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How Private Equity Is Buying Up Pest Control Companies
In this episode of The Buyout Show, Lucas and Luna drill into a quiet consolidation wave sweeping the $22 billion pest control industry. They focus on Rollins Inc., the publicly traded parent of Orkin, and its 2025 acquisition spree—buying 17 regional operators in a single year, worth over $400 million combined. Then they examine Antares Capital's private equity roll-up of PermaTreat and Moxie Pest Control, and ask whether the industry's 'service techs as acquisition targets' model is sustainable. Specific numbers: Rollins's 9.2% organic revenue growth in Q1 2026, the…
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