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TickerCUE
SectorBiotechnology
Mkt cap$92M
EV / EBITDAN/A
PostureHigh Velocity
Composite70/100
LensTarget-side
SE-Cluster Research·Issuer Brief·Q2 2026CIK 1645460

Cue Biopharma, Inc.

CUEHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITY

Cue Biopharma, 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

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$27M
EBITDAN/A
Enterprise value$69M
EV / Revenue2.5×
EV / EBITDAN/A
P/EN/A
Cash$27M
Total debt$100K
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

0/100

Companies actively deploying disclosed capital into M&A

  • $200K disclosed buyer spend

Buyer Cadence

12/100

Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity

  • Filed within 39d
  • 77 8-Ks

Target Probability

12/100

Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings

  • 2 activism filings

Spin/Carve

0/100

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

  • 2 activism filings

Pressure Watch

15/100

Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure

  • 2 activism filings
  • Latest activism 6.1y ago; heavily discounted

Distress Watch

35/100

Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns

  • 10-Q 209d stale
  • 2 activism filings

Restatement Risk

0/100

Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings

Capital Velocity

Dominant
70/100

Issuers with the highest filing-activity intensity

  • 77 8-Ks
  • 5 form types

Quiet Power

0/100

Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence

  • Enterprise value $69M
  • 10-Q 209d ago
  • Quiet signals
§ II·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

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.

§ 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.

Strategy keywords

Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.

  • technology_acquisition
§ 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.

acquired intangible asset met the definition of a defensive intangible asset and has therefore accounted for the $175,000 payment

10-KFY2017
§ 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

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

N/AEV / EBITDA

CUE trades at a -15.9-turn discount to the Healthcare peer median of 12.9×.

EV / Revenue
2.5×
Net debt / EBITDA
N/A
Peer median EV / EBITDA
12.9×

Trading comparables

FMP market data · 2026-05-10

CompanyEV / EBITDAEV / RevNet debt / EBITDARevenueM&A 2023–2025
23.4×6.7×3.1×$62.8B$18B
17.2×0.9×1.9×$449.7B$28.1B
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.

§ 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)132026-03-16
  • 10-Q (quarterly)252025-11-12
  • 8-K (event)772026-05-01
  • Proxy / DEF 14A222026-03-27
  • Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)22020-04-21

Signals on file

  • elevated

    Activism on file

    2020-04-21

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

§ 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.

Cue Biopharma, Inc.: Issuer Brief | SE-Cluster