Thursday, January 02, 2020

Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (GLDD)

Yearend Awards Total $83 million - Large Potential Awards on Horizon

Great Lakes Dredge & Dock is a marine and environmental infrastructure contractor, and the largest dredging company in the United States. Headquartered in suburban Chicago, the company provides port expansion and maintenance, coastal restoration, river dredging and environmental restoration for public and private entities worldwide. In June 2019, the Environmental & industrial (E&I) business was sold for $17.5 million in cash and the company is now a pure play on the dredging market.

Poe Fratt, Senior Research Analyst, Noble Capital Markets, Inc.

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Major awards of $83 million announced at yearend. Late on Monday, the following five awards that total $83 million were announced. We previously highlighted the Delaware River and Tybee Island projects and view the additional awards as positive. All projects are short-term and help fill in the near-term project pipeline, with completion dates in 1H2020.

Larger projects are on horizon. News expected on Corpus Christi in late January, Brownsville in late 1Q2020 and Jacksonville C in 3Q/4Q2020. Major work in Houston is...

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