GFL Environmental Inc.
GFLACTIVE ACQUIRERQUIETGFL Environmental Inc. reads as an Active Acquirer (composite 46/100); Programmatic Roll-Up deploying $0 across 0 disclosed transactions, down 100% vs the prior cycle · primary market Waste.
Lens
Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)
N/A
vs N/A in 2020–2022
Disclosed transactions
N/A
0/3 active fiscal years in window
Buyer archetype
Programmatic Roll-Up
High recurring acquisition cadence, usually with many smaller targets.
Composite score
46
Active Acquirer dominates · Quiet
GFL Environmental (GFL) is a public-company acquirer in waste management. Strategy mix is led by Bolt On (55%), Horizontal Consolidation (27%), Geographic Expansion (18%). Current capacity: — cash, — total debt, 0.0x net leverage (underlevered). Has $6.1B of incremental debt capacity to a 3.0x IG threshold and $10.1B to the 5.0x HY transition.
- “GFL deploys an active acquisition strategy involving the integration of acquired businesses into each of its operating segments”- 10-K FY2020
- “GFL’s growth strategy is to focus on generating organic growth from all of its operating segments”- 10-K FY2020
- ▸Insufficient strategy signal in filings to draft a next-move thesis.
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
DominantCompanies actively deploying disclosed capital into M&A
- $3.9B disclosed buyer spend
Buyer Cadence
Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity
- 22 acquisition-history signals
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
- Missing recent 10-Q
Restatement Risk
Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings
Capital Velocity
Issuers with the highest filing-activity intensity
Quiet Power
Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence
- Enterprise value $25.9B
- 1 active signals
Capital cadence.
Ten-year disclosed M&A activity. Bars show spend ($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: $3,941M · Peak count: 22
| FY | Disclosed buys | Disclosed spend | Avg ticket | Audited tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2024 | N/A | N/A | N/A | 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 | 22 | $3.9B | $179M | 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
- Bolt On33%
- Horizontal Consolidation33%
- Geographic Expansion33%
Strategy keywords
Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.
- bolt_on
- horizontal_consolidation
- geographic_expansion
Filing language.
Direct excerpts from acquisition disclosures and strategy sections: the verbs the buyer chose, in the filings they signed.
“GFL deploys an active acquisition strategy involving the integration of acquired businesses into each of its operating segments”
“GFL’s growth strategy is to focus on generating organic growth from all of its operating segments”
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
Waste
- Market spend (2023–2025)
- $24.4B
- Market spend (2020–2022)
- $21.3B
- Recent vs prior
- +15%
- Issuer rank in market
- N/A
- Share of market capital
- 0.0%
Valuation positioning
GFL trades at a -2.8-turn discount to the Waste peer median of 14.7×.
- EV / Revenue
- 3.9×
- Net debt / EBITDA
- N/A
- Peer median EV / EBITDA
- 14.7×
Trading comparables
FMP market data · 2026-05-10
| Company | EV / EBITDA | EV / Rev | Net debt / EBITDA | Revenue | M&A 2023–2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17.3× | 5.0× | 3.3× | $9.6B | $3.6B | |
| 15.7× | 3.4× | 2.5× | $1.9B | $1.5B | |
| 14.7× | 4.3× | 3.1× | $25.4B | $8.1B | |
| 13.2× | 2.5× | 1.9× | $6.1B | $598M | |
| 12.7× | 3.7× | 2.8× | $16.7B | $3.1B | |
GFL Environmental Inc.GFL | 12.0× | 3.9× | N/A | $6.7B | N/A |
Trading multiples from FMP market data; disclosed M&A spend from the SE-Cluster EDGAR 10-K corpus. Peer set = top disclosed buyers in Waste. 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)62026-02-18
- 10-Q (quarterly)0N/A
- 8-K (event)0N/A
- Proxy / DEF 14A0N/A
- Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)0N/A
Signals on file
- 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.