Dycom Industries, Inc.
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Research Overview

INDEX:
S&P 500
Sector:
Industrials
Position:
Short
Date:
Feb 19, 2025

After conducting a forensic financial review of Dycom Industries, Inc. (NYSE: DY) (“DY” or the “Company”), a contractor primarily servicing the telecommunications industry throughout the United States, Spruce Point raises concerns about the long-term sustainability of the Company’s revenue stemming from the pressures that its clients and the telecommunications industry are facing. Based on our investigation, we estimate a 35% - 55% potential long-term downside and market underperformance risk.

The report highlights several key concerns with the Company, including:    

  • We believe that DY’s revenues and margins are likely to come under pressure stemming from consolidation among customers with aggressive cost-saving goals and its weak positioning in wireless services.
  • We believe the Company’s financial reporting is signaling stress in areas such as elevated Days Sales Outstanding (“DSO”) and recent capital expenditure misforecasting.
  • DY’s history of not disclosing a familial relationship between its previous long-time CEO and an executive of Frontier Communications, one of the Company’s biggest customers, should be heavily scrutinized.
  • The Company’s past two Chief Accounting Officers and a recently appointed Board member all had senior financial accounting roles at companies that restated results and had internal control issues.  
  • DY trades at an irrational premium to peers despite having a weaker and riskier business such as large customer concentrations, high exposure to contracts that can be easily cancelled, and a capital expenditure margin 2x the industry average.
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