Fortress Value Acquisition Corp. VFVAV
Cash in trust
$290.9M
$290,864,766
Trust per share
—
Redemption value
IPO
Feb 2026
$249.8M raised
Combination deadline
Feb 26, 2028
540 days remaining
Filings on record
30
Latest Aug 13, 2026
Overview
Fortress Value Acquisition Corp. V is a special purpose acquisition company incorporated in Delaware and registered with the SEC under CIK 0001850733. It completed its initial public offering in Feb 2026, raising $249.8M in gross proceeds and listing on Nasdaq. Class A shares trade under the ticker FVAV on Nasdaq. The vehicle is sponsored by Fortress through Fortress Value Acquisition Sponsor V LLC. The mandate targets financial services, energy transition. IPO closed, trust funded, no definitive agreement announced.
“We intend to seek a company in an industry that complements the experience and expertise of our management team and is a business that we think our transformative operating skills can help improve.”
Reading the filings
Arithmetic on what Fortress Value Acquisition Corp. V has disclosed, written the way a desk would read it. These are observations, not a rating. Nothing here scores the vehicle or implies a view on it.
Time on the clock
540 days to the Feb 26, 2028 deadline. The vehicle is early in its search window, and the deadline is not yet the binding constraint.
Sponsor record
Fortress has launched 4 vehicles. Of the 3 that have resolved, 0 closed a combination and 3 liquidated, a 0% completion rate. A sponsor's record is not a forecast, but it does tell you whether the team has taken a deal across the line before.
Scores
Recomputed 4m agoThree readings of Fortress Value Acquisition Corp. V, each an unweighted mean of the components shown beneath it, and each component a percentile against every live SPAC rather than an absolute we invented. They describe the setup, not the merit. How they are built
Edge
ElevatedHow much does the structure protect a holder right now?
59/100
- Runway85
540 days
- Sponsor record33
0.0%
Edge reads the setup, not the business. A vehicle can score well on protection and still be a poor place to leave money once a deal closes.
FOMO
LowHow much attention is this vehicle attracting right now?
19/100
- Filing activity38
2 in 30 days
- News coverage0
0 stories in 30 days
Attention is not quality. FOMO rises on news volume and on the market paying above trust, both of which have preceded plenty of disappointments.
Potential
ElevatedHow likely is this vehicle to complete a combination, and at what scale?
52/100
- Sponsor record33
0.0%
- Trust scale85
$291M
- Stage40
searching
Potential is about execution, not about the target. It says nothing about whether the eventual deal is worth owning, because the target is usually unknown when the score is computed.
These are derived measures, not ratings of investment merit. They carry no view on the target, no price target and no recommendation, and a high score is not a reason to buy anything.
SEC filing history
Free tier: filings older than 24 hours- SCHEDULE 13G/A
Amended beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0000886982-26-000477
- 10-Q
Quarterly report
Accession 0001213900-26-086188
- 8-K
Current report
Item 5.02 · Accession 0001213900-26-061526
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0001213900-26-061519
- 3
Initial statement of beneficial ownership
Accession 0001213900-26-061516
- SCHEDULE 13G
Beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0001214659-26-006435
- SCHEDULE 13G
Beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0000919574-26-002930
- SCHEDULE 13G
Beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0000886982-26-000184
- SCHEDULE 13G
Beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0001213900-26-053423
- 10-Q
Quarterly report
Accession 0001213900-26-050320
- 8-K
Other events
Items 8.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001213900-26-025245
- 8-K
Other events
Items 8.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001213900-26-024185
- SCHEDULE 13G
Beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0001123292-26-000309
- 8-K
Entry into a material definitive agreement; Other events
Items 1.01, 3.02, 5.02, 5.03, 8.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001213900-26-022435
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0001213900-26-021863
- 424B4
Final IPO prospectus
Accession 0001213900-26-020875
- CERT
Exchange listing certification
Accession 0001354457-26-000218
- EFFECT
Notice of effectiveness
Accession 9999999995-26-000664
- 3
Initial statement of beneficial ownership
Accession 0001213900-26-020529
- 3
Initial statement of beneficial ownership
Accession 0001213900-26-020528
- 3
Initial statement of beneficial ownership
Accession 0001213900-26-020526
- 3
Initial statement of beneficial ownership
Accession 0001213900-26-020525
- 3
Initial statement of beneficial ownership
Accession 0001213900-26-020524
- 3
Initial statement of beneficial ownership
Accession 0001213900-26-020523
- 8-A12B
Registration of securities on an exchange
Accession 0001213900-26-020393
- CORRESP
Correspondence with SEC staff
Accession 0001213900-26-019226
- CORRESP
Correspondence with SEC staff
Accession 0001213900-26-019224
- S-1
Registration statement for the initial public offering
Accession 0001213900-26-014174
- UPLOAD
SEC staff comment letter
Accession 0000000000-26-000986
- DRS
Draft registration statement (confidential)
Accession 0001213900-25-125305
Fortress Value Acquisition Corp. V: questions answered
What is Fortress Value Acquisition Corp. V (FVAV)?
Fortress Value Acquisition Corp. V is a special purpose acquisition company incorporated in Delaware and registered with the SEC under CIK 0001850733. It completed its initial public offering in Feb 2026, raising $249.8M in gross proceeds and listing on Nasdaq. Class A shares trade under the ticker FVAV on Nasdaq. The vehicle is sponsored by Fortress through Fortress Value Acquisition Sponsor V LLC. The mandate targets financial services, energy transition. IPO closed, trust funded, no definitive agreement announced.
How much does Fortress Value Acquisition Corp. V hold in trust?
Approximately $290,864,766, as at the most recent filing on record. Trust balances move: shareholders redeem at extension votes and at the combination vote, and sponsors pay contributions in to extend. Treat the figure as a point-in-time disclosure, not a running balance.
When must Fortress Value Acquisition Corp. V complete a merger?
By Feb 26, 2028. If no combination closes by then the sponsor must seek a further extension or wind the vehicle up and return the trust.
What happens if Fortress Value Acquisition Corp. V does not find a target in time?
The charter requires the vehicle to redeem 100% of the public shares and return the trust, pro rata, to public shareholders. That is the mechanism working as designed rather than a default. Founder shares and warrants are worthless in that outcome, which is why the sponsor's incentive is to get a deal done or to buy more time. Across the market, deadline lapsed without a deal; trust returned to public shareholders.
Can I redeem shares in Fortress Value Acquisition Corp. V, and at what price?
Public shareholders may elect to redeem in connection with a combination vote and at each extension vote, at the pro-rata trust value on the relevant record date. Redemption is a right attached to the public shares only; warrants and rights carry no claim on the trust. The mechanics and the deadline for electing are set out in the proxy statement for the vote in question.
What tickers does Fortress Value Acquisition Corp. V trade under?
Class A shares trade as FVAV on Nasdaq. Units trade first and separate into their component securities roughly 52 days after the IPO; only the Class A shares carry the redemption right against the trust.
Is the trust value the same as the share price for Fortress Value Acquisition Corp. V?
No. Trust per share is a disclosed, contractual figure: what a redeeming holder receives. The market price is whatever the shares change hands at, which can sit above the trust when a deal is well received or below it when the market doubts one will close. We do not have a current quote for this vehicle, so no spread is shown.
Who sponsors Fortress Value Acquisition Corp. V, and what is their track record?
Fortress Value Acquisition Sponsor V LLC is the sponsor entity, part of the Fortress franchise. That franchise has launched 4 vehicles in total, of which 0 closed a combination and 3 liquidated, a 0% completion rate on resolved vehicles.
Is Fortress Value Acquisition Corp. V tradeable, and where?
Yes. FVAV returned a live quote of $10.33 on Nasdaq. Quotes here are delayed and refreshed on a schedule rather than streamed, so treat the figure as indicative and confirm on your own venue. Units and warrants trade under their own symbols and are quoted separately.
Is Fortress Value Acquisition Corp. V a good investment?
That is not a question this site answers. Fortress Value Acquisition Corp. V is covered here as reference data: what the company filed, when it filed it, and what the numbers in those filings say. The Edge, FOMO and Potential scores on this page are derived measures with a published formula, not ratings of investment merit: they describe the setup, and every component is shown so you can take them apart. We publish no price targets and no recommendations, and nothing here should be read as advice. The figures are a starting point for your own work, and each one carries the accession number of the filing it came from.
Where does this Fortress Value Acquisition Corp. V data come from?
Filings Fortress Value Acquisition Corp. V submitted to the SEC under CIK 0001850733: the registration statement and final prospectus for the structure, quarterly and annual reports for the trust, current reports and proxy statements for deals, votes and extensions. Trust economics are taken from the registrant's own XBRL tags rather than parsed from prose, which is why they are exact. Every filing in the history above is listed with its accession number, which identifies the document uniquely on EDGAR; Pro accounts open it directly from the row.
Compiled by the SPACListing research desk
Last reconciled Sep 4, 2026
Every figure on this page is read from documents the registrants filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, principally the IPO prospectus (Form 424B4), quarterly and annual reports, current reports and proxy statements, the registrant's own XBRL tags for trust economics. Nothing is sourced from press coverage, from the companies themselves, or from a third-party aggregator. Where a filing does not disclose something, the field is left blank rather than estimated.
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