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MasTec$MTZ · filed: grew revenue 16.2% in FY2025 to $14.3BNew shipNext year $14.3B–$17.6B sealedCheck ▾Close ▴
What MasTec filed
Grew revenue 16.2% in FY2025 to $14.3 billion, equity 32.8% of assets. Every figure links to the filing it came from on MasTec’s card. New ship: no warning signs.
What the house said in advance
Revenue for the fiscal year after 2025-12-31 between $14.3B and $17.6B, an 80% range sealed on 27 Sept 2026 · receipt #edfba1 · graded in public by the revenue in MasTec’s next annual report.
Figures as filed with the SEC. Ranges, scores and boats are statistical descriptions of past filings, not ratings or recommendations. Reporting, not advice.
In plain words
MasTec's **$1.65B** Superior buy moves the company from utility-grade margins to hyperscale-speed premiums — backlog converts in **18 to 24 months**.
$1.65 billion
acquisition of Superior Energy Systems on Monday
$225 million
in near-term revenue
$9 billion
backlog toward the power distribution
300 to 500 megawatts
per campus
MasTec completed its $1.65 billion acquisition of Superior Energy Systems on Monday, moving the construction contractor from traditional utility infrastructure toward the electrical systems that sit inside hyperscale AI data center campuses. Superior is projected to contribute roughly $225 million in near-term revenue, but the strategic weight is larger — the deal repositions MasTec's $9 billion backlog toward the power distribution, cooling loops, and backup systems that hyperscalers are ordering at multiples of historical data center build rates. The stock climbed in pre-market trading. The deal closed without regulatory delay.
Superior specializes in medium-voltage electrical systems, uninterruptible power supplies, and the physical plant that sits between the utility transformer and the rack. That is different from MasTec's legacy transmission and distribution work, which ends at the substation fence. Hyperscale AI clusters now require 300 to 500 megawatts per campus, with some designs reaching 1 gigawatt, and the bottleneck is not land or fiber but the speed at which electrical contractors can install switchgear, backup generators, and liquid cooling infrastructure. Superior already holds contracts with three of the five largest U.S. cloud providers. MasTec's management noted that the combined backlog includes projects scheduled to break ground in the next six to nine months, concentrated in Virginia, Texas, and the Pacific Northwest.
The margin profile inside the fence is structurally different from outside. Transmission work for utilities is bid competitively on thin spreads, often 4 to 6 percent EBITDA margins, and subject to state regulatory approval cycles. Inside-the-fence electrical systems for hyperscalers are negotiated, not bid, and the urgency premium is real — cloud providers are paying for speed and engineering coordination, not lowest cost. Superior's historical margins run 8 to 11 percent, and the work is repeat-customer, multi-phase. MasTec's existing Clean Energy & Infrastructure segment, which includes renewable interconnection and EV charging, posted $3.2 billion in revenue last year. Adding Superior's capacity moves the company's revenue mix toward contracts where the customer is less price-sensitive and more schedule-sensitive. That is a different risk profile for allocators who have treated MasTec as a pure utility-cycle proxy.
Watch for MasTec's Q3 earnings call in early November, where management will detail the first full quarter of integrated operations and update backlog conversion timelines. Superior's project pipeline includes work slated to deliver in 2027, and any acceleration of that schedule would signal that hyperscalers are pulling forward data center commissioning dates. Also watch for announcements from MasTec's two largest customers, both cloud providers, on new regional AI cluster locations — Superior's geographic footprint includes the Southeast and Midwest, where land and power availability favor new builds over retrofits. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is reviewing grid interconnection rules for large loads, and any policy shift that shortens the queue would directly benefit inside-the-fence contractors who are waiting on utility approvals.
MasTec now owns the contractor that wires the building where the intelligence gets trained. Superior's contract book runs 18 to 24 months out, which means the backlog already reflects hyperscaler capex decisions made in late 2024 and early 2025. The next wave is being negotiated now.
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For the principal
The margin lift is structural — inside-the-fence electrical runs 8-11% vs. 4-6% for transmission. Schedule premium is real.
For the operator
Superior's backlog runs 18-24 months out; Q3 earnings in November will show first integrated quarter and conversion pace.
For the house
We are adding exposure to inside-the-fence infrastructure contractors; MasTec now competes on speed, not price, in AI-dense markets.
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