Grocery Outlet Holding Corp.
GOHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITYGrocery Outlet Holding Corp. reads as an High Velocity (composite 70/100); Selective Buyer deploying $61M across 2 disclosed transactions, newly disclosed vs the prior cycle · primary market Consumer Products.
Lens
Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)
$61M
vs N/A in 2020–2022
Disclosed transactions
2
2/3 active fiscal years in window
Buyer archetype
Selective Buyer
Acquisition use is visible but targeted.
Composite score
70
High Velocity dominates · Filing Intensity
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
Companies actively deploying disclosed capital into M&A
- $61M disclosed buyer spend
Buyer Cadence
Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity
- Filed within 49d
- 65 8-Ks
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
- 10-Q 216d stale
Restatement Risk
Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings
Capital Velocity
DominantIssuers with the highest filing-activity intensity
- 65 8-Ks
- 4 form types
Quiet Power
Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence
- Enterprise value $2.5B
- 10-Q 216d ago
- 2 active signals
Capital cadence.
Ten-year disclosed M&A activity. Bars show spend ($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: $61M · Peak count: 1
| FY | Disclosed buys | Disclosed spend | Avg ticket | Audited tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2024 | 1 | $61M | $61M | N/A |
| 2023 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2022 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2021 | N/A | N/A | N/A | 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
- Platform50%
- Geographic Expansion50%
Strategy keywords
Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.
- platform
- geographic_expansion
Filing language.
Direct excerpts from acquisition disclosures and strategy sections: the verbs the buyer chose, in the filings they signed.
“While we have not experienced any difficulty in obtaining sufficient quantities of product to date, manufacturers and distributors of name-brand products have become increasingly consolidated.”
“We depend on repeat visits by our customer base to drive sales, and we rely on desirable opportunistic products at discounts to excite our customers to make such repeat visits.”
“The acquisition provides us with the opportunity to scale in a new region and is a platform for potential future expansion in the Southeast.”
“Manufacturers and distributors of name-brand, large volume products have become increasingly consolidated.”
“In fiscal 2021, and ongoing to an extent, consumer behavior has been impacted by increased consumer mobility and travel, higher food-away-from-home spend, continued consolidation of grocery store visits, elevated grocery e-commerce usage and higher levels of government stimulus, leading consumers to prioritize convenience over value.”
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
GO trades at a -42.0-turn discount to the Consumer Products peer median of 12.2×.
- EV / Revenue
- 0.5×
- 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 | |
| 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)82026-03-04
- 10-Q (quarterly)222025-11-05
- 8-K (event)652026-04-02
- Proxy / DEF 14A152026-04-21
- 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.