Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, engineering services specialist Fluor
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at Fluor's business and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
Fluor facts
| Headquarters (founded) | Irving, Texas (1912) |
| Market Cap | $7.8 billion |
| Industry | Construction and engineering |
| Trailing-12-Month Revenue | $24.6 billion |
| Management | Chairman/CEO David Seaton CFO Biggs Porter |
| Return on Equity (average, past 3 years) | 18.1% |
| Cash/Debt | $2.2 billion / $532.8 million |
| Dividend Yield | 1.4% |
| Competitors |
Jacobs Engineering Group
Shaw Group URS |
Sources: S&P Capital IQ and Motley Fool CAPS.
On CAPS, 97% of the 1,310 members who have rated Fluor believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward.
Just yesterday, one of those Fools, MagicDiligence, touched on the several tailwinds working in Fluor's favor: "Refinery demand in U.S., infrastructure spending critical in both U.S. and worldwide, continued high commodity prices, winning gov't contracts it didn't compete on before. Stock trades well below historical multiples."
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