Amentum Holdings, Inc. (AMTM) - Stock Analysis

Last updated: Sep 5, 2026

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Near-term hot idea marked by strong FY Q4 revenue growth, multi-billion dollar backlog and multi-year contracts in defense and infrastructure sectors, recent 37% price surge with strong technical breakout, solid cash flow generation, and expected margin expansion despite modest current profitability and high valuation.

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Idea window: 11/26/2025 – 12/3/2025Sector: Technology

AI Analyst Overview

Last Price
$19.46
Market Cap
$4.77B
1D Return
-0.51%
YTD Return
-32.90%

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Valuation Metrics

P/E
23.6
P/B
1.0
P/S
0.3
EV/EBITDA
9.0
Div Yield
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Fundamental Analysis

5.0

Key Financial Insights: • Strong Cash Flow • Lower Leverage • Thin Margins AMTM shows improving liquidity, deleveraging, and strong free-cash-flow conversion, but thin profitability, high intangible exposure, negative retained earnings, and sizable debt warrant caution.

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Price Behavior

4.0

Key Price Behavior Insights: • Lower highs • Support retest • Weak momentum Support Level: $19.90–$20.00 Resistance Level: $20.60–$21.00 AMTM remains in a strong downtrend over the last month, with $19.90–$20.00 support critical and a rebound requiring a move above $20.60–$21.00.

Bearish
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Sentiment & News

6.0

Key News Insights: • Earnings Outlook Raised • Revenue Pressure Persists • Contract Pipeline Expands Amentum beat earnings and raised profit outlook on stronger margins and cash flow, but persistent revenue pressure is offset by major defense, nuclear, and infrastructure contract wins.

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AI Summary

5.0
Neutral

AMTM is a margin-recovery and deleveraging play—not a near-term growth story—where strong free-cash-flow conversion and sub-3.0x leverage could re-rate shares if higher-value backlog begins converting, but continued procurement delays and revenue stagnation would leave the stock a cheap value trap.

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Description

Amentum Holdings, Inc. delivers technical and operational services to government and commercial clients, organized into Critical Mission Solutions and Cyber & Intelligence business units. The Critical Mission Solutions unit supports missile defense testing, training and operations while providing engineering, IT and environmental services for defense, space and energy customers; the Cyber & Intelligence unit supplies cyber training, data analytics, communications and geospatial capabilities to national security and intelligence customers. The company was formed in November 2019 and is headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia.

Idea History

DateCloseTickerCompanySummaryStatusP/L
Nov 26Dec 3AMTMAmentum Holdings, Inc.
Near-term hot idea marked by strong FY Q4 revenue growth, multi-billion dollar backlog and multi-year contracts in defense and infrastructure sectors, recent 37% price surge with strong technical breakout, solid cash flow generation, and expected margin expansion despite modest current profitability and high valuation.
Closed-2.6%
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