Stantec Inc.
STNQUIET ISSUERQUIETStantec Inc. reads as Quiet Issuer (composite 22/100); pressure / disclosure signals dominate the posture this cycle · primary market E&C.
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
N/A
Insufficient acquisition disclosure for archetype classification.
Composite score
22
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
Buyer Cadence
Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity
Target Probability
Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings
- 1 activism filings
Spin/Carve
Issuers showing spin-off, carve-out, or sum-of-parts posture
- 1 activism filings
Pressure Watch
Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure
- 1 activism filings
- Latest activism 21y ago; heavily discounted
Distress Watch
Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns
- Missing recent 10-Q
- 1 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 $16.4B
- Quiet 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.
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
E&C
- Market spend (2023–2025)
- $50.9B
- Market spend (2020–2022)
- $33.3B
- Recent vs prior
- +53%
- Issuer rank in market
- N/A
- Share of market capital
- 0.0%
Valuation positioning
STN trades at a -3.9-turn discount to the E&C peer median of 19.2×.
- EV / Revenue
- 2.2×
- Net debt / EBITDA
- N/A
- Peer median EV / EBITDA
- 19.2×
Trading comparables
FMP market data · 2026-05-10
| Company | EV / EBITDA | EV / Rev | Net debt / EBITDA | Revenue | M&A 2023–2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 46.8× | 3.8× | 2.0× | $30B | $5.4B | |
| 20.0× | 2.3× | -0.3× | $17.8B | $1.3B | |
| 19.2× | 1.3× | 3.0× | $13.2B | $32M | |
Stantec Inc.STN | 15.3× | 2.2× | N/A | $7.6B | N/A |
AecomACM | 10.3× | 0.8× | 1.4× | $16B | $231M |
KBR, Inc.KBR | 7.1× | 0.9× | 2.4× | $7.7B | $829M |
Trading multiples from FMP market data; disclosed M&A spend from the SE-Cluster EDGAR 10-K corpus. Peer set = top disclosed buyers in E&C. 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)222026-02-25
- 10-Q (quarterly)0N/A
- 8-K (event)0N/A
- Proxy / DEF 14A0N/A
- Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)12005-04-19
Signals on file
- elevated
Activism on file
2005-04-191 activist filing on file (13D, DFAN14A, PREC14A series).
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.