Eugene Lowe
Analyst · Oppenheimer
Yes. Sure, Bryan. I think -- I mean, the punchline is we're very pleased with both of these acquisitions. The Air Enterprises, Rahn one was a little more complicated. That was where we acquired Crawford United, the pink sheet public company. And as we had announced, we successfully sold off the noncore piece within the quarter. So very quick. And I really like Air Enterprises and Rahn. I think these really strengthened us. Air Enterprise is a really good custom air handling solution, very unique, very good leakage rates. So very pleased with that. And then Thermolec also, there is such a good team. They have such a good market position. As a reminder, the logic for Thermolec is we believe we're a leader, the leader in electric duct heating in the Americas, but we're always tiny in Canada. We believe Thermolec is the leader in Canada. And we see some really nice synergies where we can help leverage our channels to grow some of their products and technologies. And similarly, we actually think Thermolec has a very nice channel. So we see some real nice synergy there. As a reminder, after the sale, both of these are, I would say, at very attractive valuations. Both of these are right around our normal acquisition before synergy, which is 10.5 to 11x. And so we feel like we've gotten 2 really good businesses, and we're off to a very nice start there. Look at the pipeline, even after doing these 2 acquisitions, as Mark alluded to, we're about 0.9x leverage below our target leverage. We think we'd be down about where we were at the end of last year. So we have a lot of capacity. The areas where we see the most opportunity haven't really changed in HVAC, I would say it still remains engineered air movement and electric heat. The one change I would say is we are seeing more Detection & Measurement opportunities, some intriguing opportunities, both in transportation, CommTech and AtoN at the moment. So what I would say is the pipeline is very robust. We feel like we have a very good opportunity in front of us and the flywheel is working. So there's a lot of activity going on, and we feel good about both the recent acquisitions and then what we have in the pipeline right now. The other point that I would bring up is, as a reminder, we also did Sigma & Omega and KTS last year, and we're also very pleased with these 2. So they fit really nice. KTS has really given more scale and some really nice technology to our CommTech business, and Sigma & Omega just fits in so well with our Hydronix business. So it's very complementary. And so -- yes, I think on our inorganic strategy, I feel very good about what we're seeing in front of us, but also the companies that we brought into the family.