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(DY)", "authorId": "54_Spruce_Point_Capital", "authorName": "Spruce Point Capital Management", "documentKindSlug": "activist-deck", "documentKindLabel": "Activist deck", "sourceTypeSlug": "short_seller", "sourceTypeLabel": "Short seller", "presentationDate": "2025-02-19 00:00:00", "orientation": "landscape", "aspectRatio": 1.3333334, "pageNumber": 5, "pageCount": 43, "prevPage": 4, "nextPage": 6, "slideType": "executive_summary", "function": "summarize", "density": "dense", "nDataPoints": 8, "notes": "The slide uses a two-column layout for the bottom section to detail specific pillars of the thesis.", "elementsJson": [ "headline_text", "paragraph", "callout_box" ], "metadataConfidence": 1, "imagePath": null, "slideHref": "/slides/019dd923-622c-750b-8b99-a7a7a3284557/5", "deckHref": "/decks/019dd923-622c-750b-8b99-a7a7a3284557", "deckJsonHref": "/decks/019dd923-622c-750b-8b99-a7a7a3284557.json", "deckAnchorHref": "/decks/019dd923-622c-750b-8b99-a7a7a3284557#slide-5", "components": [ { "bbox": null, "kind": "callout", "text": "We have specific concerns around ~$1 billion of revenue booked since 2020 with Frontier Communications (Nasdaq: FYBR), a material customer, which we argue should be evaluated as a related party because Dycom’s long-time CEO & Chairman has a brother that is a named executive at Frontier.", "attrs": null, "subkind": null, "toolName": "Visual emphasis", "toolSlug": "visual-emphasis", "confidence": null, "componentId": "019dd952-ee37-76cb-8481-f06571048caa", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": null, "kind": "metric", "text": "downside risk: 35% - 55%", "attrs": null, "subkind": "primary", "toolName": "Quantification", "toolSlug": "quantification", "confidence": null, "componentId": "019dd952-ee37-76cb-8481-f88f9da80c08", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.33, "w": 0.97, "x": 0.02, "y": 0.16 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "After conducting a forensic financial and accounting review of Dycom Industries, Inc (NYSE: DY or “the Company”), a $6 billion contractor primarily serving the telecommunications industry, we have significant concerns about the sustainability of its recent financial performance. We have specific concerns around ~$1 billion of revenue booked since 2020 with Frontier Communications (Nasdaq: FYBR), a material customer, which we argue should be evaluated as a related party because Dycom’s long-time CEO & Chairman has a brother that is a named executive at Frontier. Underscoring our concern about the relationship between these companies, Dycom and Frontier’s recent work together was blasted as apparently fraudulent by the Connecticut utilities regulator. We believe Dycom’s financials are signaling financial stress from customer consolidation, an unexplained increase in DSO, capex deferment and forecasting issues, delayed disclosure of material credit exposure to customers like Frontier, and a baffling acquisition of a troubled business. Dycom’s past two Chief Accounting Officers (CAO) had key financial and accounting roles at other public companies that experienced troubling financial restatements and internal control failures, while its current CAO has two different education degree claims. We believe Dycom trades at an irrational premium to peers despite having a weaker and riskier business. We estimate 35%–55% long-term potential downside risk to DY’s shares and expect it to underperform its industry and the broader equity market.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "166193a4-8828-4d12-b094-8c818d34b1c0", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": null, "kind": "quote", "text": "“Not only are Frontier and its contractors knowingly and willfully violating the law, the contractors appear to be fraudulently concealing the violations in some instances by using fake conduit.” — Connecticut utilities regulator", "attrs": null, "subkind": null, "toolName": "Authority citation", "toolSlug": "authority-citation", "confidence": null, "componentId": "019dd952-ee37-76cb-8481-f77ed7d00640", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.48, "w": 0.97, "x": 0.02, "y": 0.5 }, "kind": "table", "text": "Dycom’s Telecom Clients Are Under Pressure + Consolidating: Approximately 90% of DY’s revenues are from telecom companies... 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