Insperity, Inc.
NSPHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITYInsperity, Inc. reads as High Velocity (composite 62/100); pressure / disclosure signals dominate the posture this cycle · primary market Industrial Services.
Lens
Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)
N/A
vs N/A in 2020–2022
Disclosed transactions
N/A
0/3 active fiscal years in window
Buyer archetype
Consistent Strategic Buyer
Meaningful spend appears across repeat years.
Composite score
62
High Velocity dominates · Filing Intensity
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
Companies actively deploying disclosed capital into M&A
- $41M disclosed buyer spend
Buyer Cadence
Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity
- 206 8-Ks
Target Probability
Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings
- 30 activism filings
Spin/Carve
Issuers showing spin-off, carve-out, or sum-of-parts posture
- 30 activism filings
Pressure Watch
Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure
- 30 activism filings
- Latest activism 9.6y ago; heavily discounted
Distress Watch
Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns
- 30 activism filings
Restatement Risk
Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings
Capital Velocity
DominantIssuers with the highest filing-activity intensity
- 206 8-Ks
- 5 form types
Quiet Power
Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence
- Enterprise value $1.1B
- 10-Q 71d ago
- 2 active signals
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.
Strategy posture.
The buyer's playbook in terms of strategic archetype: what each disclosed move says about how they're deploying capital.
Archetype mix
- Bolt On33%
- Geographic Expansion33%
- Technology Acquisition33%
Strategy keywords
Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.
- bolt_on
- geographic_expansion
- technology_acquisition
Filing language.
Direct excerpts from acquisition disclosures and strategy sections: the verbs the buyer chose, in the filings they signed.
“A key element of the ABU strategy includes the acquisition of certain human resource technology companies that provide services through a SaaS delivery model, as well as record keeping for defined contribution plans, recruiting and employee screening services.”
“In 2010, we began to execute an Adjacent Business Unit (“ABU”) growth strategy, which seeks to expand the number of business performance improvement services available to our current and prospective client base.”
“The acquisition represents our continued business strategy to expand the sales opportunity of our human resources services”
“We intend to leverage the existing customer relationships of the ABUs to cross sell our Workforce Optimization solution”
“The acquisition allows us to leverage our HR service capabilities to our PEO customers, through operating synergies.”
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
Industrial Services
- Market spend (2023–2025)
- $65.5B
- Market spend (2020–2022)
- $39.6B
- Recent vs prior
- +65%
- Issuer rank in market
- N/A
- Share of market capital
- 0.0%
Valuation positioning
NSP trades at a +20.2-turn premium to the Industrial Services peer median of 11.4×.
- EV / Revenue
- 0.2×
- Net debt / EBITDA
- -4.7×
- Peer median EV / EBITDA
- 11.4×
Trading comparables
FMP market data · 2026-05-10
| Company | EV / EBITDA | EV / Rev | Net debt / EBITDA | Revenue | M&A 2023–2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Insperity, Inc.NSP | 31.6× | 0.2× | -4.7× | $6.8B | N/A |
| 15.1× | 1.0× | -0.4× | $24.2B | $444M | |
Paychex, Inc.PAYX | 13.1× | 5.8× | 1.1× | $6.3B | $3.2B |
| 11.4× | 0.9× | 7.8× | $2.5B | $3.9B | |
| 11.3× | 4.5× | 0.2× | $16.4B | $931M | |
AZZ Inc.AZZ | 8.7× | 3.0× | 0.8× | $1.7B | $1.3B |
Trading multiples from FMP market data; disclosed M&A spend from the SE-Cluster EDGAR 10-K corpus. Peer set = top disclosed buyers in Industrial Services. Bars scaled to the highest EV/EBITDA in the set.
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.
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)292026-02-11
- 10-Q (quarterly)892026-05-01
- 8-K (event)2062026-04-30
- Proxy / DEF 14A402026-04-14
- Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)302016-11-30
Signals on file
- elevated
Activism on file
2016-11-3030 activist filings on file (13D, DFAN14A, PREC14A series).
- info
Signal
Serial acquisition history
- info
Signal
10-K strategy themes
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.