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TickerKTCC
SectorComputer Hardware
Mkt cap$37M
EV / EBITDAN/A
PostureHigh Velocity
Composite70/100
LensBuyer-side
SE-Cluster Research·Issuer Brief·Q2 2026CIK 719733

KEY Tronic Corporation

KTCCHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITY

KEY Tronic Corporation reads as an High Velocity (composite 70/100); Selective Buyer deploying $0 across 0 disclosed transactions, running flat vs the prior cycle · primary market Semis & Hardware.

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$395M
EBITDAN/A
Enterprise value$157M
EV / Revenue0.4×
EV / EBITDAN/A
P/EN/A
Cash$431K
Total debt$99M
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

3/100

Companies actively deploying disclosed capital into M&A

  • $8M disclosed buyer spend

Buyer Cadence

14/100

Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity

  • Filed within 32d
  • 223 8-Ks

Target Probability

12/100

Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings

  • 2 activism filings

Spin/Carve

0/100

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

  • 2 activism filings

Pressure Watch

14/100

Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure

  • 2 activism filings
  • Latest activism 28y ago; heavily discounted

Distress Watch

9/100

Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns

  • 2 activism filings

Restatement Risk

61/100

Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings

  • 1 non-reliance 8-K
  • 2 auditor changes
  • 3 NT late filings
  • Latest event 1y ago

Capital Velocity

Dominant
70/100

Issuers with the highest filing-activity intensity

  • 223 8-Ks
  • 5 form types

Quiet Power

0/100

Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence

  • Enterprise value $157M
  • 10-Q 32d ago
  • 3 active signals
§ II·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

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.

§ 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%
  • Bolt On
    33%
  • Horizontal Consolidation
    33%

Strategy keywords

Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.

  • geographic_expansion
  • bolt_on
  • horizontal_consolidation
§ 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 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.

10-KFY2015

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.

10-KFY2004

In January 2003, the FASB issued FASB Interpretation No. 46, “Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities, an Interpretation of ARB No. 51” (FIN 46).

10-KFY2004

During fiscal year 2015, we completed our acquisition of Ayrshire which resulted primarily in additional manufacturing and warehouse space.

10-KFY2015
§ 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

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

N/AEV / EBITDA

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

CompanyEV / EBITDAEV / RevNet debt / EBITDARevenueM&A 2023–2025
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
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.

§ 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)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

    2024-10-10

    1 Item 4.02 filing on file; financial-statement non-reliance.

  • elevated

    Auditor change

    2025-06-05

    2 Item 4.01 filings on file; certifying accountant change.

  • watch

    Late-filing notice

    2024-09-30

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

  • elevated

    Activism on file

    1998-04-09

    2 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.