M&A Acquirer Playbook

ITRON, INC. acquisition history.

Every deal, price, and strategic rationale.

Company ITRON, INC.
SEC CIK 0000780571
Tracked filings EDGAR · 8-K
Total deals tracked
7
Disclosed 8-K acquisitions, 2007 — present.
Aggregate disclosed value
$3.5B
approximately $3.5 billion across 7 disclosed transactions - anchored by the $1.7B Actaris and $830M Silver Spring Networks deals.
Active acquisition years
2007 · 2012 · 2017 · 2018 · 2024 · 2025
typically a single strategic deal per active year.
Primary sectors
Smart grid, metering and utility software
global meter manufacturing (Actaris), cellular/IIoT networks (SmartSynch, Silver Spring Networks), and grid-edge/resilience software (Comverge, Elpis Squared, Urbint, Locusview).
Verified 7 deals on this page · sourced from SEC filings
All cross-references covered.

7 deals, $3.5B deployed.

Plotted by close date where disclosed, otherwise announcement. Click any marker to jump to the deal entry.

The rationale that repeats.

Three patterns show up across ITRON's deal book — what the team buys, how it pays, and how it integrates. The patterns are the throughline; the individual deals below are the evidence.

01
Acquisition criteria

From metering hardware to a global utility platform.

Itron's defining moves expanded it outward from North American AMR into a worldwide metering leader (the $1.7B Actaris deal in 2007) and then into industrial IoT networks (the $830M Silver Spring Networks merger in 2018). Each large deal added geography and connectivity Itron could not build organically at the same speed.

Actaris Metering Systems SASmartSynchComverge, Inc. (Peak Holding Corp.)Silver Spring NetworksElpis2, Inc. (Elpis Squared)
02
Capital deployment

Buy recurring, software-led revenue.

Across SmartSynch, Comverge, Silver Spring Networks and the recent Resiliency Solutions tuck-ins, Itron consistently targets managed-services, SaaS and analytics. The Silver Spring deal was explicitly justified by its recurring managed-services/SaaS revenue and $1.2B backlog, and management framed it as a path beyond its mid-teens EBITDA margin target.

Actaris Metering Systems SASmartSynchComverge, Inc. (Peak Holding Corp.)Silver Spring NetworksElpis2, Inc. (Elpis Squared)
03
Integration approach

A new resilience franchise built by tuck-in.

Since 2024 Itron has assembled a Resiliency Solutions segment through cash-funded software acquisitions - Elpis Squared ($34M, grid analytics), Urbint ($325M, AI operational resilience) and Locusview ($525M, digital construction management) - all funded from cash on hand and aimed at the accelerating grid build-out.

Actaris Metering Systems SASmartSynchComverge, Inc. (Peak Holding Corp.)Silver Spring NetworksElpis2, Inc. (Elpis Squared)

The full deal book.

7 acquisitions. Click any row to see the deal value, financing structure, target revenue, executive commentary, and the original SEC filing — the evidence behind the patterns above.

End of deal book
7 acquisitions · $3.5B deployed ·2007 — present
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