Northfield-Delaware does not own the Bank and consequently, there are no consolidated financial statements presented. Northfield-Delaware was formed for the purpose of effectuating the mutual-to-stock conversion of the MHC and while Northfield-Delaware is a legal entity, it has not executed any transactions of material consequence. Costs incurred by the MHC related to the mutual-to-stock conversion of the MHC and have been recorded by Northfield-Federal. All transactions in the name of Northfield-Delaware have been conducted for the benefit of the mutual-to-stock transaction of the MHC, and those costs have been recorded by Northfield-Federal, including the costs associated with the filing of this annual report on Form 10-K.

10-KFY2010
§ 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

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

57.1×EV / EBITDA

NFBK trades at a +44.9-turn premium to the Regional Banking peer median of 12.3×.

EV / Revenue
5.5×
Net debt / EBITDA
19.6×
Peer median EV / EBITDA
12.3×

Trading comparables

FMP market data · 2026-05-10

CompanyEV / EBITDAEV / RevNet debt / EBITDARevenueM&A 2023–2025
Northfield Bancorp, Inc.NFBK
57.1×5.5×19.6×$266MN/A
16.7×3.7×-0.9×$13.7B$12.7B
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.

§ 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)192026-04-28
  • 10-Q (quarterly)432025-11-07
  • 8-K (event)1832026-04-21
  • Proxy / DEF 14A242025-04-14
  • Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)0N/A

Signals on file

  • elevated

    Auditor change

    2023-03-17

    1 Item 4.01 filing on file; certifying accountant change.

  • info

    Signal

    Serial acquisition history

  • info

    Signal

    10-K strategy themes

  • info

    Signal

    Recent transaction activity

§ 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.