With 1.34 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.53 million shares. The 52-week range on PWR shows that it touched its highest point at $365.88 and its lowest point at $227.11 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $343.64. With its current market cap of 37.52 billion, PWR has annualized dividend of $0.37 while the current yield stands at 0.15%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.06.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of PWR was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -5.82%, but this was down by -16.12% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -26.52% while six-month performance fell -7.99%. The stock gained 5.09% in the past year, while it has lost -19.90% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for PWR yields 6.02 with Next year EPS estimates of 11.74. For the next quarter, that number is 1.76. This implies an EPS growth rate of 13.93% for this year and 14.90% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 16.02% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 17.22%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 147.68 million PWR shares are outstanding with a float of 146.44 million shares on hand for trading.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for PWR since 7 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 7 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 0 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $8.77869 being high and $8.61889 being low. For PWR, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $8.65884. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $2.62 and the low estimate is $2.36. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $2.49.
Summary of Insider Activity:
Insiders traded PWR stock several times over the past three months with 0 Buys and 0 Sells. In these transactions, 0 shares were bought while 0 shares were sold. The number of buy transactions has remained unchanged to 0 while that of sell transactions has remained unmoved to 0 over the past year. The total number of shares bought during that period was 0 while 0 shares were sold.
