Exponent, Inc.

  • Market Cap: Small Cap
  • Industry: Construction
  • ISIN: US30214U1025
USD
65.31
-1.02 (-1.54%)
  • Price Points
  • Score
  • Mojo Parameters
  • Total Return
  • News and Corporate Actions
  • Key factors
  • Shareholding
  • Financials
  • CompanyCV
stock-recommendationScore
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Strong Sell
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Comparison

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Score
Quality
Valuation
Financial
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Exponent, Inc.
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Fluor Corp.

Why is Exponent, Inc. ?

1
High Management Efficiency with a high ROE of 24.72%
2
Company has a low Debt to Equity ratio (avg) at times
3
Poor long term growth as Net Sales has grown by an annual rate of 7.79% and Operating profit at 7.55% over the last 5 years
4
Positive results in Dec 25
  • DIVIDEND PER SHARE(HY) Highest at USD 3.39
  • RAW MATERIAL COST(Y) Fallen by -0.82% (YoY)
  • NET SALES(Q) Highest at USD 147.43 MM
5
With ROE of 21.03%, it has a fair valuation with a 10.74 Price to Book Value
  • The stock is trading at a premium compared to its peers' average historical valuations
  • Over the past year, while the stock has generated a return of -18.56%, its profits have fallen by -16.2%
6
High Institutional Holdings at 100%
  • These investors have better capability and resources to analyse fundamentals of companies than most retail investors.
7
Consistent Underperformance against the benchmark over the last 3 years
  • Along with generating -18.56% returns in the last 1 year, the stock has also underperformed S&P 500 in each of the last 3 annual periods
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Verdict Report

How much should you hold?

  1. Overall Portfolio exposure to Exponent, Inc. should be less than 10%
  2. Overall Portfolio exposure to Construction should be less than 30%

(If sector exposure > 30%, please use optimiser tool to see which are the best stocks to hold in Construction)

When to exit? - We will constantly monitor the company and suggest at the appropriate time to exit from the stock

Is Exponent, Inc. for you?

Medium Risk, Low Return

Absolute
Risk Adjusted
Volatility
Exponent, Inc.
-18.56%
-0.99
30.32%
S&P 500
13.68%
0.71
19.28%
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Quality grade scale :

Below Average, Average, Good, Excellent

Quality key factors

Factor
Value
Sales Growth (5y)
7.79%
EBIT Growth (5y)
7.55%
EBIT to Interest (avg)
100.00
Debt to EBITDA (avg)
0
Net Debt to Equity (avg)
-0.54
Sales to Capital Employed (avg)
1.38
Tax Ratio
27.09%
Dividend Payout Ratio
57.97%
Pledged Shares
0
Institutional Holding
100.00%
ROCE (avg)
58.11%
ROE (avg)
24.72%
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Valuation Scorecard stock-summary

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Valuation grade scale :

Very Risky, Risky, Very Expensive, Expensive, Fair, Attractive, Very Attractive

Valuation Key Factors stock-summary

Factor
Value
P/E Ratio
51
Industry P/E
Price to Book Value
10.74
EV to EBIT
33.21
EV to EBITDA
30.63
EV to Capital Employed
22.69
EV to Sales
6.83
PEG Ratio
NA
Dividend Yield
1.47%
ROCE (Latest)
68.33%
ROE (Latest)
21.03%
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Technical key factors

Indicator
Weekly
Monthly
MACD
Bearish
Bearish
RSI
No Signal
Bullish
Bollinger Bands
Bearish
Bearish
Moving Averages
Bearish (Daily)
KST
Bearish
Bearish
Dow Theory
Mildly Bearish
Mildly Bearish
OBV
No Trend
Mildly Bearish
stock-recommendation Technical Indicator Scale: Bearish, Mildly Bearish, Sideways, Mildly Bullish, Bullish  Turned 
Technical Movement
stock-recommendationFinancial Trend

Financial Trend Scorecard stock-summary

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Financial Trend scale:

Very Negative, Negative, Flat, Positive, Very Positive, Outstanding

6What is working for the Company
DIVIDEND PER SHARE(HY)

Highest at USD 3.39

RAW MATERIAL COST(Y)

Fallen by -0.82% (YoY

NET SALES(Q)

Highest at USD 147.43 MM

PRE-TAX PROFIT(Q)

Highest at USD 34.1 MM

NET PROFIT(Q)

Highest at USD 24.76 MM

-2What is not working for the Company
OPERATING CASH FLOW(Y)

Lowest at USD 76.14 MM

Here's what is working for Exponent, Inc.

Dividend per share
Highest at USD 3.39 and Grown
In each year in the last five years
MOJO Watch
Company is distributing higher dividend from profits generated

DPS (USD)

Net Sales
Highest at USD 147.43 MM
in the last five periods
MOJO Watch
Near term sales trend is positive

Net Sales (USD MM)

Pre-Tax Profit
Highest at USD 34.1 MM
in the last five periods
MOJO Watch
Near term Pre-Tax Profit trend is positive

Pre-Tax Profit (USD MM)

Net Profit
Highest at USD 24.76 MM
in the last five periods
MOJO Watch
Near term Net Profit trend is positive

Net Profit (USD MM)

Raw Material Cost
Fallen by -0.82% (YoY)
MOJO Watch
The company's ability to pass on the cost of raw materials to customers has improved; this may lead to a rise in profit margin

Raw Material Cost as a percentage of Sales

Depreciation
Highest at USD 2.54 MM
in the last five periods
MOJO Watch
The expenditure on assets done by the company may have gone into operation

Depreciation (USD MM)

Here's what is not working for Exponent, Inc.

Operating Cash Flow
Lowest at USD 76.14 MM
in the last three years
MOJO Watch
The company's cash revenues from business operations are falling

Operating Cash Flows (USD MM)