Karat Packaging Inc.
KRTHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITYKarat Packaging Inc. reads as High Velocity (composite 70/100); pressure / disclosure signals dominate the posture this cycle · primary market Chemicals & Materials.
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
- $900K disclosed buyer spend
Buyer Cadence
Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity
- Filed within 32d
- 63 8-Ks
Target Probability
Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings
- 5 activism filings
Spin/Carve
Issuers showing spin-off, carve-out, or sum-of-parts posture
- 5 activism filings
Pressure Watch
Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure
- 5 activism filings
- Latest activism 2.7y ago; discounted
Distress Watch
Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns
- 5 activism filings
Restatement Risk
Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings
Capital Velocity
DominantIssuers with the highest filing-activity intensity
- 63 8-Ks
- 5 form types
Quiet Power
Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence
- Enterprise value $586M
- 10-Q 32d 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.
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 Expansion33%
- Horizontal Consolidation33%
- Bolt On33%
Strategy keywords
Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.
- geographic_expansion
- horizontal_consolidation
- bolt_on
Filing language.
Direct excerpts from acquisition disclosures and strategy sections: the verbs the buyer chose, in the filings they signed.
“In recent years, the industry has experienced several key trends, including the growing market for food delivery and take-out dining, new local and state regulations in light of an increasingly environmentally-conscious public, and growing consolidation within the disposable foodservice products industry.”
“The industry is currently experiencing a period of both growth and transition as a result of several key factors that have emerged in recent years especially after the COVID-19 pandemic.”
“Over the last several years, there has been significant consolidation within the industry, both in distribution and manufacturing.”
“In the U.S. food packaging industry, mergers and acquisitions have been prominent, both in distribution and manufacturing.”
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
Chemicals & Materials
- Market spend (2023–2025)
- $85.8B
- Market spend (2020–2022)
- $80.5B
- Recent vs prior
- +7%
- Issuer rank in market
- N/A
- Share of market capital
- 0.0%
Valuation positioning
KRT trades at a -5.3-turn discount to the Chemicals & Materials peer median of 15.9×.
- EV / Revenue
- 1.2×
- Net debt / EBITDA
- -0.3×
- Peer median EV / EBITDA
- 15.9×
Trading comparables
FMP market data · 2026-05-10
| Company | EV / EBITDA | EV / Rev | Net debt / EBITDA | Revenue | M&A 2023–2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ecolab Inc.ECL | 24.5× | 4.9× | 2.3× | $16.5B | $2.1B |
| 15.9× | 5.2× | 0.0× | $8.1B | $2.3B | |
| 13.4× | 2.4× | 0.3× | $10.8B | N/A | |
Karat Packaging Inc.KRT | 10.6× | 1.2× | -0.3× | $481M | N/A |
Trading multiples from FMP market data; disclosed M&A spend from the SE-Cluster EDGAR 10-K corpus. Peer set = top disclosed buyers in Chemicals & Materials. 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)62026-03-13
- 10-Q (quarterly)162026-05-08
- 8-K (event)632026-05-07
- Proxy / DEF 14A52026-04-24
- Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)52023-09-25
Signals on file
- elevated
Activism on file
2023-09-255 activist filings on file (13D, DFAN14A, PREC14A series).
- info
Signal
Serial acquisition history
- info
Signal
10-K strategy themes
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.