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Powell Industries POWL Price / earnings

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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/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 the most recent quarter.

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 price / earnings?
Powell Industries (POWL) reported price / earnings of 35.1× in Q1 2026.
How has Powell Industries's price / earnings changed year-over-year?
Powell Industries's price / earnings increased by 196.5% year-over-year, from 11.9× to 35.1×.
What is the long-term trend for Powell Industries's price / earnings?
Over 5 years (2020 to 2025), Powell Industries's price / earnings has grown at a 3.7% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 17× to 20.4×.
What does price / earnings mean?
How many dollars investors pay for each dollar of the company's annual profit.
How do you interpret price / earnings?
Lower can mean cheaper — or that the market expects earnings to fall. High multiples embed growth expectations. Meaningless when earnings are negative, so it is suppressed there.
How does price / earnings compare across companies?
Compare against the company's own history and sector peers, not across sectors with different growth and risk profiles.