Quanta Services Inc. (PWR): Today's Featured Materials & Construction Laggard
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), down 8.4%, and
China Advanced Construction Materials Group
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Quanta Services, Inc. provides specialty contracting services primarily in North America. Quanta Services has a market cap of $5.76 billion and is part of the industrial goods sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 20.2, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 21.1% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. Currently there are 11 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
. 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 low profit margins.
- You can view the full Quanta Services Ratings Report.
On the positive front,
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