POWL

POWELL INDUSTRIES INC

Ticker: POWLTechnologyElectronic Equipment
HQ HOUSTON, TXCIK 80420FY end 09-30Book / share $20.68Shares 37M
Revenue (FY)
$1.10B+9.08%
TTM $1.16B
Op. margin
19.73%+2.07%
TTM 19.67%
Net income
$180.75M+20.62%
TTM $190.86M
Operating cash
$167.94M+54.55%
TTM $256.11M
Free cash flow
$154.79M+60.11%
TTM $243.96M
Return on equity
28.21%-2.81%
TTM 25.24%
Debt / equity
Shares outstanding
12.2M-0.17%
TTM 36.6M

The business

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.

Sector
Technology
Industry
Electronic Equipment
HQ
HOUSTON, TX
FY end
09-30
CIK
80420
SIC
3613
Financial performance · annual
20132025
$-126.19M$223.92M$574.02M$924.12M$1.27B2013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025TTMTTMTTM

Ownership

Who holds POWELL INDUSTRIES INC — across funds, superinvestors and bonds · N-PORT 2026Q2 · 13F 2026-06-30

378
funds hold it
1 of 35
superinvestors hold it
$3.88B
fund-held value
37.5%
of shares held by funds

Top fund holders

Fund% of fundValue
iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF
IJR · iShares Trust
0.44%$490.05M
First Trust RBA American Industrial Renaissance ETF
AIRR · First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund VI
2.48%$285.29M
VANGUARD TOTAL STOCK MARKET INDEX FUND
VTI · VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS
0.01%$265.24M
VANGUARD SMALL-CAP INDEX FUND
VB · VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS
0.10%$191.47M
VANGUARD SMALL-CAP GROWTH INDEX FUND
VBK · VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS
0.23%$110.25M

Superinvestors in POWELL INDUSTRIES INC

Polen CapitalINCREASED +66.9%
Polen Capital Management
0.1%

Share of each manager's reported 13F portfolio.

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.

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