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Ferguson Enterprises$FERG · filed: grew revenue 3.8% in FY2025 to $30.8BNew shipTrillion Score 516Fall Risk MediumCheck ▾Close ▴
What Ferguson Enterprises filed
Grew revenue 3.8% in FY2025 to $30.8 billion, operating margin 8.5% against a 5.0% median for hardware & plumbing & heating equipment & supplies, equity 32.9% of assets, and dividend per share up 1 year running. Every figure links to the filing it came from on Ferguson Enterprises’s card. New ship: no warning signs. Trillion Score 516, #7 of 20 in its field; Fall Risk Medium (how it is measured).
Figures as filed with the SEC. Ranges, scores and boats are statistical descriptions of past filings, not ratings or recommendations. Reporting, not advice.
In plain words
Ferguson executes its largest deal since 2021, buying Wynnchurch's southeastern rollup for specification access and pre-cycle customer control.
$1.6 billion
in cash
85 branches
across the southeastern United States
1.2 times
trailing revenue
0.9x
multiple Wynnchurch paid to seed the platform in 2019
Ferguson Enterprises announced Monday it will acquire FloWorks from Wynnchurch Capital for $1.6 billion in cash. The deal closes Ferguson's largest acquisition in three years and marks the end of Wynnchurch's five-year consolidation play in regional plumbing supply.
FloWorks operates 85 branches across the southeastern United States, a footprint Ferguson has pursued since it shifted primary listing to the New York Stock Exchange in 2022. Wynnchurch assembled the platform between 2019 and 2023 through eight tuck-in acquisitions, most under $50 million each. Ferguson is paying roughly 1.2 times trailing revenue, in line with recent distributor trades but above the 0.9x multiple Wynnchurch paid to seed the platform in 2019. The spread reflects margin improvement Wynnchurch executed by centralizing procurement and standardizing inventory turns across the rollup.
The acquisition positions Ferguson to capture specification activity earlier in the construction cycle. FloWorks maintains relationships with 1,400 mechanical contractors who spec jobs six to nine months before Ferguson's showroom business converts the sale. That forward visibility matters as commercial construction spending has decelerated 18% year-over-year in the Southeast, according to Dodge Construction Network data through May. Ferguson is trading counter-cyclically, buying the customer relationship before the next upcycle rather than competing for it during the recovery. The company's balance sheet supports the move with net debt at 1.8x EBITDA and $2.1 billion in undrawn credit capacity.
Allocators should watch Ferguson's next two earnings calls for integration cost guidance and whether the company accelerates branch openings in adjacent markets using FloWorks infrastructure. The deal closes in Ferguson's fiscal Q1 2025, likely by October, and management has indicated it will provide branch-level EBITDA targets within 90 days of close. Wynnchurch exits with a 2.4x gross multiple after five years, consistent with its industrial distribution thesis but below the 3.1x median for sponsor-backed distributor exits in 2023.
Ferguson's stock traded flat Monday morning at $204.60, implying the market expected the capital deployment. The company has now spent $3.2 billion on acquisitions since 2021, all in plumbing and HVAC distribution, and none in its legacy UK market.
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Track whether Ferguson accelerates branch expansion with FloWorks as the platform; this signals confidence in Southeast construction recovery timing.
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FloWorks customer list is the asset; watch if Ferguson can hold contractor relationships through integration without pricing or service disruption.
For the house
Long FERG on pullback below $200; the deal tightens Southeast market control and positions ahead of infrastructure bill backlog conversion in 2025.
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