Coca-cola Europacific Partners PLC
CCEPACTIVE ACQUIRERQUIETCoca-cola Europacific Partners PLC reads as an Active Acquirer (composite 44/100); Selective Buyer deploying $2B across 1 disclosed transactions, up 206075% vs the prior cycle · primary market Consumer Products.
Lens
Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)
$1.6B
vs $800K in 2020–2022
Disclosed transactions
1
1/3 active fiscal years in window
Buyer archetype
Selective Buyer
Acquisition use is visible but targeted.
Composite score
44
Active Acquirer dominates · Quiet
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
DominantCompanies actively deploying disclosed capital into M&A
- $1.8B disclosed buyer spend
Buyer Cadence
Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity
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
- Missing recent 10-Q
Restatement Risk
Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings
Capital Velocity
Issuers with the highest filing-activity intensity
Quiet Power
Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence
- Enterprise value $45.8B
- 2 active signals
Capital cadence.
Ten-year disclosed M&A activity. Bars show spend ($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: $1,649M · Peak count: 1
| FY | Disclosed buys | Disclosed spend | Avg ticket | Audited tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2024 | 1 | $1.6B | $1.6B | N/A |
| 2023 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2022 | N/A | $400K | N/A | N/A |
| 2021 | 1 | $400K | $400K | 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
- Geographic Expansion50%
- Horizontal Consolidation50%
Strategy keywords
Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.
- geographic_expansion
- horizontal_consolidation
Filing language.
Direct excerpts from acquisition disclosures and strategy sections: the verbs the buyer chose, in the filings they signed.
“The Merger was consummated to enhance the alignment of the Coca-Cola system to compete more effectively across Western Europe with world-class production, sales, and distribution platforms, and to generate synergies, including supply chain benefits and operating efficiencies.”
“The Acquisition is a further step for the Group to create a more diverse footprint within its existing Australia, Pacific and Indonesia business segment.”
“The transaction is aligned with the Group’s aim of driving sustainable growth through diversification and building scale.”
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
CCEP trades at a +1.2-turn premium to the Consumer Products peer median of 12.2×.
- EV / Revenue
- 2.2×
- Net debt / EBITDA
- N/A
- Peer median EV / EBITDA
- 12.2×
Trading comparables
FMP market data · 2026-05-10
| Company | EV / EBITDA | EV / Rev | Net debt / EBITDA | Revenue | M&A 2023–2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15.7× | 2.3× | 2.0× | $164.7B | $24.6B | |
Coca-cola Europacific Partners PLCCCEP | 13.4× | 2.2× | N/A | $41.3B | $1.6B |
| 8.7× | 1.3× | -0.1× | $10B | $5.5B |
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.
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)102026-03-13
- 10-Q (quarterly)0N/A
- 8-K (event)0N/A
- Proxy / DEF 14A0N/A
- 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.