Sunopta Inc.
STKLHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITYSunopta Inc. reads as High Velocity (composite 70/100); pressure / disclosure signals dominate the posture this cycle · primary market Consumer Products.
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
Consistent Strategic Buyer
Meaningful spend appears across repeat years.
Composite score
70
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
- $4.4B disclosed buyer spend
Buyer Cadence
Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity
- Filed within 36d
- 258 8-Ks
Target Probability
Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings
- Control-process language
- 57 activism filings
Spin/Carve
Issuers showing spin-off, carve-out, or sum-of-parts posture
- 57 activism filings
Pressure Watch
Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure
- 57 activism filings
- Latest activism 3.1y ago; discounted
- Control-process filings
Distress Watch
Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns
- 10-Q 216d stale
- 57 activism filings
Restatement Risk
Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings
- 2 non-reliance 8-Ks
- 3 auditor changes
- 6 NT late filings
- Latest event 5.1y ago; heavily discounted
Capital Velocity
DominantIssuers with the highest filing-activity intensity
- 258 8-Ks
- 5 form types
Quiet Power
Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence
- Enterprise value $1.1B
- 10-Q 216d ago
- 5 active signals
Capital cadence.
Ten-year disclosed M&A activity. Bars show spend ($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: $512M · Peak count: 3
| 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 | $25M | $25M | 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 Expansion20%
- Bolt On20%
- Horizontal Consolidation20%
- Platform20%
- Vertical Integration20%
Strategy keywords
Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.
- geographic_expansion
- bolt_on
- horizontal_consolidation
- vertical_integration
- platform
Filing language.
Direct excerpts from acquisition disclosures and strategy sections: the verbs the buyer chose, in the filings they signed.
“Impact of higher volumes, process improvement initiatives and cost reductions implemented at our healthy snacks operations, offset by costs related to the consolidation of two manufacturing facilities”
“transferred all production volume from our Buena Park, California facility into Sunrise’s facilities located in Kansas and California”
“closing our Buena Park, California facility and consolidating this volume into Sunrise’s facilities located in Kansas and California”
“we initiated the consolidation of our frozen fruit processing facilities following the Sunrise Acquisition”
“The agreements governing our debt and preferred equity instruments contain restrictive covenants that limit the discretion of our management with respect to certain business matters. These covenants place restrictions on, among other things, our ability to obtain additional debt financing, to create other liens, to complete a merger, amalgamation, or consolidation, to make certain distributions or make certain payments, investments and guarantees and to sell or otherwise dispose of certain assets. These restrictions may hinder our ability to execute on our growth”
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
STKL trades at a +2.2-turn premium to the Consumer Products peer median of 12.2×.
- EV / Revenue
- 1.4×
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 3.2×
- Peer median EV / EBITDA
- 12.2×
Trading comparables
FMP market data · 2026-05-10
| Company | EV / EBITDA | EV / Rev | Net debt / EBITDA | Revenue | M&A 2023–2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15.7× | 2.3× | 2.0× | $164.7B | $24.6B | |
Sunopta Inc.STKL | 14.4× | 1.4× | 3.2× | $818M | N/A |
| 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.
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)312026-04-27
- 10-Q (quarterly)852025-11-05
- 8-K (event)2582026-05-04
- Proxy / DEF 14A502026-04-10
- Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)572023-05-18
Signals on file
- critical
Non-reliance disclosure
2008-02-052 Item 4.02 filings on file; financial-statement non-reliance.
- elevated
Auditor change
2021-05-213 Item 4.01 filings on file; certifying accountant change.
- watch
Late-filing notice
2018-03-016 NT 10-K/10-Q filings on file.
- elevated
Activism on file
2023-05-1857 activist filings on file (13D, DFAN14A, PREC14A series).
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Signal
Serial acquisition history
- info
Signal
10-K strategy themes
- info
Signal
Recent transaction activity
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.