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GLDD vs J

Side-by-side comparison of Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (GLDD) and Jacobs Solutions Inc. (J): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • Both GLDD and J operate in Military/Government/Technical (Industrials), so they compete in similar markets.
  • J is the larger of the two at $14.47B, about 16.2x GLDD ($895.3M).
  • Over the past year, GLDD is up 48.1% and J is down 4.0% - GLDD leads by 52.1 points.
  • J has hit the wire 9 times in the past 4 weeks while GLDD has been quiet.
  • J has more recent analyst coverage (21 ratings vs 3 for GLDD).
PerformanceGLDD+48.11%J-17.34%
2025-06-09+0.00%2026-03-31
MetricGLDDJ
Company
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation
Jacobs Solutions Inc.
Price
$17.01+0.21%
$122.65-0.85%
Market cap
$895.3M
$14.47B
1M return
+0.50%
-3.06%
1Y return
+48.11%
-3.95%
Industry
Military/Government/Technical
Military/Government/Technical
Exchange
NASDAQ
NYSE
IPO
2022
News (4w)
0
9
Recent ratings
3
21
GLDD

Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation

Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation provides dredging services in the United States. The company engages in capital dredging that consists of port expansion projects, coastal restoration and land reclamations, trench digging for pipelines, tunnels and cables, and other dredging related to the construction of breakwaters, jetties, canals, and other marine structures. It is also involved in coastal protection projects, which involves moving sand from the ocean floor to shoreline locations where erosion threatens shoreline assets; maintenance dredging, which consists of the re-dredging of previously deepened waterways and harbors to remove silt, sand and other accumulated sediments; land reclamations, channel deepening, and port infrastructure development; lake and river dredging, inland levee and construction dredging, environmental restoration and habitat improvement, and other marine construction projects. The company serves federal, state, and local governments; foreign governments; and domestic and foreign private concerns, such as utilities, oil, and other energy companies. It operates a fleet of 20 dredges, 17 material transportation barges, 1 drillboat, and various other support vessels. The company was formerly known as Lydon & Drews Partnership and changed its name to Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation in 1905. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation was founded in 1890 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

J

Jacobs Solutions Inc.

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. provides consulting, technical, scientific, and project delivery services for the government and private sectors in the United States, Europe, Canada, India, rest of Asia, Australia, New Zealand, South America, Mexico, the Middle East, and Africa. The company operates in two segments, Critical Mission Solutions and People & Places Solutions. The Critical Mission Solutions segment provides cybersecurity, data analytics, systems and software application integration and consulting, enterprise and mission IT, engineering and design, nuclear, enterprise level operations and maintenance, and other technical consulting solutions. The People & Places Solutions segment offers data analytics, artificial intelligence and automation, software development, digitally driven consulting, planning and architecture, program management, and other technical consulting solutions. The company is also involved in the management and execution of wind-tunnel design-build projects; and design-build for water and construction management. Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. was founded in 1947 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

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