For most investors, how much a stock's price changes over time is important. This factor can impact your investment portfolio as well as help you compare investment results across sectors and industries.
Why investing for the long run, especially if you buy certain popular stocks, could reap huge rewards.
For most investors, how much a stock's price changes over time is important. This factor can impact your investment portfolio as well as help you compare investment results across sectors and industries.
Another factor that can influence investors is FOMO, or the fear of missing out, especially with tech giants and popular consumer-facing stocks.
What if you'd invested in Jabil (JBL) ten years ago? It may not have been easy to hold on to JBL for all that time, but if you did, how much would your investment be worth today?
With that in mind, let's take a look at Jabil's main business drivers.
Headquartered in St. Petersburg, FL, Jabil, Inc. is one of the largest global suppliers of electronic manufacturing services. The company offers electronics design, production, product management and after-market services to customers in the aerospace, automotive, computing, consumer, defense, industrial, instrumentation, medical, networking, peripherals, storage and telecommunications industries.
The company reported revenues of $29.8 billion in fiscal 2025.
Jabil has reorganized its internal structure, and beginning fiscal 2025, the company is set to report its quarterly numbers under three reporting segments: Regulated Industries, Intelligent Infrastructure, Connected Living & Digital Commerce.
Regulated Industries (39.9% of fiscal 2025 net sales): The segment primarily focuses on developing high-quality manufacturing products for automotive & transportation, renewables & energy infrastructure, and healthcare end markets.
Intelligent Infrastructure (41.3%): The segment’s portfolio includes products related to capital equipment, networking & communications, and cloud & data center infrastructure end markets.
Connected Living & Digital Commerce (18.8%): The segment offerings include various consumer-facing products under the connected living end market and retail & warehouse automation products in the digital commerce end market.
The company’s largest customers are Apple $AAPL, Cisco $CSCO, Hewlett-Packard Company, Keysight Technologies $KEYS, LM Ericsson, NetApp $NTAP, Nokia Networks, SolarEdge Technologies, Valeo S.A. and Zebra Technologies.
Jabil faces significant competition from the likes of Benchmark Electronics, Celestica, Flex, Hon-Hai Precision Industry, Plexus and Sanmina.
While anyone can invest, building a lucrative investment portfolio takes research, patience, and a little bit of risk. If you had invested in Jabil ten years ago, you're probably feeling pretty good about your investment today.
According to our calculations, a $1000 investment made in April 2016 would be worth $14,164.58, or a gain of 1,316.46%, as of April 2, 2026, and this return excludes dividends but includes price increases.
In comparison, the S&P 500's gained 217.22% and the price of gold went up 268.66% over the same time frame.
Analysts are forecasting more upside for JBL too.
Jabil is benefiting from strength in AI data center infrastructure, capital equipment and warehouse automation markets. Its focus on end-market and product diversification is a key catalyst. A large-scale portfolio of business sectors offers Jabil a high degree of resiliency during times of macroeconomic and geopolitical disruption. A higher free cash flow indicates efficient financial management practices, optimum utilization of assets and improved operational efficiency. However, it is exposed to significant customer-concentration risk. Fierce competition in the electronic manufacturing services industry is weighing on margins. Many of JBL's current and potential customers are assessing the merits of in-house manufacturing against the advantages of outsourcing. This trend is a major concern, as it can significantly affect revenues.
The stock is up 6.58% over the past four weeks, and no earnings estimate has gone lower in the past two months, compared to 5 higher, for fiscal 2026. The consensus estimate has moved up as well.
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