Quanta Services Stock in Brief

By Naomi Wentworth • Thursday, December 21 12:12 • Permanent Link

Quanta Services logged a -0.5% change during today's afternoon session, and is now trading at a price of $211.88 per share. The S&P 500 index moved 0.0%. PWR's trading volume is 247,546 compared to the stock's average volume of 1,320,126.

Quanta Services trades -1.56% away from its average analyst target price of $215.23 per share. The 13 analysts following the stock have set target prices ranging from $190.0 to $237.0, and on average have given Quanta Services a rating of buy.

Anyone interested in buying PWR should be aware of the facts below:

Quanta Services's current price is 222.6% above its Graham number of $65.67, which implies that at its current valuation it does not offer a margin of safety
Quanta Services has moved 49.3% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 22.9%
Based on its trailing earnings per share of 4.68, Quanta Services has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 45.3 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
PWR has a forward P/E ratio of 25.3 based on its forward 12 month price to earnings (EPS) of $8.37 per share
The company has a price to earnings growth (PEG) ratio of 1.78 — a number near or below 1 signifying that Quanta Services is fairly valued compared to its estimated growth potential
Its Price to Book (P/B) ratio is 5.14 compared to its sector average of 4.06
Quanta Services, Inc. provides infrastructure solutions for the electric and gas utility, renewable energy, communications, and pipeline and energy industries worldwide.
Based in Houston, the company has 47,300 full time employees and a market cap of $30.78 Billion. Quanta Services currently returns an annual dividend yield of 0.2%.

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