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TickerSBSI
SectorBanks - Regional
Mkt cap$993M
EV / EBITDA13.8×
PostureHigh Velocity
Composite70/100
LensBuyer-side
SE-Cluster Research·Issuer Brief·Q2 2026CIK 705432

Southside Bancshares, Inc.

SBSIHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITY

Southside Bancshares, Inc. reads as an High Velocity (composite 70/100); Selective Buyer deploying $0 across 0 disclosed transactions, running flat vs the prior cycle · primary market Regional Banking.

Lens

Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)

N/A

flat

vs N/A in 2020–2022

Disclosed transactions

N/A

flat

0/3 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$450M
EBITDA$131M
Enterprise value$1.8B
EV / Revenue4.0×
EV / EBITDA13.8×
P/EN/A
Cash$387M
Total debt$208M
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

26/100

Companies actively deploying disclosed capital into M&A

  • $512M disclosed buyer spend

Buyer Cadence

15/100

Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity

  • Filed within 40d
  • 209 8-Ks

Target Probability

20/100

Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings

  • 5 activism filings

Spin/Carve

0/100

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

  • 5 activism filings

Pressure Watch

14/100

Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure

  • 5 activism filings
  • Latest activism 18y ago; heavily discounted

Distress Watch

18/100

Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns

  • 5 activism filings

Restatement Risk

3/100

Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings

  • 3 non-reliance 8-Ks
  • 1 auditor change
  • 2 NT late filings
  • Latest event 12y ago; heavily discounted

Capital Velocity

Dominant
70/100

Issuers with the highest filing-activity intensity

  • 209 8-Ks
  • 5 form types

Quiet Power

0/100

Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence

  • Enterprise value $1.8B
  • 10-Q 40d ago
  • 3 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.

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20
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Disclosed spend $MM Disclosed transactions (right axis)Peak spend year: $24M · Peak count: 1

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
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

  • Geographic Expansion
    33%
  • Horizontal Consolidation
    33%
  • Bolt On
    33%

Strategy keywords

Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.

  • 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.

The goodwill resulting from the acquisition represents the value expected from the opportunities to strategically grow our franchise in the greater Fort Worth market area

10-KFY2014

due primarily to increases in salaries and employee benefits due to the acquisition of Fort Worth National Bank during the fourth quarter of 2007

10-KFY2007

The increase was partially attributable to our acquisition of Fort Worth Bancshares, Inc. during October 2007

10-KFY2007

We acquired Omni to further expand our presence in the growing Fort Worth market.

10-KFY2014
§ 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

Regional Banking

Market spend (2023–2025)
$245.7B
Market spend (2020–2022)
$72.8B
Recent vs prior
+238%
Issuer rank in market
N/A
Share of market capital
0.0%

Valuation positioning

13.8×EV / EBITDA

SBSI trades at a +1.6-turn premium to the Regional Banking peer median of 12.3×.

EV / Revenue
4.0×
Net debt / EBITDA
-1.4×
Peer median EV / EBITDA
12.3×

Trading comparables

FMP market data · 2026-05-10

CompanyEV / EBITDAEV / RevNet debt / EBITDARevenueM&A 2023–2025
16.7×3.7×-0.9×$13.7B$12.7B
13.9×3.0×-0.7×$58.4B$126.1B
Southside Bancshares, Inc.SBSI
13.8×4.0×-1.4×$450MN/A
10.7×3.2×-2.1×$3.4B$7B
9.3×2.2×-0.3×$14.5B$72.6B

Trading multiples from FMP market data; disclosed M&A spend from the SE-Cluster EDGAR 10-K corpus. Peer set = top disclosed buyers in Regional Banking. 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)292026-02-27
  • 10-Q (quarterly)1032026-04-30
  • 8-K (event)2092026-04-30
  • Proxy / DEF 14A492026-03-25
  • Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)52008-05-23

Signals on file

  • critical

    Non-reliance disclosure

    2014-02-10

    3 Item 4.02 filings on file; financial-statement non-reliance.

  • elevated

    Auditor change

    2012-08-07

    1 Item 4.01 filing on file; certifying accountant change.

  • watch

    Late-filing notice

    2012-03-16

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

  • elevated

    Activism on file

    2008-05-23

    5 activist filings on file (13D, DFAN14A, PREC14A series).

  • info

    Signal

    Serial acquisition history

  • info

    Signal

    10-K strategy themes

  • info

    Signal

    Restatement risk

§ 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.

Southside Bancshares, Inc.: Issuer Brief | SE-Cluster