Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.
SWKHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITYStanley Black & Decker, Inc. reads as an High Velocity (composite 78/100); Platform Builder deploying $0 across 0 disclosed transactions, down 100% vs the prior cycle · primary market Industrial Services, ranked #2 on disclosed spend.
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
Platform Builder
Large and recent disclosed spend expands platforms or service-line scale.
Composite score
78
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
- $11.3B disclosed buyer spend
- Filed within 27d
Buyer Cadence
Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity
- Filed within 27d
- 418 8-Ks
Target Probability
Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings
- 4 activism filings
Spin/Carve
Issuers showing spin-off, carve-out, or sum-of-parts posture
- 1 divestiture 8-K
- Latest event 32y ago; heavily discounted
- 4 activism filings
Pressure Watch
Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure
- 4 activism filings
- Latest activism 15y ago; heavily discounted
Distress Watch
Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns
- 4 activism filings
Restatement Risk
Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings
- 1 non-reliance 8-K
- Latest event 4.3y ago; discounted
Capital Velocity
DominantIssuers with the highest filing-activity intensity
- 418 8-Ks
- Filed within 27d
- 5 form types
Quiet Power
Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence
- Enterprise value $18.8B
- 10-Q 27d ago
- 4 active signals
Capital cadence.
Ten-year disclosed M&A activity. Bars show spend ($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: $2,044M · Peak count: 1
| 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 | $2B | N/A | N/A |
| 2020 | N/A | $1.3B | 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
- Geographic Expansion20%
- Horizontal Consolidation20%
- Bolt On20%
- Platform20%
- Technology Acquisition20%
Strategy keywords
Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.
- geographic_expansion
- horizontal_consolidation
- bolt_on
- platform
- technology_acquisition
- tuck_in
Filing language.
Direct excerpts from acquisition disclosures and strategy sections: the verbs the buyer chose, in the filings they signed.
“The Company will leverage the SBD Operating Model to continue making strides towards achieving its vision of delivering top-quartile financial performance, becoming known as one of the world’s leading innovators and elevating its commitment to social responsibility.”
“The Company continues to execute a growth and acquisition strategy that involves industry, geographic and customer diversification to foster sustainable revenue, earnings and cash flow growth.”
“The Company remains focused on delivering above-market organic growth with margin expansion by leveraging its proven and long-standing Stanley Black & Decker Operating Model”
“Excel is a strategically important bolt-on acquisition that bolsters the presence in the independent dealer network.”
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
Industrial Services
- Market spend (2023–2025)
- $65.5B
- Market spend (2020–2022)
- $39.6B
- Recent vs prior
- +65%
- Issuer rank in market
- #2 of 157
- Share of market capital
- 5.0%
Valuation positioning
SWK trades at a +2.7-turn premium to the Industrial Services peer median of 11.4×.
- EV / Revenue
- 1.2×
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 1.1×
- Peer median EV / EBITDA
- 11.4×
Trading comparables
FMP market data · 2026-05-10
| Company | EV / EBITDA | EV / Rev | Net debt / EBITDA | Revenue | M&A 2023–2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15.1× | 1.0× | -0.4× | $24.2B | $444M | |
Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.SWK | 14.1× | 1.2× | 1.1× | $15.2B | N/A |
Paychex, Inc.PAYX | 13.1× | 5.8× | 1.1× | $6.3B | $3.2B |
| 11.4× | 0.9× | 7.8× | $2.5B | $3.9B | |
| 11.3× | 4.5× | 0.2× | $16.4B | $931M | |
AZZ Inc.AZZ | 8.7× | 3.0× | 0.8× | $1.7B | $1.3B |
Trading multiples from FMP market data; disclosed M&A spend from the SE-Cluster EDGAR 10-K corpus. Peer set = top disclosed buyers in Industrial Services. 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)352026-02-24
- 10-Q (quarterly)992026-04-29
- 8-K (event)4182026-04-29
- Proxy / DEF 14A502026-03-06
- Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)42011-01-20
Signals on file
- critical
Non-reliance disclosure
2022-01-261 Item 4.02 filing on file; financial-statement non-reliance.
- watch
Divestiture / strategic-alternatives 8-K
1994-06-231 8-K filing matching divestiture / strategic-alternatives language.
- elevated
Activism on file
2011-01-204 activist filings on file (13D, DFAN14A, PREC14A series).
- info
Signal
Serial acquisition history
- info
Signal
10-K strategy themes
- info
Signal
Spin/Carve candidate
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.