Tempest Therapeutics, Inc.
TPSTHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITYTempest Therapeutics, Inc. reads as High Velocity (composite 70/100); pressure / disclosure signals dominate the posture this cycle · primary market Healthcare.
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
70
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
- $500K disclosed buyer spend
Buyer Cadence
Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity
- Filed within 34d
- 162 8-Ks
Target Probability
Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings
- 35 activism filings
Spin/Carve
Issuers showing spin-off, carve-out, or sum-of-parts posture
- 4 spin pre-registrations
- Latest event 14y ago; heavily discounted
- 35 activism filings
Pressure Watch
Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure
- 35 activism filings
- Latest activism 1.8y ago
Distress Watch
Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns
- 10-Q 216d stale
- 35 activism filings
Restatement Risk
Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings
- 1 auditor change
- Latest event 4.9y ago; discounted
Capital Velocity
DominantIssuers with the highest filing-activity intensity
- 162 8-Ks
- 5 form types
Quiet Power
Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence
- Enterprise value $9M
- 10-Q 216d 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.
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
Healthcare
- Market spend (2023–2025)
- $195B
- Market spend (2020–2022)
- $253.6B
- Recent vs prior
- −23%
- Issuer rank in market
- N/A
- Share of market capital
- 0.0%
Valuation positioning
TPST trades at a -13.3-turn discount to the Healthcare peer median of 12.9×.
- EV / Revenue
- N/A
- Net debt / EBITDA
- N/A
- Peer median EV / EBITDA
- 12.9×
Trading comparables
FMP market data · 2026-05-10
| Company | EV / EBITDA | EV / Rev | Net debt / EBITDA | Revenue | M&A 2023–2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
AbbVie Inc.ABBV | 23.4× | 6.7× | 3.1× | $62.8B | $18B |
| 17.2× | 0.9× | 1.9× | $449.7B | $28.1B | |
Amgen Inc.AMGN | 12.9× | 6.0× | 2.6× | $37.2B | $26.7B |
| 11.7× | 0.5× | 2.5× | $200.4B | $6.4B | |
| 9.3× | 1.9× | 2.8× | $76.4B | $1.3B |
Trading multiples from FMP market data; disclosed M&A spend from the SE-Cluster EDGAR 10-K corpus. Peer set = top disclosed buyers in Healthcare. 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)172026-03-30
- 10-Q (quarterly)412025-11-05
- 8-K (event)1622026-05-06
- Proxy / DEF 14A332025-12-31
- Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)352024-08-12
Signals on file
- elevated
Auditor change
2021-07-011 Item 4.01 filing on file; certifying accountant change.
- elevated
Spin registration
2012-07-054 Form 10-12 filings on file; pre-spin registration.
- elevated
Activism on file
2024-08-1235 activist filings on file (13D, DFAN14A, PREC14A series).
- info
Signal
Spin/Carve candidate
- info
Signal
Restatement risk
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.