---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000897077-25-000122"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ALG"
cik: "0000897077"
company_name: "ALAMO GROUP INC"
filed_at: "2025-12-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T13:43:29.094081+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Alamo Group to acquire Petersen Industries for $166.5M, expanding industrial equipment line

## Summary
- Purchase price of $166.5M (~$150M tax-adjusted); represents ~7.9x EBITDA before synergies.
- Petersen generated ~$75M revenue in 2024; market leader in truck-mounted grapple loaders for bulky waste.
- Transaction expected to close in Q1 2026, subject to HSR and customary conditions.
- Financed with cash on hand and credit facility; acquisition expected to be accretive to margins and growth.
- Petersen will become part of Alamo Group's Industrial Equipment Division; operations to continue in Lake Wales, FL.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000897077-25-000122
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ALG
- cik: 0000897077
- company_name: ALAMO GROUP INC
- filed_at: 2025-12-10T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/897077/000089707725000122/0000897077-25-000122-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/897077/000089707725000122/alg-20251210.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000897077-25-000122
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000897077-25-000122.txt

## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  ALAMO GROUP INC entered into Membership Interest Purchase Agreement with Petersen Industries, Inc. valued at approximately $166,500,000 (effective 2025-12-10).
  - Action: entry
  - Agreement: asset purchase
  - Counterparty: Petersen Industries, Inc.
  - Value: approximately $166,500,000
  - Effective: 2025-12-10
  source text: On December 10, 2025, Alamo Group Inc. (the “Company”) issued a press release announcing that the Company, through Alamo Group (USA) Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, entered into a definitive Membership Interest Purchase Agreement ("Purchase Agreement") to acquire 100% of the equity interests in Petersen Industries, Inc. (“Petersen”). The total consideration for the purchase is approximately $166,500,000, subject to certain post-closing adjustments.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/897077/000089707725000122/0000897077-25-000122-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.