Limbach Holdings, Inc.
LMBHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITYLimbach Holdings, Inc. reads as High Velocity (composite 62/100); pressure / disclosure signals dominate the posture this cycle · primary market E&C.
Lens
Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)
$119M
vs $38M in 2020–2022
Disclosed transactions
N/A
3/3 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
- $189M disclosed buyer spend
Buyer Cadence
Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity
- 129 8-Ks
Target Probability
Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings
- 26 activism filings
Spin/Carve
Issuers showing spin-off, carve-out, or sum-of-parts posture
- 26 activism filings
Pressure Watch
Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure
- 26 activism filings
- Latest activism 5.6y ago; heavily discounted
Distress Watch
Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns
- 26 activism filings
Restatement Risk
Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings
- 2 auditor changes
- 3 NT late filings
- Latest event 7.3y ago; heavily discounted
Capital Velocity
DominantIssuers with the highest filing-activity intensity
- 129 8-Ks
- 5 form types
Quiet Power
Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence
- Enterprise value $916M
- 10-Q 67d ago
- 3 active signals
Capital cadence.
Ten-year disclosed M&A activity. Bars show spend ($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: $67M · Peak count: 1
| FY | Disclosed buys | Disclosed spend | Avg ticket | Audited tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | N/A | $67M | N/A | N/A |
| 2024 | N/A | $37M | N/A | N/A |
| 2023 | N/A | $15M | N/A | N/A |
| 2022 | 1 | $19M | $19M | N/A |
| 2021 | 1 | $19M | $19M | 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
- Bolt On33%
- Geographic Expansion33%
- Horizontal Consolidation33%
Strategy keywords
Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.
- geographic_expansion
- bolt_on
- horizontal_consolidation
- tuck_in
- platform
Filing language.
Direct excerpts from acquisition disclosures and strategy sections: the verbs the buyer chose, in the filings they signed.
“The Company continues to build the internal capabilities, processes and leadership capacity necessary to evaluate, execute and integrate acquisitions on a disciplined and repeatable basis”
“The Company believes that it can further increase its cash flow and operating income by acquiring strategically synergistic companies that will increase the Company’s geographic footprint”
“The Company focuses on creating value for building owners by developing long-term relationships and becoming an indispensable partner to building owners with mission-critical systems.”
“The Company remains focused on disciplined capital deployment and cultural alignment to ensure acquisitions contribute to long-term value creation”
“supports the Company ODR growth strategy, expands and/or supplements the Company’s current breadth of service offerings”
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
E&C
- Market spend (2023–2025)
- $50.9B
- Market spend (2020–2022)
- $33.3B
- Recent vs prior
- +53%
- Issuer rank in market
- N/A
- Share of market capital
- 0.0%
Valuation positioning
LMB trades at a -6.0-turn discount to the E&C peer median of 20.6×.
- EV / Revenue
- 1.4×
- Net debt / EBITDA
- -0.2×
- Peer median EV / EBITDA
- 20.6×
Trading comparables
FMP market data · 2026-05-10
| Company | EV / EBITDA | EV / Rev | Net debt / EBITDA | Revenue | M&A 2023–2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 46.8× | 3.8× | 2.0× | $30B | $5.4B | |
| 25.1× | 4.9× | -0.3× | $21.6B | $1.2B | |
| 20.6× | 1.1× | 0.2× | $9.8B | $6B | |
| 19.2× | 1.3× | 3.0× | $13.2B | $32M | |
Limbach Holdings, Inc.LMB | 14.5× | 1.4× | -0.2× | $653M | $119M |
| 8.1× | 5.5× | -0.4× | $1.2B | $598M |
Trading multiples from FMP market data; disclosed M&A spend from the SE-Cluster EDGAR 10-K corpus. Peer set = top disclosed buyers in E&C. 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)142026-03-02
- 10-Q (quarterly)372026-05-05
- 8-K (event)1292026-05-05
- Proxy / DEF 14A192026-04-23
- Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)262020-11-18
Signals on file
- elevated
Auditor change
2016-10-132 Item 4.01 filings on file; certifying accountant change.
- watch
Late-filing notice
2019-03-293 NT 10-K/10-Q filings on file.
- elevated
Activism on file
2020-11-1826 activist filings on file (13D, DFAN14A, PREC14A series).
- info
Signal
Serial acquisition history
- 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.