Gentherm Incorporated
THRMHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITYGentherm Incorporated reads as High Velocity (composite 70/100); pressure / disclosure signals dominate the posture this cycle · primary market Automotive.
Lens
Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)
$2M
vs $146M in 2020–2022
Disclosed transactions
2
1/3 active fiscal years in window
Buyer archetype
Consistent Strategic Buyer
Meaningful spend appears across repeat years.
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
- $205M disclosed buyer spend
Buyer Cadence
Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity
- Filed within 47d
- 278 8-Ks
Target Probability
Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings
- Control-process language
- 36 activism filings
Spin/Carve
Issuers showing spin-off, carve-out, or sum-of-parts posture
- 36 activism filings
Pressure Watch
Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure
- 36 activism filings
- Latest activism 19y ago; heavily discounted
- Control-process filings
Distress Watch
Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns
- 36 activism filings
Restatement Risk
Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings
- 4 auditor changes
- Latest event 6.3y ago; heavily discounted
Capital Velocity
DominantIssuers with the highest filing-activity intensity
- 278 8-Ks
- 5 form types
Quiet Power
Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence
- Enterprise value $1.1B
- 10-Q 47d ago
- 5 active signals
Capital cadence.
Ten-year disclosed M&A activity. Bars show spend ($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: $145M · Peak count: 2
| 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 | 2 | $2M | $750K | N/A |
| 2022 | N/A | $2M | N/A | N/A |
| 2021 | 1 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2020 | N/A | $145M | 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
- Bolt On33%
- Geographic Expansion33%
- Horizontal Consolidation33%
Strategy keywords
Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.
- bolt_on
- geographic_expansion
- horizontal_consolidation
Filing language.
Direct excerpts from acquisition disclosures and strategy sections: the verbs the buyer chose, in the filings they signed.
“During 2018, the Company initiated this strategy through the sale of its battery management systems division located in Irvine, California and the site consolidation of its advanced research and development operations which resulted in vacating two leased facilities in Azusa, California.”
“Further, the Company exited, several product categories including furniture, aviation, battery management electronics, industrial battery packs, automotive thermoelectric generators and other non-core electronics.”
“On June 25, 2018, Gentherm announced a new strategic plan intended to improve business performance and position the company to deliver above-market growth and improved profitability to its shareholders.”
“We are exposed to foreign currency risk due to the translation and remeasurement of the results of certain international operations into U.S. dollars as part of the consolidation process.”
“An important element of the strategy is the Fit-for-Growth initiative that focuses on purchasing excellence, rationalization of research and development activities and expenses, reducing selling, general and administrative expense, minimization or elimination of investments in non-core areas and developing a manufacturing footprint commensurate with the new plan.”
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
Automotive
- Market spend (2023–2025)
- $12.1B
- Market spend (2020–2022)
- $19.2B
- Recent vs prior
- −37%
- Issuer rank in market
- N/A
- Share of market capital
- 0.0%
Valuation positioning
THRM trades at a -1.4-turn discount to the Automotive peer median of 9.6×.
- EV / Revenue
- 0.7×
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 0.3×
- Peer median EV / EBITDA
- 9.6×
Trading comparables
FMP market data · 2026-05-10
| Company | EV / EBITDA | EV / Rev | Net debt / EBITDA | Revenue | M&A 2023–2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14.4× | 3.9× | 4.0× | $3.7B | $2.7B | |
| 12.2× | 1.3× | 0.4× | $5.5B | $136M | |
Aptiv PLCAPTV | 9.6× | 0.9× | -1.6× | $20.7B | $42M |
LCI IndustriesLCII | 9.2× | 1.0× | 1.8× | $4.2B | $159M |
Gentherm IncorporatedTHRM | 8.2× | 0.7× | 0.3× | $1.5B | $2M |
| 8.1× | 0.5× | 1.1× | $9.9B | $14M |
Trading multiples from FMP market data; disclosed M&A spend from the SE-Cluster EDGAR 10-K corpus. Peer set = top disclosed buyers in Automotive. Bars scaled to the highest EV/EBITDA in the set.
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.
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)332026-02-19
- 10-Q (quarterly)922026-04-23
- 8-K (event)2782026-04-23
- Proxy / DEF 14A432026-04-10
- Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)362007-09-28
Signals on file
- elevated
Auditor change
2020-02-264 Item 4.01 filings on file; certifying accountant change.
- elevated
Activism on file
2007-09-2836 activist filings on file (13D, DFAN14A, PREC14A series).
- info
Signal
Serial acquisition history
- info
Signal
10-K strategy themes
- info
Signal
Recent transaction activity
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.