JACOBS SOLUTIONS INC.
At today's price, JACOBS SOLUTIONS INC. (J) is priced for +20.6% growth. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built 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: 2026-05-05 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-04-29 (items 5.02); 2026-03-17 (items 1.01, 2.03, 9.01); 2026-03-03 (items 1.01, 2.03, 9.01); 2026-02-26 (items 8.01, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 27, 2026
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