Republic Services, Inc.
RSGHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITYRepublic Services, Inc. reads as an High Velocity (composite 78/100); Transformational Buyer deploying $3B across 3 disclosed transactions, down 27% vs the prior cycle · primary market Waste, ranked #2 on disclosed spend.
Lens
Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)
$3.1B
vs $4.3B in 2020–2022
Disclosed transactions
3
3/3 active fiscal years in window
Buyer archetype
Transformational Buyer
Episodic but very large disclosed transactions drive the profile.
Composite score
78
High Velocity dominates · Filing Intensity
Republic Services (RSG) is a public-company acquirer in waste management with $9.2B of disclosed M&A spend across 3 acquisitions over 14 active years. Strategy mix is led by Horizontal Consolidation (44%), Geographic Expansion (22%), Bolt On (15%). Current capacity: $118M cash, $13.3B total debt, 2.8x net leverage (investment grade range). Has $1.2B of incremental debt capacity to a 3.0x IG threshold and $10.8B to the 5.0x HY transition. Disclosed median deal size sits at $3.1B.
- “We realize synergies from consolidating businesses into our existing operations, whether through acquisitions or public-private partnerships”- 10-K FY2025
- “Through acquisitions, landfill operating agreements and other market development activities, we create market-specific, vertically-integrated operations”- 10-K FY2024
- “creating vertical integration that will further advance circularity”- 10-K FY2023
- ▸More density buys in adjacent geographies
- ▸Selective regional roll-up where competitors lack scale
- ▸Room for a $10.8B debt-funded acquisition before HY 5.0x.
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
- $9.4B disclosed buyer spend
- Filed within 18d
Buyer Cadence
Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity
- Filed within 18d
- 3 acquisition-history signals
- 301 8-Ks
Target Probability
Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings
- 34 activism filings
Spin/Carve
Issuers showing spin-off, carve-out, or sum-of-parts posture
- 34 activism filings
Pressure Watch
Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure
- 34 activism filings
- Latest activism 4.3y ago; discounted
Distress Watch
Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns
- 34 activism filings
Restatement Risk
Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings
Capital Velocity
DominantIssuers with the highest filing-activity intensity
- 301 8-Ks
- Filed within 18d
- 5 form types
Quiet Power
Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence
- Enterprise value $62.2B
- 10-Q 18d ago
- 2 active signals
Capital cadence.
Ten-year disclosed M&A activity. Bars show spend ($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: $2,669M · Peak count: 3
| FY | Disclosed buys | Disclosed spend | Avg ticket | Audited tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | N/A | $1.1B | N/A | N/A |
| 2024 | N/A | $281M | N/A | N/A |
| 2023 | 3 | $1.8B | $592M | N/A |
| 2022 | N/A | $2.7B | N/A | N/A |
| 2021 | N/A | $1.1B | N/A | N/A |
| 2020 | N/A | $599M | N/A | 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
- Horizontal Consolidation20%
- Geographic Expansion20%
- Bolt On20%
- Tuck In20%
- Vertical Integration20%
Strategy keywords
Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.
- horizontal_consolidation
- geographic_expansion
- bolt_on
- tuck_in
- vertical_integration
- platform
Filing language.
Direct excerpts from acquisition disclosures and strategy sections: the verbs the buyer chose, in the filings they signed.
“We believe the total addressable United States and Canada environmental services market in which we operate generates approximately $163 billion of annual revenue”
“Through acquisitions, landfill operating agreements and other market development activities, we create market-specific, vertically-integrated operations”
“We realize synergies from consolidating businesses into our existing operations, whether through acquisitions or public-private partnerships”
“We will continue to look for opportunities to expand or enhance our recycling capabilities”
“We continue to invest in value-enhancing acquisitions in existing markets.”
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
Waste
- Market spend (2023–2025)
- $24.4B
- Market spend (2020–2022)
- $21.3B
- Recent vs prior
- +15%
- Issuer rank in market
- #2 of 38
- Share of market capital
- 14.9%
Valuation positioning
RSG trades at a -2.0-turn discount to the Waste peer median of 14.7×.
- EV / Revenue
- 3.7×
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 2.8×
- Peer median EV / EBITDA
- 14.7×
Trading comparables
FMP market data · 2026-05-10
| Company | EV / EBITDA | EV / Rev | Net debt / EBITDA | Revenue | M&A 2023–2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17.3× | 5.0× | 3.3× | $9.6B | $3.6B | |
| 15.7× | 3.4× | 2.5× | $1.9B | $1.5B | |
| 14.7× | 4.3× | 3.1× | $25.4B | $8.1B | |
| 13.2× | 2.5× | 1.9× | $6.1B | $598M | |
Republic Services, Inc.RSG | 12.7× | 3.7× | 2.8× | $16.7B | $3.1B |
| 12.0× | 3.9× | N/A | $6.7B | N/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 Waste. 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)272026-02-18
- 10-Q (quarterly)852026-05-08
- 8-K (event)3012026-05-07
- Proxy / DEF 14A512026-03-24
- Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)342022-02-18
Signals on file
- elevated
Activism on file
2022-02-1834 activist filings on file (13D, DFAN14A, PREC14A series).
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Signal
Disclosed acquisition spend
- 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.