Civil infrastructure company Construction Partners (NASDAQ: ROAD) reported Q4 CY2025 results topping the market’s revenue expectations, with sales up 44.1% year on year to $809.5 million. The company’s full-year revenue guidance of $3.52 billion at the midpoint came in 1.9% above analysts’ estimates. Its GAAP profit of $0.31 per share was 20.8% above analysts’ consensus estimates.

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Fred J. (Jule) Smith, III, the Company's President and Chief Executive Officer, said, "We are pleased to report a strong start to fiscal 2026, driven by outstanding operational execution across our family of companies and supported by favorable first-quarter weather. Revenue increased 44% and Adjusted EBITDA increased 63% in the quarter, resulting in an Adjusted EBITDA margin of 13.9%, the highest first-quarter margin in our history. We also ended the quarter with a record project backlog of $3.09 billion, underscoring the strength of demand across our markets.

Company Overview

Founded in 2001, Construction Partners (NASDAQ: ROAD) is a civil infrastructure company that builds and maintains roads, highways, and other infrastructure projects.

Revenue Growth

A company’s long-term performance is an indicator of its overall quality. Any business can put up a good quarter or two, but many enduring ones grow for years. Luckily, Construction Partners’s sales grew at an incredible 30.7% compounded annual growth rate over the last five years. Its growth surpassed the average industrials company and shows its offerings resonate with customers, a great starting point for our analysis.

We at StockStory place the most emphasis on long-term growth, but within industrials, a half-decade historical view may miss cycles, industry trends, or a company capitalizing on catalysts such as a new contract win or a successful product line. Construction Partners’s annualized revenue growth of 37.5% over the last two years is above its five-year trend, suggesting its demand was strong and recently accelerated.

We can dig further into the company’s revenue dynamics by analyzing its backlog, or the value of its outstanding orders that have not yet been executed or delivered. Construction Partners’s backlog reached $3.09 billion in the latest quarter and averaged 34.6% year-on-year growth over the last two years. Because this number is lower than its revenue growth, we can see the company fulfilled orders at a faster rate than it added new orders to the backlog. This implies Construction Partners was operating efficiently but raises questions about the health of its sales pipeline.

This quarter, Construction Partners reported magnificent year-on-year revenue growth of 44.1%, and its $809.5 million of revenue beat Wall Street’s estimates by 10.5%.

Looking ahead, sell-side analysts expect revenue to grow 13.7% over the next 12 months, a deceleration versus the last two years. Still, this projection is admirable and indicates the market sees success for its products and services.

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Operating Margin

Construction Partners was profitable over the last five years but held back by its large cost base. Its average operating margin of 5.8% was weak for an industrials business. This result isn’t too surprising given its low gross margin as a starting point.

On the plus side, Construction Partners’s operating margin rose by 5.8 percentage points over the last five years, as its sales growth gave it immense operating leverage.

In Q4, Construction Partners generated an operating margin profit margin of 6.2%, up 3.8 percentage points year on year. The increase was encouraging, and because its operating margin rose more than its gross margin, we can infer it was more efficient with expenses such as marketing, R&D, and administrative overhead.

Earnings Per Share

Revenue trends explain a company’s historical growth, but the long-term change in earnings per share (EPS) points to the profitability of that growth – for example, a company could inflate its sales through excessive spending on advertising and promotions.

Construction Partners’s EPS grew at an astounding 21.5% compounded annual growth rate over the last five years. Despite its operating margin improvement during that time, this performance was lower than its 30.7% annualized revenue growth, telling us that non-fundamental factors such as interest and taxes affected its ultimate earnings.

Diving into the nuances of Construction Partners’s earnings can give us a better understanding of its performance. A five-year view shows Construction Partners has diluted its shareholders, growing its share count by 8.4%. This dilution overshadowed its increased operational efficiency and has led to lower per share earnings. Taxes and interest expenses can also affect EPS but don’t tell us as much about a company’s fundamentals.

Like with revenue, we analyze EPS over a shorter period to see if we are missing a change in the business.

For Construction Partners, its two-year annual EPS growth of 42% was higher than its five-year trend. We love it when earnings growth accelerates, especially when it accelerates off an already high base.

In Q4, Construction Partners reported EPS of $0.31, up from negative $0.06 in the same quarter last year. This print easily cleared analysts’ estimates, and shareholders should be content with the results. Over the next 12 months, Wall Street expects Construction Partners’s full-year EPS of $2.19 to grow 33.3%.

Key Takeaways from Construction Partners’s Q4 Results

We were impressed by how significantly Construction Partners blew past analysts’ EBITDA expectations this quarter. We were also excited its revenue outperformed Wall Street’s estimates by a wide margin. Zooming out, we think this quarter featured some important positives. The stock traded up 3.5% to $118.78 immediately following the results.

Construction Partners had an encouraging quarter, but one earnings result doesn’t necessarily make the stock a buy. Let’s see if this is a good investment. What happened in the latest quarter matters, but not as much as longer-term business quality and valuation, when deciding whether to invest in this stock. We cover that in our actionable full research report which you can read here (it’s free).