Weatherford International plc
WFRDHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITYWeatherford International plc reads as an High Velocity (composite 62/100); Consistent Strategic Buyer deploying $51M across 0 disclosed transactions, newly disclosed vs the prior cycle · primary market Energy Infrastructure.
Lens
Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)
$51M
vs N/A in 2020–2022
Disclosed transactions
N/A
1/3 active fiscal years in window
Buyer archetype
Consistent Strategic Buyer
Meaningful spend appears across repeat years.
Composite score
62
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
- $99M disclosed buyer spend
Buyer Cadence
Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity
- 191 8-Ks
Target Probability
Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings
Spin/Carve
Issuers showing spin-off, carve-out, or sum-of-parts posture
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
Capital Velocity
DominantIssuers with the highest filing-activity intensity
- 191 8-Ks
- 4 form types
Quiet Power
Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence
- Enterprise value $8B
- 10-Q 80d ago
- 2 active signals
Capital cadence.
Ten-year disclosed M&A activity. Bars show spend ($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: $51M · Peak count: 1
| FY | Disclosed buys | Disclosed spend | Avg ticket | Audited tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2024 | N/A | $51M | N/A | N/A |
| 2023 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2022 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2021 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2020 | N/A | N/A | 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
- Tuck In33%
- Bolt On33%
- Horizontal Consolidation33%
Strategy keywords
Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.
- tuck_in
- bolt_on
- horizontal_consolidation
Filing language.
Direct excerpts from acquisition disclosures and strategy sections: the verbs the buyer chose, in the filings they signed.
“Not responding timely to changes in the market and customer requirements in the highly competitive oilfield services business may adversely affect our ability to succeed.”
“We provide our products and services worldwide and compete in a variety of distinct segments with a number of global and regional competitors. Our principal competitors include SLB, Halliburton, Baker Hughes, National Oilwell Varco, Nabors Industries, ChampionX and Expro Group Holdings. We also compete with various other regional suppliers that provide a range of equipment and services typically focused on local or regional markets. Competition is based on a number of factors, including performance, safety, quality, reliability, service, price, response time and, in some cases, depth and breadth of products. The energy services business is highly competitive, which may adversely affect our ability to succeed. Additionally, the impact of consolidation and acquisitions of our competitors is difficult to predict and may harm our business as a result.”
“We provide our products and services worldwide and compete with a number of global and regional competitors. Our principal competitors include SLB, Halliburton, Baker Hughes, National Oilwell Varco, ChampionX and Expro Group Holdings. We also compete with various other suppliers who provide products and services within a smaller cross section of our product line portfolio either locally, regionally, or globally. Competition is based on a number of factors, including performance, safety, quality, reliability, service, price, response time and, in some cases, depth and breadth of products. The energy services business is highly competitive, which may adversely affect our ability to succeed. Additionally, the consolidations of and acquisitions by our competitors are difficult to predict and may impact our business as a result.”
“Strategic and disciplined mergers and acquisitions that align with our portfolio strategy;”
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
Energy Infrastructure
- Market spend (2023–2025)
- $86.6B
- Market spend (2020–2022)
- $40.3B
- Recent vs prior
- +115%
- Issuer rank in market
- N/A
- Share of market capital
- 0.0%
Valuation positioning
WFRD trades at a -4.8-turn discount to the Energy Infrastructure peer median of 12.9×.
- EV / Revenue
- 1.6×
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 0.4×
- Peer median EV / EBITDA
- 12.9×
Trading comparables
FMP market data · 2026-05-10
| Company | EV / EBITDA | EV / Rev | Net debt / EBITDA | Revenue | M&A 2023–2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19.9× | 11.8× | 9.3× | $1.5B | $1B | |
| 13.3× | 4.8× | -0.3× | $9.3B | $3.7B | |
SLB LimitedSLB | 12.5× | 2.5× | 0.9× | $35.9B | $5.8B |
Weatherford International plcWFRD | 8.2× | 1.6× | 0.4× | $4.9B | $51M |
| 7.0× | 2.7× | -0.2× | $58.3B | $2.7B |
Trading multiples from FMP market data; disclosed M&A spend from the SE-Cluster EDGAR 10-K corpus. Peer set = top disclosed buyers in Energy Infrastructure. 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)132026-02-04
- 10-Q (quarterly)362026-04-22
- 8-K (event)1912026-04-21
- Proxy / DEF 14A252026-04-21
- Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)0N/A
Signals on file
- info
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.