URS Corp

• 3 Stocks for the Year 2033

  By Spencer Houlihan - May 6, 2013 | Tickers: IRBT, PANL, URS |

  Wall Street analysts are paid to predict company sales and earnings performance, typically over the next few years. Some analysts go further, estimating financial results over the next five years, but finding an analyst to predict further into the future is rare.  

  But, with most individual investors having an investment horizon of over 20 years, we should put more emphasis on the really long-term. With this in mind, what stocks more »

• Where's the Floor for Fluor?

  By Marshall Hargrave - April 24, 2013 | Tickers: CBI, FLR, URS

  Fluor (NYSE: FLR) has tumbled nearly 12% over the past week. Even over the past year, Flour is down 9.14% while the S&P 500 is up 10.85%.

  With Flour grossly underperforming the broader market, what's the near-term catalyst to push the stock higher? One of the big tailwinds should be bolstering global growth. The IMF expects global GDP to grow 3.3% for 2013 against 3 more »

• Hedge Fund Glenview Capital’s Small-Cap Picks

  By Meena Krishnamsetty - April 23, 2013 | Tickers: CYH, FLEX, HMA, THC, URS

  We track quarterly 13F filings from hedge funds and other notable investors for a variety of purposes. For one, we can use the information to develop investing strategies; for example, our research has indicated that the most popular small cap stocks among hedge funds generate an average excess return of 18 percentage points per year. We can also see individual managers’ picks in a number of areas, including each one more »

• The coming infrastructure boom

  By Todd Peterson - April 23, 2013 | Tickers: ACM, JEC, STRL, TPC, URS, VMC

  If there is a common thread in the history of America’s growth to global economic dominance in the 20^th century, it is the story of our collective investment in a public infrastructure. This era saw massive investment in public roads, public water and wastewater systems, urban public transit systems, aviation, ports, energy, and the schools to develop and maintain a skilled labor force. One might observe that this more »

• Glenview Nears 6% of This Technical Services Company

  By Meena Krishnamsetty - March 18, 2013 | Tickers: ACM, FLR, JEC, KBR, URS

  Glenview Capital, a hedge fund managed by Larry Robbins, owned 4.6 million shares of URS Corp (NYSE: URS), a $3.5 billion market cap company providing engineering and technical services, according to a recent filing with the SEC. We, at InsiderMonkey, track quarterly 13F filings from hedge funds such as Glenview and other notable investors; while we primarily work on developing investment strategies based on the included information (for more »

• The State of the Union and Infrastructure Stocks: Time to Make a Move

  By Nate Wooley - February 12, 2013 | Tickers: ACM, JEC, KBR, SHAW, URS

  If, as is being reported, President Obama makes the main focus of his State of the Union speech not the hot button, front of the discussion topics of debt, immigration and guns but instead the economy and infrastructure renewal in the United States, it will be a not-so-quiet statement that he's taking his second term seriously. More seriously than many of his supporters and detractors, frankly.

  Infrastructure improvement and more »

• Looking Deeper into The Shaw Group's Acquisition

  By Anh HOANG - January 7, 2013 | Tickers: CBI, SHAW, URS

  The Shaw Group (NYSE: SHAW) hit the news feeds recently when James Bernhard, the company’s founder, chairman and CEO, sold the majority of his stake after shareholder approval to be acquired by Chicago Bridge and Iron Company (NYSE: CBI) in December. The Chairman and CEO has sold roughly less than a million shares, with the total transaction worth of around $45 million. Denali, the 1.1% owner, criticized the more »

• Technical Services Companies to Watch in 2013

  By Shweta Dubey - January 2, 2013 | Tickers: ACM, KBR, URS

  The Engineering and Construction (E&C) market, which has been running at a slow pace in recent years, is showing recovery signs. Selected sector opportunities have emerged as a significant growth factor for E&C companies over the near term, in the form of new bookings with revenue growth to follow. Lower spending in the past has created a potential investment deficit that now opens new roads of long term more »

• Chinese Bridges are Falling Down, Falling Down

  By Robert Zimmerman - October 3, 2012 | Tickers: ACM, CBI, SHAW, URS

  And the Chinese people are none too happy about it.

  According to the official Xinhua news agency, the collapse of the Yangmingtan Bridge in late August 2012 is the sixth major bridge to collapse in the People's Republic of China since July 2011.  Even more bridges have crashed since 2007.  The government's official response is that overloaded trucks are to blame.  Well, the Chinese are not stupid and more »

• Letting the CAT Out of the Bag

  By Paula Pant - February 21, 2012 | Tickers: CAT, FLR, URS

  I live in Georgia (the state, not the former Soviet nation), so I’m thrilled to hear that Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) is opening a new plant on a 900-acre industrial site near Athens, Ga.

  But as soon as I heard this news, two questions popped into my head:

  #1: Why Athens?

  Athens has unsuccessfully spent decades trying to lure a company to this industrial site. It's tried to woo more »