Arrow Financial Corporation
AROWHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITYArrow Financial Corporation reads as High Velocity (composite 70/100); pressure / disclosure signals dominate the posture this cycle · primary market Regional Banking.
Lens
Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)
$32M
vs N/A in 2020–2022
Disclosed transactions
N/A
1/3 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
- $36M disclosed buyer spend
Buyer Cadence
Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity
- Filed within 32d
- 247 8-Ks
Target Probability
Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings
- Control-process language
Spin/Carve
Issuers showing spin-off, carve-out, or sum-of-parts posture
Pressure Watch
Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure
- Control-process filings
Distress Watch
Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns
Restatement Risk
Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings
- 1 non-reliance 8-K
- 1 auditor change
- 3 NT late filings
- Latest event 2.2y ago; discounted
Capital Velocity
DominantIssuers with the highest filing-activity intensity
- 247 8-Ks
- 4 form types
Quiet Power
Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence
- Enterprise value $614M
- 10-Q 32d ago
- 5 active signals
Capital cadence.
Ten-year disclosed M&A activity. Bars show spend ($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: $32M · Peak count: 1
| FY | Disclosed buys | Disclosed spend | Avg ticket | Audited tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2024 | N/A | $32M | N/A | N/A |
| 2023 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2022 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2021 | N/A | N/A | N/A | 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
- Bolt On25%
- Geographic Expansion25%
- Talent Acquisition25%
- Tuck In25%
Strategy keywords
Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.
- bolt_on
- talent_acquisition
- geographic_expansion
- tuck_in
Filing language.
Direct excerpts from acquisition disclosures and strategy sections: the verbs the buyer chose, in the filings they signed.
“The benefits and synergies expected to result from the proposed Merger will depend in part on whether the operations of Adirondack can be integrated in a timely and efficient manner with those of Arrow.”
“Combining Arrow and Adirondack may be more difficult, costly or time-consuming than expected, and Arrow may fail to realize the anticipated benefits of the Merger.”
“On February 1, 2011, we acquired Upstate Agency, Inc., a privately owned, property and casualty insurance agency with offices located in northern New York”
“In April 2010, we acquired all the outstanding shares of Loomis & LaPann, Inc. (Loomis), a property and casualty insurance agency.”
“On August 1, 2011, we acquired two privately owned insurance agencies located in the greater Glens Falls area”
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
AROW trades at a -3.2-turn discount to the Regional Banking peer median of 12.3×.
- EV / Revenue
- 2.5×
- Net debt / EBITDA
- -4.2×
- Peer median EV / EBITDA
- 12.3×
Trading comparables
FMP market data · 2026-05-10
| Company | EV / EBITDA | EV / Rev | Net debt / EBITDA | Revenue | M&A 2023–2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16.7× | 3.7× | -0.9× | $13.7B | $12.7B | |
| 13.9× | 3.0× | -0.7× | $58.4B | $126.1B | |
| 10.7× | 3.2× | -2.1× | $3.4B | $7B | |
| 9.3× | 2.2× | -0.3× | $14.5B | $72.6B | |
Arrow Financial CorporationAROW | 9.1× | 2.5× | -4.2× | $247M | $32M |
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.
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)322026-03-27
- 10-Q (quarterly)982026-05-08
- 8-K (event)2472026-04-30
- Proxy / DEF 14A482026-04-23
- Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)0N/A
Signals on file
- critical
Non-reliance disclosure
2006-08-281 Item 4.02 filing on file; financial-statement non-reliance.
- elevated
Auditor change
2024-03-191 Item 4.01 filing on file; certifying accountant change.
- watch
Late-filing notice
2023-05-113 NT 10-K/10-Q filings on file.
- info
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.