Stout provided buy-side financial due diligence services to a strategic full product line wholesale distributor of landscape supplies. The acquired business is a wholesale distributor of professional agronomics products serving golf, commercial and residential land care, sports field, and nursery markets.

The Stout Due Diligence team performed quality-of-earnings analysis and net working capital procedures. The Stout team assisted in various analyses, including executing a price volume mix analysis to provide insights on the company’s revenue and EBITDA changes period over period, analyzing the company’s methodologies around internally developed software and analysis around potential excess and obsolete inventory. The work performed resulted in key findings for the client.