“Operating profit increased 37.7% primarily due to higher volumes and improved profitability in utility structures and the gain recognized on asset sales, partially offset by the expected decline in wind tower volumes.”10-Q · Aug 5, 2026 ↗
Arcosa, Inc.
ACA
Market read
Arcosa, Inc.'s current read is isolated; its market group is not confirming.
The latest filing evidence is available. 0 of 2 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 1 directly disclosed connection is confirming.
- Revenue increased 1.7% versus the comparable filing period.
- Construction-materials revenue benefited from pricing and acquisitions, but asphalt volumes were lower after adverse weather.
- Reported 2.6% revenue increase for construction materials driven by higher pricing and improved aggregates volumes, partially offset by lower asphalt volumes.
Invalidation: The isolated read changes if ACA's group or a disclosed connection begins moving with it.
Research brief
The story so far
The latest filing evidence is available. 0 of 2 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 1 directly disclosed connection is confirming.
- Revenue increased 1.7% versus the comparable filing period.
- Net income increased 450.3% versus the comparable filing period.
No thresholded adverse filing evidence is available yet.
- Construction-materials revenue benefited from pricing and acquisitions, but asphalt volumes were lower after adverse weather.
- Reported 2.6% revenue increase for construction materials driven by higher pricing and improved aggregates volumes, partially offset by lower asphalt volumes.
Company research
Understand the business, not just the ticker
Use the company’s filings to identify the few operating, demand, cost, capital and regulatory variables that determine its earnings power.
- Which operating variable is changing?
- Is that change durable, cyclical or one-off?
- What evidence would disprove the current interpretation?
- Latest annual revenue changed +12.2% year over year.
- Operating margin changed +4.2 percentage points in the latest annual period.
- Net margin changed +3.6 percentage points in the latest annual period.
- Demand and volume has repeated favorable evidence across 5 filings.
- Pricing and mix has repeated favorable evidence across 3 filings.
No qualifying adverse evidence was identified; that is not proof there is no downside.
- P/E is 21% below the available filing-peer median; determine whether growth and quality justify the difference.
Price as of Sep 10, 2026
145.25Reported annual revenue and per-share history. This is accounting history, not a forecast.
What management says matters
Persistent and emerging business drivers
“Interest expense for the year ended December 31, 2025 totaled $108.8 million, an increase of $37.9 million, driven by the additional debt incurred to finance the Stavola acquisition.”10-K · Feb 27, 2026 ↗
“For construction materials, revenues increased slightly primarily due to higher pricing and the contribution from recent acquisitions, partially offset by lower volumes in our asphalt business, which was impacted by adverse weather.”10-Q · Aug 5, 2026 ↗
“n policies, government expenditures, U.S.”10-Q · Aug 5, 2026 ↗
Valuation discipline
Descriptive valuation snapshot
Price/sales 2.5× · EV/sales 2.4×. Comparisons use only industry-matched filing peers.
Mechanical 2.0-year scenarios are available as editable assumptions, not consensus.
Price action
How the market is pricing the story
Jodie does not have enough daily observations to draw a useful short-term chart for this asset. The latest quoted price was checked 11 Sept, 10:35 GMT-4; this is a coverage limitation, not a flat-price conclusion.
Developments
No sourced recent-development timeline yet
Jodie has not returned a relevant primary source or news item for ACA. This is an evidence-coverage gap, not a conclusion that nothing material happened.
Business and financial condition
Reported financial figures are not available yet
Jodie has not returned structured SEC XBRL fundamentals for this asset. This is a coverage limitation, not an assessment of the business or its financial health.
Latest filing assessment
Fundamentals strengthened in the latest filing
10-Q filed 2026-08-05 against the comparable filing from 2025-08-08.
Capital and cash conversion
Investment load increased
Capital spending consumed more revenue while free-cash-flow margin declined.
- Capital spending YoY
- +70.5%
- Capital spending / revenue
- +8.3%
- Free-cash-flow margin
- -3.4%
- FCF margin change
- -3.4 pts
Capex, revenue, and operating cash flow are matched to the same reported duration. Reported accounting context, not a forecast or trading recommendation.
What improved
- Revenue increased 1.7% versus the comparable filing period.
- Net income increased 450.3% versus the comparable filing period.
What weakened
No thresholded deterioration was identified.
Filing receipts
“Depreciation, depletion, and amortization expense increased 8.1%, outpacing revenue growth, primarily due to capital investments and recent acquisitions, including the fair market value write-up of long-lived assets.”
“Selling, general, and administrative expenses increased 9.2% primarily due to higher compensation-related expenses and an increase in bad debt expense driven by a favorable adjustment recognized in the prior period related to increased collections on previously reserved receivables.”
“Selling, general, and administrative expenses increased 8.3% primarily due to higher compensation-related expenses and an increase in bad debt expense driven by a favorable adjustment recognized in the prior period related to increased collections on previously reserved receivables.”
Historical filing backfill generated after the original filing window. It is not part of Jodie's live track record.
Business ecosystem
The relationships behind ACA
Customers, suppliers, partners and competitors named in company filings—not inferred from headlines.
Depends on
ROADConstruction Partners, Inc.partnerFeb 27, 2026 ▾
“Construction activity and Arcosa's ability to deliver products on time or at all to its customers can also be affected in any period by public holidays, vacation periods, and adverse seasonal weather conditions such as extreme temperature, hurricanes, severe…”
Filing peers
Companies whose filings use similar operating language.
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What is moving around it
Live connections
ACA is currently a Leader in the organic co-movement group Unrelated Stocks. This group is discovered from market behaviour rather than assigned from an industry taxonomy. 1 filing-linked name are in the relationship map; none is currently confirmed as moving with the group.
Context history
Theme membership history
No durable theme membership has been observed for this name yet.