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TickerGSBC
SectorBanks - Regional
Mkt cap$760M
EV / EBITDA14.2×
PostureHigh Velocity
Composite70/100
LensTarget-side
SE-Cluster Research·Issuer Brief·Q2 2026CIK 854560

Great Southern Bancorp, Inc.

GSBCHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITY

Great Southern Bancorp, Inc. reads as High Velocity (composite 70/100); pressure / disclosure signals dominate the posture this cycle · primary market Regional Banking.

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$328M
EBITDA$84M
Enterprise value$1.2B
EV / Revenue3.6×
EV / EBITDA14.2×
P/EN/A
Cash$187M
Total debt$223M
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

16/100

Companies actively deploying disclosed capital into M&A

  • $95M disclosed buyer spend

Buyer Cadence

14/100

Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity

  • Filed within 33d
  • 371 8-Ks

Target Probability

20/100

Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings

  • 9 activism filings

Spin/Carve

0/100

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

  • 9 activism filings

Pressure Watch

16/100

Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure

  • 9 activism filings
  • Latest activism 10y ago; heavily discounted

Distress Watch

18/100

Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns

  • 9 activism filings

Restatement Risk

0/100

Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings

Capital Velocity

Dominant
70/100

Issuers with the highest filing-activity intensity

  • 371 8-Ks
  • 5 form types

Quiet Power

0/100

Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence

  • Enterprise value $1.2B
  • 10-Q 33d ago
  • 2 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
  • 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 size and complexity of the Bank's operations increased substantially in 2009 with the completion of two Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ("FDIC")-assisted transactions, and again in 2011, 2012 and 2014 with the completion of another FDIC-assisted transaction in each of those years.

10-KFY2014

The financial holding company structure provides the Company with greater flexibility than the Bank has to diversify its business activities, through existing or newly formed subsidiaries, or through acquisitions of or mergers with other financial institutions as well as other companies.

10-KFY2015

financial holding company structure provides greater flexibility to diversify business activities through acquisitions

10-KFY2017

expand the size and scope of financial services offered

10-KFY2016
§ 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

Regional Banking

Market spend (2023–2025)
$245.7B
Market spend (2020–2022)
$72.8B
Recent vs prior
+238%
Issuer rank in market
N/A
Share of market capital
0.0%

Valuation positioning

14.2×EV / EBITDA

GSBC trades at a +2.0-turn premium to the Regional Banking peer median of 12.3×.

EV / Revenue
3.6×
Net debt / EBITDA
0.4×
Peer median EV / EBITDA
12.3×

Trading comparables

FMP market data · 2026-05-10

CompanyEV / EBITDAEV / RevNet debt / EBITDARevenueM&A 2023–2025
16.7×3.7×-0.9×$13.7B$12.7B
Great Southern Bancorp, Inc.GSBC
14.2×3.6×0.4×$328MN/A
13.9×3.0×-0.7×$58.4B$126.1B
10.7×3.2×-2.1×$3.4B$7B
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.

§ VI·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

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.

§ 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)362026-03-06
  • 10-Q (quarterly)902026-05-07
  • 8-K (event)3712026-04-16
  • Proxy / DEF 14A432026-03-31
  • Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)92016-01-06

Signals on file

  • elevated

    Activism on file

    2016-01-06

    9 activist filings on file (13D, DFAN14A, PREC14A series).

  • info

    Signal

    Serial acquisition history

  • info

    Signal

    10-K strategy themes

§ 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.

Great Southern Bancorp, Inc.: Issuer Brief | SE-Cluster