Aramark
ARMKHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITYAramark reads as High Velocity (composite 62/100); pressure / disclosure signals dominate the posture this cycle · primary market Consumer Products.
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
62
High Velocity dominates · Filing Intensity
Aramark (ARMK) is a public-company acquirer in specialty business services. Current capacity: $476M cash, $6.1B total debt, 4.4x net leverage (high yield range). Currently $1.8B above the IG 3.0x threshold; $763M of remaining debt capacity before the 5.0x HY ceiling.
- ▸Insufficient strategy signal in filings to draft a next-move thesis.
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
- 148 8-Ks
Target Probability
Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings
- 8 activism filings
Spin/Carve
Issuers showing spin-off, carve-out, or sum-of-parts posture
- 8 activism filings
Pressure Watch
Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure
- 8 activism filings
- Latest activism 2.8y ago; discounted
Distress Watch
Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns
- 8 activism filings
Restatement Risk
Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings
Capital Velocity
DominantIssuers with the highest filing-activity intensity
- 148 8-Ks
- 5 form types
Quiet Power
Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence
- Enterprise value $18.2B
- 10-Q 105d ago
- 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
Consumer Products
- Market spend (2023–2025)
- $145.2B
- Market spend (2020–2022)
- $102.1B
- Recent vs prior
- +42%
- Issuer rank in market
- N/A
- Share of market capital
- 0.0%
Valuation positioning
ARMK trades at a +2.3-turn premium to the Consumer Products peer median of 12.1×.
- EV / Revenue
- 1.0×
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 4.4×
- Peer median EV / EBITDA
- 12.1×
Trading comparables
FMP market data · 2026-05-10
| Company | EV / EBITDA | EV / Rev | Net debt / EBITDA | Revenue | M&A 2023–2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23.9× | 6.3× | 0.8× | $11B | $466M | |
| 14.9× | 3.6× | 2.8× | $27.5B | $10.2B | |
AramarkARMK | 14.4× | 1.0× | 4.4× | $18.8B | N/A |
| 12.1× | 4.1× | 3.1× | $6.4B | $9.4B | |
| 9.5× | 0.4× | 3.6× | $8.9B | $151M | |
Brink’s Co.BCO | 7.7× | 1.3× | 3.0× | $5.4B | $27M |
Trading multiples from FMP market data; disclosed M&A spend from the SE-Cluster EDGAR 10-K corpus. Peer set = top disclosed buyers in Consumer Products. 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)122025-11-25
- 10-Q (quarterly)372026-02-10
- 8-K (event)1482026-02-20
- Proxy / DEF 14A382025-12-22
- Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)82023-08-10
Signals on file
- elevated
Activism on file
2023-08-108 activist filings 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.