Sysco Corporation
SYYHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITYSysco Corporation reads as High Velocity (composite 78/100); pressure / disclosure signals dominate the posture this cycle · primary market Consumer Products, ranked #11 on disclosed spend.
Lens
Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)
$1.3B
vs $143M in 2020–2022
Disclosed transactions
N/A
3/3 active fiscal years in window
Buyer archetype
Consistent Strategic Buyer
Meaningful spend appears across repeat years.
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
- $6.2B disclosed buyer spend
- Filed within 27d
Buyer Cadence
Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity
- Filed within 27d
- 328 8-Ks
Target Probability
Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings
- Control-process language
- 11 activism filings
Spin/Carve
Issuers showing spin-off, carve-out, or sum-of-parts posture
- 11 activism filings
Pressure Watch
Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure
- 11 activism filings
- Latest activism 7.2y ago; heavily discounted
- Control-process filings
Distress Watch
Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns
- 11 activism filings
Restatement Risk
Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings
- 1 non-reliance 8-K
- Latest event 19y ago; heavily discounted
Capital Velocity
DominantIssuers with the highest filing-activity intensity
- 328 8-Ks
- Filed within 27d
- 5 form types
Quiet Power
Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence
- Enterprise value $48.3B
- 10-Q 27d ago
- 5 active signals
Capital cadence.
Ten-year disclosed M&A activity. Bars show spend ($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: $2,911M · Peak count: 4
| FY | Disclosed buys | Disclosed spend | Avg ticket | Audited tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | N/A | $40M | N/A | N/A |
| 2024 | N/A | $1.2B | N/A | N/A |
| 2023 | N/A | $37M | 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 | $143M | 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 On20%
- Geographic Expansion20%
- Tuck In20%
- Horizontal Consolidation20%
- Platform20%
Strategy keywords
Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.
- bolt_on
- geographic_expansion
- tuck_in
- horizontal_consolidation
- platform
Filing language.
Direct excerpts from acquisition disclosures and strategy sections: the verbs the buyer chose, in the filings they signed.
“we may encounter additional challenges and difficulties, including those related to, without limitation, managing a larger combined company; streamlining supply chains, consolidating corporate and administrative infrastructures and eliminating overlapping operations”
“Acquiring HFM provided Sysco with direct access to the growing Hawaiian market and was in clear alignment with our strategy for disciplined, profitable growth of the business”
“The principal reason for the Brakes Acquisition was the ability to expand Sysco's footprint and infrastructure in Europe and profitably grow Sysco's business.”
“We continue to be focused on mergers and acquisitions as a part of our strategy and have completed several acquisitions in fiscal 2018”
“Delays encountered in the integration could adversely impact the business, financial condition and operations of the combined company.”
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
- #11 of 325
- Share of market capital
- 1.0%
Valuation positioning
SYY trades at a +0.0-turn premium to the Consumer Products peer median of 12.2×.
- EV / Revenue
- 0.6×
- Net debt / EBITDA
- -0.5×
- 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 | |
Sysco CorporationSYY | 12.2× | 0.6× | -0.5× | $83.6B | $1.3B |
| 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.
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)342025-08-22
- 10-Q (quarterly)1032026-04-29
- 8-K (event)3282026-04-28
- Proxy / DEF 14A632025-10-02
- Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)112019-03-20
Signals on file
- critical
Non-reliance disclosure
2007-05-071 Item 4.02 filing on file; financial-statement non-reliance.
- elevated
Activism on file
2019-03-2011 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.