California BanCorp \ CA
BCALHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITYCalifornia BanCorp \ CA reads as an High Velocity (composite 69/100); Selective Buyer deploying $217M across 1 disclosed transactions, newly disclosed vs the prior cycle · primary market Regional Banking.
Lens
Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)
$217M
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
69
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
- $217M disclosed buyer spend
Buyer Cadence
Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity
- Filed within 32d
- 35 8-Ks
Target Probability
Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings
Spin/Carve
Issuers showing spin-off, carve-out, or sum-of-parts posture
- 2 spin pre-registrations
- Latest event 3.1y ago; discounted
Pressure Watch
Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure
Distress Watch
Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns
Restatement Risk
Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings
- 3 auditor changes
- 1 NT late filing
- Latest event 1.2y ago
Capital Velocity
DominantIssuers with the highest filing-activity intensity
- 35 8-Ks
- 4 form types
Quiet Power
Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence
- Enterprise value $616M
- 10-Q 32d ago
- 4 active signals
Capital cadence.
Ten-year disclosed M&A activity. Bars show spend ($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: $217M · Peak count: 1
| FY | Disclosed buys | Disclosed spend | Avg ticket | Audited tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | $217M | $217M | N/A |
| 2024 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2023 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2022 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2021 | N/A | N/A | N/A | 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
- Geographic Expansion33%
- Horizontal Consolidation33%
- Platform33%
Strategy keywords
Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.
- geographic_expansion
- horizontal_consolidation
- platform
Filing language.
Direct excerpts from acquisition disclosures and strategy sections: the verbs the buyer chose, in the filings they signed.
“financial institutions that operate offices in our market areas and elsewhere. The competing major commercial banks have greater resources that may provide them with a competitive advantage by enabling them to maintain numerous branch offices, mount extensive advertising campaigns and invest in new technologies.”
“Since its founding, our franchise has experienced significant growth through acquisitions and our dedication to serving the communities in which we operate.”
“The financial services industry could become even more competitive due to legislative, regulatory and technological changes and continued consolidation. Banks, securities firms and insurance companies can merge under the umbrella of a financial holding company, which can offer most types of financial services, including banking, securities underwriting, insurance (both agency and underwriting) and merchant banking. Also, technology has lowered barriers to entry and made it possible for non-banks to offer products and services traditionally provided by banks, such as automatic transfer and automatic payment systems.”
“Our branch footprint extends throughout California.”
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
BCAL trades at a -5.1-turn discount to the Regional Banking peer median of 12.3×.
- EV / Revenue
- 2.7×
- Net debt / EBITDA
- -4.4×
- Peer median EV / EBITDA
- 12.3×
Trading comparables
FMP market data · 2026-05-10
| Company | EV / EBITDA | EV / Rev | Net debt / EBITDA | Revenue | M&A 2023–2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
California BanCorp \ CABCAL | 7.2× | 2.7× | -4.4× | $229M | $217M |
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.
Target landscape.
Public-issuer targets that fit this buyer's archetype and target categories from filing-derived signal. Scores reflect cross-signal fit; reasons cite the EDGAR-anchored facts that drove the match.
No qualifying public-issuer targets surfaced from the current signal mix.
Stated target categories
No target categories enumerated in the audited corpus for this issuer.
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)32026-03-13
- 10-Q (quarterly)102026-05-08
- 8-K (event)352026-05-05
- Proxy / DEF 14A82026-04-14
- Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)0N/A
Signals on file
- elevated
Auditor change
2024-05-093 Item 4.01 filings on file; certifying accountant change.
- watch
Late-filing notice
2025-03-171 NT 10-K/10-Q filing on file.
- elevated
Spin registration
2023-04-242 Form 10-12 filings on file; pre-spin registration.
- info
Signal
Serial acquisition history
- info
Signal
10-K strategy themes
- info
Signal
Spin/Carve candidate
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.