Quanta Services, Inc. PWR
Weak Industrials sector · Quanta Services — the contractor that builds and upgrades electric grids and renewable infrastructure.
Quanta Services, Inc. (PWR) is an established Industrials company, graded Weak on FrontierLab's evidence-based quality rubric (data as of 2026-08-21). Revenue grew 25.8% year-over-year at a 14.4% gross margin. Gross-profits-to-assets is 0.17; Rule of 40 is 32. Net share issuance 1% YoY (modest issuance). 3 risk flags are noted below.
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Key quality signals
| Revenue growth (YoY) | 25.8% |
|---|---|
| Gross margin | 14.4% |
| Gross profits / assets | 0.17 |
| Rule of 40 | 32 |
| Net margin | 6.2% |
| Cash runway (months) | — |
| PEG | 2.2 |
| Price / sales | 3 |
Quality checklist
Each line is one quality test behind the grade — ✓ passed · ~ borderline · ✗ failed. Hover a metric in the tables below for what it means.
- ~ Revenue growth — 25.8% (pass ≥ 20%)
- ✗ Gross profits / assets — 0.17 (pass ≥ 0.33)
- · Rule of 40 — 32 (context — graded for software only)
- ✗ Gross margin — 14.4% (pass ≥ 32% · Industrials)
- ✓ Cash generation
- ~ Share dilution — 1%
- ~ Competitive moat — Narrow
- ✓ Market size (TAM) — Large
Grade history
Graded Weak since 2026-06-17 — no grade changes recorded yet.
How have Weak-graded names performed?
The forward returns of all Weak-graded names since each grade was recorded — the bucket this name currently sits in, not a forecast of this individual stock.
| Window | Forward record vs the S&P | Median |
|---|---|---|
| ~1 month | 60% of Weak-graded names beat the S&P over 21 sessions (95% CI 39–78%, N=20). | Median excess vs the S&P was +0.6%. |
| ~3 months | building — 13 more sessions needed | |
| ~6 months | building — 76 more sessions needed | |
How have this name's flags scored?
| Flag | N | Mean excess vs S&P |
|---|---|---|
| Thin gross margin — keeps little of each sales dollar (judge it against its industry). | 20 | +2.1% |
| Hyper-expansion — assets up ~42% in a year; aggressive expanders have historically lagged. | sample still too small to report (need ≥ 8) | |
| Parabolic one-day spike (+17%) in the last month — extreme single-day moves tend to mean-revert. | sample still too small to report (need ≥ 8) | |
These per-flag figures are observational — a flag firing is not a randomized assignment, so any edge can reflect what kind of names trip a flag, not the flag itself. Descriptive, not causal.
Scope: these are forward returns vs the S&P among names still covered at each horizon's end, within the curated universe — not a survivorship-clean whole-market backtest. Names later dropped from coverage are counted as attrition (not hidden), and single-session moves beyond ±300% are treated as split/data artifacts and excluded. How this is measured → · Full track record →
How it compares
Coarse same-sector, same-stage context — not a percentile or rank. GP/A is graded on its absolute level, not position.
Fundamentals
| Market cap | $99.60B |
|---|---|
| Stage | Established |
| Share issuance (YoY) | 1% · modest issuance |
| Moat | Narrow |
| TAM | LARGE |
| P/E (trailing) | 75.9 |
| EPS (trailing) | $8.73 |
| Burn multiple | — |
| Gross-margin trend (pts) | 1.1 |
| Cash / assets | 0.02 |
| Accruals (%) | -7.6% |
| Net debt / EBITDA | 2 |
| Statements as of | Q2 FY2026 · filed 2026-07-30 |
Momentum context — describes the past, not a signal
Low reached Sep 5, 2025 · high reached May 6, 2026 — by daily close.
| Price | $662.47 (as of 2026-08-20) |
|---|---|
| Last session move | — |
| % off 52-wk high | -16% |
| RSI (14) | 48 |
| Relative volume | 1× |
Risk flags
From the headlines
Treasury yields exceed company dividend yields; mixed market positioning signals.
AI take — daily, AI-generated
AI leans cautious
High growth and PEG of 2.2 mask weak margins and rising dilution; dividend yield undercut by Treasury rates signals the market is skeptical of durability.
Generated by an AI model from the day's news — an opinion for context only. Not financial advice, not a recommendation, and not a price target.
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Data as of 2026-08-21 08:12 (end-of-day). How grades are computed →