TickerVVV
SectorOil & Gas Refining & Marketing
Mkt cap$4.5B
EV / EBITDA15.4×
PostureHigh Velocity
Composite78/100
LensBuyer-side

SE-Cluster Research·Issuer Brief·Q2 2026CIK 1674910

Valvoline Inc.

VVVHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITY

Valvoline Inc. reads as an High Velocity (composite 78/100); Programmatic Roll-Up deploying $154M across 100 disclosed transactions, down 59% vs the prior cycle · primary market Marketing & Data.

Lens

Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)

$154M

−59%

vs $373M in 2020–2022

Disclosed transactions

100

−51%

3/3 active fiscal years in window

Buyer archetype

Programmatic Roll-Up

High recurring acquisition cadence, usually with many smaller targets.

Composite score

/100

High Velocity dominates · Filing Intensity

Financial snapshotRevenue$1.9B
EBITDA$421M
Enterprise value$6.5B
EV / Revenue3.5×
EV / EBITDA15.4×
P/EN/A
Cash$85M
Total debt$31M
as of 2026-05-10

§ I·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

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

42/100

Companies actively deploying disclosed capital into M&A

$881M disclosed buyer spend
Filed within 19d

Buyer Cadence

50/100

Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity

Filed within 19d
117 8-Ks

Target Probability

8/100

Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings

Spin/Carve

0/100

Issuers showing spin-off, carve-out, or sum-of-parts posture

Pressure Watch

17/100

Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure

Distress Watch

0/100

Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns

Restatement Risk

0/100

Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings

Capital Velocity

Dominant

78/100

Issuers with the highest filing-activity intensity

117 8-Ks
Filed within 19d
4 form types

Quiet Power

41/100

Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence

Enterprise value $6.5B
10-Q 19d ago
2 active signals

§ II·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

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: $282M · Peak count: 136

FY	Disclosed buys	Disclosed spend	Avg ticket	Audited tier
2025	33	$65M	$2M	N/A
2024	36	$53M	$1M	N/A
2023	31	$36M	$1M	N/A
2022	37	$51M	$1M	N/A
2021	134	$282M	$2M	N/A
2020	35	$40M	$1M	N/A

§ III·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

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 Expansion
33%
Horizontal Consolidation
33%
Bolt On
33%

Strategy keywords

Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.

geographic_expansion
horizontal_consolidation
bolt_on

§ IV·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

Filing language.

Direct excerpts from acquisition disclosures and strategy sections: the verbs the buyer chose, in the filings they signed.

“the resilient North American automotive aftermarket services market is highly fragmented, which creates a significant opportunity for consolidation”

10-KFY2024

“resilient North American automotive aftermarket services market is highly fragmented, which creates a significant opportunity for consolidation”

10-KFY2025

“North American automotive aftermarket services market is highly fragmented, which creates a significant opportunity for consolidation”

10-KFY2022

§ V·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

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

Marketing & Data

Market spend (2023–2025): $51.4B
Market spend (2020–2022): $63.5B
Recent vs prior: −19%
Issuer rank in market: N/A
Share of market capital: 0.0%

Valuation positioning

15.4×EV / EBITDA

VVV trades at a -7.0-turn discount to the Marketing & Data peer median of 22.4×.

EV / Revenue: 3.5×
Net debt / EBITDA: -0.1×
Peer median EV / EBITDA: 22.4×

Trading comparables

FMP market data · 2026-05-10

Company	EV / EBITDA	EV / Rev	Net debt / EBITDA	Revenue	M&A 2023–2025
Alphabet Inc.GOOG	22.4×	11.6×	-0.2×	$422.6B	$3.2B
Valvoline Inc.VVV	15.4×	3.5×	-0.1×	$1.9B	$154M

Trading multiples from FMP market data; disclosed M&A spend from the SE-Cluster EDGAR 10-K corpus. Peer set = top disclosed buyers in Marketing & Data. Bars scaled to the highest EV/EBITDA in the set.

§ VI·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

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.

§ VII·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

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)112025-11-21
10-Q (quarterly)292026-05-07
8-K (event)1172026-05-07
Proxy / DEF 14A212025-12-19
Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)0N/A

Signals on file

info
Signal
Serial acquisition history
info
Signal
10-K strategy themes

§ VIII·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

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.

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