Parsons is an information technology services business based in the US. Parsons shares (PSN) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Its last market close was $62.81 – a decrease of 8.06% over the previous week. Parsons employs 20,000 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $6.8 billion.
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| Latest market close | $62.81 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $54.56 - $114.68 |
| 50-day moving average | $61.21 |
| 200-day moving average | $86.04 |
| Wall St. target price | $81.34 |
| PE ratio | 26.7277 |
| Dividend yield | N/A |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $2.35 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $62.81 from 2025-05-02
| 1 week (2025-04-25) | -7.10% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2025-04-04) | 6.67% |
| 3 months (2025-02-05) | -19.04% |
| 6 months (2024-11-05) | -43.61% |
| 1 year (2024-05-03) | -19.96% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2023-05-04) | 42.23% |
| 3 years (2022-05-04) | 63.91% |
| 5 years (2020-05-05) | 67.99% |
Valuing Parsons stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Parsons's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Parsons's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 27x. In other words, Parsons shares trade at around 27x recent earnings.
That's comparable to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29).
Parsons's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $565.9 million.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Parsons's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
| Revenue TTM | $6.8 billion |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 7.07% |
| Gross profit TTM | $1.4 billion |
| Return on assets TTM | 5.5% |
| Return on equity TTM | 13.26% |
| Profit margin | 3.86% |
| Book value | $22.97 |
| Market Capitalization | $6.7 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
We're not expecting Parsons to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.
Over the last 12 months, Parsons's shares have ranged in value from as little as $54.5595 up to $114.68. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Parsons's is 0.662. This would suggest that Parsons's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).
Parsons Corporation provides integrated solutions and services in the defense, intelligence, and critical infrastructure markets in North America, the Middle East, and internationally. It operates through Federal Solutions and Critical Infrastructure segments. The Federal Solutions segment offers critical technologies, such as cyber; missile defense; intelligence; electronic warfare; space ground systems; space and weapon system resiliency; geospatial and signals intelligence; environmental remediation; border security and critical infrastructure protection; counter unmanned air systems; and biometrics and bio surveillance solutions to the U. S. government and its agencies. This segment also provides software and hardware; satellite ground systems support and operations, flight dynamics, data fusion and analytics, platform system integration, directed energy, and command and control systems; digital landscape and mission support; and weapons of mass destruction elimination and munition destruction, architectural design, program and construction management, infectious disease control, and advanced electronic security systems, as well as remediation of unexploded ordinances and hazardous, toxic, and reactive wastes. Its Critical Infrastructure segment develops solutions for aviation, rail and transit, bridges, roads, and highways.
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