Amtech Systems, Inc.
ASYSHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITYAmtech Systems, Inc. reads as High Velocity (composite 70/100); pressure / disclosure signals dominate the posture this cycle · primary market Semis & Hardware.
Lens
Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)
$78M
vs $5M in 2020–2022
Disclosed transactions
2
2/3 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
- $124M disclosed buyer spend
Buyer Cadence
Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity
- Filed within 33d
- 174 8-Ks
Target Probability
Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings
- 33 activism filings
Spin/Carve
Issuers showing spin-off, carve-out, or sum-of-parts posture
- 1 divestiture 8-K
- Latest event 6.4y ago; heavily discounted
- 33 activism filings
Pressure Watch
Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure
- 33 activism filings
- Latest activism 2.1y ago; discounted
Distress Watch
Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns
- 33 activism filings
Restatement Risk
Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings
- 3 auditor changes
- 10 NT late filings
- Latest event 2.3y ago; discounted
Capital Velocity
DominantIssuers with the highest filing-activity intensity
- 174 8-Ks
- 5 form types
Quiet Power
Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence
- Enterprise value $306M
- 10-Q 33d ago
- 4 active signals
Capital cadence.
Ten-year disclosed M&A activity. Bars show spend ($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: $39M · Peak count: 1
| FY | Disclosed buys | Disclosed spend | Avg ticket | Audited tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2024 | 1 | $39M | $39M | N/A |
| 2023 | 1 | $39M | $39M | N/A |
| 2022 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2021 | 1 | $5M | $5M | 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
- Geographic Expansion20%
- Technology Acquisition20%
- Platform20%
- Bolt On20%
- Horizontal Consolidation20%
Strategy keywords
Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.
- geographic_expansion
- technology_acquisition
- platform
- bolt_on
- horizontal_consolidation
Filing language.
Direct excerpts from acquisition disclosures and strategy sections: the verbs the buyer chose, in the filings they signed.
“Uncertain global economic conditions and slowing growth in China, Europe and the United States, along with difficulties in the financial markets, national debt concerns and government austerity measures in certain regions, pose challenges to the industries in which we operate.”
“Historically, we have grown our business primarily through acquisitions, including the businesses that currently comprise our two reportable segments in the Semiconductor and Material and Substrate industries.”
“We continue to invest in research and development and have introduced new products in fiscal 2022, with additional new products expected in fiscal 2023, to expand our offerings and addressable market.”
“These conditions may lead to strategic alliances by, or consolidation of, other equipment manufacturers, which could adversely affect our ability to compete effectively.”
“Our 2023 acquisition of Entrepix bolstered our offerings in the CMP technology space and incorporated wafer cleaning into our existing capital equipment product lines.”
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
ASYS trades at a +22.7-turn premium to the Semis & Hardware peer median of 19.5×.
- EV / Revenue
- 3.9×
- Net debt / EBITDA
- -3.3×
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Amtech Systems, Inc.ASYS | 42.2× | 3.9× | -3.3× | $79M | $78M |
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)392025-12-10
- 10-Q (quarterly)962026-05-07
- 8-K (event)1742026-05-07
- Proxy / DEF 14A342026-01-23
- Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)332024-05-14
Signals on file
- elevated
Auditor change
2024-03-053 Item 4.01 filings on file; certifying accountant change.
- watch
Late-filing notice
2005-02-1510 NT 10-K/10-Q filings on file.
- watch
Divestiture / strategic-alternatives 8-K
2020-01-281 8-K filing matching divestiture / strategic-alternatives language.
- elevated
Activism on file
2024-05-1433 activist filings on file (13D, DFAN14A, PREC14A series).
- info
Signal
Serial acquisition history
- info
Signal
10-K strategy themes
- info
Signal
Spin/Carve candidate
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.