KEY Tronic Corporation
KTCCHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITYKEY Tronic Corporation reads as High Velocity (composite 62/100); pressure / disclosure signals dominate the posture this cycle · primary market Semis & Hardware.
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
- $8M disclosed buyer spend
Buyer Cadence
Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity
- 223 8-Ks
Target Probability
Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings
- 2 activism filings
Spin/Carve
Issuers showing spin-off, carve-out, or sum-of-parts posture
- 2 activism filings
Pressure Watch
Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure
- 2 activism filings
- Latest activism 28y ago; heavily discounted
Distress Watch
Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns
- 2 activism filings
Restatement Risk
Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings
- 1 non-reliance 8-K
- 2 auditor changes
- 3 NT late filings
- Latest event 1.1y ago
Capital Velocity
DominantIssuers with the highest filing-activity intensity
- 223 8-Ks
- 5 form types
Quiet Power
Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence
- Enterprise value $157M
- 10-Q 78d ago
- 3 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
- Geographic Expansion33%
- Bolt On33%
- Horizontal Consolidation33%
Strategy keywords
Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.
- geographic_expansion
- bolt_on
- horizontal_consolidation
Filing language.
Direct excerpts from acquisition disclosures and strategy sections: the verbs the buyer chose, in the filings they signed.
“The major event of the year was our acquisition and successful integration of Ayrshire Electronics, which significantly increased our combined annual revenue and more than doubled our number of customers, giving us a much stronger and more diverse foundation for growth.”
“The adoption of FIN 46 had no impact on the Company’s overall financial position and results of operations as the Company has no variable interest entities.”
“In January 2003, the FASB issued FASB Interpretation No. 46, “Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities, an Interpretation of ARB No. 51” (FIN 46).”
“During fiscal year 2015, we completed our acquisition of Ayrshire which resulted primarily in additional manufacturing and warehouse space.”
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
Semis & Hardware
- Market spend (2023–2025)
- $118.8B
- Market spend (2020–2022)
- $89.3B
- Recent vs prior
- +33%
- Issuer rank in market
- N/A
- Share of market capital
- 0.0%
Valuation positioning
KTCC trades at a -32.2-turn discount to the Semis & Hardware peer median of 19.5×.
- EV / Revenue
- 0.4×
- Net debt / EBITDA
- N/A
- Peer median EV / EBITDA
- 19.5×
Trading comparables
FMP market data · 2026-05-10
| Company | EV / EBITDA | EV / Rev | Net debt / EBITDA | Revenue | M&A 2023–2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Entegris, Inc.ENTG | 30.8× | 8.0× | 3.8× | $3.2B | $6B |
| 21.7× | 6.6× | -0.1× | $25.9B | $6.9B | |
| 19.5× | 4.5× | 2.8× | $4.7B | $1.8B | |
Qualcomm Inc.QCOM | 18.1× | 5.4× | -0.4× | $44.5B | $997M |
| 14.5× | 3.5× | -0.2× | $18.5B | $3.1B |
Trading multiples from FMP market data; disclosed M&A spend from the SE-Cluster EDGAR 10-K corpus. Peer set = top disclosed buyers in Semis & Hardware. 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)312025-09-17
- 10-Q (quarterly)982026-05-08
- 8-K (event)2232026-05-05
- Proxy / DEF 14A322025-09-17
- Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)21998-04-09
Signals on file
- critical
Non-reliance disclosure
2024-10-101 Item 4.02 filing on file; financial-statement non-reliance.
- elevated
Auditor change
2025-06-052 Item 4.01 filings on file; certifying accountant change.
- watch
Late-filing notice
2024-09-303 NT 10-K/10-Q filings on file.
- elevated
Activism on file
1998-04-092 activist filings on file (13D, DFAN14A, PREC14A series).
- info
Signal
Serial acquisition history
- info
Signal
10-K strategy themes
- info
Signal
Restatement risk
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.