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Quanta Services$PWR · filed: grew revenue 20.3% in FY2025 to $28.5BNew shipTrillion Score 492Fall Risk LowNext year $30.2B–$35.9B sealedCheck ▾Close ▴
What Quanta Services filed
Grew revenue 20.3% in FY2025 to $28.5 billion, operating margin 5.7%, in line with the 5.7% median for electrical work, equity 35.9% of assets, and dividend per share up 8 years running. Every figure links to the filing it came from on Quanta Services’s card. New ship: no warning signs. Trillion Score 492, #2 of 4 in its field; Fall Risk Low (how it is measured).
What the house said in advance
Revenue for the fiscal year after 2025-12-31 between $30.2B and $35.9B, an 80% range sealed on 26 Sept 2026 · receipt #24e0fa · graded in public by the revenue in Quanta Services’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
Quanta deploys **$1B** buyback as peers borrow to scale—margin confidence or late-cycle caution worth tracking through Q1 call.
$1 billion
stock repurchase authorization Friday
11 cents
per share
$43 billion
trailing-twelve revenue
$23.4 billion
—last expanded its buyback program in February 2023
Quanta Services announced a $1 billion stock repurchase authorization Friday, pairing the buyback with an unchanged quarterly dividend of 11 cents per share. The Houston-based infrastructure contractor—market cap $43 billion, trailing-twelve revenue $23.4 billion—last expanded its buyback program in February 2023, deploying $847 million over the subsequent eighteen months. The new authorization replaces a prior program that held $153 million in remaining capacity.
The timing is specific. Quanta's share price closed Thursday at $292, up 67 percent year-over-year but down 8 percent from its October high of $318. The company has beaten EPS estimates in thirteen of the past sixteen quarters, most recently posting $2.48 against consensus $2.31 in Q4 2024. Free cash flow for the trailing year stands at $1.9 billion, against $1.1 billion in share repurchases and dividends combined over the same period. The authorization does not obligate Quanta to a specific timetable, but historical cadence suggests $400-500 million deployed over the next twelve months if execution mirrors the 2023-2024 cycle.
This matters because Quanta operates in a sector where peers are borrowing to build capacity. The IRA and IIJA have flooded electric grid modernization and renewable interconnection with $370 billion in committed federal capital through 2032. Quanta's backlog sits at $32.7 billion, up 19 percent year-over-year, concentrated in electric power transmission and renewable energy infrastructure. Competitors—MasTec, EMCOR, Primoris—are raising debt-to-equity ratios to fund crew expansion and equipment purchases. Quanta is returning cash. That divergence signals either margin confidence or skepticism about late-cycle project economics. The company's EBITDA margin widened 110 basis points to 12.4 percent in 2024, driven by fixed-price contract discipline and labor productivity gains in its Renewables segment.
The dividend hold at 11 cents—unchanged since May 2023—yields 0.15 percent at current prices, functionally irrelevant for income-focused allocators but a meaningful signal of capital priorities. Quanta has never cut its dividend since initiating it in 2011, but the yield has compressed as the share price tripled. The company is choosing buybacks over yield expansion, a rational move when trading at 22x forward earnings against a five-year average of 18x. The authorization also creates option value: if multiples compress in a 2025 correction, Quanta can accelerate repurchases. If backlog conversion accelerates and margins hold, the company can pivot to M&A or let the authorization sit.
Operators should watch Quanta's Q1 2025 earnings call in May for commentary on repurchase pacing and any debt issuance tied to the working-capital needs of its $8.9 billion renewable backlog. The company's revolver sits at $2.1 billion with $1.4 billion drawn. If Quanta accelerates buybacks while maintaining capex guidance of $450-500 million for 2025, the cash source is either incremental borrowing or slower backlog conversion. Either answer changes the thesis. Family offices holding Quanta for infrastructure exposure should also track management's commentary on fixed-price contract exposure in its Communications segment, which faced $127 million in cost overruns in 2024.
The $1 billion authorization is 2.3 percent of market cap, enough to matter but not enough to restructure the float. Quanta has reduced shares outstanding by 11 percent since 2020. If the company executes at historical pace, shares outstanding drop another 1.2-1.5 percent by Q1 2026, mildly accretive in a sector where most growth is denominator expansion rather than numerator discipline.
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Monitor whether Quanta levers up to fund buybacks or slows backlog conversion—either shifts the infrastructure thesis materially.
For the operator
Track Q1 guidance on repurchase pacing and revolver utilization; gap between cash return and capex reveals real margin conviction.
For the house
Hold PWR position through Q1 call; accumulate if buyback accelerates below $280 without incremental debt, trim above $310.
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