JEC vs. PWR, EME, FIX, ACM, MTZ, FLR, DY, STRL, KBR, and PRIM
Should you be buying Jacobs Engineering Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Jacobs Engineering Group include Quanta Services (PWR), EMCOR Group (EME), Comfort Systems USA (FIX), AECOM (ACM), MasTec (MTZ), Fluor (FLR), Dycom Industries (DY), Sterling Infrastructure (STRL), KBR (KBR), and Primoris Services (PRIM). These companies are all part of the "construction & engineering" industry.
Jacobs Engineering Group vs. Its Competitors
Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE:JEC) and Quanta Services (NYSE:PWR) are both large-cap construction companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment and dividends.
Quanta Services has a consensus price target of $353.35, indicating a potential downside of 7.89%. Given Quanta Services' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Quanta Services is more favorable than Jacobs Engineering Group.
In the previous week, Quanta Services had 40 more articles in the media than Jacobs Engineering Group. MarketBeat recorded 40 mentions for Quanta Services and 0 mentions for Jacobs Engineering Group. Quanta Services' average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat Jacobs Engineering Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Quanta Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
90.6% of Jacobs Engineering Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.5% of Quanta Services shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Jacobs Engineering Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Quanta Services shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Jacobs Engineering Group has a beta of 1.35, suggesting that its stock price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Quanta Services has a beta of 1.08, suggesting that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Quanta Services has higher revenue and earnings than Jacobs Engineering Group. Jacobs Engineering Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Quanta Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Jacobs Engineering Group has a net margin of 6.66% compared to Quanta Services' net margin of 3.74%. Quanta Services' return on equity of 18.06% beat Jacobs Engineering Group's return on equity.
Jacobs Engineering Group pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Quanta Services pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Jacobs Engineering Group pays out 13.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Quanta Services pays out 6.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Quanta Services has increased its dividend for 6 consecutive years.
Summary
Quanta Services beats Jacobs Engineering Group on 16 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:JEC) was last updated on 7/11/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff