StockStory Highlights Wabtec as Top Industrials Pick, Flags Parsons and Helios as Sells

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StockStory named Wabtec as its top industrials stock to buy while recommending investors avoid Parsons and Helios. Wabtec, a railway equipment provider with a $44.47 billion market cap, posted 9.1% annual revenue growth over five years and expanded its operating margin by 4.3 percentage points, driving 19.9% annual earnings per share growth. Parsons, a $6.13 billion engineering and defense firm, saw just 4.2% annual revenue growth and flat backlog, while Helios, a $2.76 billion motion-control components maker, suffered an 8.4-percentage-point drop in operating margin and declining returns on capital. Wabtec trades at 25.2 times forward earnings, Parsons at 16.5 times, and Helios at 28.7 times.

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Industrials± Mixed · 2 stocks
Helios Technologies Inc
HLIO
▼ NegativeCapitalrelevance

StockStory recommends selling Helios due to declining operating margin and returns on capital.

Defense & Geopolitical Fragmentation▼ · 1 stocks
Parsons Corp
PSN
▼ NegativeCapitalrelevance

StockStory recommends selling Parsons due to low revenue growth and flat backlog.

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