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Dycom Industries supplies the crews, equipment and expertise that telecommunications providers need to expand and maintain their networks. Its Communications business brings in most of its revenue, designing networks, laying and connecting fiber, building wireless sites and installing customer connections across the United States. It also locates buried utility lines and builds and maintains electric and gas infrastructure. Customers pay mainly under multi-year service agreements that set prices for individual tasks, then assign work through separate work orders.
Through its acquired Power Solutions business, Dycom also provides electrical, energy-management, security and fire-safety systems for data centers and other critical facilities. This forms its Building Systems business, a smaller revenue source.
Dycom relies heavily on a small group of customers, led by AT&T, with Verizon and Lumen Technologies also major contributors. The flow of work depends on their construction and maintenance budgets: service agreements generally promise no minimum volume, and customers can cancel many agreements for convenience. Because much of the work carries fixed task prices, profitability also depends on keeping labor, equipment and other job costs within estimates.
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ITG competes directly with Dycom for U.S. broadband providers’ spending on network design, fiber construction, installation and maintenance. Its large-scale fiber construction work is the clearest overlap to watch.
MasTec and Dycom both earn fees from telecommunications and digital-infrastructure customers for designing, building and maintaining communications networks. Watch MasTec’s Communications segment rather than its broader energy and utility businesses.
Dycom depends most on AT&T, which sells telecom and broadband services and supplied 25.4% of Dycom’s fiscal 2026 contract revenue as its largest customer. AT&T acquired substantially all of Lumen’s mass-markets fiber business on February 2, 2026, after that fiscal year, so Dycom still reported that business’s fiscal 2026 revenue under Lumen.
Verizon pays Dycom to build and maintain networks used to sell wireless and wireline services, accounting for 14.0% of Dycom’s fiscal 2026 contract revenue. That share includes Frontier revenue retrospectively following Verizon’s January 20, 2026 acquisition, so it is not a standalone measure of the former Verizon business.
Primoris competes with Dycom for communications and utility customers’ network construction and maintenance contracts. Its Utilities segment, which builds and maintains U.S. communications, electric and natural-gas systems, is the relevant business to watch.
Quanta competes with Dycom for communications and utility customers’ spending on infrastructure design, construction and maintenance. Its communications and electric- and gas-utility contracts are the overlap, rather than its wider manufacturing and energy work.
Lumen, which sells networking services to domestic and global business customers, supplied 10.8% of Dycom’s fiscal 2026 contract revenue. That figure still includes work for its residential and small-business fiber operation, substantially all of which AT&T acquired on February 2, 2026, after Dycom’s fiscal year ended.
Comcast pays Dycom for broadband-network services and contributed $413.1 million, or 7.4%, of Dycom’s fiscal 2026 contract revenue. Watch its U.S. broadband-network upgrades and fiber deployment, rather than its media or theme-park results.
EMCOR competes with Dycom’s Building Systems business for customers’ electrical installation and maintenance work at critical facilities. Its electrical construction and facilities-services business is the closer comparison, since Dycom supplies electrical and related systems for data centers and other critical facilities.
IES overlaps with Dycom in installing electrical and technology infrastructure for data-center and other mission-critical customers. Watch its Communications segment’s repeat work for technology, social-networking and e-commerce companies, rather than its residential business.
Sterling competes with Dycom’s Building Systems operations for data-center customers’ electrical construction work. Its E-Infrastructure business’s delivery of time-sensitive electrical projects is the relevant comparison, not its road or residential concrete work.
Comfort Systems overlaps with Dycom’s expanding Building Systems business in installing and servicing electrical systems for data centers and other critical facilities. Watch its electrical contracting work for these customers separately from its heating, cooling and plumbing services.
AT&T Inc. earningsT
AT&T's report will show whether its network investment is sustaining demand for work from Dycom, its largest customer.
Focus on AT&T's investment in its telecom and broadband networks, not just its overall revenue. Sustained or higher investment would indicate that this customer continues to support network-work demand, but it would not prove Dycom wins the work; a pullback would put an important source of potential demand under pressure. AT&T acquired substantially all of Lumen's mass-markets fiber business, but Dycom still attributed the related revenue to Lumen in fiscal 2026, so those historical customer figures do not show the post-acquisition attribution.
Sterling Infrastructure, Inc. earningsSTRL
Sterling's report will show whether data-center electrical projects are supporting demand and project profits in a market where it competes with Dycom's Building Systems.
Read Sterling's E-Infrastructure results and consider project activity alongside profit. More work with profits holding up would suggest data-center electrical projects still have demand and contractors can deliver them on workable terms; weaker activity or profits could point to cooling demand or greater cost and competitive pressure. Sterling competes with Dycom for some data-center electrical work, but its results are not a substitute for Dycom's own orders or profits.
Fed Interest Rate Decision
For Dycom, the Fed’s decision tracks the benchmark interest rate that helps set borrowing costs; higher rates can make interest on its term loans more expensive and leave less cash for field operations and equipment, while lower rates can ease that cost.
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If it comes in above expectations
If the policy rate is above the estimate, higher borrowing costs could increase interest expense on Dycom’s term loans and leave less cash for operations and investment in equipment.
If it comes in below expectations
If the policy rate is below the estimate, lower borrowing costs could ease interest expense on Dycom’s term loans and leave more cash for operations and equipment investment.
Dycom Industries, Inc. earningsThis company
Dycom's report will show whether communications-network work is turning into profitable revenue.
Read Communications revenue alongside pretax income as a share of that revenue—the segment's pretax profit margin. Rising revenue with a steady or higher margin says Dycom is turning work into sales without materially giving up project profit; rising revenue with a falling margin says labor, construction or other costs on fixed-price jobs may be eating into the gain. Backlog is only an estimate of future revenue, not a customer promise to buy, so the conclusion rests on whether completed work brings in revenue while the margin holds.
ITG, Inc. earningsITG
ITG's report will show whether U.S. broadband providers' fiber-network work is supporting the market where it competes directly with Dycom.
Focus on ITG's large-scale fiber-construction work and its profitability. More work with sound profits would suggest broadband providers are still awarding projects and contractors can earn a reasonable return; weaker activity or profits could mean less work or poorer project economics. ITG and Dycom compete for similar network construction, installation and maintenance work, but ITG could grow by winning market share, so its results alone cannot establish whether Dycom's orders are changing.
