M&A · Industrials · Retail-Miscellaneous Shopping Goods Stores
Worldwide Golf Group LLC to acquire BIG 5 Sporting Goods Corp
Announced Jun 30, 2025 · Closed Oct 2, 2025
Deal value$113MEV $113M
Premium22.0%To unaffected price
EV / Adj. EBITDA—0.1x EV / Revenue
ConsiderationAll cash$1.45 per share
Transaction
- Acquirer
- Worldwide Golf Group LLC
- Target
- BIG 5 Sporting Goods Corp (BGFV)
- Buyer type
- Strategic
- Offer price per share
- $1.45
- Enterprise value
- $113M
- Status
- Closed Oct 2, 2025
Deal protections
- Break fee (target pays)
- $2.0M · 1.8%
- Reverse fee (buyer pays)
- $3.0M · 2.7%
- Go-shop
- No-shop
- Financing
- No financing condition
Advisors
- To the acquirer
- Not disclosed
- To the target
- Moelis
Sector context · Industrials
- Comparable deals
- 91 in the prior 24 months
- Premium
- 22.0% vs. 39.5% sector median
- EV / Adj. EBITDA
- Sector median 9.1x
- Break fee
- 1.8% vs. 2.7% sector median
Timeline
- AnnouncedJun 30, 2025
- Proxy filedJul 24, 2025
- Definitive proxyAug 8, 2025
- Shareholder voteSep 26, 2025
- ClosedOct 2, 2025