MTZ · MasTec, Inc. — research history
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About MTZ · MasTec, Inc.
MasTec, Inc., an infrastructure engineering and construction company, provides engineering, building, installation, maintenance, and upgrade services for communications, energy, utility, and other infrastructure primarily in the United States and Canada. It operates through five segments: Communications, Clean Energy and Infrastructure, Power Delivery, Pipeline Infrastructure, and Other. The company builds infrastructure for wireless and wireline/fiber communications; clean energy infrastructure comprising renewable energy power generation; pipeline infrastructure, including natural gas, water, carbon capture sequestration, and other product transport; power delivery services, such as electrical and gas transmission, and distribution systems; industrial and heavy civil infrastructure, including roads, bridges, and rail; and water infrastructure. It also installs electrical and other gas distribution and transmission systems, power generation, civil and industrial facilities, pipelines, and fiber optic and other cables, as well as install-to-the-home services. In addition, the company offers maintenance and upgrade support services comprising maintenance of customers' distribution facilities, networks, and infrastructure, including communications, power generation, pipeline, electrical distribution and transmission, and civil and industrial infrastructure; emergency restoration services for natural disasters and accidents; and routine replacements and upgrades to overhauls. Its customers include wireless and wireline/fiber service providers, broadband operators, install-to-the-home service providers, public and private energy providers, including renewable and other energy providers, pipeline operators, civil, transportation, and water and wastewater pipeline installation services, industrial infrastructure providers, as well as government entities. MasTec, Inc. was founded in 1929 and is headquartered in Coral Gables, Florida.
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BUY (score +7) · 12-1 mom 129.3% · RSI 55.2 · above_both · -10.8% from high
Targets blend Wall Street consensus (20 analysts: low $256.00 / mean $473.05 / high $545.00) with chart-derived floors and ceilings.
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{"symbol":"MTZ","company":"MasTec, Inc.","investigation_summary":"MasTec is a large infrastructure engineering and construction company (~$28.6B market cap) benefiting from secular tailwinds in power delivery, data center buildout, and clean energy. The stock has run +123% over the past year and recently pulled back ~18% from its 52-week high. The investigation found no open-market insider purchas
MasTec is an infrastructure engineering and construction company (communications, power delivery, clean energy, pipeline) with a record $20.3B backlog and exceptional Q1 2026 EPS beat (+40.6% surprise). The investigation trigger was two large OTM put blocks on the Jul-17 expiry — one at MTZ $330P showing V/OI of 243 (volume 1703 vs OI 7), the other at MTZ $350P with V/OI of 3.5. These represent genuine new bearish positioning. The counter-thesis is that smart money insider activity shows no open-market purchases — only RSU vestings (code A) from directors and one director sold 3,000 shares at $417 in May; the stock trades at 30.9x forward P/E with 27x EV/EBITDA, elevated for construction/infrastructure; and the recent -18% pullback from all-time highs ($441 to $362) is consistent with normal consolidation after a +150% annual run. The put whale buying likely represents institutional tail-risk hedging rather than a directional short thesis, given the stock's strong fundamental trajectory.
MTZ trades at a steep premium to sector peers (35x Fwd P/E, 29x EV/EBITDA) with no valuation edge. Material insider selling ($4.4M) outweighs buying, and hard anti-signal gates for customer concentration (>30%) and dilution are present. The dossier correctly frames it as range-bound with elevated valuation, leaving no asymmetric long or income structure at these levels.
MasTec is an infrastructure engineering and construction company benefiting from powerful secular tailwinds — AI-driven power delivery demand, grid modernization, clean energy build-out, and broadband expansion. The Q1 2026 beat (EPS $1.39 vs $0.99 est.) with record backlog of $16.2B and EBITDA guidance raised to $1.5B is genuinely impressive. However, the stock has already re-rated dramatically: trading at ~35x forward P/E on thin ~12% gross margins in a cyclical, high-leverage (debt/equity 88%) construction business. The CEO received RSUs (not open-market buys), several directors sold shares into strength ($417, $300 levels). Third Point's new/initiated 925K position is noted but came at significantly lower prices and does not represent fresh edge today. No material mispricing exists — the market has correctly priced the backlog story. IV in the mid-50s provides income premium. Verdict: range-bound with elevated valuation, no asymmetric long setup.