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TickerBAH
SectorConsulting Services
Mkt cap$9.3B
EV / EBITDA7.7×
PostureHigh Velocity
Composite78/100
LensBuyer-side
SE-Cluster Research·Issuer Brief·Q2 2026CIK 1443646

Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corporation

BAHHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITY

Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corporation reads as an High Velocity (composite 78/100); Consistent Strategic Buyer deploying $538M across 2 disclosed transactions, down 31% vs the prior cycle · primary market Marketing & Data.

Lens

Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)

$538M

−31%

vs $780M in 2020–2022

Disclosed transactions

2

flat

3/3 active fiscal years in window

Buyer archetype

Consistent Strategic Buyer

Meaningful spend appears across repeat years.

Composite score

78

/100

High Velocity dominates · Filing Intensity

Financial snapshot
Revenue$11.4B
EBITDA$1.1B
Enterprise value$8.7B
EV / Revenue0.8×
EV / EBITDA7.7×
P/EN/A
Cash$882M
Total debt$3.9B
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

41/100

Companies actively deploying disclosed capital into M&A

  • $1.8B disclosed buyer spend
  • Filed within 29d

Buyer Cadence

28/100

Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity

  • Filed within 29d
  • 205 8-Ks

Target Probability

24/100

Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings

  • 20 activism filings

Spin/Carve

0/100

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

  • 20 activism filings

Pressure Watch

19/100

Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure

  • 20 activism filings
  • Latest activism 9.5y ago; heavily discounted

Distress Watch

30/100

Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns

  • 20 activism filings

Restatement Risk

0/100

Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings

Capital Velocity

Dominant
78/100

Issuers with the highest filing-activity intensity

  • 205 8-Ks
  • Filed within 29d
  • 5 form types

Quiet Power

0/100

Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence

  • Enterprise value $8.7B
  • 10-Q 123d 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.

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Disclosed spend $MM Disclosed transactions (right axis)Peak spend year: $780M · Peak count: 2

FYDisclosed buysDisclosed spendAvg ticketAudited tier
20251$97M$97MN/A
2024N/A$400KN/AN/A
20231$440M$440MN/A
20222$780M$390MN/A
2021N/AN/AN/AN/A
2020N/AN/AN/AN/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

  • Horizontal Consolidation
    20%
  • Bolt On
    20%
  • Geographic Expansion
    20%
  • Technology Acquisition
    20%
  • Talent Acquisition
    20%

Strategy keywords

Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.

  • horizontal_consolidation
  • bolt_on
  • geographic_expansion
  • technology_acquisition
  • talent_acquisition
  • tuck_in
§ 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.

The U.S. government procures services and solutions through single award, definite contracts that specify the scope of services that will be delivered and identify the contractor that will provide the specified services.

10-KFY2025

Definite contracts call for the performance of specified services or the delivery of specified products.

10-KFY2025

drive in our markets to quickly build competencies in growth areas and achieve economies of scale

10-KFY2024

consolidation activity among market participants will continue.

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

Marketing & Data

Market spend (2023–2025)
$51.4B
Market spend (2020–2022)
$63.5B
Recent vs prior
−19%
Issuer rank in market
N/A
Share of market capital
0.0%

Valuation positioning

7.7×EV / EBITDA

BAH trades at a -14.7-turn discount to the Marketing & Data peer median of 22.4×.

EV / Revenue
0.8×
Net debt / EBITDA
2.7×
Peer median EV / EBITDA
22.4×

Trading comparables

FMP market data · 2026-05-10

CompanyEV / EBITDAEV / RevNet debt / EBITDARevenueM&A 2023–2025
22.4×11.6×-0.2×$422.6B$3.2B
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding CorporationBAH
7.7×0.8×2.7×$11.4B$538M

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

§ VI·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

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.

§ 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)162025-05-23
  • 10-Q (quarterly)482026-01-23
  • 8-K (event)2052026-04-27
  • Proxy / DEF 14A462025-07-08
  • Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)202016-12-09

Signals on file

  • elevated

    Activism on file

    2016-12-09

    20 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.