Qiagen N.v.
QGENQUIET ISSUERQUIETQiagen N.v. reads as an Quiet Issuer (composite 35/100); Consistent Strategic Buyer deploying $445M across 3 disclosed transactions, running flat vs the prior cycle · primary market Life Sciences.
Lens
Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)
$445M
vs $587M in 2020–2022
Disclosed transactions
3
2/3 active fiscal years in window
Buyer archetype
Consistent Strategic Buyer
Meaningful spend appears across repeat years.
Composite score
35
Quiet Issuer dominates · Quiet
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
- $2.5B disclosed buyer spend
Buyer Cadence
Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity
Target Probability
Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings
- 6 activism filings
Spin/Carve
Issuers showing spin-off, carve-out, or sum-of-parts posture
- 6 activism filings
Pressure Watch
Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure
- 6 activism filings
- Latest activism 5.3y ago; heavily discounted
Distress Watch
Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns
- Missing recent 10-Q
- 6 activism filings
Restatement Risk
Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings
Capital Velocity
Issuers with the highest filing-activity intensity
Quiet Power
Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence
- Enterprise value $7.8B
- 2 active signals
Capital cadence.
Ten-year disclosed M&A activity. Bars show spend ($MM); ticks show recorded transaction count. Disclosure tier annotated where v6 audited corpus carries an entry.
Disclosed spend $MM Disclosed transactions (right axis)Peak spend year: $296M · Peak count: 3
| FY | Disclosed buys | Disclosed spend | Avg ticket | Audited tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 | $296M | $148M | N/A |
| 2024 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2023 | 1 | $150M | $150M | N/A |
| 2022 | N/A | $64M | N/A | N/A |
| 2021 | N/A | $283M | N/A | N/A |
| 2020 | 1 | $240M | $240M | N/A |
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%
- Technology Acquisition33%
- Geographic Expansion33%
Strategy keywords
Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.
- bolt_on
- technology_acquisition
- geographic_expansion
Filing language.
Direct excerpts from acquisition disclosures and strategy sections: the verbs the buyer chose, in the filings they signed.
“QIAGEN has grown by developing new instruments, consumables and digital solutions to meet diverse and growing needs in the market, partnering with researchers and Pharma companies, and acquiring companies or technologies to complement our portfolio.”
“Additional mergers or consolidation within the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries could cause us to lose existing customers and potential future customers, which could have a material adverse impact on our results of operations.”
“We intend to identify and acquire other businesses in the future that support our strategy to build on our global leadership position in Sample to Insight solutions focused on molecular testing.”
“In recent years, the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries have undergone substantial restructuring and consolidation.”
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
QGEN trades at a -5.2-turn discount to the Life Sciences peer median of 16.1×.
- EV / Revenue
- 3.7×
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 1.1×
- Peer median EV / EBITDA
- 16.1×
Trading comparables
FMP market data · 2026-05-10
| Company | EV / EBITDA | EV / Rev | Net debt / EBITDA | Revenue | M&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 | |
Qiagen N.v.QGEN | 10.9× | 3.7× | 1.1× | $2.1B | $445M |
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.
Target landscape.
Public-issuer targets that fit this buyer's archetype and target categories from filing-derived signal. Scores reflect cross-signal fit; reasons cite the EDGAR-anchored facts that drove the match.
No qualifying public-issuer targets surfaced from the current signal mix.
Stated target categories
No target categories enumerated in the audited corpus for this issuer.
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)252026-03-20
- 10-Q (quarterly)0N/A
- 8-K (event)0N/A
- Proxy / DEF 14A0N/A
- Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)62021-01-22
Signals on file
- elevated
Activism on file
2021-01-226 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.