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Powell Industries Inc
Powell Industries Inc (POWL) is listed on NASDAQ and classified in Electrical Equipment & Parts, part of the Industrials sector. It is headquartered in Houston, United States and has 3,143 employees. The company is worth $5.49B and trades at 32.6x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 24.3x. Revenue was $1.1B in fiscal 2025, up 9.1% from the year before. Net income was $180.75M. The share price is 54.1% below its 52-week high of $328.00. It pays a dividend yielding 0.24%. 6 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Israel Englander (Millennium Management), at $56.82M. In that quarter, 3 of them opened or added to the position and 3 reduced it. Over the last 30 days, company insiders sold $1.07M of its stock on the open market and bought none.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▲ +1928.7% over 5Y.
today you would have $20,749.79▲ +1975.0%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 17 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $106.26 | $73.88 | $29.47 | $11.73 | $9.83 | $9.83 | $16.33 | $8.34 | $9.55 | $13.00 | $8.68 | $16.36 | $22.33 | $13.84 | $10.43 | $10.96 | $10.51 | |
| P/E |
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings growing 25.0% a year plus a 0.2% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 24.3 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 20.3 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow growing 15.0% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
Sector median of 13.2x operating profit, less net debt. Banks have no EBITDA.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Companies of similar size in Industrials, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPACopa Holdings, S.A. | $134.86 | 9.0x | 1.9x | 5.07% | 23.07% | $5.5B |
| SNDRSchneider National, Inc. | $31.12 | 49.4x | 1.8x | 1.29% | 3.68% | $5.46B |
| GXOGXO Logistics, Inc. | $48.91 | 42.9x | 1.9x | 0.00% | 4.50% | $5.61B |
| HAFNHafnia Ltd | $10.01 |
| 20.3x |
| 21.5x |
| 18.0x |
| 19.6x |
| 30.6x |
| 589.8x |
| 20.8x |
| 57.6x |
| — |
| — |
| 28.7x |
| 32.9x |
| 20.3x |
| 19.1x |
| 16.7x |
| — |
| 15.4x |
| 9.2x |
| P/S | 0.8x | 3.5x | 2.6x | 1.5x | 0.8x | 0.7x | 0.7x | 1.1x | 0.6x | 0.8x | 0.8x | 0.4x | 0.9x | 1.3x | 0.7x | 0.7x | 0.7x | — |
| P/B | 1.4x | 6.0x | 5.5x | 3.1x | 1.4x | 1.1x | 1.1x | 1.9x | 1.0x | 1.0x | 1.3x | 0.9x | 1.6x | 2.3x | 1.6x | 1.3x | 1.4x | 1.5x |
| EPS | $4.95 | $4.10 | $1.50 | $0.38 | $0.02 | $0.47 | $0.28 | -$0.21 | -$0.28 | $0.45 | $0.26 | $0.81 | $1.17 | $0.83 | -$0.08 | $0.71 | $1.14 |
| Dividend yield | 2.67% | 0.34% | 0.48% | 1.19% | 2.96% | 3.53% | 3.53% | 2.12% | 4.16% | 3.63% | 2.67% | 4.00% | 2.06% | 0.37% | — | — | — | — |
| Payout | 73.24% | 7.21% | 8.62% | 23.38% | 90.44% | 2080.01% | 73.24% | 122.35% | — | — | 76.47% | 131.65% | 41.74% | 7.12% | — | — | — | — |
| Profit margin | 2.98% | 16.37% | 14.80% | 7.80% | 2.58% | 0.13% | 3.21% | 1.91% | -1.59% | -2.40% | 2.74% | 1.43% | 4.51% | 6.57% | 4.29% | -0.48% | 4.54% | — |
| ROE | 5.43% | 28.21% | 31.02% | 15.80% | 4.62% | 0.21% | 5.43% | 3.31% | -2.37% | -2.95% | 4.63% | 2.83% | 7.88% | 11.84% | 9.56% | -0.99% | 9.02% | 16.10% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
6 methods answered, across 3 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
-23.8% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
| 7.8x |
| 1.9x |
| 11.09% |
| 26.61% |
| $5.36B |
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