Leonardo DRS, Inc.
DRSHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITYLeonardo DRS, Inc. reads as an High Velocity (composite 78/100); Selective Buyer deploying $511M across 1 disclosed transactions, up 1448% vs the prior cycle · primary market A&D Components.
Lens
Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)
$511M
vs $33M 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
78
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
- $544M disclosed buyer spend
- Filed within 21d
Buyer Cadence
Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity
- Filed within 21d
- 47 8-Ks
Target Probability
Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings
Spin/Carve
Issuers showing spin-off, carve-out, or sum-of-parts posture
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
- 2 auditor changes
- Latest event 4.2y ago; discounted
Capital Velocity
DominantIssuers with the highest filing-activity intensity
- 47 8-Ks
- Filed within 21d
- 4 form types
Quiet Power
Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence
- Enterprise value $10.9B
- 10-Q 21d ago
- 2 active signals
Capital cadence.
Ten-year disclosed M&A activity. Bars show spend ($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: $511M · 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 | 1 | $511M | $511M | N/A |
| 2022 | N/A | $19M | N/A | N/A |
| 2021 | N/A | $14M | N/A | N/A |
| 2020 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Filing language.
Direct excerpts from acquisition disclosures and strategy sections: the verbs the buyer chose, in the filings they signed.
“The availability of U.S. government funding for significant programs in which we participate may be impacted by a number of factors beyond our control including the overall federal budget, changes in spending priorities and defense spending levels, sequestration, the appropriations process, use of continuing resolutions (with restrictions, e.g., on starting new programs) and the permissible level of federal debt.”
“These factors may also delay purchasing or payment decisions by our customers.”
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
A&D Components
- Market spend (2023–2025)
- $32.8B
- Market spend (2020–2022)
- $12.9B
- Recent vs prior
- +153%
- Issuer rank in market
- N/A
- Share of market capital
- 0.0%
Valuation positioning
DRS trades at a -0.8-turn discount to the A&D Components peer median of 24.6×.
- EV / Revenue
- 2.9×
- Net debt / EBITDA
- -0.7×
- Peer median EV / EBITDA
- 24.6×
Trading comparables
FMP market data · 2026-05-10
| Company | EV / EBITDA | EV / Rev | Net debt / EBITDA | Revenue | M&A 2023–2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 34.2× | 9.3× | 1.8× | $4.6B | $3.3B | |
| 31.5× | 2.4× | -0.9× | $92.2B | $1.4B | |
| 29.1× | 6.6× | -0.8× | $48.4B | N/A | |
Leonardo DRS, Inc.DRS | 23.8× | 2.9× | -0.7× | $3.7B | $511M |
| 20.1× | 10.1× | 5.7× | $9.5B | $3.5B | |
| 19.5× | 3.0× | 1.9× | $90.4B | N/A | |
| 16.0× | 2.6× | -0.1× | $22.5B | $13.4B |
Trading multiples from FMP market data; disclosed M&A spend from the SE-Cluster EDGAR 10-K corpus. Peer set = top disclosed buyers in A&D Components. 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)52026-02-27
- 10-Q (quarterly)182026-05-05
- 8-K (event)472026-05-05
- Proxy / DEF 14A102026-04-03
- Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)0N/A
Signals on file
- elevated
Auditor change
2022-03-312 Item 4.01 filings on file; certifying accountant change.
- 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.