Compass Diversified Holdings
Compass Diversified Holdings (NYSE: CODI) operates as a diversified holding company that acquires and actively manages a portfolio of small and middle-market businesses headquartered in North America. The company's website is https://compassdiversified.com/. Compass Diversified Holdings is a Delaware statutory trust… From the company’s description.
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What Compass Diversified Holdings does
In the company’s own words
Compass Diversified Holdings (NYSE: CODI) operates as a diversified holding company that acquires and actively manages a portfolio of small and middle-market businesses headquartered in North America. The company's website is https://compassdiversified.com/. Compass Diversified Holdings is a Delaware statutory trust that elected to be taxed as a corporation effective September 2021, while its operating entity, Compass Group Diversified Holdings LLC, maintains a board of directors overseeing management and business performance.
The company categorizes its businesses into two primary segments: branded consumer businesses and industrial businesses. The branded consumer portfolio includes 5.11 (tactical apparel and gear), BOA Holdings (performance fit systems for footwear and headwear), PrimaLoft (synthetic insulation materials), The Honey Pot Co. (feminine care products), and Velocity Outdoor (archery products and hunting apparel). The industrial segment comprises Altor Solutions (custom molded protective foam), Arnold (engineered magnetic systems and electric motors), and Sterno (portable food warming systems and home fragrance products).
Compass Diversified's business model focuses on acquiring controlling interests in businesses that demonstrate positive and stable cash flows, operate in industries with long-term macroeconomic growth opportunities, and possess strong existing management teams. The company provides ongoing strategic and financial support to its subsidiaries, including professionalization at scale, access to growth capital, and assistance with add-on acquisitions. This permanent capital structure enables acquisitions across economic cycles without reliance on transaction-specific third-party financing.
The company finances acquisitions through a combination of equity capital and debt, primarily through its 2022 Credit Facility, which includes a $600 million revolving credit facility maturing in 2027 and a $400 million term loan. The company also maintains $1.3 billion in senior notes outstanding. Compass Diversified's management team, Compass Group Management LLC, handles day-to-day operations and executes the company's acquisition and value-creation strategy. The company suspended its quarterly cash distribution to common shareholders in May 2025 following an internal investigation into its Lugano subsidiary, which subsequently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in November 2025.
Company details
- Sector
- Consumer Discretionary
- Industry
- Furniture & Building
- Headquarters
- WESTPORT, CT
- Fiscal year end
- December
- CIK
- 1345126
- SIC
- 2510
Financial performance, year by year
Fiscal 2013–2025 · USDThe full income statement, balance sheet and cash flow for each of these years — every figure traceable to its filing — is on the Financials tab with a free account.
Who owns Compass Diversified Holdings — and what changed
Funds as of 2026Q2 · superinvestors as of 2026-06-30
Largest fund holders · Compass Diversified Holdings’s weight in each
Fund ownership is a floor, not a census — pensions, insurers and people holding shares directly are not visible here.
Fund ownership counts N-PORT filers only, so it is a floor rather than a census — pensions, insurers and direct holders are not visible here, and the remainder is not “held by individuals”.
Every fund and institutional holder, quarter by quarter, is on the Ownership tab with a free account.
Recent filings
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