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nVent Electric

NVT
54
Electrical Equipment & Parts · Industrials
Price
$154.92
+1.27 (+0.83%)
Market Cap
$25.05B
Winston Score
54
Winston is curious
Mixed quality — meaningful strengths and weaknesses.

Share count falling — buybacks

3.0% over 4y

The company has reduced its share count over this period, returning value to shareholders through buybacks.

Diluted shares outstanding: 169.7M (2021) → 164.6M (2025)

nVent Electric makes products that protect electrical equipment and manage heat in industrial settings. Its main products include enclosures (metal boxes that house electrical components), thermal management systems, and electrical connections used in factories, data centers, energy infrastructure, and commercial buildings. The company was spun off from Pentair in 2018 and is now a standalone industrial electrical solutions provider.

nVent earns revenue by selling hardware and engineered solutions directly to industrial customers, contractors, and distributors across North America, Europe, and other global markets. With a market cap around $28 billion and a gross margin near 37%, the company benefits from a broad product portfolio and long-standing customer relationships that make switching suppliers costly and inconvenient. The key growth driver is rising demand for data center infrastructure, as the global buildout of AI computing facilities requires more enclosures and thermal management products — though an economic slowdown in industrial spending remains the primary risk to near-term revenue growth.

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Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+41.8% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Revenue accelerating

EPS Growth

>+1,000% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

EPS growth accelerating

R&D Spend

$79M/ year

Rising (+19% vs prior year)

2.0% of revenue

Below sector average (4%)

R&D investment increasing — building for the future

Insider Activity

0.4%ownership

Flat

Insiders holding steady — not selling despite ability to

Cash Position

Cash flow positive

$238M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↑ Burn rate improving

Company generates more cash than it spends — no dilution risk from fundraising

Revenue accelerating

nVent Electric grew revenue 42% year-over-year and the growth rate is speeding up. That's the kind of momentum growth investors look for — the question is whether margins can follow.

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Quality

Gross Margin
36.5%
Modest — 36.5% gross margin
Operating Margin
15.4%
Healthy — 15.4% operating margin
ROCE
3.1%
Weak — 3.1% return on capital

ROIC between 0% and 5%. They earn a few cents back per dollar invested in the business.

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Growth

Sales YoY
+29.5%
Fast-growing sales (29.5% YoY)
EPS YoY
+116.5%
Earnings growing fast (116.5% YoY)

Earnings growing 25%+ a year. The compounder zone.

EPS Consistency
8/8 quarters
Every recent quarter grew earnings vs last year

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion
66%
Modest — 66% of profit becomes cash
FCF Margin
9.6%
Modest free cash flow (9.6%)

FCF margin between 0% and 10%. Some cash from sales, but not a lot.

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Stability

Debt / Equity
0.42
Conservative — low debt load (0.42)
Interest Cover
8.22x
Comfortably covers interest (8.2x)

Interest coverage above 8. Profits cover interest many times over.

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)
35.7x
Pricey — P/E 35.7

P/E over 35. The market is pricing in heavy, sustained growth.

P/E vs Forward
+12.8
GROWING
Earnings expected to grow meaningfully — cheaper on forward P/E (35.7 → 22.9)

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Dividends

Dividend Yield
0.51%
Small dividend — 0.51% yield

Modest yield. The bulk of any return needs to come from price appreciation.

Dividend Growth
+5.1%
Dividend growing modestly (5.1% YoY)

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