Everus Acquires SE&M, Leading Contractor in Southeast Region
Further Diversifies Revenue Mix With Leading Position in Industrial, Pharmaceutical End Markets
Expands Mechanical Services Offering in
Favorable Margin Profile and Strong Backlog Trend
SE&M, founded in 1923 and headquartered in
SE&M provides full lifecycle service offerings with a meaningful contribution generated from the maintenance and retrofit of existing facilities, providing a consistent base of recurring revenue. The company focuses on end markets where unique capabilities and expertise are required to successfully execute projects, resulting in deep customer relationships.
“We are very pleased to have SE&M join our family of operating brands as we build momentum in fulfilling our commitment to grow through strategic acquisitions, which complements our organic growth strategy,” said
“Looking ahead, we are encouraged by our first acquisition as a stand-alone public company, but this is just our first step. With expected pro forma net leverage of 0.8x, we have ample financial flexibility to execute on our strategic priorities and remain committed to our disciplined capital allocation framework, with a focus on both investments in organic growth and strategic acquisitions.”
SE&M CEO
SE&M President
As part of the transaction, Bynum, Rogers, SE&M Chief Financial Officer
Financial and Transaction Overview
Everus acquired SE&M for
SE&M has a proven history of strong financial performance with an attractive margin profile. In 2025, SE&M generated revenue of
Everus will update its financial forecast for 2026 during its first quarter earnings report.
Compelling Transaction Rationale
- Leading position in pharmaceutical and industrial manufacturing end markets further diversifies revenue mix. SE&M generates approximately 60% of revenue from pharmaceutical and health care, with strong relationships across blue-chip global health care firms and leading medical research institutions.
- Attractive revenue profile is driven by maintenance and retrofit activities. Services and maintenance revenues provide increased predictability and deeper long-term customer relationships. SE&M benefits from high renewal rates and strong contributions from recurring clients.
- Limited customer overlap and complementary product offerings provide potential for meaningful commercial synergies and expanded pipeline of opportunities. Everus will leverage SE&M’s expertise and customer relationships across Everus’ portfolio of operating companies to pursue new growth opportunities. Additionally, SE&M has limited experience in the data center submarket, allowing Everus to leverage the increased geographic reach to pursue incremental data center opportunities in the attractive Southeast region.
- Strong mechanical capabilities. SE&M generates approximately 65% of its revenue from mechanical services, offering a full suite of installation, renovation, maintenance and repair solutions.
- Strong backlog and robust project pipeline provide for favorable growth outlook. SE&M’s growing backlog levels are driven by strong end-market demand trends and a favorable capital spending environment in the Southeast region. Elevated backlog levels combined with a mix of maintenance and services work provides strong visibility to SE&M’s expected continued favorable growth outlook.
- Attractive margin profile and limited capital requirements. With strong execution and a favorable mix of services and maintenance revenues,SE&M hadEBITDA margins in the high teens in 2025. Its 2025 capital spending was less than 1% of revenue with strong free cash flow conversion.
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EBITDA is calculated by adding back interest expense, net of interest income, income taxes, and depreciation and amortization to net income. EBITDA margin is calculated by dividing EBITDA by operating revenues. Net debt is calculated by adding unamortized debt issuance costs to the total debt balance on the balance sheet, less any unrestricted cash. Net leverage is calculated by dividing net debt by trailing 12-month EBITDA. Free cash flow is defined as net cash provided by (used in) operating activities less net capital expenditures.
Everus is unable to reconcile expected pro forma net leverage to its nearest GAAP measure because Everus is unable to predict the timing of the applicable adjustments with a reasonable degree of certainty and the high variability and difficulty in making accurate forecasts and projections of some of the information excluded from expected pro forma net leverage, together with some of the excluded information not being ascertainable or accessible or otherwise outside of Everus' control. By their very nature, non-GAAP adjustments are difficult to anticipate with precision because they are generally associated with unexpected and unplanned events that impact Everus and its financial results. Due to the inherent uncertainty related to these items and the fact that Everus cannot reliably predict all the necessary components of the applicable GAAP measure, Everus does not believe it is able to provide a meaningful estimate of the comparable GAAP measure or reconciliation to any expected GAAP measure without unreasonable efforts.
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