Stock · FIX · Industrials
United States · Large Cap · listed since 1997 · Revenue 12 mo. $12.5B
Price as of 11/06/2026
Comfort Systems USA, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides mechanical and electrical installation, renovation, maintenance, repair, and replacement services for the mechanical and electrical services industry in the United States.
Comfort Systems USA, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides mechanical and electrical installation, renovation, maintenance, repair, and replacement services for the mechanical and electrical services industry in the United States. The company operates through two segments: Mechanical and Electrical. It offers heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems, as well as plumbing, electrical, piping and controls, off-site construction, monitoring, and fire protection. The company is also involved in the design, engineering, integration, installation, and start-up of mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) and related systems in new buildings; and renovation, expansion, maintenance, monitoring, repair, and replacement of systems in existing buildings. In addition, it provides remote monitoring of power usage, temperature, pressure, humidity and air flow for MEP and other building systems. The company serves building owners and developers, general contractors, architects, consulting engineers, and property managers in the commercial, industrial, and institutional markets. Comfort Systems USA, Inc. was founded in 1917 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
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Summary
46.4 of 100
Mean of the six area values. Each area value is the mean of the stock's ranks among the companies in its sector. 50 is the middle of the sector, not a share of companies beaten.
Analysis
What the price requires
If free cash flow stays at €925.6M (2025), it supports €10.3B. The remaining €22.7B of the market value assume it grows 16.3% a year for 10 years and not at all afterwards.
Required FCF growth per year
16.3%
no growth afterwards
Price to operating cash flow 11.9×, below its usual range.
Middle half of 20 quarters: 14.9× to 22.0×, median 17.8×.
Measures only against its own past, not against what the company is worth. Price as of 11/06/2026.
with respect to the priced-in expectation
with respect to the priced-in expectation
No anomaly in the stored figures.
Since the last quarter
Q2 → Q3 2026
4 more unchanged: Gross margin, EBIT margin, FCF margin, Shares outstanding
Derivation
Each area value is the average of its metrics' ranks within the sector (0 to 100, 50 is the middle). For metrics where lower is better, the rank is mirrored. The overall value is the average of the area values.
Price as of 11/06/2026.
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return on equity | 41.76% | 13.10% | Rank 94 |
| Return on capital (Greenblatt) | 91.95% | 19.33% | Rank 94 |
| EBIT margin | 14.42% | 11.28% | Rank 64 |
| FCF margin | 11.33% | 8.50% | Rank 67 |
| Gross margin | 24.13% | 28.98% | Rank 41 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth, 1 year | 29.52% | 5.15% | Rank 95 |
| Earnings growth, 3 years per year | 61.75% | 8.01% | Rank 93 |
| Earnings growth, 5 years per year | 47.85% | 12.89% | Rank 94 |
| Sustainable growth (ROE × retained earnings) | 1.70% | 4.02% | Rank 16 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earnings yield | 2.84% | 4.42% | Rank 21 |
| FCF yield | 2.80% | 3.98% | Rank 31 |
| EV/saleslower is better | 4.02 | 2.08 | Rank 26 |
| EV/EBITlower is better | 27.87 | 19.47 | Rank 22 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Share price, 1 year | −3.37% | −0.01% | Rank 45 |
| Share price, 6 months | −47.40% | −1.43% | Rank 2 |
| Share price, 3 months | −34.82% | 0.53% | Rank 3 |
| Distance from 52-week high | −50.76% | −16.36% | Rank 4 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accruals (Sloan)lower is better | 5.44% | 1.39% | Rank 18 |
| Change in share countlower is better | −1.01% | −0.44% | Rank 60 |
| Dividend streak in years | 20 | 5 | Rank 90 |
| Price reaction to results, market-adjusted | −8.77% | 0.27% | Rank 6 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equity ratio | 38.02% | 39.65% | Rank 45 |
| Net debt/EBITDAlower is better | −0.14 | 1.38 | Rank 78 |
| Debt to equitylower is better | 0.32 | 0.61 | Rank 73 |
| Volatility, 1 yearlower is better | 56.66% | 32.95% | Rank 4 |
Ten years in figures
| Year | Revenue, $B | EBIT margin | FCF | Shares | Net debt, $M |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 1.6 | 6.2% | $68.0M | 37.8M | −29.3 |
| 2017 | 1.8 | 5.6% | $78.6M | 37.7M | 24.0 |
| 2018 | 2.2 | 6.9% | $119.9M | 37.6M | 31.3 |
| 2019 | 2.6 | 6.3% | $110.3M | 37.1M | 262.1 |
| 2020 | 2.9 | 6.7% | $262.4M | 36.7M | 180.8 |
| 2021 | 3.1 | 6.1% | $157.8M | 36.5M | 456.0 |
| 2022 | 4.1 | 6.1% | $253.2M | 36.0M | 331.9 |
| 2023 | 5.2 | 8.0% | $544.7M | 35.9M | 51.6 |
| 2024 | 7.0 | 10.7% | $738.0M | 35.8M | −241.3 |
| 2025 | 9.1 | 14.4% | $1.0B | 35.4M | −196.0 |
5 of 7 StockScorer Score rules met · How the score is built
Comfort Systems USA Inc mainly meets criteria in the Profitability category. Result from 18 strategies checked.
Comfort Systems USA Inc is rated here with the StockScorer Score strategy, the flagship rule set. It compares return and cash-flow metrics with the median of the company's own sector and checks growth and price trend.
5 of 7 rules met
8 of 11 points
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Selected fundamental metrics for Comfort Systems USA Inc.
| Metric | Stock | Sector |
|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio | 35.2 | 22.5 |
| P/B ratio | 14.7 | 2.9 |
| Return on equity (ROE) | 41.8% | 13.1% |
| Equity ratio | 38.0% | 39.7% |
| Debt-to-equity (D/E) | 0.32 | 0.61 |
| Dividend yield | 0.3% | 2.0% |
How comparable stocks in the same sector score in the StockScorer model.
| Symbol | Company | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| FIX | Comfort Systems USA Incthis page | |
| EME | EMCOR Group Inc | High7.3 |
| APG | Api Group Corp | locked |
| J | Jacobs Solutions Inc. | Low1.8 |
| MTZ | MasTec Inc | locked |
| PWR | Quanta Services Inc | locked |
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