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Earnings beat, then the applause
MasTec came out swinging with quarterly EPS of $2.07, topping the $1.94 analysts were looking for. Revenue also beat the street at $3.94 billion versus $3.71 billion expected, with sales up 15.8% from a year ago. Not a bad way to remind everyone you’re still in the game.
JPMorgan turns up the volume
Then came the analyst follow-through: JPMorgan boosted its view on MasTec, adding more fuel to a stock that’s already been getting a lot of attention from the “maybe this thing has more runway” crowd. The article doesn’t give the new price target number, but the takeaway is pretty simple — a big-name bank saw enough in the print to lean more constructive.
The guidance bit is the part you’ll want to circle
Management also guided FY 2026 EPS to 8.40, which is the kind of forward number investors love because it turns a good quarter into a story about what’s next. If the company can keep converting revenue growth into earnings power, the market tends to reward that with a bigger multiple — aka the fancy way of saying “people will pay up.”
The small-print wrinkle
The story also mentions an insider sale: a director trimmed holdings by 8.23%, leaving them with 10,592 shares worth about $3.45 million. That’s not a panic alarm by itself, but it does show up in the filing, and filings have a way of making investors squint a little harder.
Big picture: MasTec is trying to do the rare corporate magic trick of beating earnings, raising the forward narrative, and keeping Wall Street interested all at once. If it can keep this pace, the stock may still have room to run.