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TickerCBFV
SectorBanks - Regional
Mkt cap$180M
EV / EBITDA17.9×
PostureHigh Velocity
Composite62/100
LensTarget-side
SE-Cluster Research·Issuer Brief·Q2 2026CIK 1605301

CB Financial Services, Inc.

CBFVHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITY

CB Financial Services, Inc. reads as High Velocity (composite 62/100); 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

62

/100

High Velocity dominates · Filing Intensity

Financial snapshot
Revenue$71M
EBITDA$9M
Enterprise value$159M
EV / Revenue2.3×
EV / EBITDA17.9×
P/EN/A
Cash$32M
Total debtN/A
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

16/100

Companies actively deploying disclosed capital into M&A

  • $42M disclosed buyer spend

Buyer Cadence

18/100

Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity

  • 147 8-Ks

Target Probability

2/100

Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings

Spin/Carve

0/100

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

Pressure Watch

12/100

Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure

Distress Watch

26/100

Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns

  • 10-Q 260d stale

Restatement Risk

5/100

Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings

  • 2 auditor changes
  • 3 NT late filings
  • Latest event 5.5y ago; heavily discounted

Capital Velocity

Dominant
62/100

Issuers with the highest filing-activity intensity

  • 147 8-Ks
  • 4 form types

Quiet Power

0/100

Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence

  • Enterprise value $159M
  • 10-Q 260d ago
  • 3 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: $42M · 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

  • Geographic Expansion
    33%
  • Horizontal Consolidation
    33%
  • Platform
    33%

Strategy keywords

Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.

  • geographic_expansion
  • horizontal_consolidation
  • 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.

The merger resulted in the addition of five branches and expanded the Company’s reach into Fayette and Westmoreland counties in southwestern Pennsylvania.

10-KFY2014

The merger added eight branches and expanded the Company’s reach into West Virginia with seven branches and one branch in Eastern Ohio

10-KFY2018

Effective April 30, 2018, the Company completed its merger with First West Virginia Bancorp

10-KFY2018

On October 31, 2014, the Company completed its merger with FedFirst Financial Corporation

10-KFY2014
§ 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

17.9×EV / EBITDA

CBFV trades at a +5.6-turn premium to the Regional Banking peer median of 12.3×.

EV / Revenue
2.3×
Net debt / EBITDA
N/A
Peer median EV / EBITDA
12.3×

Trading comparables

FMP market data · 2026-05-10

CompanyEV / EBITDAEV / RevNet debt / EBITDARevenueM&A 2023–2025
CB Financial Services, Inc.CBFV
17.9×2.3×N/A$71MN/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)132026-03-13
  • 10-Q (quarterly)352025-11-07
  • 8-K (event)1472026-04-22
  • Proxy / DEF 14A182026-04-09
  • Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)0N/A

Signals on file

  • elevated

    Auditor change

    2021-02-03

    2 Item 4.01 filings on file; certifying accountant change.

  • watch

    Late-filing notice

    2019-05-13

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

  • info

    Signal

    Serial acquisition history

  • info

    Signal

    10-K strategy themes

  • info

    Signal

    Restatement risk

§ 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.