Skillz Inc.
SKLZRESTATEMENT RISKFILING INTENSITYSkillz Inc. reads as Restatement Risk (composite 100/100); pressure / disclosure signals dominate the posture this cycle · primary market Marketing & Data.
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
100
Restatement Risk 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
- $650M disclosed buyer spend
Buyer Cadence
Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity
- Filed within 40d
- 100 8-Ks
Target Probability
Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings
- 15 activism filings
Spin/Carve
Issuers showing spin-off, carve-out, or sum-of-parts posture
- 15 activism filings
Pressure Watch
Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure
- 15 activism filings
- Latest activism 1.5y ago
Distress Watch
Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns
- 10-Q 181d stale
- 15 activism filings
Restatement Risk
DominantIssuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings
- 2 non-reliance 8-Ks
- 3 auditor changes
- 8 NT late filings
- Latest event 6mo ago
Capital Velocity
Issuers with the highest filing-activity intensity
- 100 8-Ks
- 5 form types
Quiet Power
Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence
- Enterprise value $38M
- 10-Q 181d ago
- 2 active signals
Capital cadence.
Ten-year disclosed M&A activity. Bars show spend ($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: $566M · Peak count: 1
| FY | Disclosed buys | Disclosed spend | Avg ticket | Audited tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | N/A | 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 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2021 | 1 | $84M | $84M | N/A |
| 2020 | 1 | $566M | $566M | N/A |
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.
- horizontal_consolidation
- technology_acquisition
- talent_acquisition
- tuck_in
- bolt_on
- platform
- geographic_expansion
Filing language.
Direct excerpts from acquisition disclosures and strategy sections: the verbs the buyer chose, in the filings they signed.
“We were originally incorporated ... for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, recapitalization, reorganization or similar business combination.”
“We acquired Aarki to produce efficiencies in user-acquisition costs, which could be reinvested to acquire more users to accelerate growth and provide a broader product offering”
“The addition of Aarki’s technology-driven marketing platform is expected to result in significant efficiencies in user-acquisition costs.”
“We acquire and engage users primarily through digital ad networks, our game developers and affiliate partners.”
“We leverage software tools, analytics and data science to efficiently acquire, engage and retain users”
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
Marketing & Data
- Market spend (2023–2025)
- $51.4B
- Market spend (2020–2022)
- $63.5B
- Recent vs prior
- −19%
- Issuer rank in market
- N/A
- Share of market capital
- 0.0%
Valuation positioning
Trading comparables unavailable for this wedge.
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)72026-03-31
- 10-Q (quarterly)182025-12-11
- 8-K (event)1002026-05-01
- Proxy / DEF 14A142026-05-01
- Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)152024-12-12
Signals on file
- critical
Non-reliance disclosure
2023-03-242 Item 4.02 filings on file; financial-statement non-reliance.
- elevated
Auditor change
2025-12-183 Item 4.01 filings on file; certifying accountant change.
- watch
Late-filing notice
2025-11-128 NT 10-K/10-Q filings on file.
- elevated
Activism on file
2024-12-1215 activist filings on file (13D, DFAN14A, PREC14A series).
- info
Signal
Serial acquisition history
- 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.