NASDAQ$GLDD
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation · Q1 2024 earnings
Q1 2024 earnings · · Investor relations
Briefing
Great Lakes reported strong first quarter 2024 results with significant net income and adjusted EBITDA.
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation reported a strong first quarter in 2024, marked by a net income of $21.0 million and an adjusted EBITDA of $42.9 million. The company's dredging backlog stood at $879.4 million at the end of March 2024, with a significant portion allocated to capital projects. The company is also making strides in the offshore wind market, with contracts awarded for rock installation in New York.
- Net income for the first quarter reached $21.0 million.
- Adjusted EBITDA for the first quarter was $42.9 million, the best since Q4 2021.
- Dredging backlog totaled $879.4 million as of March 31, 2024, with 77% in capital projects.
- Company secured two large Liquified Natural Gas (“LNG”) projects, the Port Arthur LNG Phase 1 project and the Brownsville Ship Channel project.
Headline financials
Revenue & EPS history
Great Lakes · Revenue · Quarterly
$199M
Forward guidance
Great Lakes anticipates a robust dredging bid market in 2024, supported by a substantial backlog, enhanced fleet, and strategic initiatives. The company expects increased bidding and budgeted appropriations to support the funding of several capital port improvement projects.
Tailwinds
- Strong support from the Biden Administration and Congress for the dredging industry.
- Record $8.7 billion in total funding to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for fiscal year 2024.
- Increased budget and additional funding to support a strong bid market for 2024.
- Expect bidding to increase and budgeted appropriations to support the funding of several capital port improvement projects that are still expected to bid in the first half of 2024, including Sabine and Mobile.
- Offshore wind will play a crucial role in helping the U.S. meet its decarbonization and clean energy goals.
Headwinds
- Reduction in government funding for dredging and other contracts, or government cancellation of such contracts, or the inability of the Corps to let bids to market.
- Cost over-runs, operating cost inflation and potential claims for liquidated damages, particularly with respect to our fixed cost contracts.
- Project delays related to the increasingly negative impacts of climate change or other unusual, non-historical weather patterns.
- Equipment or mechanical failures.
- Pandemic, epidemic or outbreak of an infectious disease.
Historical earnings impact
How earnings announcements have historically affected this stock's price.
Avg. return before/after earnings
Based on 18 quarterly earnings reports · overlaid with Q1 2024
-0.8%
Avg return
Earnings day
+0.6%
Avg return
5 days after
+3.2%
Avg return
30 days after
46%
30 / 65 earnings
Positive
+30.5%
Q1 2024
Best reaction
-24.5%
Q2 2022
Worst reaction
| Quarter | Report date | Reaction (Day 0) | +5 days | +30 days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q1 2026 | — | — | — | |
| Q4 2025 | -0.1% | +0.5% | +0.6% | |
| Q3 2025 | +12.1% | +7.6% | +13.1% | |
| Q2 2025 | +7.9% | +8.9% | +9.8% | |
| Q1 2025 | +5.0% | +12.2% | +20.8% | |
| Q4 2024 | -18.4% | -23.5% | -15.2% | |
| Q3 2024 | +7.3% | +9.3% | +9.3% | |
| Q2 2024 | +5.9% | +7.8% | +13.2% | |
| Q1 2024 | +30.5% | +28.8% | +30.7% | |
| Q4 2023 | +18.2% | +14.4% | +6.7% | |
| Q3 2023 | -16.7% | -15.5% | -6.8% | |
| Q2 2023 | +7.6% | +3.5% | +5.1% | |
| Q1 2023 | +1.0% | -1.4% | +19.0% | |
| Q4 2022 | -9.1% | -5.9% | -28.4% | |
| Q3 2022 | -6.1% | -10.2% | -5.3% | |
| Q2 2022 | -24.5% | -24.4% | -26.6% | |
| Q1 2022 | +7.5% | +2.3% | +7.3% | |
| Q4 2021 | +6.4% | +3.1% | +5.1% | |
| Q3 2021 | -2.7% | -1.2% | -2.9% | |
| Q2 2021 | -5.1% | -4.0% | +2.8% | |
| Q1 2021 | -11.8% | -12.2% | -7.9% | |
| Q4 2020 | -5.8% | -1.9% | -9.0% | |
| Q3 2020 | +0.1% | +2.5% | +10.6% | |
| Q2 2020 | +10.6% | +11.2% | +6.8% | |
| Q1 2020 | +6.2% | +3.8% | +17.3% | |
| Q4 2019 | +3.2% | +3.5% | -19.4% | |
| Q3 2019 | -7.8% | -9.4% | +5.2% | |
| Q2 2019 | +1.9% | -4.9% | +3.0% | |
| Q1 2019 | +13.1% | +19.7% | +14.7% | |
| Q4 2018 | +7.1% | +9.9% | +20.1% | |
| Q3 2018 | +22.0% | +23.5% | +20.4% | |
| Q2 2018 | -1.9% | +0.9% | +1.5% | |
| Q1 2018 | +8.9% | +13.3% | +15.6% | |
| Q4 2017 | -0.5% | -1.1% | -2.2% | |
| Q3 2017 | -9.7% | -7.8% | -1.0% | |
| Q2 2017 | -7.5% | -5.0% | +1.3% | |
| Q1 2017 | -3.2% | -3.2% | -8.5% | |
| Q4 2016 | -6.2% | -8.2% | -11.3% | |
| Q3 2016 | -12.0% | -9.9% | +21.1% | |
| Q2 2016 | -14.4% | -12.2% | -11.0% | |
| Q1 2016 | -2.6% | — | — | |
| Q4 2015 | -3.4% | — | — | |
| Q3 2015 | -4.0% | — | — | |
| Q2 2015 | +12.0% | — | — | |
| Q1 2015 | -4.3% | — | — | |
| Q4 2014 | -13.2% | — | — | |
| Q3 2014 | +0.4% | — | — | |
| Q2 2014 | +0.8% | — | — | |
| Q1 2014 | -11.5% | — | — | |
| Q4 2013 | +2.3% | — | — | |
| Q3 2013 | +3.0% | — | — | |
| Q2 2013 | -5.9% | — | — | |
| Q1 2013 | +12.2% | — | — | |
| Q4 2012 | -13.9% | — | — | |
| Q3 2012 | +0.4% | — | — | |
| Q2 2012 | +1.9% | — | — | |
| Q1 2011 | +0.6% | — | — | |
| Q1 2012 | -4.6% | — | — | |
| Q4 2009 | -0.6% | — | — | |
| Q4 2011 | -0.6% | — | — | |
| Q3 2011 | -2.7% | — | — | |
| Q3 2010 | -2.7% | — | — | |
| Q2 2010 | -14.3% | — | — | |
| Q4 2010 | -14.3% | — | — | |
| Q2 2011 | -14.3% | — | — | |
| Q1 2010 | +6.7% | — | — |
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