Contextualizing the Higgs at the LHC

Recent excesses across dierent search modes of the collaborations at the LHC seem to indicate the presence of a Higgs-like scalar particle at 125 GeV. Using the current data sets, we review and update analyses addressing the extent to which this state is compatible with the Standard Model, and provide two contextual answers for how it might instead t into alternative scenarios with enlarged electroweak symmetry breaking sectors.