3 New Strong Buy Ratings from Top-Rated Analysts: 08/29/2025

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• Dycom Industries (DY) is poised to benefit from critical infrastructure upgrades on the horizon
• An aging population means big business for Encompass Health (EHC)
• 115 reasons why Global Industrial (GIC) earns Stock of the Week status

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1. Dycom Industries (NYSE: DY)

Dycom Industries provides specialty contracting services to the telecom and broadband industries, helping build and maintain critical communications infrastructure. Headquartered in Florida, the company works with major carriers on projects like fiber deployments, 5G rollouts, and network maintenance.

Zen Rating: A (Strong Buy) — see full analysis >  

Recent Price: $254.02 — get current quote > 

Max 1-year forecast: $300.00 

Why we’re watching:

• Dycom stock enjoys unanimous support from Wall Street analysts — DY is currently covered by 10 researchers, all of whom issue Strong Buy ratings. See the ratings
• DA Davidson’s Brent Thielman (a top 2% rated analyst) doubled down on a Strong Buy rating on the stock after Dycom Industries reported its Q2 2026 earnings and hiked his price target from $265 to a Street-high $300.  
• Thielman attributed their price target hike to "the company's recent and anticipated margin performance."
• Looking ahead, the analyst told readers that DA Davidson sees Dycom Industries' new total addressable market opportunities for services strengthening its medium to long-term growth and operating leverage potential.
• DY is the 3rd highest-rated stock in the Engineering & Construction industry, which has an Industry Rating of A.
• Dycom Industries shares rank in the top 2% of equities, giving them a Zen Rating of A.
• DY has the benefit of an outstanding balance sheet — in terms of Financials, it ranks in the top 14% of stocks.
• The stock also ranks quite highly with regard to its Growth Component Grade rating — in the 90th percentile, to be exact.
• DY shares have rallied by 43.50% since the start of the year, and rank in the top 9% of equities when it comes to Momentum.
• Last but not least, we have Sentiment — a category in which Dycom ranks in the top 6%, primarily on account of positive analyst coverage. (See all 7 Zen Component Grades here >)

2. Encompass Health (NYSE: EHC)

Encompass Health is one of the largest inpatient rehabilitation and post-acute care providers in the United States. EHC shares have seen a pretty significant price bump since the start of the year — and just like our previous entry, it’s currently riding the wave of a pretty strong earnings beat. With an aging population and a dominant position in the industry, Encompass Health is well poised to continue with its winning streak.

Zen Rating: B (Buy) — see full analysis >  

Recent Price: $122.09 — get current quote > 

Max 1-year forecast: $140.00 

Why we’re watching:

• At present, 6 Wall Street analysts track Encompass Health stock and issue ratings for it — their coverage is split between 5 Strong Buy ratings and 1 Buy rating. See the ratings
• The average 12-month price forecast for EHC, currently pegged at $132.83, implies an 8.14% upside.
• Truist Securities researcher David S Macdonald (a top 13% rated analyst) recently maintained a Strong Buy rating on the stock, and upped his price target from $135 to a Street-high $140.
• Macdonald attributed their price target hike to takeaways from meetings with Encompass Health management.
• The company is seeing "robust" fundamentals because of strong demand trends and its scale, the analyst detailed.
• Ongoing labor improvement, increased AI investment, and the company's development activity also support their bullish stance on the stock, Macdonald added.
• Encompass Health is the 10th highest-rated stock in the Medical Care Facility industry, which has an Industry Rating of A.
• EHC currently ranks in the top 9% of the stocks tracked by our system, giving it a Zen Rating of B.
• In terms of Financials and Artificial Intelligence, Encompass Health shares rank in the top 16% and 12% of equities, respectively.
• Encompass Health also benefits from a stable, mature business model — the stock ranks in the 93rd percentile with regard to its Safety Component Grade rating.
• With all of that said, Sentiment, in which EHC ranks in the top 1%, is the stock’s strongest Component Grade rating, on account of positive analyst coverage and the fact that it boasts a significant degree of insider buying within the last 12 months. (See all 7 Zen Component Grades here >)

3. Global Industrial (NYSE: GIC) 

This is our Stock of the Week. Global Industrial is a small-cap stock that has spent most of this decade in a slump — but recent results have been promising. Steve Reitmeister, our Editor-in-Chief, noted that the market has demonstrated a rotation back to small caps, which have historically outperformed large caps — and GIC is the pick of the litter.

Zen Rating: A (Strong Buy) — see full analysis >  

Recent Price: $37.61 — get current quote > 

Why we’re watching:

• Stock of the Week alert! Our Editor-in-Chief, Steve Reitmeister, explained why it’s a part of this exclusive Zen Investor portfolio in a Monday article. We’ll summarize some of the key points below:
• Historically, small caps outperform large-cap stocks — but this hasn’t been the case for the past 5 years. A reversal to the mean is expected — and it might have already begun, as the Russell 2000 index beat the S&P 500 by a whopping 2.5x last Friday.
• Global Industrial is a leading supplier of industrial strength tools and equipment. After 4 straight years of depressing results, the company recently delivered their 2nd straight impressive earnings report — so it’s clear that there’s a business turnaround at play.
• GIC is the 5th highest-rated stock that we track. That’s not a typo — Global Industrial is ranked fifth out of more than 4,600 stocks — so we’re dealing with something special, even by the standards of equities that have a Zen Rating of A.
• The stock is incredibly well-rounded. Case in point — Value is Global Industrial’s weakest Component Grade rating, and in this category, it ranks in the top 27%.
• Next up, we have Momentum and Growth — areas in which GIC ranks in the 80th and 81st percentiles, respectively.
• In terms of Safety, Global Industrial shares rank in the top 17% of the equities that we track.
• With regard to Sentiment, GIC ranks in the top 4%. If we’re looking at its Artificial Intelligence Component Grade rating, it ranks in the top 2%. Finally, when it comes to Financials, Global Industrial ranks in the 99th percentile.
• That covers all 7 Component Grade ratings — simply put, GIC has no particular weaknesses to speak of.
• Last but not least, Global Industrial is one of only 7 stocks selected for our top-performing Zen Strategies AI Factor portfolio, which has an average annual return of 48.01%. (See all 7 Zen Component Grades here >)

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