5-Star Stocks Poised to Pop: Quanta Services

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Based on the aggregated intelligence of 120,000 investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, energy infrastructure company Quanta Services (NYSE: PWR) has earned a coveted five-star ranking. Our data has shown that five-star stocks outperform the market by a significant margin; conversely, one-star stocks have woefully lagged the market average.

With that in mind, let's take a closer look at Quanta's business, and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.

Quanta facts

Headquarters (founded)	Houston, Texas (1997)
Market Cap	$2.44 billion
Industry	Construction and Engineering
TTM Revenue	$3.74 billion
Management	CEO John Colson (since 1997) CFO James Haddox (since 1997)
Return on Equity (average last three years)	6.9%
Competitors	Chicago Bridge & Iron (NYSE: CBI) Shaw Group (NYSE: SGR)
CAPS members bullish on PWR also bullish on	General Electric (NYSE: GE) Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK)
CAPS members bearish on PWR also bearish on	Dell (Nasdaq: DELL) Wal-Mart Stores (NYSE: WMT)

Sources: Capital IQ, a division of Standard & Poor's, and Motley Fool CAPS. TTM = trailing 12 months.

Over on CAPS, fully 354 of the 364 members who have rated Quanta -- some 97% -- believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward. These bulls include CAPS All-Star gtechie and tolstoy00.

Last month, gtechie wrote this powerful pitch on Quanta: "Wind, Solar, and Nuclear are the powers of the future. A company that provides two of the three sounds good to me. PWR is waaaaay down, probably from hedge funds selling for liquidity. Now it's time for fools to buy."

In a more recent pitch from last week, tolstoy00 shares that sentiment, tapping the stock as an interesting political play:

The U.S. needs to upgrade the power grid, and this is the company to do it. This company is also a major player in the wind power industry. Recently, some people have been down on the wind power-generation industry; however, I think this company will thrive for at least the next few years under the Obama presidency.

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