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Powell Industries POWL Interest coverage

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Other financials

Income statement

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Revenue$296.6M+6.5%
Gross profit$87.9M+5.4%
Operating income$57.6M-2.3%
Net income$45.9M-1.0%
EPS (diluted)$1.25-1.6%

Balance sheet

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Cash & equivalents$537.7M+49.6%
Total debt$2.0M+38.6%
Total equity$709.1M+31.0%
Total assets$1.2B+22.2%

Cash flow

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Operating cash flow$51.2M+128%
CapEx$1.8M-55.0%
Free cash flow$49.3M+169%

Valuation

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Market cap$10.83B+220%
Enterprise value$10.29B+256%
P/E57.9×+38.4×
P/S9.6×+6.4×

Profitability

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Gross margin30.1%+1.9pp
Operating margin19.8%+0.6pp
Net margin16.5%+0.5pp
FCF margin17%

Returns & leverage

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Return on equity29.9%-7.2pp
Debt / equity0.0×
Current ratio2.3×+0.3×

Where this comes from

Calculated from Powell Industries’s reported figures.

Based on trailing twelve months.

The official record: Powell Industries’s 10-Q, filed May 5, 2026, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →

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Questions, answered.

What is Powell Industries's interest coverage?
Powell Industries (POWL) reported interest coverage of 13.4× in Q1 2026.
How has Powell Industries's interest coverage changed year-over-year?
Powell Industries's interest coverage increased by 4.9% year-over-year, from 12.7× to 13.4×.
What is the long-term trend for Powell Industries's interest coverage?
Over 5 years (2020 to 2025), Powell Industries's interest coverage has grown at a -30.2% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 83.6× to 13.9×.
What does interest coverage mean?
How many times the company's operating profit covers its interest bill.
How do you interpret interest coverage?
Higher is safer; below ~2× is a warning that earnings provide little cushion against the debt burden. Debt-free companies have no interest expense and the ratio is left blank.
How does interest coverage compare across companies?
Comparable across leveraged non-financials; less relevant for net-cash companies with negligible interest.