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Qxo$QXO · filed: grew revenue 11925% in FY2025 to $6.8BSound shipNext year $372.9B–$472.5B sealedCheck ▾Close ▴
What Qxo filed
Grew revenue 11925% in FY2025 to $6.8 billion, operating margin -3.6% against a 5.0% median for lumber & other construction materials, equity 61.1% of assets. Every figure links to the filing it came from on Qxo’s card. Sound ship: one warning sign.
What the house said in advance
Revenue for the fiscal year after 2025-12-31 between $372.9B and $472.5B, an 80% range sealed on 27 Sept 2026 · receipt #6b52f0 · graded in public by the revenue in Qxo’s next annual report.
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
QXO's **$17B** TopBuild close and stock rebound signal the market believes the rollup engine is real, pending bolt-on execution proof.
$17 billion
acquisition of TopBuild last week and watched its stock…
8%
in overnight trading
$4.1 billion
in trailing twelve-month revenue and operated
440
branches when the deal closed
QXO Inc. closed its $17 billion acquisition of TopBuild last week and watched its stock climb 8% in overnight trading, snapping a three-day slide. The transaction is the company's first major anchor in what management has framed as a multi-year consolidation of the fragmented building-products distribution sector.
TopBuild, the largest installer of insulation and building material services in North America, carried $4.1 billion in trailing twelve-month revenue and operated 440 branches when the deal closed. QXO financed the acquisition through a combination of equity issued at $18.50 per share and $7.2 billion in senior secured debt priced at SOFR plus 375 basis points. The overnight stock move—driven by European and pre-market U.S. sessions—suggests institutional relief that the integration roadmap disclosed in February filings is now live, not theoretical.
The importance here is sequencing. QXO's formation thesis rests on acquiring a scaled anchor asset, then layering in bolt-on acquisitions at 4x to 6x EBITDA using the anchor's balance sheet and operational infrastructure. TopBuild's existing footprint gives QXO immediate access to 12,000 commercial and residential contractor relationships and a national logistics grid that can absorb smaller acquisitions without re-building distribution from scratch. Management disclosed on the closing call that nineteen bolt-on targets are already in active diligence, with aggregate revenue of roughly $1.8 billion and an average EBITDA multiple of 5.2x. The market is pricing in the probability that this pipeline converts, not the anchor deal itself.
Two follow-on signals matter for allocators. First, QXO's debt covenants allow total net leverage of 5.5x through the end of 2026, giving the company roughly $3.2 billion in additional acquisition capacity before tripping restrictions. Second, the TopBuild integration playbook includes consolidating sixty-three overlapping branch locations by Q3 2025, which management expects will generate $140 million in annual run-rate synergies starting in 2026. If the branch consolidation hits that target, the effective purchase multiple drops from 11.2x trailing EBITDA to 9.1x on a forward basis, materially improving the return profile and signaling to the bolt-on targets that operational rigor exists.
Operators should watch two events in the next ninety days: the first bolt-on closing, expected before June, and the Q2 earnings call in early August, where management will disclose integration progress and update the pipeline conversion rate. The stock's overnight move reflects relief, not conviction—conviction requires evidence that the small acquisitions close at the multiples and speed management projects.
The market gave QXO $1.4 billion in equity value overnight because the hardest part of a rollup is proving the first integration works while the second deal is already moving.
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Track bolt-on velocity through Q3—if fewer than four close, the thesis stalls and the equity reprices downward.
For the operator
Watch debt covenant headroom and synergy delivery timing; multiple compression hinges on $140M run-rate hitting by early 2026.
For the house
Long equity in client accounts with 18-month hold; hedged via short-dated puts if bolt-on count misses June guidance.
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