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TickerBKR
SectorOil & Gas Equipment & Services
Mkt cap$63.4B
EV / EBITDA14.2×
PostureHigh Velocity
Composite70/100
LensBuyer-side
SE-Cluster Research·Issuer Brief·Q2 2026CIK 1701605

Baker Hughes Company

BKRHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITY

Baker Hughes Company reads as an High Velocity (composite 70/100); Selective Buyer deploying $855M across 2 disclosed transactions, running flat vs the prior cycle · primary market Energy Infrastructure.

Lens

Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)

$855M

+11%

vs $767M in 2020–2022

Disclosed transactions

2

+100%

2/3 active fiscal years in window

Buyer archetype

Selective Buyer

Acquisition use is visible but targeted.

Composite score

70

/100

High Velocity dominates · Filing Intensity

Financial snapshot
Revenue$27.9B
EBITDA$4.6B
Enterprise value$64.8B
EV / Revenue2.3×
EV / EBITDA14.2×
P/EN/A
Cash$14.8B
Total debt$753M
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

36/100

Companies actively deploying disclosed capital into M&A

  • $1.6B disclosed buyer spend

Buyer Cadence

15/100

Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity

  • Filed within 32d
  • 123 8-Ks

Target Probability

20/100

Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings

  • 19 activism filings

Spin/Carve

0/100

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

  • 19 activism filings

Pressure Watch

34/100

Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure

  • 19 activism filings
  • Latest activism 4y ago; discounted

Distress Watch

18/100

Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns

  • 19 activism filings

Restatement Risk

0/100

Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings

Capital Velocity

Dominant
70/100

Issuers with the highest filing-activity intensity

  • 123 8-Ks
  • 5 form types

Quiet Power

0/100

Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence

  • Enterprise value $64.8B
  • 10-Q 32d 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.

16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25

Disclosed spend $MM Disclosed transactions (right axis)Peak spend year: $767M · Peak count: 1

FYDisclosed buysDisclosed spendAvg ticketAudited tier
20251$554M$554MN/A
2024N/AN/AN/AN/A
20231$301M$301MN/A
2022N/A$767MN/AN/A
2021N/AN/AN/AN/A
20201N/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

  • Platform
    25%
  • Horizontal Consolidation
    25%
  • Geographic Expansion
    25%
  • Technology Acquisition
    25%

Strategy keywords

Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.

  • platform
  • horizontal_consolidation
  • geographic_expansion
  • technology_acquisition
§ 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.

This reduction was primarily due to executing on our net-zero roadmap and the key decarbonization pathways through a combination of energy efficiency initiatives, facility consolidation, increasing electric power consumption from renewable energy sources, and improvements in our vehicle fleet, among other reasons.

10-KFY2022

We continue to make progress on emissions reductions. We reported in our 2021 Corporate Responsibility report a 23% reduction in our Scope 1 and 2 carbon emissions compared to our 2019 base year.

10-KFY2022

In 2020, we acquired Compact Carbon Capture, a technology development company specializing in carbon capture solutions, to advance industrial decarbonization.

10-KFY2020

creating a fullstream oilfield technology provider that has a unique mix of integrated oilfield products, services and digital solutions

10-KFY2018

The Transactions were executed using a partnership structure

10-KFY2018
§ 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

14.2×EV / EBITDA

BKR trades at a +1.3-turn premium to the Energy Infrastructure peer median of 12.9×.

EV / Revenue
2.3×
Net debt / EBITDA
-3.1×
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
Baker Hughes CompanyBKR
14.2×2.3×-3.1×$27.9B$855M
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

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)92026-02-05
  • 10-Q (quarterly)272026-04-24
  • 8-K (event)1232026-04-23
  • Proxy / DEF 14A212026-04-06
  • Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)192022-05-09

Signals on file

  • elevated

    Activism on file

    2022-05-09

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

  • 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.

Baker Hughes Company: Issuer Brief | SE-Cluster