Phoenix New Media Limited
FENGQUIET ISSUERQUIETPhoenix New Media Limited reads as an Quiet Issuer (composite 30/100); Selective Buyer deploying $0 across 0 disclosed transactions, running flat vs the prior cycle · primary market Media & Education.
Lens
Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)
N/A
vs N/A in 2020–2022
Disclosed transactions
N/A
0/3 active fiscal years in window
Buyer archetype
Selective Buyer
Acquisition use is visible but targeted.
Composite score
30
Quiet Issuer dominates · Quiet
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
- $21M disclosed buyer spend
Buyer Cadence
Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity
- Filed within 41d
Target Probability
Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings
Spin/Carve
Issuers showing spin-off, carve-out, or sum-of-parts posture
Pressure Watch
Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure
Distress Watch
Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns
- Missing recent 10-Q
Restatement Risk
Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings
Capital Velocity
Issuers with the highest filing-activity intensity
Quiet Power
Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence
- Market cap $3M
- Quiet signals
Capital cadence.
Ten-year disclosed M&A activity. Bars show spend ($MM); ticks show recorded transaction count. Disclosure tier annotated where v6 audited corpus carries an entry.
Disclosed spend $MM Disclosed transactions (right axis)Peak spend year: $21M · Peak count: 1
| FY | Disclosed buys | Disclosed spend | Avg ticket | Audited tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2024 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2023 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2022 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2021 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2020 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Filing language.
Direct excerpts from acquisition disclosures and strategy sections: the verbs the buyer chose, in the filings they signed.
“PRC regulations establish complex procedures for certain acquisitions of PRC companies by foreign investors, which could make it more difficult for us to pursue growth through acquisitions in China.”
“While we do not have control over, and therefore do not consolidate Particle, we may consolidate Particle as a subsidiary once Yidian’s user base reaches a certain level.”
“As part of our strategy to expand our mobile platform, we have made substantial investments in Particle Inc., or Particle, in the form of investments and loans.”
“Over the years, there has been some consolidation among advertising agencies in China. If the consolidation trend continues and the market is effectively controlled by a small number of large advertising agencies, such advertising agencies may be in a position to demand higher advertising agency service fees based on increased bargaining power, which could reduce our net advertising revenues.”
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
Media & Education
- Market spend (2023–2025)
- $31.8B
- Market spend (2020–2022)
- $74.8B
- Recent vs prior
- −57%
- Issuer rank in market
- N/A
- Share of market capital
- 0.0%
Valuation positioning
FENG trades at a +3.1-turn premium to the Media & Education peer median of 12.1×.
- EV / Revenue
- N/A
- Net debt / EBITDA
- N/A
- Peer median EV / EBITDA
- 12.1×
Trading comparables
FMP market data · 2026-05-10
| Company | EV / EBITDA | EV / Rev | Net debt / EBITDA | Revenue | M&A 2023–2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21.6× | 2.0× | -0.2× | $8.8B | $55M | |
| 19.2× | 1.5× | -3.6× | $25.6B | $196M | |
Phoenix New Media LimitedFENG | 15.2× | N/A | N/A | $745M | N/A |
| 4.9× | 1.8× | 2.2× | $37.2B | $100M | |
| 3.0× | 0.2× | 14.1× | $2.1B | $14M |
Trading multiples from FMP market data; disclosed M&A spend from the SE-Cluster EDGAR 10-K corpus. Peer set = top disclosed buyers in Media & Education. Bars scaled to the highest EV/EBITDA in the set.
Target landscape.
Public-issuer targets that fit this buyer's archetype and target categories from filing-derived signal. Scores reflect cross-signal fit; reasons cite the EDGAR-anchored facts that drove the match.
No qualifying public-issuer targets surfaced from the current signal mix.
Stated target categories
No target categories enumerated in the audited corpus for this issuer.
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)162026-04-29
- 10-Q (quarterly)0N/A
- 8-K (event)0N/A
- Proxy / DEF 14A0N/A
- Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)0N/A
Signals on file
Clean signal stream: no restatement, NT, spin / carve, or activism filings on file.
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.