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TickerMBC
SectorFurnishings, Fixtures & Appliances
Mkt cap$975M
EV / EBITDA15.9×
PostureHigh Velocity
Composite70/100
LensBuyer-side
SE-Cluster Research·Issuer Brief·Q2 2026CIK 1941365

MasterBrand, Inc.

MBCHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITY

MasterBrand, Inc. reads as an High Velocity (composite 70/100); Selective Buyer deploying $1B across 2 disclosed transactions, newly disclosed vs the prior cycle · primary market Consumer Products.

Lens

Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)

$1B

new

vs N/A in 2020–2022

Disclosed transactions

2

new

2/3 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$2.7B
EBITDA$133M
Enterprise value$2.1B
EV / Revenue0.8×
EV / EBITDA15.9×
P/EN/A
Cash$138M
Total debt$1.1B
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

34/100

Companies actively deploying disclosed capital into M&A

  • $1B disclosed buyer spend

Buyer Cadence

14/100

Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity

  • Filed within 34d
  • 46 8-Ks

Target Probability

32/100

Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings

  • Control-process language

Spin/Carve

28/100

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

  • 3 spin pre-registrations
  • Latest event 3.5y ago; discounted

Pressure Watch

25/100

Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure

  • Control-process filings

Distress Watch

0/100

Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns

Restatement Risk

0/100

Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings

Capital Velocity

Dominant
70/100

Issuers with the highest filing-activity intensity

  • 46 8-Ks
  • 4 form types

Quiet Power

0/100

Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence

  • Enterprise value $2.1B
  • 10-Q 34d ago
  • 5 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: $527M · Peak count: 1

FYDisclosed buysDisclosed spendAvg ticketAudited tier
20251$527M$527MN/A
20241$515M$515MN/A
2023N/AN/AN/AN/A
2022N/AN/AN/AN/A
2021N/AN/AN/AN/A
2020N/AN/AN/AN/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

  • Horizontal Consolidation
    25%
  • Geographic Expansion
    25%
  • Platform
    25%
  • Bolt On
    25%

Strategy keywords

Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.

  • platform
  • geographic_expansion
  • horizontal_consolidation
  • bolt_on
§ 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.

We regularly monitor the landscape for attractive opportunities that could allow us to leverage our operations and strong customer relationships, expand our portfolio of products and expand into new categories and geographies.

10-KFY2025

We believe we will have opportunities to drive future value creation through additional thoughtful and strategic acquisitions.

10-KFY2024

Execute strategic acquisitions that broaden our platform and capitalize on our proven strengths.

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

Consumer Products

Market spend (2023–2025)
$145.2B
Market spend (2020–2022)
$102.1B
Recent vs prior
+42%
Issuer rank in market
N/A
Share of market capital
0.0%

Valuation positioning

15.9×EV / EBITDA

MBC trades at a +3.7-turn premium to the Consumer Products peer median of 12.2×.

EV / Revenue
0.8×
Net debt / EBITDA
7.1×
Peer median EV / EBITDA
12.2×

Trading comparables

FMP market data · 2026-05-10

CompanyEV / EBITDAEV / RevNet debt / EBITDARevenueM&A 2023–2025
MasterBrand, Inc.MBC
15.9×0.8×7.1×$2.7B$1B
15.7×2.3×2.0×$164.7B$24.6B
8.7×1.3×-0.1×$10B$5.5B

Trading multiples from FMP market data; disclosed M&A spend from the SE-Cluster EDGAR 10-K corpus. Peer set = top disclosed buyers in Consumer Products. Bars scaled to the highest EV/EBITDA in the set.

§ VI·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

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.

§ 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)42026-02-13
  • 10-Q (quarterly)102026-05-06
  • 8-K (event)462026-05-05
  • Proxy / DEF 14A72026-04-22
  • Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)0N/A

Signals on file

  • elevated

    Spin registration

    2022-11-22

    3 Form 10-12 filings on file; pre-spin registration.

  • info

    Signal

    Serial acquisition history

  • info

    Signal

    10-K strategy themes

  • info

    Signal

    Recent transaction activity

§ 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.

MasterBrand, Inc.: Issuer Brief | SE-Cluster