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TickerAATC
SectorHardware, Equipment & Parts
Mkt cap$30M
EV / EBITDA14.3×
PostureDistress Watch
Composite70/100
LensTarget-side
SE-Cluster Research·Issuer Brief·Q2 2026CIK 943034

Autoscope Technologies Corp.

AATCDISTRESS WATCHDISTRESS LEAN

Autoscope Technologies Corp. reads as Distress Watch (composite 70/100); pressure / disclosure signals dominate the posture this cycle · primary market Semis & Hardware.

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

Consistent Strategic Buyer

Meaningful spend appears across repeat years.

Composite score

70

/100

Distress Watch dominates · Distress Lean

Financial snapshot
Revenue$9M
EBITDA$2M
Enterprise value$29M
EV / Revenue3.2×
EV / EBITDA14.3×
P/EN/A
Cash$3M
Total debt$58K
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

8/100

Companies actively deploying disclosed capital into M&A

  • $51M disclosed buyer spend

Buyer Cadence

1/100

Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity

  • 193 8-Ks

Target Probability

16/100

Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings

  • 35 activism filings

Spin/Carve

0/100

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

  • 35 activism filings

Pressure Watch

16/100

Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure

  • 35 activism filings
  • Latest activism 5y ago; heavily discounted

Distress Watch

Dominant
70/100

Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns

  • 10-Q 1301d stale
  • 10-K 1540d stale
  • 35 activism filings

Restatement Risk

0/100

Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings

Capital Velocity

62/100

Issuers with the highest filing-activity intensity

  • 193 8-Ks
  • 5 form types

Quiet Power

0/100

Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence

  • Enterprise value $29M
  • 10-Q 1301d 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

  • Technology Acquisition
    25%
  • Platform
    25%
  • Bolt On
    25%
  • Geographic Expansion
    25%

Strategy keywords

Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.

  • technology_acquisition
  • platform
  • bolt_on
  • geographic_expansion
§ 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.

We may choose to divest certain business operations based on management's assessment of their strategic value to our business, consolidate or close certain facilities or outsource certain functions.

10-KFY2021

Our technology is a process in which software, rather than humans, examines outputs from various types of sophisticated sensors to determine what is happening in a field of view.

10-KFY2017

We continue to evaluate our business, which may result in restructuring activities.

10-KFY2021
§ 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

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

14.3×EV / EBITDA

AATC trades at a -5.1-turn discount to the Semis & Hardware peer median of 19.5×.

EV / Revenue
3.2×
Net debt / EBITDA
-1.7×
Peer median EV / EBITDA
19.5×

Trading comparables

FMP market data · 2026-05-10

CompanyEV / EBITDAEV / RevNet debt / EBITDARevenueM&A 2023–2025
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
18.1×5.4×-0.4×$44.5B$997M
14.5×3.5×-0.2×$18.5B$3.1B
Autoscope Technologies Corp.AATC
14.3×3.2×-1.7×$9MN/A

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.

§ 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)172022-03-22
  • 10-Q (quarterly)562022-11-16
  • 8-K (event)1932023-01-17
  • Proxy / DEF 14A332022-05-02
  • Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)352021-06-04

Signals on file

  • elevated

    Activism on file

    2021-06-04

    35 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.