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TickerEPC
SectorHousehold & Personal Products
Mkt cap$979M
EV / EBITDA14.8×
PostureHigh Velocity
Composite70/100
LensTarget-side
SE-Cluster Research·Issuer Brief·Q2 2026CIK 1096752

Edgewell Personal Care Company

EPCHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITY

Edgewell Personal Care Company reads as High Velocity (composite 70/100); pressure / disclosure signals dominate the posture this cycle · primary market Consumer Products.

Lens

Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)

N/A

−99%

vs N/A in 2020–2022

Disclosed transactions

N/A

−99%

0/3 active fiscal years in window

Buyer archetype

Consistent Strategic Buyer

Meaningful spend appears across repeat years.

Composite score

70

/100

High Velocity dominates · Filing Intensity

Financial snapshot
Revenue$2.1B
EBITDA$133M
Enterprise value$2B
EV / Revenue0.9×
EV / EBITDA14.8×
P/EN/A
Cash$300M
Total debt$1.3B
as of 2026-05-10
§ I·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

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

37/100

Companies actively deploying disclosed capital into M&A

  • $2.3B disclosed buyer spend

Buyer Cadence

19/100

Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity

  • Filed within 34d
  • 296 8-Ks

Target Probability

20/100

Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings

  • 12 activism filings

Spin/Carve

0/100

Issuers showing spin-off, carve-out, or sum-of-parts posture

  • 12 activism filings

Pressure Watch

42/100

Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure

  • 12 activism filings
  • Latest activism 2.5y ago; discounted

Distress Watch

18/100

Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns

  • 12 activism filings

Restatement Risk

0/100

Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings

Capital Velocity

Dominant
70/100

Issuers with the highest filing-activity intensity

  • 296 8-Ks
  • 5 form types

Quiet Power

0/100

Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence

  • Enterprise value $2B
  • 10-Q 34d ago
  • 2 active signals
§ II·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

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.

16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25

Disclosed spend $MM Disclosed transactions (right axis)Peak spend year: $1,370M · Peak count: 1

FYDisclosed buysDisclosed spendAvg ticketAudited tier
2025N/AN/AN/AN/A
2024N/AN/AN/AN/A
2023N/AN/AN/AN/A
20221$309M$309MN/A
20211$300K$300KN/A
20201$234M$234MN/A
§ III·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

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 On
    50%
  • Geographic Expansion
    50%

Strategy keywords

Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.

  • bolt_on
  • geographic_expansion
§ IV·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

Filing language.

Direct excerpts from acquisition disclosures and strategy sections: the verbs the buyer chose, in the filings they signed.

This trend has resulted in the increased size and influence of large, highly consolidated retail customers, including internet-based retailers, who may demand lower pricing, special packaging or impose other commercial requirements on us.

10-KFY2024

Some of our customers, particularly our high-volume retail customers, have sought to obtain pricing and other concessions and better trade terms.

10-KFY2021

we continued to grow our portfolio of men’s skincare and grooming brands with the acquisition of Cremo in September 2020

10-KFY2020

In recent years, an omnichannel strategy in both in the U.S. and internationally has gained increasing importance.

10-KFY2024

In recent years, retailer consolidation both in the U.S. and internationally has increased. This trend has resulted in the increased size and influence of large, highly consolidated retail customers, including internet-based retailers, who may demand lower pricing, special packaging or impose other commercial requirements on us.

10-KFY2023
§ V·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

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

Consumer Products

Market spend (2023–2025)
$145.2B
Market spend (2020–2022)
$102.1B
Recent vs prior
+42%
Issuer rank in market
N/A
Share of market capital
0.0%

Valuation positioning

14.8×EV / EBITDA

EPC trades at a +2.6-turn premium to the Consumer Products peer median of 12.2×.

EV / Revenue
0.9×
Net debt / EBITDA
7.2×
Peer median EV / EBITDA
12.2×

Trading comparables

FMP market data · 2026-05-10

CompanyEV / EBITDAEV / RevNet debt / EBITDARevenueM&A 2023–2025
15.7×2.3×2.0×$164.7B$24.6B
Edgewell Personal Care CompanyEPC
14.8×0.9×7.2×$2.1BN/A
8.7×1.3×-0.1×$10B$5.5B

Trading multiples from FMP market data; disclosed M&A spend from the SE-Cluster EDGAR 10-K corpus. Peer set = top disclosed buyers in Consumer Products. Bars scaled to the highest EV/EBITDA in the set.

§ VI·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

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.

§ VII·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

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)332025-11-18
  • 10-Q (quarterly)872026-05-06
  • 8-K (event)2962026-05-06
  • Proxy / DEF 14A482025-12-22
  • Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)122023-11-28

Signals on file

  • elevated

    Activism on file

    2023-11-28

    12 activist filings on file (13D, DFAN14A, PREC14A series).

  • info

    Signal

    Serial acquisition history

  • info

    Signal

    10-K strategy themes

§ VIII·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

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.

Edgewell Personal Care Company: Issuer Brief | SE-Cluster