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POWELL INDUSTRIES INC

TechnologyElectronic Equipment
Ticker POWLHOUSTON, TXFiscal year ends SeptemberBook value per share $20.68Diluted shares 36.6M

Powell Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ: POWL) is a Delaware corporation founded in 1947 that designs, manufactures and services custom-engineered equipment and systems for distributing, controlling and monitoring electrical energy across industrial and utility applications. The company operates through wholly owned… From the company’s description.

Fiscal year 2025 · ends 09-30Changes are against fiscal 2024The amber dot is the latest twelve months, to 2026-06-30
Sales & profitability
$1.10B
+9.1% year over year
Last 12 mo $1.16B
19.73%
+2.1 percentage points
Last 12 mo 19.67%
$180.75M
+20.6% year over year
Last 12 mo $190.86M
28.21%
−2.8 percentage points
Last 12 mo 25.24%
Cash & financing
$167.94M
+54.6% year over year
Last 12 mo $256.11M
$154.79M
+60.1% year over year
Last 12 mo $243.96M
12.2M
−0.2% year over year
Last 12 mo 36.6M

Margins and return on equity change in ; everything else in percent. Fewer shares and less debt are shown plainly, not as bad news — it depends what you make of buybacks. Dotted labels explain each measure. is shown separately from the annual figures.

What POWELL INDUSTRIES INC does

In the company’s own words

Powell Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ: POWL) is a Delaware corporation founded in 1947 that designs, manufactures and services custom-engineered equipment and systems for distributing, controlling and monitoring electrical energy across industrial and utility applications. The company operates through wholly owned subsidiaries including Powell Electrical Systems, Powell Canada, Powell (UK) Limited, and Powell Industries International Limited, with its website at powellind.com.

The company serves four primary market sectors. Oil and gas represented 37 percent of revenues in fiscal 2025, encompassing upstream, midstream and downstream operations including onshore and offshore production, liquefied natural gas facilities, pipelines and refineries, as well as emerging markets in hydrogen production and carbon capture. Electric utility accounted for 25 percent of revenues, serving both power generation and distribution end markets. Commercial and other industrial markets contributed 16 percent of revenues, including data centers, metals and mining, and pulp and paper operations. Petrochemical markets represented 14 percent of revenues, with light rail traction power and other sectors comprising the remaining 8 percent.

Powell's principal products include integrated power control room substations, electrical houses, distribution switchgear, medium-voltage circuit breakers, motor control centers, and monitoring and control communications systems, designed for voltages ranging from 480 volts to 38,000 volts. The company provides both ANSI and IEC standard designs and offers spare parts, retrofit components, and field service including installation, commissioning and repair services. Each project is custom-engineered to meet specific customer requirements, with products sold directly to end users or through engineering, procurement and construction firms.

As of September 30, 2025, Powell employed 3,143 full-time employees and 315 contract employees located primarily in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. The company maintains a backlog of $1.4 billion as of fiscal year-end 2025. Material costs represented 45 percent of revenues in fiscal 2025. Powell competes with multinational firms including ABB, Eaton, Schneider and Siemens Industries, differentiating itself through custom engineering capabilities, technical expertise, project management acumen and financial strength. In August 2025, Powell completed the acquisition of Remsdaq Limited, a U.K.-based manufacturer of supervisory control and data acquisition remote terminal units for electrical substation control and automation.

Company details
Sector
Technology
Industry
Electronic Equipment
Headquarters
HOUSTON, TX
Fiscal year end
September
CIK
80420
SIC
3613

Financial performance, year by year

Fiscal 2013–2025 · USD
$-126.19M$223.92M$574.02M$924.12M$1.27B2013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025Last 12 moLast 12 monthsLast 12 months

The full income statement, balance sheet and cash flow for each of these years — every figure traceable to its filing — is on the Financials tab with a free account.

Ownership

Who owns POWELL INDUSTRIES INC — and what changed

Funds as of 2026Q2 · superinvestors as of 2026-06-30

378
funds hold it
1 of 35
superinvestors hold it
$3.88B
held by funds, at market
37.5%
of shares held by funds

Superinvestors in POWELL INDUSTRIES INC · what they did last quarter

Polen CapitalINCREASED +66.9%
Polen Capital Management
0.1%of 13F portfolio

Share of each manager’s reported 13F portfolio. Change is in shares held, since the previous quarter.

Largest fund holders · POWELL INDUSTRIES INC’s weight in each

iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF
IJR · iShares Trust
0.44%of fund net assets
First Trust RBA American Industrial Renaissance ETF
AIRR · First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund VI
2.48%of fund net assets
VANGUARD TOTAL STOCK MARKET INDEX FUND
VTI · VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS
0.01%of fund net assets
VANGUARD SMALL-CAP INDEX FUND
VB · VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS
0.10%of fund net assets
VANGUARD SMALL-CAP GROWTH INDEX FUND
VBK · VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS
0.23%of fund net assets

Fund ownership is a floor, not a census — pensions, insurers and people holding shares directly are not visible here.

Fund ownership counts N-PORT filers only, so it is a floor rather than a census — pensions, insurers and direct holders are not visible here, and the remainder is not “held by individuals”.

Fund ownership is a subset of institutional 13F ownership — the two describe overlapping populations and must not be added together.

Every fund and institutional holder, quarter by quarter, is on the Ownership tab with a free account.

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