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Ameresco, Inc. Class AAMRCCompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

United States · USD·Industrials›Engineering & Construction

Develops and implements energy-efficiency and renewable-energy projects for government, institutional and utility customers.

Momentum weak 29
Mkt cap
$1.15B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
91%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$12.3M
20-day average traded
Fwd P/E
15.6×
forward earnings
ROIC−WACC
-6.4 pp
WACC 9.7%
Hurdle
n/a
no reverse DCF
Next earnings
3 days
9 Nov 2026
Close · USD$21.61
1D+12.8%
1W+6.4%
1M+2.9%
3M-14.5%
6M-27.9%
YTD-26.2%
1Y-42.3%
ATR %7.4%
Beta2.82
52w lowhigh43.1% off high

What Ameresco does

Develops and implements energy-efficiency and renewable-energy projects for government, institutional and utility customers.

Builds retrofit projects, often under performance contracts where the customer pays from energy savings over many years and the company guarantees them. It increasingly keeps what it builds, owning solar, battery and renewable-gas plants that sell power or gas under long-term contracts. Founder George Sakellaris holds the super-voting class B shares.

Products and services

  • Energy efficiency retrofit projects
  • Renewable energy (solar/battery/RNG) project development
  • Operations and maintenance services

Customers

  • Federal/state/local government agencies
  • Universities/schools
  • Utilities

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Industrials
  • Energy services company (ESCO)
  • Energy efficiency and renewable project…

What could go right

  • Government/institutional energy-efficiency mandates
  • Data center/microgrid resilience demand

What could go wrong

  • Long project development/financing cycles
  • Government budget/policy dependency

Moat: narrow (process know-how, regulatory licence). Performance-contracting expertise and government procurement relationships built over many project cycles.

Headquarters: Framingham, Massachusetts, US · Founded: 2000 · Employees: 1,601

Named competitors

Ameresco at a glance

Size Ameresco (AMRC) is a United States Industrials company (Engineering & Construction) with a market value of $1.15B, the 2164th largest of 3,117 United States companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at $21.61 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares fell 27.9%, against -15.5% for the median peer and -1.1% for the United States market (cap-weighted) — 5th lowest of 21 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue grew 8.9% over the last twelve months (peer median +6.1%); the operating margin is 6.8% (peer median 6.4%).

Valuation It trades at 15.6× forward earnings against a peer median of 16.9× (8th cheapest of 17).

Capital Return on invested capital runs 6.4 points below its cost of capital (9.7% WACC).

Backlog Backlog (remaining performance obligations) was $3.82B at 30 Jun 2026, up 2% on a year earlier. Backlog detail →

Short interest Short interest is 14.2% of the free float (15 Oct 2026).

Next results Next results expected around 9 Nov 2026 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

608010012011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026Peer median 84AMRC 71
Six months, rebased to 100: Ameresco against the median of its 20 peers (local-currency closes).

Ameresco financials

Reported figures in USD; fiscal year ends 2025-12-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue$2.02B$1.93B$1.77B$1.37B$1.82B
Revenue growth—+9%+29%-25%—
Gross profit$322M$300M$249M$240M$287M
EBITDA$253M$230M$172M$151M$187M
Net income$28.2M$44.2M$56.6M$62.4M$94.8M
Free cash flow-$465M-$436M-$321M-$622M-$666M
Capital expenditure$368M$356M$438M$552M$328M
Total debt$2.02B$1.95B$1.70B$1.55B$938M

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Ameresco competitor charts

The default views of Competitor Analysis ▸ Charts, drawn from the same data. Open them in the cockpit to change the axes, pin companies and read every value.

Performance: 6-month against 1-month return

-20%0%-10%0%+10%INSTALTECHNOERNWH002822NORCO301179603220EPIC605287294870GNPNORBT600874NCH2IRCON6366002941LLC6005021885AMRC6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. Ameresco is the large dot.

Fundamentals: revenue growth against valuation

-25%0%+25%+50%+75%0×50×100×150×INSTALTECHNOERNWH301179294870GNPNORBT600874IRCON6366LLC600502AMRCRevenue growth (TTM) →Forward P/E →
Further right = faster growth; higher = more expensive. The dashed lines are the peer medians. Ameresco is the large dot.

Ameresco competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (AMRC vs JCI vs HON vs TT)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq g
Ameresco AMRC$1.15B-28%+9%7%15.6×n/a
Johnson Controls JCI$81.8B-3%+9%16%21.3×17.8%
Honeywell Technologies HON$69.8B-1%-17%18%23.2×4.1%
Trane Technologies TT$87.9B-14%+10%18%23.4×14.7%

How Ameresco compares with its peers

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.

Ameresco against its 20 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasureAMRCPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return+2.9%-0.2%6th highest of 21
6-month return-27.9%-15.5%5th lowest of 21
Distance from 52-week high-43.1%-32.8%5th lowest of 21
Revenue growth (TTM)+8.9%+6.1%8th highest of 21
Operating margin6.8%6.4%11th highest of 21
Forward P/E15.6×16.9×8th cheapest of 17
ROIC minus cost of capital-6.4 pp-1.5 pp6th lowest of 19
EV / EBITDA12.1×12.5×5th cheapest of 10
Net debt / EBITDA7.1×0.7×3rd most indebted of 12

Peer table

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size
CompanyMarketMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq gDelivered g
Ameresco AMRCUnited States$1.15B-28%+9%7%15.6×n/an/a
Instalco INSTAL.STSweden$1.15B+9%+9%5%18.4×10.9%+13.8%
Techno Electric & Engineering TECHNOE.NSIndia$1.14B-28%+39%13%18.8×n/an/a
Renew RNWH.LUnited Kingdom$1.15B+19%+8%6%15.3×7.7%+11.7%
Shenzhen Zhongzhuang Construction 002822.SZChina$1.15B-15%-56%-96%n/an/an/a
Norconsult NORCO.OLNorway$1.14B+2%+13%7%15.7×-5.9%+10.6%
Jiangsu Zeyu Intelligent Electric Power 301179.SZChina$1.13B-20%+8%8%32.1×24.8%+15.4%
China Bester Group Telecom 603220.SSChina$1.17B-48%+3%6%20.0×n/an/a
EPIC Suisse EPIC.SWSwitzerland$1.17B+2%+4%78%20.8×7.1%+4.3%
Decai Decoration 605287.SSChina$1.12B-3%+17%5%n/a25.3%-5.4%
IPARK Hyundai Development 294870.KSSouth Korea$1.12B+4%-13%11%4.2×n/an/a
GenusPlus GNP.AXAustralia$1.18B-12%+71%6%18.1×6.2%+32.1%
Norbit NORBT.OLNorway$1.12B-28%+34%22%21.1×-5.3%+32.2%
Tianjin Capital Environmental Protection 600874.SSChina$1.21B-9%-3%29%9.6×-15.4%+7.3%
thyssenkrupp nucera AG & Co. KGaA NCH2.DEGermany$1.09B-13%-42%-13%n/an/an/a
IRCON International IRCON.NSIndia$1.08B-33%-3%7%15.4×n/an/a
Chiyoda 6366.TJapan$1.07B-35%+16%17%6.7×n/an/a
Xinjiang Communications Construction 002941.SZChina$1.22B-20%+23%5%n/an/an/a
Lendlease LLC.AXAustralia$1.23B-16%-30%0%147.4×n/an/a
Anhui Construction Engineering 600502.SSChina$1.07B-23%-4%6%4.6×n/an/a
Toa Corporation (Construction) 1885.TJapan$1.06B-29%+2%7%9.1×-12.2%+13.6%

Ameresco backlog

Ameresco reported $3.82B of remaining performance obligations at 30 Jun 2026, up 2% from a year earlier and down 5% from the previous quarter. Book-to-bill last quarter: 0.57.

Questions

Who are Ameresco's main competitors?
Named competitors: Johnson Controls (JCI), Honeywell (HON), Trane Technologies (TT). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes Instalco (INSTAL.ST), Techno Electric & Engineering (TECHNOE.NS), Renew (RNWH.L), Shenzhen Zhongzhuang Construction (002822.SZ), Norconsult (NORCO.OL), Jiangsu Zeyu Intelligent Electric Power (301179.SZ).
Is Ameresco expensive compared with its peers?
On forward p/e it trades at 15.6× against a peer median of 16.9×, 8th cheapest of 17 in its peer set.
How has Ameresco stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned -27.9% against -15.5% for the median peer; over one year -42.3%.
What is Ameresco's backlog?
Ameresco's remaining performance obligations (contracted revenue not yet recognised) were $3.82B at 30 Jun 2026, +2% on a year earlier.

How these numbers are made. Returns are close-to-close in local currency. Revenue growth and margins are trailing twelve months. Req g is the revenue growth that today's enterprise value requires for seven years at the company's own cost of capital; Delivered g is what it actually grew; the gap is the hurdle (honest precision about ±8 points, so read the ranking more than the decimal). No fair values, price targets or analyst ratings are shown, by design. Method and validation.