Utz Brands, Inc.
UTZHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITYUtz Brands, Inc. reads as High Velocity (composite 70/100); pressure / disclosure signals dominate the posture this cycle · primary market Consumer Products.
Lens
Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)
N/A
vs N/A in 2020–2022
Disclosed transactions
1
1/3 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
- $118M disclosed buyer spend
Buyer Cadence
Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity
- Filed within 34d
- 79 8-Ks
Target Probability
Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings
- 3 activism filings
Spin/Carve
Issuers showing spin-off, carve-out, or sum-of-parts posture
- 3 activism filings
Pressure Watch
Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure
- 3 activism filings
- Latest activism 2.3y ago; discounted
Distress Watch
Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns
- 3 activism filings
Restatement Risk
Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings
- 1 non-reliance 8-K
- 1 auditor change
- Latest event 5.1y ago; heavily discounted
Capital Velocity
DominantIssuers with the highest filing-activity intensity
- 79 8-Ks
- 5 form types
Quiet Power
Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence
- Enterprise value $639M
- 10-Q 34d ago
- 3 active signals
Capital cadence.
Ten-year disclosed M&A activity. Bars show spend ($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: $118M · Peak count: 3
| FY | Disclosed buys | Disclosed spend | Avg ticket | Audited tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | 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 | $100K | N/A | N/A |
| 2021 | 3 | $118M | $39M | N/A |
| 2020 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Strategy posture.
The buyer's playbook in terms of strategic archetype: what each disclosed move says about how they're deploying capital.
Archetype mix
- Horizontal Consolidation25%
- Geographic Expansion25%
- Bolt On25%
- Platform25%
Strategy keywords
Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.
- bolt_on
- geographic_expansion
- horizontal_consolidation
- platform
- tuck_in
Filing language.
Direct excerpts from acquisition disclosures and strategy sections: the verbs the buyer chose, in the filings they signed.
“We plan to accelerate organic revenue growth, expand margins, and leverage our competitively advantaged route-to-market and scalable operating platform to make periodic value-enhancing strategic acquisitions.”
“We believe we are well-positioned for long-term growth as we... continue to make strategic acquisitions that deliver strong synergies and that enhance our competitive positioning.”
“continue to make strategic acquisitions that deliver strong synergies and that enhance our competitive positioning”
“historically expanded our geographic/distribution reach and product portfolio organically and through acquisitions”
“We have historically expanded our geographic reach and product portfolio organically and through acquisitions.”
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
Consumer Products
- Market spend (2023–2025)
- $145.2B
- Market spend (2020–2022)
- $102.1B
- Recent vs prior
- +42%
- Issuer rank in market
- N/A
- Share of market capital
- 0.0%
Valuation positioning
UTZ trades at a +6.5-turn premium to the Consumer Products peer median of 12.2×.
- EV / Revenue
- 0.4×
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 22.5×
- Peer median EV / EBITDA
- 12.2×
Trading comparables
FMP market data · 2026-05-10
| Company | EV / EBITDA | EV / Rev | Net debt / EBITDA | Revenue | M&A 2023–2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Utz Brands, Inc.UTZ | 18.7× | 0.4× | 22.5× | $1.4B | N/A |
| 15.7× | 2.3× | 2.0× | $164.7B | $24.6B | |
| 8.7× | 1.3× | -0.1× | $10B | $5.5B |
Trading multiples from FMP market data; disclosed M&A spend from the SE-Cluster EDGAR 10-K corpus. Peer set = top disclosed buyers in Consumer Products. 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)92026-02-12
- 10-Q (quarterly)232026-05-06
- 8-K (event)792026-05-06
- Proxy / DEF 14A132026-03-12
- Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)32024-03-06
Signals on file
- critical
Non-reliance disclosure
2021-05-041 Item 4.02 filing on file; financial-statement non-reliance.
- elevated
Auditor change
2020-09-031 Item 4.01 filing on file; certifying accountant change.
- elevated
Activism on file
2024-03-063 activist filings on file (13D, DFAN14A, PREC14A series).
- info
Signal
Serial acquisition history
- info
Signal
10-K strategy themes
- 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.