---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-167118"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BKR"
cik: "0001701605"
company_name: "Baker Hughes Co"
filed_at: "2025-07-29T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T23:44:40.023969+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.95
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.95
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Baker Hughes to acquire Chart Industries for $210/sh in $13.6B all-cash deal

## Summary
- Purchase price of $210 per share in cash; enterprise value of $13.6 billion; ~9x 2025E consensus EBITDA on fully synergized basis.
- Baker Hughes expects $325M annualized cost synergies by end of year three; transaction immediately accretive to EPS and double-digit ROIC.
- Chart generated $4.2B revenue and $1.0B adjusted EBITDA in 2024; 65 manufacturing locations, 50+ service centers globally.
- Fully committed bridge financing up to $14.9B from Goldman Sachs & Morgan Stanley; net leverage at close ~2.25x.
- Expected close mid-year 2026, subject to Chart shareholder approval and regulatory clearances; Chart Board unanimously recommends.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-167118
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BKR
- cik: 0001701605
- company_name: Baker Hughes Co
- filed_at: 2025-07-29T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.95
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.95
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1701605/000119312525167118/0001193125-25-167118-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1701605/000119312525167118/d912206d8k.htm

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