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TickerPRCH
SectorSoftware - Application
Mkt cap$1.2B
EV / EBITDA14.7×
PostureHigh Velocity
Composite70/100
LensTarget-side
SE-Cluster Research·Issuer Brief·Q2 2026CIK 1784535

Porch Group, Inc.

PRCHHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITY

Porch Group, Inc. reads as High Velocity (composite 70/100); pressure / disclosure signals dominate the posture this cycle · primary market Software & IT.

Lens

Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)

$2M

−99%

vs $303M in 2020–2022

Disclosed transactions

N/A

−99%

1/3 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$483M
EBITDA$97M
Enterprise value$1.4B
EV / Revenue3.0×
EV / EBITDA14.7×
P/EN/A
Cash$64M
Total debt$399M
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

24/100

Companies actively deploying disclosed capital into M&A

  • $305M disclosed buyer spend

Buyer Cadence

21/100

Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity

  • Filed within 42d
  • 81 8-Ks

Target Probability

20/100

Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings

  • 9 activism filings

Spin/Carve

0/100

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

  • 9 activism filings

Pressure Watch

42/100

Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure

  • 9 activism filings
  • Latest activism 2.6y ago; discounted

Distress Watch

18/100

Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns

  • 9 activism filings

Restatement Risk

59/100

Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings

  • 2 non-reliance 8-Ks
  • 2 auditor changes
  • 2 NT late filings
  • Latest event 2.7y ago; discounted

Capital Velocity

Dominant
70/100

Issuers with the highest filing-activity intensity

  • 81 8-Ks
  • 5 form types

Quiet Power

0/100

Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence

  • Enterprise value $1.4B
  • 10-Q 42d 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: $256M · Peak count: 6

FYDisclosed buysDisclosed spendAvg ticketAudited tier
2025N/AN/AN/AN/A
2024N/AN/AN/AN/A
2023N/A$2MN/AN/A
20221$39M$39MN/A
20216$256M$43MN/A
20204$8M$2MN/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

  • Bolt On
    25%
  • Talent Acquisition
    25%
  • Horizontal Consolidation
    25%
  • Geographic Expansion
    25%

Strategy keywords

Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.

  • bolt_on
  • talent_acquisition
  • horizontal_consolidation
  • geographic_expansion
§ 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.

services industries continue to undergo consolidation and vertical integration, which may make it more difficult to compete with existing competitors and new entrants.

10-KFY2023

There are many existing competitors and a consistent and growing stream of new entrants, services and products.

10-KFY2025

Any of these advantages could enable these competitors to reach more consumers and service providers than we reach, offer products and services that are more appealing to consumers and service providers than our products and services, and respond more quickly and/or cost effectively than we respond to evolving market opportunities and trends, any of which could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

10-KFY2023

Our brands and businesses operate in home-related product and service industries, which include insurance, mortgage software, title insurance software, warranty, moving services, inspection software, home repair, data and analytics, and marketing, financial and other software for home services companies; all of which are competitive, evolving, and some of which are highly regulated.

10-KFY2025
§ 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

Software & IT

Market spend (2023–2025)
$217.7B
Market spend (2020–2022)
$197.1B
Recent vs prior
+10%
Issuer rank in market
N/A
Share of market capital
0.0%

Valuation positioning

14.7×EV / EBITDA

PRCH trades at a +0.4-turn premium to the Software & IT peer median of 14.3×.

EV / Revenue
3.0×
Net debt / EBITDA
3.5×
Peer median EV / EBITDA
14.3×

Trading comparables

FMP market data · 2026-05-10

CompanyEV / EBITDAEV / RevNet debt / EBITDARevenueM&A 2023–2025
23.4×10.7×0.2×$64.1B$27.7B
15.5×9.8×0.0×$318.3B$75.4B
Porch Group, Inc.PRCH
14.7×3.0×3.5×$483M$2M
14.3×4.4×0.6×$41.5B$12.1B
11.0×3.7×-0.1×$6.4B$1.7B
7.6×2.8×0.1×$21.1B$10M

Trading multiples from FMP market data; disclosed M&A spend from the SE-Cluster EDGAR 10-K corpus. Peer set = top disclosed buyers in Software & IT. 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)82026-02-20
  • 10-Q (quarterly)192026-04-28
  • 8-K (event)812026-04-28
  • Proxy / DEF 14A152026-04-17
  • Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)92023-11-09

Signals on file

  • critical

    Non-reliance disclosure

    2023-03-14

    2 Item 4.02 filings on file; financial-statement non-reliance.

  • elevated

    Auditor change

    2023-10-03

    2 Item 4.01 filings on file; certifying accountant change.

  • watch

    Late-filing notice

    2022-03-01

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

  • elevated

    Activism on file

    2023-11-09

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

  • 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.

Porch Group, Inc.: Issuer Brief | SE-Cluster