First Citizens Bancshares Inc.
FCNCAHIGH VELOCITYMIXEDFirst Citizens Bancshares Inc. reads as an High Velocity (composite 78/100); Transformational Buyer deploying $73B across 2 disclosed transactions, up 1120% vs the prior cycle · primary market Regional Banking, ranked #2 on disclosed spend.
Lens
Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)
$72.6B
vs $6B in 2020–2022
Disclosed transactions
2
2/3 active fiscal years in window
Buyer archetype
Transformational Buyer
Episodic but very large disclosed transactions drive the profile.
Composite score
78
High Velocity dominates · Mixed
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
- $80B disclosed buyer spend
- Filed within 18d
Buyer Cadence
Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity
- Filed within 18d
- 264 8-Ks
Target Probability
Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings
- 37 activism filings
Spin/Carve
Issuers showing spin-off, carve-out, or sum-of-parts posture
- 37 activism filings
Pressure Watch
Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure
- 37 activism filings
- Latest activism 1.6y ago
Distress Watch
Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns
- 37 activism filings
Restatement Risk
Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings
- 1 auditor change
- 2 NT late filings
- Latest event 5.2y ago; heavily discounted
Capital Velocity
DominantIssuers with the highest filing-activity intensity
- 264 8-Ks
- Filed within 18d
- 5 form types
Quiet Power
Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence
- Enterprise value $32.4B
- 10-Q 18d ago
- 3 active signals
Capital cadence.
Ten-year disclosed M&A activity. Bars show spend ($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: $36,308M · Peak count: 4
| FY | Disclosed buys | Disclosed spend | Avg ticket | Audited tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2024 | 1 | $36.3B | $36.3B | N/A |
| 2023 | 1 | $36.3B | $36.3B | N/A |
| 2022 | 1 | $6B | $6B | N/A |
| 2021 | 1 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2020 | 1 | $2M | $2M | 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 Expansion25%
- Horizontal Consolidation25%
- Platform25%
- Bolt On25%
Strategy keywords
Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.
- geographic_expansion
- horizontal_consolidation
- platform
- bolt_on
Filing language.
Direct excerpts from acquisition disclosures and strategy sections: the verbs the buyer chose, in the filings they signed.
“A bank holding company (BHC) must obtain approval from the Federal Reserve Board (Federal Reserve) prior to directly or indirectly acquiring ownership or control of 5% of the voting shares or substantially all of the assets of another BHC or bank or prior to merging or consolidating with another BHC.”
“BancShares pursues growth through strategic mergers and acquisitions to enhance organizational value, strengthen its presence in existing markets, as well as expand its footprint in new markets.”
“BancShares pursues growth through strategic acquisitions that enhance organizational value, strengthen its presence in existing markets as well as expand its footprint in new markets.”
“The merger allowed FCB to strengthen its presence in the greater Richmond, Virginia area”
“The acquisition provided FCB the opportunity to grow capital and enhance earnings”
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
- #2 of 251
- Share of market capital
- 16.5%
Valuation positioning
FCNCA trades at a -4.6-turn discount to the Regional Banking peer median of 13.9×.
- EV / Revenue
- 2.2×
- Net debt / EBITDA
- -0.3×
- Peer median EV / EBITDA
- 13.9×
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 | |
First Citizens Bancshares Inc.FCNCA | 9.3× | 2.2× | -0.3× | $14.5B | $72.6B |
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.
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.
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)322026-02-24
- 10-Q (quarterly)1042026-05-08
- 8-K (event)2642026-05-07
- Proxy / DEF 14A392026-03-23
- Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)372024-10-22
Signals on file
- elevated
Auditor change
2021-02-251 Item 4.01 filing on file; certifying accountant change.
- watch
Late-filing notice
2012-02-292 NT 10-K/10-Q filings on file.
- elevated
Activism on file
2024-10-2237 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.