Quest Resource Holding Corporation
QRHCHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITYQuest Resource Holding Corporation reads as an High Velocity (composite 70/100); Selective Buyer deploying $0 across 0 disclosed transactions, down 100% vs the prior cycle · primary market Waste.
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
Selective Buyer
Acquisition use is visible but targeted.
Composite score
70
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
- $34M disclosed buyer spend
Buyer Cadence
Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity
- Filed within 33d
- 9 acquisition-history signals
- 164 8-Ks
Target Probability
Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings
- 13 activism filings
Spin/Carve
Issuers showing spin-off, carve-out, or sum-of-parts posture
- 13 activism filings
Pressure Watch
Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure
- 13 activism filings
- Latest activism 4y ago; discounted
Distress Watch
Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns
- 13 activism filings
Restatement Risk
Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings
- 4 auditor changes
- 6 NT late filings
- Latest event 13y ago; heavily discounted
Capital Velocity
DominantIssuers with the highest filing-activity intensity
- 164 8-Ks
- 5 form types
Quiet Power
Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence
- Enterprise value $87M
- 10-Q 33d ago
- 3 active signals
Capital cadence.
Ten-year disclosed M&A activity. Bars show spend ($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: $16M · Peak count: 4
| FY | Disclosed buys | Disclosed spend | Avg ticket | Audited tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2024 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2023 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2022 | 1 | $3M | $3M | N/A |
| 2021 | 4 | $16M | $4M | N/A |
| 2020 | 1 | $11M | $11M | 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%
- Geographic Expansion33%
- Horizontal Consolidation33%
Strategy keywords
Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.
- bolt_on
- horizontal_consolidation
- geographic_expansion
- platform
- tuck_in
Filing language.
Direct excerpts from acquisition disclosures and strategy sections: the verbs the buyer chose, in the filings they signed.
“our belief that a disciplined approach to customer acquisition is enabling us to renew and grow business that contributes to profitable growth”
“our plan to expand to serve growing industries that we do not currently service, but that generate waste streams and recyclables”
“a disciplined approach to customer acquisition is enabling us to renew and grow business that contributes to profitable growth”
“developing and aggregating strategic solutions, we are unique in our ability to offer comprehensive national solutions”
“plan to expand to serve growing industries that we do not currently service”
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
- N/A
- Share of market capital
- 0.0%
Valuation positioning
QRHC trades at a +17.7-turn premium to the Waste peer median of 13.2×.
- EV / Revenue
- 0.4×
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 22.1×
- Peer median EV / EBITDA
- 13.2×
Trading comparables
FMP market data · 2026-05-10
| Company | EV / EBITDA | EV / Rev | Net debt / EBITDA | Revenue | M&A 2023–2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Quest Resource Holding CorporationQRHC | 30.9× | 0.4× | 22.1× | $244M | N/A |
| 17.3× | 5.0× | 3.3× | $9.6B | $3.6B | |
| 14.7× | 4.3× | 3.1× | $25.4B | $8.1B | |
| 13.2× | 2.5× | 1.9× | $6.1B | $598M | |
| 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)232026-03-13
- 10-Q (quarterly)552026-05-08
- 8-K (event)1642026-05-07
- Proxy / DEF 14A162025-06-10
- Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)132022-05-31
Signals on file
- elevated
Auditor change
2010-08-174 Item 4.01 filings on file; certifying accountant change.
- watch
Late-filing notice
2013-03-286 NT 10-K/10-Q filings on file.
- elevated
Activism on file
2022-05-3113 activist filings on file (13D, DFAN14A, PREC14A series).
- info
Signal
Disclosed acquisition spend
- info
Signal
10-K strategy themes
- info
Signal
Restatement risk
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.