Powell Industries

POWL

Electrical Equipment & Parts · Industrials

Price

$232.79

-3.00 (-1.27%)

Market Cap

$8.48B

Exchange

NASDAQ

Winston Score

Winston is curious

A decent business — some strong pillars, some weaker.

Share count rising — dilution

+3.2% over 4y

The company has issued more shares over this period, which dilutes each existing shareholder’s stake.

Diluted shares outstanding: 35.4M (2021) → 36.5M (2025)

Powell Industries, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, sells, and services custom-engineered equipment and systems for the distribution, control, and monitoring of electrical energy. The company's principal products include integrated power control room substations, custom-engineered modules, electrical houses, medium-voltage circuit breakers, monitoring and control communications systems, motor control centers, and bus duct systems, as well as traditional and

Winston Score History

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Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+8.3% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Slow revenue growth

EPS Growth

+10.9% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Steady EPS growth

R&D Spend

$11M/ year

↑ Rising (+17% vs prior year)

1.0% of revenue

Below sector average (4%)

R&D investment increasing — building for the future

Insider Activity

21.1%ownership

→ Flat

Insiders holding steady — not selling despite ability to

Cash Position

Cash flow positive

$451M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↓ Burn rate worsening

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

Growth context

Powell Industries is growing revenue at 8% year-over-year. The Winston Score measures business quality today — these growth metrics show what could matter tomorrow.

The Winston Score above measures business quality today. Growth stocks often score lower because they invest in the future rather than maximising current profits. These metrics show what matters most for evaluating that future.

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Quality

Gross Margin

31.4%

Modest — 31.4% gross margin

Operating Margin

21.2%

Excellent — 21.2% operating margin

ROCE

9.9%

Below par — 9.9% return on capital

ROIC between 5% and 15%. They earn 5 to 15 cents back per year on every dollar invested.

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Growth

Sales YoY

+5.1%

Slow sales growth (5.1% YoY)

EPS YoY

+16.1%

Earnings growing fast (16.1% YoY)

Healthy double-digit earnings growth — what compounders look like.

EPS Consistency

8/8 quarters

Every recent quarter grew earnings vs last year

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion

93%

Modest — 93% of profit becomes cash

FCF Margin

14.5%

Converts sales into free cash efficiently (14.5%)

FCF margin between 10% and 20%. Every $100 in sales becomes $10 to $20 in real cash.

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Stability

Debt / Equity

N/A

Data not available

Interest Cover

100.00x

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Comfortably covers interest (100.0x)

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

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)

45.0x

Pricey — P/E 45.0

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

P/E vs Forward

+9.7

GROWING

Earnings expected to grow meaningfully — cheaper on forward P/E (45.0 → 35.3)

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Dividends

Dividend Yield

0.13%

Small dividend — 0.13% yield

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

Dividend Growth

-16.0%

Dividend cut (-16.0% YoY) — warning sign

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