JBT Marel Corporation
JBTMHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITYJBT Marel Corporation reads as an High Velocity (composite 78/100); Consistent Strategic Buyer deploying $2B across 1 disclosed transactions, up 213% vs the prior cycle · primary market Machinery & Automation.
Lens
Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)
$1.7B
vs $559M in 2020–2022
Disclosed transactions
1
2/3 active fiscal years in window
Buyer archetype
Consistent Strategic Buyer
Meaningful spend appears across repeat years.
Composite score
78
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
- $3.3B disclosed buyer spend
- Filed within 20d
Buyer Cadence
Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity
- Filed within 20d
- 220 8-Ks
Target Probability
Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings
Spin/Carve
Issuers showing spin-off, carve-out, or sum-of-parts posture
- 7 spin pre-registrations
- Latest event 8.1y ago; heavily discounted
Pressure Watch
Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure
Distress Watch
Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns
Restatement Risk
Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings
- 2 auditor changes
- Latest event 5.2y ago; heavily discounted
Capital Velocity
DominantIssuers with the highest filing-activity intensity
- 220 8-Ks
- Filed within 20d
- 4 form types
Quiet Power
Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence
- Enterprise value $8.9B
- 10-Q 20d ago
- 4 active signals
Capital cadence.
Ten-year disclosed M&A activity. Bars show spend ($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: $1,746M · Peak count: 3
| FY | Disclosed buys | Disclosed spend | Avg ticket | Audited tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | $1.7B | $1.7B | N/A |
| 2024 | N/A | $100K | N/A | N/A |
| 2023 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2022 | N/A | $330M | N/A | N/A |
| 2021 | N/A | $225M | N/A | N/A |
| 2020 | N/A | $5M | 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
- Bolt On20%
- Geographic Expansion20%
- Technology Acquisition20%
- Platform20%
- Horizontal Consolidation20%
Strategy keywords
Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.
- geographic_expansion
- horizontal_consolidation
- bolt_on
- technology_acquisition
- tuck_in
- talent_acquisition
- platform
Filing language.
Direct excerpts from acquisition disclosures and strategy sections: the verbs the buyer chose, in the filings they signed.
“The Bevcorp acquisition expands the Company's presence in the ready-to-drink carbonated beverage production market and provides significant cross-selling opportunity”
“The Alco acquisition extends the Company's capabilities in further processing offerings and strengthens existing full line offerings”
“create a leading and diversified global food and beverage technology solutions provider”
“bringing together two renowned companies with complementary product portfolios”
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
Machinery & Automation
- Market spend (2023–2025)
- $92.5B
- Market spend (2020–2022)
- $69.9B
- Recent vs prior
- +32%
- Issuer rank in market
- N/A
- Share of market capital
- 0.0%
Valuation positioning
JBTM trades at a -1.6-turn discount to the Machinery & Automation peer median of 17.6×.
- EV / Revenue
- 2.3×
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 0.3×
- Peer median EV / EBITDA
- 17.6×
Trading comparables
FMP market data · 2026-05-10
| Company | EV / EBITDA | EV / Rev | Net debt / EBITDA | Revenue | M&A 2023–2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
AMETEK, Inc.AME | 24.3× | 7.2× | 0.3× | $7.6B | $3.3B |
| 21.5× | 3.1× | 5.3× | $4.3B | $8.7B | |
| 17.6× | 5.0× | 1.1× | $18.3B | $9.1B | |
DOVER CorpDOV | 17.5× | 3.8× | 1.3× | $8.3B | $1.8B |
JBT Marel CorporationJBTM | 16.0× | 2.3× | 0.3× | $3.9B | $1.7B |
| 15.8× | 3.1× | -0.3× | $6B | $5.1B | |
| 13.8× | 5.5× | 3.1× | $8.1B | $8.1B |
Trading multiples from FMP market data; disclosed M&A spend from the SE-Cluster EDGAR 10-K corpus. Peer set = top disclosed buyers in Machinery & Automation. 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)182026-03-02
- 10-Q (quarterly)552026-05-06
- 8-K (event)2202026-05-04
- Proxy / DEF 14A382026-04-01
- Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)0N/A
Signals on file
- elevated
Auditor change
2021-03-032 Item 4.01 filings on file; certifying accountant change.
- elevated
Spin registration
2018-04-277 Form 10-12 filings on file; pre-spin registration.
- info
Signal
Serial acquisition history
- info
Signal
10-K strategy themes
- info
Signal
Spin/Carve candidate
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.