Alarm.com Holdings, Inc.
ALRMHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITYAlarm.com Holdings, Inc. reads as an High Velocity (composite 70/100); Consistent Strategic Buyer deploying $158M across 2 disclosed transactions, up 140% vs the prior cycle · primary market Software & IT.
Lens
Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)
$158M
vs $66M in 2020–2022
Disclosed transactions
2
3/3 active fiscal years in window
Buyer archetype
Consistent Strategic Buyer
Meaningful spend appears across repeat years.
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
- $601M disclosed buyer spend
Buyer Cadence
Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity
- Filed within 33d
- 89 8-Ks
Target Probability
Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings
- 12 activism filings
Spin/Carve
Issuers showing spin-off, carve-out, or sum-of-parts posture
- 12 activism filings
Pressure Watch
Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure
- 12 activism filings
- Latest activism 6.1y ago; heavily discounted
Distress Watch
Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns
- 12 activism filings
Restatement Risk
Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings
Capital Velocity
DominantIssuers with the highest filing-activity intensity
- 89 8-Ks
- 5 form types
Quiet Power
Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence
- Enterprise value $2.4B
- 10-Q 33d ago
- 2 active signals
Capital cadence.
Ten-year disclosed M&A activity. Bars show spend ($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: $155M · Peak count: 3
| FY | Disclosed buys | Disclosed spend | Avg ticket | Audited tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | N/A | $141M | N/A | N/A |
| 2024 | N/A | $1M | N/A | N/A |
| 2023 | 2 | $15M | $8M | N/A |
| 2022 | 1 | $32M | $32M | N/A |
| 2021 | 1 | $4M | $4M | N/A |
| 2020 | 3 | $30M | $10M | 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
- Technology Acquisition20%
- Bolt On20%
- Geographic Expansion20%
- Talent Acquisition20%
- Tuck In20%
Strategy keywords
Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.
- technology_acquisition
- bolt_on
- geographic_expansion
- talent_acquisition
- tuck_in
- platform
Filing language.
Direct excerpts from acquisition disclosures and strategy sections: the verbs the buyer chose, in the filings they signed.
“In 2023, we acquired 100% of the issued and outstanding shares of capital stock of EBS Spółka z ograniczoną odpowiedzialnością, or EBS, an international producer of universal smart communicator devices, headquartered in Warsaw, Poland.”
“We expect the addition of new technology infrastructure, talent, key relationships and hardware devices to help accelerate our development of intelligent, data-driven smart residential and commercial property services.”
“We believe the acquisition of the developed technology will expand Alarm.com's learning program and accelerate deployment of advanced video analytics solutions for the Alarm.com and OpenEye platforms.”
“In 2024, we acquired certain assets of Finland-based Kapacity.io Solutions Oy, to help accelerate deployment of a cloud-based demand response platform internationally for our EnergyHub subsidiary.”
“Through our 2025 acquisition of CHeKT, Inc., or CHeKT, we enhanced our RVM offering and opportunity in the commercial and residential markets.”
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
Software & IT
- Market spend (2023–2025)
- $217.7B
- Market spend (2020–2022)
- $197.1B
- Recent vs prior
- +10%
- Issuer rank in market
- N/A
- Share of market capital
- 0.0%
Valuation positioning
ALRM trades at a -3.5-turn discount to the Software & IT peer median of 14.3×.
- EV / Revenue
- 2.3×
- Net debt / EBITDA
- -1.7×
- Peer median EV / EBITDA
- 14.3×
Trading comparables
FMP market data · 2026-05-10
| Company | EV / EBITDA | EV / Rev | Net debt / EBITDA | Revenue | M&A 2023–2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23.4× | 10.7× | 0.2× | $64.1B | $27.7B | |
| 15.5× | 9.8× | 0.0× | $318.3B | $75.4B | |
| 14.3× | 4.4× | 0.6× | $41.5B | $12.1B | |
| 11.0× | 3.7× | -0.1× | $6.4B | $1.7B | |
Alarm.com Holdings, Inc.ALRM | 10.9× | 2.3× | -1.7× | $1B | $158M |
Fiserv, Inc.FISV | 7.6× | 2.8× | 0.1× | $21.1B | $10M |
Trading multiples from FMP market data; disclosed M&A spend from the SE-Cluster EDGAR 10-K corpus. Peer set = top disclosed buyers in Software & IT. 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)112026-02-19
- 10-Q (quarterly)332026-05-07
- 8-K (event)892026-05-07
- Proxy / DEF 14A242026-04-23
- Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)122020-05-22
Signals on file
- elevated
Activism on file
2020-05-2212 activist filings on file (13D, DFAN14A, PREC14A series).
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Signal
Serial acquisition history
- info
Signal
10-K strategy themes
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.