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TickerAPG
SectorEngineering & Construction
Mkt cap$19.1B
EV / EBITDA21.0×
PostureHigh Velocity
Composite78/100
LensTarget-side
SE-Cluster Research·Issuer Brief·Q2 2026CIK 1796209

APi Group Corporation

APGHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITY

APi Group Corporation reads as High Velocity (composite 78/100); pressure / disclosure signals dominate the posture this cycle · primary market E&C.

Lens

Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)

$1B

−68%

vs $3.2B in 2020–2022

Disclosed transactions

34

new

3/3 active fiscal years in window

Buyer archetype

Programmatic Roll-Up

High recurring acquisition cadence, usually with many smaller targets.

Composite score

78

/100

High Velocity dominates · Filing Intensity

Financial snapshot
Revenue$8.2B
EBITDA$878M
Enterprise value$18.4B
EV / Revenue2.3×
EV / EBITDA21.0×
P/EN/A
Cash$645M
Total debt$5M
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

  • $4.3B disclosed buyer spend
  • Filed within 18d

Buyer Cadence

32/100

Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity

  • Filed within 18d
  • 90 8-Ks

Target Probability

24/100

Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings

  • 10 activism filings

Spin/Carve

0/100

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

  • 10 activism filings

Pressure Watch

52/100

Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure

  • 10 activism filings
  • Latest activism 1.5y ago

Distress Watch

18/100

Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns

  • 10 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

  • 90 8-Ks
  • Filed within 18d
  • 5 form types

Quiet Power

0/100

Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence

  • Enterprise value $18.4B
  • 10-Q 26d 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: $2,839M · Peak count: 14

FYDisclosed buysDisclosed spendAvg ticketAudited tier
202514$186M$13MN/A
202413$778M$60MN/A
20237$83M$12MN/A
2022N/A$2.8BN/AN/A
2021N/A$86MN/AN/A
2020N/A$319MN/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%
  • Platform
    25%
  • Bolt On
    25%
  • Horizontal Consolidation
    25%

Strategy keywords

Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.

  • geographic_expansion
  • platform
  • bolt_on
  • horizontal_consolidation
§ 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.

Through our selective approach, we identify and assess companies that align with our strategic priorities and demonstrate key value drivers such as culture, geography, end markets and client base, capabilities and leadership.

10-KFY2020

The Company regularly evaluates potential acquisitions that strategically fit with the Company’s existing portfolio or expand the Company’s portfolio into a new and attractive business area.

10-KFY2024

We have a disciplined acquisition platform which has historically provided strategic acquisitions that are integrated into our operations.

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

E&C

Market spend (2023–2025)
$50.9B
Market spend (2020–2022)
$33.3B
Recent vs prior
+53%
Issuer rank in market
N/A
Share of market capital
0.0%

Valuation positioning

21.0×EV / EBITDA

APG trades at a +0.4-turn premium to the E&C peer median of 20.6×.

EV / Revenue
2.3×
Net debt / EBITDA
-0.7×
Peer median EV / EBITDA
20.6×

Trading comparables

FMP market data · 2026-05-10

CompanyEV / EBITDAEV / RevNet debt / EBITDARevenueM&A 2023–2025
46.8×3.8×2.0×$30B$5.4B
25.1×4.9×-0.3×$21.6B$1.2B
APi Group CorporationAPG
21.0×2.3×-0.7×$8.2B$1B
20.6×1.1×0.2×$9.8B$6B
19.2×1.3×3.0×$13.2B$32M
8.1×5.5×-0.4×$1.2B$598M

Trading multiples from FMP market data; disclosed M&A spend from the SE-Cluster EDGAR 10-K corpus. Peer set = top disclosed buyers in E&C. 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)72026-02-25
  • 10-Q (quarterly)192026-04-30
  • 8-K (event)902026-05-08
  • Proxy / DEF 14A162026-04-03
  • Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)102024-11-14

Signals on file

  • elevated

    Activism on file

    2024-11-14

    10 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.

APi Group Corporation: Issuer Brief | SE-Cluster