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TickerKRMN
SectorAerospace & Defense
Mkt cap$8.1B
EV / EBITDA71.9×
PostureHigh Velocity
Composite56/100
LensBuyer-side
SE-Cluster Research·Issuer Brief·Q2 2026CIK 2040127

Karman Holdings Inc.

KRMNHIGH VELOCITYQUIET

Karman Holdings Inc. reads as an High Velocity (composite 56/100); Selective Buyer deploying $31M across 1 disclosed transactions, newly disclosed vs the prior cycle · primary market A&D Components.

Lens

Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)

$31M

new

vs N/A in 2020–2022

Disclosed transactions

1

new

1/3 active fiscal years in window

Buyer archetype

Selective Buyer

Acquisition use is visible but targeted.

Composite score

56

/100

High Velocity dominates · Quiet

Financial snapshot
Revenue$472M
EBITDA$120M
Enterprise value$8.6B
EV / Revenue18.3×
EV / EBITDA71.9×
P/EN/A
Cash$34M
Total debt$4M
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

18/100

Companies actively deploying disclosed capital into M&A

  • $31M disclosed buyer spend

Buyer Cadence

31/100

Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity

  • Filed within 36d
  • 19 8-Ks

Target Probability

4/100

Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings

Spin/Carve

0/100

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

Pressure Watch

14/100

Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure

Distress Watch

26/100

Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns

  • 10-Q 214d stale

Restatement Risk

0/100

Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings

Capital Velocity

Dominant
56/100

Issuers with the highest filing-activity intensity

  • 19 8-Ks
  • 4 form types

Quiet Power

0/100

Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence

  • Enterprise value $8.6B
  • 10-Q 214d ago
  • 2 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: $31M · Peak count: 1

FYDisclosed buysDisclosed spendAvg ticketAudited tier
20251$31M$31MN/A
2024N/AN/AN/AN/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

  • Vertical Integration
    50%
  • Bolt On
    50%

Strategy keywords

Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.

  • vertical_integration
  • 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.

By utilizing our vertically integrated and concept-to-production capabilities along with a highly targeted acquisition strategy

10-KFY2025

Our business approach combines both strong organic growth and our proven buy, build, and integrate acquisition strategy

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

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

71.9×EV / EBITDA

KRMN trades at a +47.3-turn premium to the A&D Components peer median of 24.6×.

EV / Revenue
18.3×
Net debt / EBITDA
-0.3×
Peer median EV / EBITDA
24.6×

Trading comparables

FMP market data · 2026-05-10

CompanyEV / EBITDAEV / RevNet debt / EBITDARevenueM&A 2023–2025
Karman Holdings Inc.KRMN
71.9×18.3×-0.3×$472M$31M
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×$48.4BN/A
20.1×10.1×5.7×$9.5B$3.5B
19.5×3.0×1.9×$90.4BN/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.

§ 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)22026-04-03
  • 10-Q (quarterly)32025-11-07
  • 8-K (event)192026-05-04
  • Proxy / DEF 14A12026-04-08
  • Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)0N/A

Signals on file

  • info

    Signal

    Serial acquisition history

  • info

    Signal

    10-K strategy themes

§ 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.

Karman Holdings Inc.: Issuer Brief | SE-Cluster