Tuesday, November 10, 2020
Orion Group Holdings (ORN)
New Concrete awards positive – Asset sales look likely
Orion Group Holdings, based in Houston, Texas, is a specialty construction company within the Marine and Industrial Construction sectors, with operations focused in the continental United States and Caribbean. Revenue is split roughly 50/50 between a Marine Construction segment that provides marine facility, pipeline and structural construction services and a Commercial Concrete segment that provides turnkey concrete services in the light commercial and structural construction markets.
Poe Fratt, Senior Research Analyst, Noble Capital Markets, Inc.
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Three concrete awards of $52 million reflect a positive signal from 3Q2020 low bids pending award. The contracts for concrete and paving services on the construction of large distribution centers; two near Houston and one in the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) area. The Houston projects total $38 million, or one for $21 million and another for $17 million, and the DFW project totals $14 million. Work will begin shortly with completion in 1H2021.
Industry fundamentals remain positive despite state level concerns about COVID-19. 3Q2020 backlog dropped to $429 million, but total low bids pending award increased versus 2Q2020. Including total low bids pending award of $108 million, potential backlog approximates $537 million. Including low bids pending award of $49 million in Marine and $59 million in Concrete, potential backlog equals $291 …
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