Quanta Services Inc. (PWR): Today's Featured Materials & Construction Winner

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Quanta Services (PWR) pushed the Materials & Construction industry higher today making it today's featured materials & construction winner. The industry as a whole closed the day up 1.4%. By the end of trading, Quanta Services rose 38 cents (1.3%) to $28.99 on average volume. Throughout the day, 2.3 million shares of Quanta Services exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 1.8 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $28.77-$29.59 after having opened the day at $28.77 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $28.61. Other companies within the Materials & Construction industry that increased today were: Real Goods Solar (RSOL), up 64.9%, India Globalization Capital (IGC), up 23.6%, Goldfield (GV), up 11.1%, and Integrated Electrical Services (IESC), up 4.5%.

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Quanta Services, Inc. provides specialty contracting services primarily in North America. Quanta Services has a market cap of $6.22 billion and is part of the industrial goods sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 21.9, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 3.3% year to date as of the close of trading on Tuesday. Currently there are 12 analysts that rate Quanta Services a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and three rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Quanta Services as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, compelling growth in net income, solid stock price performance and impressive record of earnings per share growth. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows weak operating cash flow.

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