Cardinal Infrastructure Group I (CDNL) Q3 2026 earnings — TrendMatrix coverage
Reported
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Key numbers
- Adjusted EPS
- -$0.21
- Estimate
- $0.50
- Surprise
- -142.0%
- Revenue (period 2026-09-30)
- $201.9M
- Score today
- 6.9/10
Revenue source: xbrl.
How the report landed
Cardinal Infrastructure Group I (CDNL) reported a wider loss than forecast — adjusted EPS of -$0.21 against the $0.50 estimate (a 142.0% shortfall).
Coverage in the report window
- Cardinal Infrastructure Pulls 2026 Forecast After Project Costs Hammer Profits — benzinga, 2026-11-12
- Gold Down 3%; Legence Earnings Top Views — benzinga, 2026-11-12
- 12 Industrials Stocks Moving In Thursday's Intraday Session — benzinga, 2026-11-12
Where TrendMatrix's rating stands now
TrendMatrix currently rates CDNL Hold at 6.9/10; no pre/post engine snapshot brackets this report.
0 of the last 3 quarters beat the estimate; this quarter's -142.0% surprise compares with a -70.6% four-quarter average.
What argues against it
- DATA_ISSUE: analyst_target_implausible (raw $53.00 vs price $5.64 — ratio 9.4×). Rejected, falling back to technical TP.
- Market cap $121M below $400M minimum
- Momentum score 4.1/10 — below 4.5 minimum
This section and the ones below it reflect TrendMatrix’s latest engine read — they update after the report date and are not frozen to it.
The levels TrendMatrix's engine tracks
- Current price
- $5.64
- Price target
- $16.11
- Stop
- $5.25
- Upside to target
- +185.6%
The stock trades at 5.9× trailing but 2.5× forward earnings — consensus estimates already build in a substantial earnings recovery.
Risk check: RSI 29 — a level conventionally read as oversold; trading volume is running 10.0× its average — elevated turnover around the report window.
Model outputs from TrendMatrix’s engine as of 2026-11-13 — shown for context, not personalized investment advice.
CDNL at TrendMatrix's latest read
Industrial quarters are order-book stories — backlog and book-to-bill color how the market reads the reported number.
- Industry
- Engineering & Construction
- Market cap
- $120.9M
- P/E (fwd)
- 2.5
- P/E (ttm)
- 5.9
- 52-week range
- $5.22–$96.40
- Off 52-week high
- 94.1%
- RSI (14)
- 29
- Volume vs avg
- 9.98×
- Score today
- 6.9/10