How much a stock's price changes over time is important for most investors, since price performance can both impact your investment portfolio and help you compare investment results across sectors and industries.
FOMO, or the fear of missing out, also plays a role in investing, particularly with tech giants and popular consumer-facing stocks.
What if you'd invested in Dycom Industries (DY) ten years ago? It may not have been easy to hold on to DY for all that time, but if you did, how much would your investment be worth today?
Dycom Industries' Business In-Depth
With that in mind, let's take a look at Dycom Industries' main business drivers.
Based in North America, Dycom Industries Inc. is a specialty contracting firm operating in the telecom industry. The company provides diverse services such as engineering, construction, maintenance and installation services for the cable and telephone companies. Dycom provides specialty constructing services to the following customers:
Telecommunications (contributing 90.4% to fiscal 2025 contract revenues): Dycom provides integrated services for designing aerial, underground and buried fiber optic, copper, and coaxial cable systems for telecom, cable and multiple system operators. It also equips telecom providers with engineering services for designing concept boxes and terminals for various activities. For the wireless network, the company’s service package comprises tower construction, installation of lines and antenna, constructing foundation and equipment pad, fabrication for required equipment and materials as well as testing services at the site.
Underground Facility Locating (6.7%): The company provides underground facility-locating services to a number of utility companies to avoid damage of the underground facilities like telephone, cable television, power, water, sewer and gas lines. Dycom’s expertise in these not only minimizes the damage but also controls its impact on people in the surrounding areas.
Electric and Gas Utilities (2.9%): Dycom also offers services to electric and gas utility companies for both construction and maintenance of gas pipelines and power distribution network. These services are generally provided on a stand-alone basis. However, at times the company is required to provide comprehensive services for deploying both telecom and electric infrastructure at new constructions. Dycom is also adept in installation and maintenance of natural gas transmission networks.
Bottom Line
Anyone can invest, but building a successful investment portfolio takes a combination of a few things: research, patience, and a little bit of risk. So, if you had invested in Dycom Industries a decade ago, you're probably feeling pretty good about your investment today.
According to our calculations, a $1000 investment made in November 2015 would be worth $3,847.00, or a gain of 284.70%, as of November 25, 2025, and this return excludes dividends but includes price increases.
Compare this to the S&P 500's rally of 220.95% and gold's return of 269.34% over the same time frame.
Analysts are anticipating more upside for DY.
Dycom reported strong third-quarter fiscal 2026 results, with both contract revenues and quarterly earnings surpassing the Zacks Consensus Estimate. Both the metrics increased on a year-over-year basis by 14.1% and 35.4%, respectively. The company delivered strong results driven by sustained demand for fiber infrastructure, robust activity from long-standing carrier partners and accelerating demand from leading hyperscalers. Although seasonality risks and tariff-related uncertainties may pose risks to project costs and planning in the upcoming period, the infrastructure market tailwinds are pulling up Dycom's prospects. Owing to diversified bookings throughout the quarter, the company to raise the midpoint of its full-year revenue outlook. Shares of Dycom have outperformed the industry in the past six months.
Over the past four weeks, shares have rallied 19.89%, and there have been 3 higher earnings estimate revisions in the past two months for fiscal 2026 compared to none lower. The consensus estimate has moved up as well.
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