TKO Group Holdings, Inc.
TKOHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITYTKO Group Holdings, Inc. reads as an High Velocity (composite 77/100); Transformational Buyer deploying $8B across 4 disclosed transactions, newly disclosed vs the prior cycle · primary market Media & Education.
Lens
Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)
$8.4B
vs N/A in 2020–2022
Disclosed transactions
4
3/3 active fiscal years in window
Buyer archetype
Transformational Buyer
Episodic but very large disclosed transactions drive the profile.
Composite score
77
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
- $8.4B disclosed buyer spend
- Filed within 20d
Buyer Cadence
Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity
- Filed within 20d
- 39 8-Ks
Target Probability
Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings
- 2 activism filings
Spin/Carve
Issuers showing spin-off, carve-out, or sum-of-parts posture
- 2 activism filings
Pressure Watch
Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure
- 2 activism filings
- Latest activism 1.7y ago
Distress Watch
Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns
- 2 activism filings
Restatement Risk
Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings
- 1 auditor change
- Latest event 1.8y ago
Capital Velocity
DominantIssuers with the highest filing-activity intensity
- 39 8-Ks
- Filed within 20d
- 5 form types
Quiet Power
Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence
- Enterprise value $17.8B
- 10-Q 20d ago
- 3 active signals
Capital cadence.
Ten-year disclosed M&A activity. Bars show spend ($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: $8,432M · Peak count: 2
| FY | Disclosed buys | Disclosed spend | Avg ticket | Audited tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 | $9M | $4M | N/A |
| 2024 | 1 | $8.4B | $8.4B | N/A |
| 2023 | 1 | 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 Expansion25%
- Platform25%
- Bolt On25%
- Horizontal Consolidation25%
Strategy keywords
Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.
- platform
- horizontal_consolidation
- geographic_expansion
Filing language.
Direct excerpts from acquisition disclosures and strategy sections: the verbs the buyer chose, in the filings they signed.
“We may be unsuccessful in our strategic acquisitions, investments and commercial agreements, and we may pursue acquisitions, investments or commercial agreements for their strategic value in spite of the risk of lack of profitability”
“The combination of these two businesses united two complementary sports and sports entertainment properties in a single company.”
“"proven track record of performance positions us to successfully execute organic and inorganic growth opportunities"”
“This acquisition expanded TKO's operational capabilities across the sports landscape.”
“Our management team has deep expertise in sports, media, and live events”
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
Media & Education
- Market spend (2023–2025)
- $31.8B
- Market spend (2020–2022)
- $74.8B
- Recent vs prior
- −57%
- Issuer rank in market
- N/A
- Share of market capital
- 0.0%
Valuation positioning
TKO trades at a -0.0-turn discount to the Media & Education peer median of 12.1×.
- EV / Revenue
- 3.5×
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 2.6×
- Peer median EV / EBITDA
- 12.1×
Trading comparables
FMP market data · 2026-05-10
| Company | EV / EBITDA | EV / Rev | Net debt / EBITDA | Revenue | M&A 2023–2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21.6× | 2.0× | -0.2× | $8.8B | $55M | |
| 19.2× | 1.5× | -3.6× | $25.6B | $196M | |
TKO Group Holdings, Inc.TKO | 12.1× | 3.5× | 2.6× | $5.1B | $8.4B |
| 4.9× | 1.8× | 2.2× | $37.2B | $100M | |
| 3.0× | 0.2× | 14.1× | $2.1B | $14M |
Trading multiples from FMP market data; disclosed M&A spend from the SE-Cluster EDGAR 10-K corpus. Peer set = top disclosed buyers in Media & Education. 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)32026-02-25
- 10-Q (quarterly)82026-05-06
- 8-K (event)392026-05-06
- Proxy / DEF 14A82026-04-23
- Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)22024-09-13
Signals on file
- elevated
Auditor change
2024-08-081 Item 4.01 filing on file; certifying accountant change.
- elevated
Activism on file
2024-09-132 activist filings on file (13D, DFAN14A, PREC14A series).
- info
Signal
Serial acquisition history
- info
Signal
10-K strategy themes
- 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.