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TickerPOCI
SectorMedical - Instruments & Supplies
Mkt cap$35M
EV / EBITDAN/A
PostureHigh Velocity
Composite62/100
LensTarget-side
SE-Cluster Research·Issuer Brief·Q2 2026CIK 867840

Precision Optics Corporation, Inc.

POCIHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITY

Precision Optics Corporation, Inc. reads as High Velocity (composite 62/100); pressure / disclosure signals dominate the posture this cycle · primary market Life Sciences.

Lens

Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)

$8M

−95%

vs $171M in 2020–2022

Disclosed transactions

1

−67%

1/3 active fiscal years in window

Buyer archetype

Consistent Strategic Buyer

Meaningful spend appears across repeat years.

Composite score

62

/100

High Velocity dominates · Filing Intensity

Financial snapshot
Revenue$24M
EBITDAN/A
Enterprise value$39M
EV / Revenue1.6×
EV / EBITDAN/A
P/EN/A
Cash$881K
Total debt$2M
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

15/100

Companies actively deploying disclosed capital into M&A

  • $181M disclosed buyer spend

Buyer Cadence

2/100

Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity

  • 139 8-Ks

Target Probability

18/100

Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings

  • 43 activism filings

Spin/Carve

0/100

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

  • 43 activism filings

Pressure Watch

33/100

Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure

  • 43 activism filings
  • Latest activism 3.1y ago; discounted

Distress Watch

18/100

Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns

  • 43 activism filings

Restatement Risk

0/100

Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings

Capital Velocity

Dominant
62/100

Issuers with the highest filing-activity intensity

  • 139 8-Ks
  • 5 form types

Quiet Power

0/100

Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence

  • Enterprise value $39M
  • 10-Q 112d ago
  • 2 active signals
§ II·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

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.

16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25

Disclosed spend $MM Disclosed transactions (right axis)Peak spend year: $167M · Peak count: 1

FYDisclosed buysDisclosed spendAvg ticketAudited tier
2025N/AN/AN/AN/A
2024N/AN/AN/AN/A
20231$8M$8MN/A
20221$3M$3MN/A
20211$167M$167MN/A
20201$1M$1MN/A
§ 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
    50%
  • Bolt On
    50%

Strategy keywords

Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.

  • geographic_expansion
  • bolt_on
§ 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.

By combining the unique capabilities of our company with the Ross Optical division we believe there are opportunities for expanded sales of each division products and services throughout the combined customer base.

10-KFY2019

The acquisition of the assets of Ross Optical Industries effective June 1, 2019 expands our optics components and assemblies business.

10-KFY2019

The Unity Platform. In January 2025, we launched our Unity Imaging Platform (“Unity”), comprising a standard baseline CMOS endoscopic system with customization options based on existing or newly designed modular sub-components. Unity represents the culmination of many years of research, development, and collaboration with key industry players. By leveraging insights from many previous projects, Unity incorporates proven design architectures to meet the unique needs of today’s medical imaging devices. Customers benefit from a modular, adaptable solution that simplifies every stage of the development process, from prototyping to production using the latest technologies. The consolidation of common design elements offers flexible, modular architecture, appropriate for both re-usable and single-use endoscopic systems. Unity provides customers with a functional video pipeline early in the development process. This accelerates their system integration efforts and allows them to gather feedback from stakeholders much sooner, ultimately shortening the time to market and enhancing overall project efficiency. Unity is the embodiment of our on-going improvements to the evolution and acceptance of our Microprecision™ and digital imaging technology platforms.

10-KFY2025
§ 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

Life Sciences

Market spend (2023–2025)
$68.3B
Market spend (2020–2022)
$107.5B
Recent vs prior
−36%
Issuer rank in market
N/A
Share of market capital
0.0%

Valuation positioning

N/AEV / EBITDA

POCI trades at a -22.1-turn discount to the Life Sciences peer median of 16.1×.

EV / Revenue
1.6×
Net debt / EBITDA
N/A
Peer median EV / EBITDA
16.1×

Trading comparables

FMP market data · 2026-05-10

CompanyEV / EBITDAEV / RevNet debt / EBITDARevenueM&A 2023–2025
19.1×4.7×-0.0×$45.2B$10.8B
18.8×4.3×-0.3×$20.6B$8B
13.3×3.5×-0.1×$35.5B$2.2B
13.1×1.9×-0.2×$14.1B$2.1B

Trading multiples from FMP market data; disclosed M&A spend from the SE-Cluster EDGAR 10-K corpus. Peer set = top disclosed buyers in Life Sciences. 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)242025-10-28
  • 10-Q (quarterly)542026-02-17
  • 8-K (event)1392026-03-30
  • Proxy / DEF 14A202026-02-02
  • Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)432023-04-17

Signals on file

  • elevated

    Activism on file

    2023-04-17

    43 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.

Precision Optics Corporation, Inc.: Issuer Brief | SE-Cluster