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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 fills its municipal waterworks gap with **$1.6B** in cash, buying Wynnchurch's exit and positioning for **$18B** in regional infrastructure spend.
$1.6 billion
in cash on Monday
32
waterworks distribution centers across
14
states and annual revenue approaching
$900 million
concentrated in municipal pipe and valve supply chains that…
Ferguson Enterprises closed its acquisition of FloWorks from Wynnchurch Capital for $1.6 billion in cash on Monday, ending the private equity firm's six-year waterworks consolidation thesis. The deal hands Ferguson 32 waterworks distribution centers across 14 states and annual revenue approaching $900 million, concentrated in municipal pipe and valve supply chains that feed water infrastructure projects.
Wynnchurch assembled FloWorks starting in 2018 through eight tuck-in acquisitions, betting on federal infrastructure legislation that arrived three years late. The firm's entry multiple on the founding asset—a regional distributor in the Southeast—was rumored near 6.2x EBITDA. Ferguson's purchase implies a blended exit multiple in the low double digits, a reasonable but unremarkable outcome given the compressed hold period and operational integration costs Wynnchurch absorbed. The timing reflects pressure: Wynnchurch's Fund III, which led the initial FloWorks investment, is now in year seven of a ten-year lifecycle. Limited partners expect distributions.
For Ferguson, the acquisition closes a product gap. The company dominates residential and commercial plumbing distribution but lacked density in municipal waterworks, where relationships with city procurement offices and regional water authorities matter more than branch count. FloWorks brings those relationships, particularly in Texas, Florida, and the Carolinas—states where population growth is forcing $18 billion in water system upgrades over the next four years, per EPA estimates. Ferguson will fold FloWorks into its existing infrastructure-focused subsidiary, eliminating duplicate overhead and gaining immediate access to 1,200 municipal customer accounts that FloWorks cultivated under Wynnchurch's ownership.
The deal structure is clean: all cash, no earnout, no rollover equity. Ferguson financed the purchase with a combination of balance sheet cash and a $600 million draw on its existing revolver. The company's leverage ratio moves from 1.1x to roughly 1.6x net debt to EBITDA, well within its stated comfort zone of 2.0x. Management telegraphed $25 million in annual synergies by year two, mostly from procurement leverage and warehouse consolidation. The math works if Ferguson can retain 75% of FloWorks' existing municipal contracts through the integration, a reasonable assumption given the stickiness of public-sector supply relationships.
Allocators should watch Ferguson's Q4 earnings call in November for early retention metrics and any commentary on bid activity for large municipal projects in the Southeast. Separately, Wynnchurch will likely redeploy proceeds into a new platform investment before year-end; the firm has $420 million in dry powder across two active funds and a pattern of moving quickly after exits. The municipal waterworks vertical remains fragmented—340 independent distributors still control 60% of the market—so further rollups are inevitable, though at higher entry multiples now that Ferguson has validated the exit thesis.
The acquisition becomes effective immediately. Ferguson inherits 1,840 FloWorks employees and commits to maintaining all 32 distribution centers for at least 18 months, per a clause negotiated during diligence to secure local government contract approvals.
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No direct positioning; indirect exposure through Brookfield Infrastructure if they pursue a Ferguson bond offering to term out revolver draw.
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