---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001767042-26-000033"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "KGS"
cik: "0001767042"
company_name: "Kodiak Gas Services, Inc."
filed_at: "2026-04-02T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-15T07:51:44.460778+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Kodiak closes DPS acquisition for $587M cash + 2.4M shares; adds 395 MW capacity

## Summary
- Acquired Distributed Power Solutions for $587M cash and ~2.4M KGS shares.
- Adds ~395 MW of distributed generation capacity across data centers, microgrids, and manufacturing.
- Acquired business rebranded as Kodiak Power Solutions, a division of KGS.
- Acquisition expected to be immediately accretive to earnings and discretionary cash flow per share.
- Registration rights granted to sellers for resale of KGS common stock.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001767042-26-000033
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: KGS
- cik: 0001767042
- company_name: Kodiak Gas Services, Inc.
- filed_at: 2026-04-02T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 2.01, 3.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1767042/000176704226000033/0001767042-26-000033-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1767042/000176704226000033/kgs-20260401.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001767042-26-000033
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001767042-26-000033.txt

## Source-grounded claims
- claim_id: 7123009fe0d7a19806afc5394c87ebf20cb44124
  claim: Kodiak Gas Services, Inc. completed an acquisition involving Distributed Power Solutions, LLC, Mustang PRS, LLC, and Louisiana Machinery Company, L.L.C. for aggregate cash consideration of $587 million (including adjustments for certain additional power generation assets purchased since the transaction announcement, (closed 2026-04-01).
  evidence_excerpt: interests of DPS from the Sellers as set forth in the Purchase Agreement (the “Acquisition”). On the Closing Date, the Buyer paid to the Sellers aggregate cash consideration of $587 million (including adjustments for certain additional power generation assets purchased since the transaction announcement, indebtedness and working capital) and the Company issued an
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1767042/000176704226000033/0001767042-26-000033-index.htm
- claim_id: 666cf8ba2a3a2fa6033706dcce0f9a8308693485
  claim: Kodiak Gas Services, Inc. entered into Registration Rights Agreement with Mustang PRS, LLC and Louisiana Machinery Company, L.L.C. (effective 2026-04-01).
  evidence_excerpt: On the Closing Date, the Company entered into a registration rights agreement (the “Registration Rights Agreement”) with Mustang and LMC (collectively, the “Holders”), pursuant to which, among other things, the Holders were granted customary rights to require the Company to file and maintain the effectiveness of a shelf registration statement with respect to the re-sale of the Common Stock received by the Holders, along with customary piggyback registration rights.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1767042/000176704226000033/0001767042-26-000033-index.htm
- claim_id: bc9f53fed9398a7f9ccbaf2057691dda29faf023
  claim: Kodiak Gas Services, Inc. entered into Membership Interest Purchase Agreement with Distributed Power Solutions, LLC, Mustang PRS, LLC, and Louisiana Machinery Company, L.L.C. valued at aggregate cash consideration of $587 million (effective 2026-04-01).
  evidence_excerpt: On April 1, 2026 (the “Closing Date”), Kodiak Gas Services, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), completed the transactions contemplated by that certain Membership Interest Purchase Agreement, dated as of February 5, 2026 (the “Purchase Agreement”), by and among the Company, Kodiak Gas Services, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and wholly owned subsidiary of the Company (the “Buyer”), Distributed Power Solutions, LLC, a Texas limited liability company (“DPS”), Mustang PRS, LLC, a Texas limited liability company (“Mustang”), and Louisiana Machinery Company, L.L.C., a Louisiana limited liability company (“LMC” and, together with Mustang, each a “Seller” and collectively, the “Sellers”), whereby the Buyer purchased all of the issued and outstanding membership interests of DPS from the Sellers as set forth in the Purchase Agreement (the “Acquisition”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1767042/000176704226000033/0001767042-26-000033-index.htm

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