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TickerDK
SectorOil & Gas Refining & Marketing
Mkt cap$2.8B
EV / EBITDA7.0×
PostureHigh Velocity
Composite78/100
LensTarget-side
SE-Cluster Research·Issuer Brief·Q2 2026CIK 1694426

Delek US Holdings, Inc.

DKHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITY

Delek US Holdings, Inc. reads as High Velocity (composite 78/100); pressure / disclosure signals dominate the posture this cycle · primary market Marketing & Data.

Lens

Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)

$1B

+63%

vs $626M in 2020–2022

Disclosed transactions

4

+300%

3/3 active fiscal years in window

Buyer archetype

Consistent Strategic Buyer

Meaningful spend appears across repeat years.

Composite score

78

/100

High Velocity dominates · Filing Intensity

Financial snapshot
Revenue$10.7B
EBITDA$784M
Enterprise value$5.4B
EV / Revenue0.5×
EV / EBITDA7.0×
P/EN/A
Cash$624M
Total debt$3.2B
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

44/100

Companies actively deploying disclosed capital into M&A

  • $3.8B disclosed buyer spend
  • Filed within 18d

Buyer Cadence

27/100

Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity

  • Filed within 18d
  • 196 8-Ks

Target Probability

24/100

Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings

  • 17 activism filings

Spin/Carve

1/100

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

  • 2 divestiture 8-Ks
  • Latest event 8y ago; heavily discounted
  • 17 activism filings

Pressure Watch

52/100

Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure

  • 17 activism filings
  • Latest activism 1.8y ago

Distress Watch

18/100

Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns

  • 17 activism filings

Restatement Risk

0/100

Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings

Capital Velocity

Dominant
78/100

Issuers with the highest filing-activity intensity

  • 196 8-Ks
  • Filed within 18d
  • 5 form types

Quiet Power

0/100

Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence

  • Enterprise value $5.4B
  • 10-Q 27d ago
  • 3 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.

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17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25

Disclosed spend $MM Disclosed transactions (right axis)Peak spend year: $980M · Peak count: 2

FYDisclosed buysDisclosed spendAvg ticketAudited tier
20251$209M$209MN/A
20242$183M$91MN/A
20231$626M$626MN/A
20221$626M$626MN/A
2021N/AN/AN/AN/A
2020N/AN/AN/AN/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
    25%
  • Horizontal Consolidation
    25%
  • Bolt On
    25%
  • Platform
    25%

Strategy keywords

Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.

  • geographic_expansion
  • horizontal_consolidation
  • bolt_on
  • platform
§ 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.

By acquiring Gravity and H20 Midstream, we intend to increase third-party revenue streams, diversify our customer and product mix, and expand our footprint in the Midland and Bakken basins, aligning with our strategic growth objectives.

10-KFY2025

More consolidation in our industry is expected from increased cost pressures due in part to the regulatory environment continuing to move towards reducing carbon emissions and transitioning to renewable energy in the long term

10-KFY2024

we believe we are uniquely positioned as a leader of operating and excelling in niche markets and could continue capitalizing on and growing our integrated business model

10-KFY2024
§ 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

7.0×EV / EBITDA

DK trades at a -15.4-turn discount to the Marketing & Data peer median of 22.4×.

EV / Revenue
0.5×
Net debt / EBITDA
3.3×
Peer median EV / EBITDA
22.4×

Trading comparables

FMP market data · 2026-05-10

CompanyEV / EBITDAEV / RevNet debt / EBITDARevenueM&A 2023–2025
22.4×11.6×-0.2×$422.6B$3.2B
Delek US Holdings, Inc.DK
7.0×0.5×3.3×$10.7B$1B

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

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.

§ 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)102026-02-27
  • 10-Q (quarterly)272026-04-29
  • 8-K (event)1962026-05-08
  • Proxy / DEF 14A502026-03-27
  • Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)172024-08-07

Signals on file

  • watch

    Divestiture / strategic-alternatives 8-K

    2018-05-23

    2 8-K filings matching divestiture / strategic-alternatives language.

  • elevated

    Activism on file

    2024-08-07

    17 activist filings on file (13D, DFAN14A, PREC14A series).

  • info

    Signal

    Serial acquisition history

  • info

    Signal

    10-K strategy themes

  • info

    Signal

    Spin/Carve candidate

§ 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.

Delek US Holdings, Inc.: Issuer Brief | SE-Cluster