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Powell Industries Inc (POWL) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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Powell Industries designs and builds custom electrical equipment: power control rooms, switchgear, circuit breakers, motor control centres and electrical houses, plus field service and spare parts for these systems. It serves oil and gas, LNG, utilities, mining, light rail and data-centre customers, among others, installing and maintaining the gear on-site.

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Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for POWL, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Versus its index Rubin Build-Out 100 — the name, its sleeve and the index over day, week and month

Versus its index

The name against its Closelooknet index and its own sleeve — equal-weight, nightly closes.

Rubin Build-Out 100 · as of 2026-11-10

DayWeekMonth3 months
POWL−2.4%−15.4%−25.4%−33.5%
DC Power & Electrical−2.7%−11.7%−21.8%—
Rubin Build-Out 100+1.4%−7.1%−22.2%—

Against the index: 8.3 pts behind on the week, 3.2 pts behind on the month; against its DC Power & Electrical sleeve 3.6 pts behind on the month.

Returns from the index workers’ nightly closes; equal-weight sleeves. A relative reading from the research diary, not advice.

Weather around the name 4 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sector × region …

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 48/100 · S&P 500 fund at 51, above its 200-day averageEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-11-10
  • Factor regime Defensive rotation — low-vol leading, regime-change watchMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): below its 50-day trend, 67th percentile of the window, -18.1% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-11-10
  • Sector × region Industrials in US: −1.5% week · −0.2% month · −9.0% quarter · −1.7% yearThe Sector Engine cell this name lives in, from XLI.US; the 11 × 4 matrix shows where its sector is being bought and where it is being sold. Sector Engine → 2026-11-10
  • Sovereign pressure Index -1.67 · down 1.71 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-11-09
How it trades on rate days beta 0.42 to TLT · on the worst bond days it fell more than the market

How it trades on rate days

How POWL has moved when long-dated Treasury yields rise — measured against TLT, the 20+ year Treasury fund.

  • Beta to long bonds, 1 year 0.42 — shows only a loose link to bond moves for every 1% move in TLT (20+ year Treasuries), Powell Industries Inc moved 0.42% on average · correlation 0.06 · higher than 31% of US names
  • Beta, last 3 months −1.80 less rate-sensitive lately than over the year
  • On the 10 worst bond days −1.31% on average against −0.72% for the S&P 500 the 10 sessions of the past year in which TLT fell most, i.e. long yields rose most
  • Latest of those days −2.43% TLT −1.32% that day 2026-11-10

Daily total returns from the adjusted price series; a TLT down day is a day long yields rose. Beta = the average move of the name for a 1% move in TLT. Past sensitivity, not a forecast. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Who it is priced against Electrical equipment for the build-out · 5 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Electrical equipment for the build-out

Curated competitor set — who the market prices this name against, not just who shares its sector.

Compared against POWL on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Company snapshot — Powell Industries Inc

POWL in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelooknet stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Powell Industries designs and builds custom electrical equipment: power control rooms, switchgear, circuit breakers, motor control centres and electrical houses, plus field service and spare parts for these systems. It serves oil and gas, LNG, utilities, mining, light rail and data-centre customers, among others, installing and maintaining the gear on-site. The company is based in Houston, Texas.
Where it sits in the stack
Powell holds a seat in our Rubin Build-Out 100, the diary's index of the AI build-out supply chain, though it carries no assigned layer or sleeve there. Its equipment sits upstream of the data centre itself, supplying the power switchgear and control rooms that route electricity into a build-out site before any compute layer can run.
Who it is priced against
Closelooknet's peer group for Powell is built around electrical equipment for the build-out, setting it against Eaton, Vertiv, ABB, Schneider Electric and Hubbell; the market also names Eaton as the closest comparison on switchgear scale.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
Powell is a Rubin Build-Out 100 constituent and carries a Closelooknet score, with balance sheet as its strongest module and momentum as its weakest. It has no quotes recorded in the diary's editions to date.
What the diary watches
The diary watches whether order intake tied to data-centre power build-out feeds through to the momentum module, given the gap between its balance-sheet strength and its weak momentum reading.

Powell Industries Inc (POWL) trades on US exchanges, classified under Industrials, and sits in Layer 7 of the build-out stack. Constituent of Rubin Build-Out 100.

The Closelooknet company score reads 48/100 composite (momentum 6, quality 68, valuation 41) across 7 modules — the full breakdown, chart structure and analog history load live above.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 0.06%, annual · buybacks 12 m USD in FY2025

Dividends and capital return

What POWL pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 0.0892 USD per share · a 0.06% yield on the 2026-11-10 close 1 distribution, paid once a year 2026-11-10
  • Change on the year −74.9% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 0.36 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.0892 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2025-11-19
  • By calendar year 2023: 0.0875 USD (partial) · 2024: 0.35 USD · 2025: 0.36 USD first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2023-11-14
  • Dividends paid, FY2025 13 m USD 9% of earnings
  • Buybacks, FY2025 12 m USD 0.3% of today's market value
  • Share count −0.2% in FY2025 5 m USD of stock-based compensation in the year
  • Capital returned 25 m USD · 16% of free cash flow dividends and buybacks together, against the year’s free cash flow

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-11-11

Quick answers

What is Powell Industries Inc (POWL)?

Powell Industries Inc trades as POWL on the US exchange (US) and is classified under Industrials in the Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-11-11.

Is POWL in a Closelooknet index?

Yes — Powell Industries Inc is a constituent of Rubin Build-Out 100, as of 2026-11-11.

What is Powell Industries Inc's Closelooknet composite score?

48 out of 100, with momentum 6, quality 68 and valuation 41 sub-scores, as of 2026-11-11. Scores are Closelooknet's own research readings, not ratings or investment advice.

Where does POWL trade against its moving averages?

Powell Industries Inc trades 18.7% below its 50-day and 33.6% below its 200-day moving average (10.4% below its 20-day). As of 2026-11-09 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How is POWL doing against its Closelooknet index?

Over the past month Powell Industries Inc is −25.4% against −22.2% for the Rubin Build-Out 100 — 3.2 points behind its index, as of 2026-11-10. Its DC Power & Electrical sleeve is −21.8% over the same month. The “Versus its index” table on this page carries the day, the week and the month for the name, its sleeve and the index.

How does Powell Industries Inc compare with its peers?

Against its peer group (Electrical equipment for the build-out), Powell Industries Inc (POWL) sits 56.8% below its 52-week high, 18.7% below its 50-day average; Eaton Corporation PLC (ETN) is 25.1% below, Vertiv Holdings Co (VRT) is 47.2% below, ABB Ltd (ABBN.SW) is 23.0% below, as of 2026-11-09. Put any of them next to POWL in the chart grid (2×1 or 2×2) and the page lays the companies side by side: performance, trend, valuation, margins and our money-flow reading.

How does Powell Industries Inc trade when bond yields rise?

Over the past year Powell Industries Inc had a beta of 0.42 to TLT, the long-dated Treasury fund — it shows only a loose link to bond moves, higher than 31% of US names. On the 10 sessions in which long bonds fell most it moved −1.31% on average, against −0.72% for the S&P 500. As of 2026-11-10; The "How it trades on rate days" block on this page carries the lines.

What does Powell Industries Inc do?

Powell Industries designs and builds custom electrical equipment: power control rooms, switchgear, circuit breakers, motor control centres and electrical houses, plus field service and spare parts for these systems. It serves oil and gas, LNG, utilities, mining, light rail and data-centre customers, among others, installing and maintaining the gear on-site. The company is based in Houston, Texas. Closelooknet's peer group for Powell is built around electrical equipment for the build-out, setting it against Eaton, Vertiv, ABB, Schneider Electric and Hubbell; the market also names Eaton as the closest comparison on switchgear scale. (Company snapshot of 2026-09-17.)

Where does Powell Industries Inc sit in the AI build-out?

Powell holds a seat in our Rubin Build-Out 100, the diary's index of the AI build-out supply chain, though it carries no assigned layer or sleeve there. Its equipment sits upstream of the data centre itself, supplying the power switchgear and control rooms that route electricity into a build-out site before any compute layer can run. Powell is a Rubin Build-Out 100 constituent and carries a Closelooknet score, with balance sheet as its strongest module and momentum as its weakest. It has no quotes recorded in the diary's editions to date. (Company snapshot of 2026-09-17.)

Does Powell Industries Inc pay a dividend?

Powell Industries Inc has paid 0.0892 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid once a year, a trailing yield of 0.06% on the 2026-11-10 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.0892 USD on 2025-11-19. In fiscal 2025 the company paid 13 m USD in dividends and bought back 12 m USD of its own shares, 16% of that year’s free cash flow. The share count fell 0.2% over the fiscal year. As of 2026-11-10; the "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

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