Anixa Biosciences, Inc.
ANIXHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITYAnixa Biosciences, Inc. reads as High Velocity (composite 62/100); pressure / disclosure signals dominate the posture this cycle · primary market Healthcare.
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
Selective Buyer
Acquisition use is visible but targeted.
Composite score
62
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
- $372M disclosed buyer spend
Buyer Cadence
Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity
- 114 8-Ks
Target Probability
Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings
- 30 activism filings
Spin/Carve
Issuers showing spin-off, carve-out, or sum-of-parts posture
- 30 activism filings
Pressure Watch
Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure
- 30 activism filings
- Latest activism 2.1y ago; discounted
Distress Watch
Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns
- 30 activism filings
Restatement Risk
Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings
Capital Velocity
DominantIssuers with the highest filing-activity intensity
- 114 8-Ks
- 5 form types
Quiet Power
Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence
- Enterprise value $99M
- 10-Q 92d ago
- 2 active signals
Capital cadence.
No disclosed M&A capital in the 10-year window.
This issuer has not disclosed material acquisition spend or count in the last ten fiscal years.
Strategy posture.
The buyer's playbook in terms of strategic archetype: what each disclosed move says about how they're deploying capital.
Archetype mix
- Technology Acquisition50%
- Talent Acquisition50%
Strategy keywords
Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.
- technology_acquisition
- talent_acquisition
Filing language.
Direct excerpts from acquisition disclosures and strategy sections: the verbs the buyer chose, in the filings they signed.
“we entered into an Engagement Agreement with ZQX Advisors, LLC (“ZQX”) to assist us in seeking business opportunities and licenses for our electrophoretic display technology (E-Paper®).”
“we acquired a 19.5% ownership interest in ZQX in exchange for 800,000 unregistered shares of our common stock and warrants to purchase an additional 500,000 unregistered shares”
“our wholly owned subsidiary, CTI Patent Acquisition Corporation, will continue to acquire patents and the exclusive rights to license and enforce patents from third parties”
“we entered into an Exchange Agreement whereby we acquired a minority interest in DISC”
“In 2013, the Company acquired the rights to four additional patent portfolios”
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
Healthcare
- Market spend (2023–2025)
- $195B
- Market spend (2020–2022)
- $253.6B
- Recent vs prior
- −23%
- Issuer rank in market
- N/A
- Share of market capital
- 0.0%
Valuation positioning
ANIX trades at a -21.9-turn discount to the Healthcare peer median of 12.9×.
- EV / Revenue
- N/A
- Net debt / EBITDA
- N/A
- Peer median EV / EBITDA
- 12.9×
Trading comparables
FMP market data · 2026-05-10
| Company | EV / EBITDA | EV / Rev | Net debt / EBITDA | Revenue | M&A 2023–2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
AbbVie Inc.ABBV | 23.4× | 6.7× | 3.1× | $62.8B | $18B |
| 17.2× | 0.9× | 1.9× | $449.7B | $28.1B | |
Amgen Inc.AMGN | 12.9× | 6.0× | 2.6× | $37.2B | $26.7B |
| 11.7× | 0.5× | 2.5× | $200.4B | $6.4B | |
| 9.3× | 1.9× | 2.8× | $76.4B | $1.3B |
Trading multiples from FMP market data; disclosed M&A spend from the SE-Cluster EDGAR 10-K corpus. Peer set = top disclosed buyers in Healthcare. 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)392026-01-12
- 10-Q (quarterly)992026-03-09
- 8-K (event)1142026-03-11
- Proxy / DEF 14A432026-01-28
- Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)302024-05-03
Signals on file
- elevated
Activism on file
2024-05-0330 activist filings on file (13D, DFAN14A, PREC14A series).
- info
Signal
Serial acquisition history
- info
Signal
10-K strategy themes
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.