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Acacia Research (ACTG) guidance and outlook

Acacia Research's 10-Q filed Nov 5, 2026 makes 17 forward-looking statements.

Guidance and outlook

Forward-looking statements, 10-Q filed Nov 5, 2026

• Through our public market activities, we aim to initiate strategic block positions in public companies as a path to complete whole company acquisitions or strategic transactions that unlock value.
• One metric we rely heavily on is the durability and scalability of a target’s annual earnings stream, rather than its ‘exit year’ earnings, and the impact of these earnings on our income statement.
• Our model, instead, targets similar returns without requiring an exit event for the business to generate those returns.
• Broadly speaking, our potential acquisition targets are founder-owned or privately controlled businesses, entire public companies or carve-outs of specific segments, which show a path to consistent profitability, free cash flow generation and higher risk-adjusted return expectations.
• We have built a management team with demonstrated expertise in Research, Transactions and Execution, and Operations and Management of our targeted acquisitions.
• We believe our priorities and skills underpin a compelling value proposition for operating businesses, partners and future acquisition targets, including:
• Starboard has provided, and we expect will continue to provide, ready access to its extensive network of industry executives and, as part of our relationship, Starboard has assisted, and we expect will continue to assist, with sourcing and evaluating appropriate acquisition opportunities.
• The Printronix team is focused on topline initiatives and reducing general and administrative expenses, and we expect Printronix to continue to generate free cash flow on an annual basis.
• We intend to grow our Company by acquiring additional operating businesses, energy assets and intellectual property assets.
• However, we may not complete any acquisitions, and any acquisitions that we complete may be costly and could negatively affect our results of operations, and dilute our stockholders’ ownership, or cause us to incur significant expense, and we may not realize the expected benefits of acquisitions.
• We expect that our Manufacturing and Industrial Operations will continue to adjust their selling prices as required in response to higher costs.
• We expect patent-related legal expenses to continue to fluctuate from period to period based on the factors summarized herein, in connection with future trial dates, international enforcement, strategic patent portfolio prosecution and our current and future patent portfolio investment, prosecution, licensing and enforcement activities.

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Through our public market activities, we aim to initiate strategic block positions in public companies as a path to complete whole company acquisitions or strategic transactions that unlock value. One metric we rely heavily on is the durability and scalability of a target’s annual earnings stream, rather than its ‘exit year’ earnings, and the impact of these earnings on our income statement. Our model, instead, targets similar returns without requiring an exit event for the business to generate those returns.

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Updated Nov 8, 2026. Read automatically from SEC filings and public data; errors are possible. Not investment advice.