Buyout PE
Cardinal Equity Partners
Cardinal Equity Partners acquires controlling stakes in established, profitable businesses, from Indianapolis, USA.
Stated investment criteria
What Cardinal Equity Partners says it buys
Read from Cardinal Equity Partners’s own website in August 2026. This is what the firm says it buys, not what anyone has recorded it buying, and figures are shown in the currency the firm itself used - nothing here is converted. Every line links to the page it was read from.
Source
A stated mandate is a firm’s description of itself and was true of the page on the day it was read; firms widen and narrow what they will look at without updating the site. Cardinal Equity Partners states that it takes majority or outright ownership. Nothing here is a commitment by Cardinal Equity Partners to consider any particular business, and nothing on this page is represented as being for sale.
Portfolio
Disclosed holdings
Companies Cardinal Equity Partners lists on its own website. 1 carry a stated investment year.
| Company | Invested | Years held | Recorded transaction |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guardian Pharmacy Services | 2003 | 23 | — |
| Heartisan Foods | — | — | — |
Compiled from Cardinal Equity Partners’s published portfolio page. Where a recorded transaction is shown, that company was the target of a reported deal and has most likely already been realised. Nothing here is represented as being for sale.
Recorded transactions
Buying and selling
Deals in which Cardinal Equity Partners is named as buyer or seller in the transaction archive. 2 recorded exits, most recently in 2021.
| Company | Side | Counterparty | Year | Consideration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aqua Systems | Sold | Franklin Electric | 2021 | $150m |
| Motion Tech | Sold | Carlisle Companies | 2020 | $33m |
Compiled from a transaction archive of 10,204 recorded deals. Most private transactions are never disclosed, so this is a sample of a firm’s activity rather than a complete record of it.
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