Powell Industries, Inc. (POWL)

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Powell Industries, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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Powell Industries, Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $565 million in fiscal 2016 to $1.1 billion in fiscal 2025, up 7.7% a year; it rose in 7 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 30% from fiscal 2016 to fiscal 2017; net income was positive in 8 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-09-30, Powell Industries, Inc.'s diluted share count grew about 0.6% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 8% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 73 sales (36 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-20 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-09-30, Powell Industries, Inc. earned about 28 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 29 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 42 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 0.2% over the year (the filed statements).

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Powell Industries, Inc.'s standing among 42 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $1.1 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 43% by size; a net margin of 16.4% ranks in the top 11%; revenue growth of 27.5% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 13% (its annual reports).

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Powell Industries, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Cope, Brett Alan (President & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2016-10-04, 10.1 years (top 21% of its family); most of the 20 officers and directors filing now have filed since the record of its people begins (2024-05-30), a floor of 2.6 years the record cannot see past, so that part is not read; 5 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 20 people in charge now (top 24%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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Powell Industries, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $451 million against no long-term debt tagged leaves 40.6% of its assets as net cash, top 4% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 14% of revenue (top 20%); a gross margin of 29.4% (bottom 46%); research spending of 1% of revenue (bottom 7%) (its annual report).

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Powell Industries, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 27.5% a year over the last three filed years against 7.7% over all 10, speeding up (top 6% of its family); the newest year grew 9.1% (top 30%); research spending grew 16.5% a year (top 24%); capital spending grew 75% a year (top 11%) (its annual reports). Powell Industries, Inc. reported 6 product lines in fiscal 2025: Oil and Gas Service at $407 million (37%), Electricity at $279 million (25%), Commercial and Other Industrial at $178 million (16%), and 3 more; 3 of 6 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Powell Industries, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $1.1 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 20.9% below the $1.4 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 15% of its family); net income of $181 million against a prior three-year average of $73 million (top 13%); a net margin of 16.4% against 8.4% before (top 23%) (its annual reports).