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TickerFONR
SectorMedical - Devices
Mkt cap$116M
EV / EBITDA6.3×
PostureHigh Velocity
Composite70/100
LensTarget-side
SE-Cluster Research·Issuer Brief·Q2 2026CIK 355019

Fonar Corporation

FONRHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITY

Fonar Corporation reads as High Velocity (composite 70/100); pressure / disclosure signals dominate the posture this cycle · primary market Life Sciences.

Lens

Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)

N/A

−99%

vs N/A in 2020–2022

Disclosed transactions

N/A

−99%

0/3 active fiscal years in window

Buyer archetype

Consistent Strategic Buyer

Meaningful spend appears across repeat years.

Composite score

70

/100

High Velocity dominates · Filing Intensity

Financial snapshot
Revenue$106M
EBITDA$16M
Enterprise value$103M
EV / Revenue1.0×
EV / EBITDA6.3×
P/EN/A
Cash$53M
Total debt$49K
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

9/100

Companies actively deploying disclosed capital into M&A

  • $47M disclosed buyer spend

Buyer Cadence

18/100

Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity

  • Filed within 35d
  • 149 8-Ks

Target Probability

36/100

Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings

  • Control-process language
  • 1 activism filings

Spin/Carve

0/100

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

  • 1 activism filings

Pressure Watch

25/100

Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure

  • 1 activism filings
  • Latest activism 15y ago; heavily discounted
  • Control-process filings

Distress Watch

5/100

Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns

  • 1 activism filings

Restatement Risk

46/100

Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings

  • 1 auditor change
  • 49 NT late filings
  • Latest event 4mo ago

Capital Velocity

Dominant
70/100

Issuers with the highest filing-activity intensity

  • 149 8-Ks
  • 5 form types

Quiet Power

0/100

Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence

  • Enterprise value $103M
  • 10-Q 116d 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: $4M · Peak count: 3

FYDisclosed buysDisclosed spendAvg ticketAudited tier
2025N/AN/AN/AN/A
2024N/AN/AN/AN/A
2023N/AN/AN/AN/A
2022N/AN/AN/AN/A
20211$1M$1MN/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

  • Platform
    50%
  • Geographic Expansion
    50%

Strategy keywords

Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.

  • platform
  • geographic_expansion
§ 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 believe the utilization of FONAR Upright® MRI scanning systems, which are produced under the protection of our patents, accounts for the historically robust patient volume at the scanning facilities.

10-KFY2023

Previously, these measures included consolidating HMCA’s office space with Fonar’s office space and reducing the size of our workforce, compensation and benefits.

10-KFY2020

In order to promote profitability and to reduce demands on our cash and other liquid reserves, we maintain an aggressive program of cost cutting.

10-KFY2020

During fiscal 2023, two scanners were installed in Casselberry, Florida.

10-KFY2023
§ 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

Life Sciences

Market spend (2023–2025)
$68.3B
Market spend (2020–2022)
$107.5B
Recent vs prior
−36%
Issuer rank in market
N/A
Share of market capital
0.0%

Valuation positioning

6.3×EV / EBITDA

FONR trades at a -9.8-turn discount to the Life Sciences peer median of 16.1×.

EV / Revenue
1.0×
Net debt / EBITDA
-3.2×
Peer median EV / EBITDA
16.1×

Trading comparables

FMP market data · 2026-05-10

CompanyEV / EBITDAEV / RevNet debt / EBITDARevenueM&A 2023–2025
19.1×4.7×-0.0×$45.2B$10.8B
18.8×4.3×-0.3×$20.6B$8B
13.3×3.5×-0.1×$35.5B$2.2B
13.1×1.9×-0.2×$14.1B$2.1B
Fonar CorporationFONR
6.3×1.0×-3.2×$106MN/A

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

§ VI·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

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.

§ 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)422025-09-22
  • 10-Q (quarterly)1082026-02-13
  • 8-K (event)1492026-02-17
  • Proxy / DEF 14A332026-05-05
  • Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)12011-03-04

Signals on file

  • elevated

    Auditor change

    2024-12-13

    1 Item 4.01 filing on file; certifying accountant change.

  • watch

    Late-filing notice

    2026-02-09

    49 NT 10-K/10-Q filings on file.

  • elevated

    Activism on file

    2011-03-04

    1 activist filing on file (13D, DFAN14A, PREC14A series).

  • 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.