ACM
AECOMConsumer Discretionary · ·
$74.93
▲ $0.03 (+0.0%)
Market Cap
$9.63B
Day Range
$74.56 - $75.99
52-Week Range
$66.28 - $135.52
Beta
—
Next Earnings
10.08.2026
ACM is a stock from the Consumer Cyclical sector — Retail, automotive, and leisure — demand rises and falls with economic sentiment and consumers' disposable income.
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This score and all analysis on this page are for informational and educational purposes only and do not constitute investment advice. Read the full disclaimer
Weighted: Technical 25% · Fundamental 20% · Growth 15% · Valuation 15% · News 10% · Quality 10% · Risk 5%
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Overall Score
🟡 Mixed
Technical Trend
🟢 Bullish
Insiders
🟡 Mixed
✅ Why is the score relatively high?
- 🟢 Estimated fair value: $101.49 vs. price $74.93 (+35.4%)
- 🟢 Earnings per share (EPS) growth: 42.7%
- 🟢 Net income growth: 39.7%
- 🟢 Operating margin is stable or improving over time
- 🟢 Return on equity (ROE): 22.5% — strong
⚠️ What's concerning?
- 🔴 Free cash flow growth: -3.2%
- 🔴 Price is below the 200-day average
- 🔴 -15.4% over the last 3 months relative to the index
- 🔴 Gross margin: 7.5% — weak
- 🔴 Operating margin: 6.4% — weak
🚦 Quality & Risk Checks
📰 News Trend
Based on real financial news (Finnhub)Everyone's writing about AECOM. News trend score: 100. Reason: 13 of the last 19 articles are positive, versus 3 negative.
News trend analysis is based on article sentiment only, and is not investment advice or financial counsel. Read the full disclaimer
📈 Technical Analysis
Based on the last 251 trading days, calculated from real price data. Click an indicator for details and a chart.
🟢 Most indicators support an uptrend (7 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 neutral)
Conclusions
- 🟢Price vs. SMA 50 — Price is above the 50-day average
- 🔴Price vs. SMA 200 — Price is below the 200-day average
- 🟢MACD — MACD histogram is positive — rising momentum
- 🟢RSI — RSI 61.7 — healthy positive momentum
- 🔴Stochastic — %K 86.1 — overbought
- 🟡ADX (trend strength) — ADX 22.1 — weak trend/choppy
- 🔴Volume trend — Volume is falling despite the price advance — possible weakening
- 🔴Relative strength vs. S&P 500 — -15.4% over the last 3 months relative to the index
- 🟢Bollinger Bands — Price is in the upper third of the Bollinger Bands (86%B) — strong momentum (risk of a pullback)
- 🟢ROC (rate of change) — ROC 12 days: 8.7%
- 🟢Parabolic SAR — Price is above the SAR point — uptrend
- 🟢CMF (money flow) — CMF 20 days: 0.07
Wyckoff Method Analysis
A market-structure read based purely on real price and volume data — not full classic Wyckoff schematic identification (Phase A-E), but a quantitative analysis of what can reliably be computed: trading ranges, "effort vs. result", volume within the range, and Spring/Upthrust detection.
A pattern consistent with an early/mid accumulation phase — a trading range after a decline with declining volume.
Medium confidence
$66.28
Range Bottom
$76.16
Range Top
50
Trading Days in Range
Evidence Behind This Read
- 🟡Trading range identified — The stock is trading in a 14.9% range (between 66.28 and 76.16) over 50 trading days.
- 🟢The range follows a downtrend — Under the Wyckoff method, a trading range following a decline is a natural candidate for an Accumulation phase — smart money buying from weak sellers.
- 🟢Trading volume in the range is declining — Declining volume across the range suggests supply (in accumulation) or demand (in distribution) is being exhausted — usually a sign the range is nearing its end.
The Wyckoff Method, developed by Richard Wyckoff in the early 20th century, reads the balance of supply and demand through price and volume, based on the premise that large investors ("smart money") quietly accumulate shares before rallies and quietly distribute them before declines. The read here is based solely on real price and volume data — full, precise identification of classic Wyckoff patterns (such as Phases A-E) requires human chart-reading experience and judgment, so this is an approximate algorithmic read, not a substitute for professional analysis. This should not be considered investment advice.
🎯 Trade Planning (M.A.E.E Framework)
Based on a mechanical trading method: market structure → value zone → ATR-based exit point. Not investment advice — a calculation tool only.
1️⃣ Market Structure
🔴 Downtrend
The price is below the 200-day average — an environment that mainly favors looking for selling (Short) opportunities, not buying.
2️⃣ Value Zone
🟡 Price far from value zone
The price is currently far from the 50-day average — the method recommends waiting for a "pullback" before entering, rather than chasing prices.
3️⃣ Suggested Exit Point (ATR-based)
Method formula: Stop-loss = resistance plusone ATR margin — this way the stop adapts to the stock's actual volatility, rather than an arbitrary number.
Entry
$74.93
Stop-Loss
$78.31
Risk per Share
$3.38
Direction
Short
Profit Targets by Risk/Reward Ratio (R)
1:2 R
$68.18
1:3 R
$64.80
1:5 R
$58.05
💰 Position Size Calculator
A core principle of the method: never risk a fixed dollar amount — risk a fixed percentage of equity, and let the position size vary according to the risk per share.
Suggested Position Size
29 sh.
💰 Financial Health
Profitability
Gross Margin
7.5%
Operating Margin
6.4%
Net Margin
3.5%
EBITDA Margin
7.5%
Efficiency
ROE
22.5%
ROA
4.6%
ROIC
—
EPS
$4.24
Balance Sheet
Cash
$1.59B
Total Debt
$66.30M
Current Ratio
1.14
Debt/Equity
0.03
Conclusions
- 🔴Gross margin — Gross margin: 7.5% — weak
- 🔴Operating margin — Operating margin: 6.4% — weak
- 🔴Net margin — Net margin: 3.5% — weak
- 🟢Return on equity (ROE) — Return on equity (ROE): 22.5% — strong
- 🔴Return on assets (ROA) — Return on assets (ROA): 4.6% — weak
- 🟡Current ratio (liquidity) — Current ratio: 1.14
- 🟢Debt-to-equity — Debt/equity: 0.03
🚀 Growth
Revenue
Earnings per Share (EPS)
Net Income
Free Cash Flow (FCF)
Conclusions
- 🟡Revenue growth (last year) — Revenue growth (last year): 0.2%
- 🟢Earnings per share (EPS) growth — Earnings per share (EPS) growth: 42.7%
- 🔴Free cash flow growth — Free cash flow growth: -3.2%
- 🟢Net income growth — Net income growth: 39.7%
💵 Dividends
Total dividend per share paid each year, over the last 5 years.
Annual Dividend per Share
| Ex-Dividend Date | Amount per Share |
|---|---|
| 1.7.2026 | $0.310 |
| 1.4.2026 | $0.310 |
| 7.1.2026 | $0.310 |
| 1.10.2025 | $0.260 |
| 2.7.2025 | $0.260 |
| 2.4.2025 | $0.260 |
| 2.1.2025 | $0.260 |
| 2.10.2024 | $0.220 |
| 3.7.2024 | $0.220 |
| 23.4.2024 | $0.220 |
| 3.1.2024 | $0.220 |
| 4.10.2023 | $0.180 |
💎 Fair Value (Valuation)
Current Price
$74.93
Estimated Fair Value (DCF)
$101.49
Gap
+35.4%
🟢 Appears cheap relative to estimated value
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Year 1 Growth Rate
7.2%
Discount Rate (WACC)
9.0%
Terminal Growth Rate
2.5%
Projection Years
5
| Year | Growth Rate | Projected FCF | Present Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7.2% | $734.20M | $673.57M |
| 2 | 6.0% | $778.40M | $655.16M |
| 3 | 4.8% | $816.12M | $630.20M |
| 4 | 3.7% | $846.10M | $599.40M |
| 5 | 2.5% | $867.25M | $563.66M |
Base FCF (last actual year)
$684.93M
Terminal Value
$13.68B
Present Value of Terminal Value
$8.89B
Enterprise Value
$12.01B
Net Debt
$-1.52B
Equity Value
$13.53B
*The DCF model is an estimate based on assumptions — not a guaranteed forecast. You can change the assumptions to examine different scenarios.
Book Value per Share
$18.70
Tangible Book Value per Share (Tangible NAV)
-$10.44
Conclusions
- 🟢DCF Fair Value — Estimated fair value: $101.49 vs. price $74.93 (+35.4%)
- 🟡Tangible Net Asset Value (NAV) — NAV per share: -$10.44
- 🟡P/E — P/E: 17.8
🕴️ Insider Trading
Real transactions by officers and insiders, as reported to the SEC on Form 4 — 3 purchases and 3 sales out of the last 25 filings.
| Name | Transaction Type | Date | Shares | Change | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poloni Lara | Open Market Purchase | 16.6.2026 | 153,446 | +4,224 | $70.63 |
| Rudd Troy | Open Market Purchase | 14.5.2026 | 142,207 | +4,225 | $71.02 |
| Kapoor Gaurav | Open Market Purchase | 14.5.2026 | 88,053 | +1,420 | $71.12 |
| KERR DEREK J | Grant/Award from Employer | 3.3.2026 | 3,677 | +2,002 | — |
| Stotlar Douglas | Grant/Award from Employer | 3.3.2026 | 38,804 | +2,236 | — |
| Buss Brad W | Grant/Award from Employer | 3.3.2026 | 28,513 | +2,002 | — |
| van 't Noordende Alexander M | Grant/Award from Employer | 3.3.2026 | 12,423 | +2,002 | — |
| Tishman Daniel R. | Grant/Award from Employer | 3.3.2026 | 23,677 | +2,002 | — |
| Wolfenbarger Janet Carol | Grant/Award from Employer | 3.3.2026 | 38,822 | +2,002 | — |
| Pipes Kristy | Grant/Award from Employer | 3.3.2026 | 8,623 | +2,002 | — |
| Rudd Troy | Gift | 23.12.2025 | 259,756 | -600 | — |
| Poloni Lara | Open Market Sale | 17.12.2025 | 149,415 | -17,340 | $97.01 |
| Poloni Lara | Open Market Sale | 17.12.2025 | 149,222 | -193 | $98.35 |
| Gan David Y. | Open Market Sale | 17.12.2025 | 41,549 | -9,502 | $97.01 |
| Rudd Troy | Exercise of Derivative Securities | 15.12.2025 | 36,812 | +36,812 | — |
| Rudd Troy | Grant/Award from Employer | 15.12.2025 | 85,812 | +49,000 | — |
| Rudd Troy | Grant/Award from Employer | 15.12.2025 | 172,393 | +86,581 | — |
| Rudd Troy | Tax Withholding in Shares | 15.12.2025 | 123,837 | -48,556 | $97.96 |
| Rudd Troy | Exercise of Derivative Securities | 15.12.2025 | 0 | -36,812 | — |
| Kapoor Gaurav | Exercise of Derivative Securities | 15.12.2025 | 65,974 | +9,562 | — |
| Kapoor Gaurav | Grant/Award from Employer | 15.12.2025 | 81,083 | +15,109 | — |
| Kapoor Gaurav | Grant/Award from Employer | 15.12.2025 | 103,573 | +22,490 | — |
| Kapoor Gaurav | Tax Withholding in Shares | 15.12.2025 | 86,633 | -16,940 | $97.96 |
| Kapoor Gaurav | Exercise of Derivative Securities | 15.12.2025 | 0 | -9,562 | — |
| Poloni Lara | Exercise of Derivative Securities | 15.12.2025 | 140,231 | +10,040 | — |
📉 Short Interest
Official FINRA data — the number of shares open in short positions, plus daily short-sale activity.
Monthly Trend — Open Short Interest
8,645,307 shares short as of 2026-07-15 · vs. 8,954,741 on 2026-06-30
Official biweekly report (FINRA Rule 4560) — no real higher-frequency data exists for this metric.
Weekly Trend — Daily Short-Sale Activity
52.4% of trading volume this week was short selling, vs. 60.6% the prior week
Based on daily short-sale volume (Reg SHO) — a different metric from the open short interest above: this is daily trading volume, not an open position, so it updates weekly rather than biweekly.
📰 News & Sentiment
Sentiment based on basic keywords (not AI) — 13 positive, 3 neutral, 3 negative out of the last 19 articles.
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