Celldex Therapeutics, Inc.
CLDXHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITYCelldex Therapeutics, Inc. reads as High Velocity (composite 70/100); 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
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
- $13M disclosed buyer spend
Buyer Cadence
Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity
- Filed within 33d
- 234 8-Ks
Target Probability
Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings
- 13 activism filings
Spin/Carve
Issuers showing spin-off, carve-out, or sum-of-parts posture
- 13 activism filings
Pressure Watch
Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure
- 13 activism filings
- Latest activism 17y ago; heavily discounted
Distress Watch
Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns
- 13 activism filings
Restatement Risk
Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings
- 1 auditor change
- 2 NT late filings
- Latest event 18y ago; heavily discounted
Capital Velocity
DominantIssuers with the highest filing-activity intensity
- 234 8-Ks
- 5 form types
Quiet Power
Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence
- Enterprise value $2.2B
- 10-Q 33d 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
- Technology Acquisition50%
- Platform50%
Strategy keywords
Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.
- technology_acquisition
- platform
Filing language.
Direct excerpts from acquisition disclosures and strategy sections: the verbs the buyer chose, in the filings they signed.
“The study is designed to determine the maximum tolerated dose, or MTD, during a dose-escalation phase (0.01 to 3.0 mg/kg once every four weeks until confirmed progression or intolerance) and to recommend a dose level for further study in a subsequent expansion phase.”
“In November 2016, we completed the acquisition of Kolltan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Kolltan), a privately held company focused on the discovery and development of novel, antibody-based drugs targeting receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs).”
“We initiated a Phase 1 study of CDX-1140 in November 2017. This study is expected to enroll up to approximately 220 patients with recurrent, locally advanced or metastatic solid tumors and B cell lymphomas.”
“Under a license agreement with Southampton, we acquired the rights to develop human antibodies towards CD27, a potentially important target for immunotherapy of various cancers.”
“We believe that the potential for CDX-1140 will be best defined in combination studies with other immunotherapies or conventional cancer treatments.”
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
CLDX trades at a -20.4-turn discount to the Healthcare peer median of 12.9×.
- EV / Revenue
- 2715.2×
- 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)372026-02-25
- 10-Q (quarterly)992026-05-07
- 8-K (event)2342026-05-07
- Proxy / DEF 14A332026-04-29
- Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)132009-12-23
Signals on file
- elevated
Auditor change
2008-06-091 Item 4.01 filing on file; certifying accountant change.
- watch
Late-filing notice
2008-05-092 NT 10-K/10-Q filings on file.
- elevated
Activism on file
2009-12-2313 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.