JACOBS SOLUTIONS INC.
In the published model solve dated 2026-Q2, anchored at $151.98, JACOBS SOLUTIONS INC. (J) is priced for today's economics sustained for ~5.2 years. boothcheck publishes no house fair value, target price, or buy/sell rating; individual model outputs and user-controlled scenarios are analytical inputs, not Boothcheck targets. The narrative was composed June 27, 2026 from SEC EDGAR filings.
• Jacobs is a professional-services firm that designs and manages large infrastructure and advanced-facilities projects, and the single most important number it reports is backlog, which reached a record $27.0 billion, up 22% year over year, with a trailing book-to-bill ratio of 1.4 times [Source: Jacobs Q2 FY2026 earnings, Dealroom / AlphaPilot, May 2026]. • At $121.07 only the forward-growth method reaches the price; the asset, earnings-power, and peer-multiple methods all say richly valued, s
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885 institutional managers reported holding J in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 90% of the company; the top 10 hold 45%. 78 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, BlackRock, State Street, among others. On the short side, 6.8M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 6% of shares outstanding (5.5 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
J has cut its share count 25.6% over the past five years, spending $2.43B on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has for 9 years running, raised 3 years straight; the current rate is $0.26 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $409.75M in dividends and $1.63B in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at J over the trailing three years: 2025: 6 buys totaling $387k. 21 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
J's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-05-10 | -2.3% | +8.5% |
| 2023-08-09 | +6.1% | +2.9% |
| 2024-02-07 | +4.8% | +0.5% |
| 2024-05-08 | -7.1% | +0.0% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
J's latest 8-K filings: 2026-08-14 (items 5.02); 2026-08-04 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-05-05 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-04-29 (items 5.02); 2026-03-17 (items 1.01, 2.03, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Dates link to the filing on EDGAR. Nothing here is investment advice.
Model solve date: 2026-Q2
Narrative composed: June 27, 2026
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