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TickerWHD
SectorOil & Gas Equipment & Services
Mkt cap$3.8B
EV / EBITDA5.4×
PostureHigh Velocity
Composite62/100
LensBuyer-side
SE-Cluster Research·Issuer Brief·Q2 2026CIK 1699136

Cactus, Inc.

WHDHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITY

Cactus, Inc. reads as an High Velocity (composite 62/100); Transformational Buyer deploying $1B across 1 disclosed transactions, newly disclosed vs the prior cycle · primary market Energy Infrastructure.

Lens

Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)

$1.3B

new

vs N/A in 2020–2022

Disclosed transactions

1

new

2/3 active fiscal years in window

Buyer archetype

Transformational Buyer

Episodic but very large disclosed transactions drive the profile.

Composite score

62

/100

High Velocity dominates · Filing Intensity

Financial snapshot
Revenue$1.2B
EBITDA$653M
Enterprise value$3.5B
EV / Revenue3.0×
EV / EBITDA5.4×
P/EN/A
Cash$292M
Total debtN/A
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

  • $1.3B disclosed buyer spend

Buyer Cadence

17/100

Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity

  • 116 8-Ks

Target Probability

2/100

Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings

Spin/Carve

0/100

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

Pressure Watch

12/100

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
62/100

Issuers with the highest filing-activity intensity

  • 116 8-Ks
  • 4 form types

Quiet Power

48/100

Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence

  • Enterprise value $3.5B
  • 10-Q 64d ago
  • 1 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: $659M · Peak count: 1

FYDisclosed buysDisclosed spendAvg ticketAudited tier
2025N/AN/AN/AN/A
2024N/A$659MN/AN/A
20231$616M$616MN/A
2022N/AN/AN/AN/A
2021N/AN/AN/AN/A
2020N/AN/AN/AN/A
§ 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.

Additionally, the E&P industry is characterized by frequent consolidation activity. Changes in ownership of our customers may result in the loss of, or reduction in, business from those customers, which could materially and adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.

10-KFY2019

Changes in ownership of our customers may result in the loss of, or reduction in, business

10-KFY2023

E&P industry has seen consolidation activity, which may continue

10-KFY2023

•corporate consolidation activity involving our customers;

10-KFY2020
§ 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

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

5.4×EV / EBITDA

WHD trades at a -7.5-turn discount to the Energy Infrastructure peer median of 12.9×.

EV / Revenue
3.0×
Net debt / EBITDA
N/A
Peer median EV / EBITDA
12.9×

Trading comparables

FMP market data · 2026-05-10

CompanyEV / EBITDAEV / RevNet debt / EBITDARevenueM&A 2023–2025
19.9×11.8×9.3×$1.5B$1B
13.3×4.8×-0.3×$9.3B$3.7B
12.5×2.5×0.9×$35.9B$5.8B
7.0×2.7×-0.2×$58.3B$2.7B
Cactus, Inc.WHD
5.4×3.0×N/A$1.2B$1.3B

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.

§ 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)92026-02-26
  • 10-Q (quarterly)252026-05-08
  • 8-K (event)1162026-05-07
  • Proxy / DEF 14A142026-03-31
  • Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)0N/A

Signals on file

  • info

    Signal

    Serial acquisition history

§ 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.

Cactus, Inc.: Issuer Brief | SE-Cluster