How Powell Industries, Inc. stacks up

POWL · against 468 other Industrials companies listed in US-listed

Profitability

98/ 100

Near the top of its peers.

Ranked #12 of 469 · scores higher than 96% of peers

Bars: peers in each 10-point band of the profitability score

91 peers with a profitability score of 90–100, including POWL · Click a bar to see the companies

Why profitability scores 98?

Weighted metrics compared with all Industrials companies.

Mainly thanks to its return on invested capital, return on assets and operating margin, which are stronger than most Industrials peers.

a wider operating margin: stronger than 88% of peers. Operating margin: 19.7% vs peer median 7.7%
a higher return on assets: stronger than 97% of peers. Return on assets: 13.6% vs peer median 3.1%
a higher return on invested capital: stronger than 99% of peers. Return on invested capital: 146.7% vs peer median 7.1%

Metric by metric

Position: dot = POWL, ranked from the worst peer (left) to the best (right); tick = middle, shaded = middle half of peers.

Metric	POWL	Peer median	Better than	Weight
Return on invested capitalHigher is better · 456 reported	146.7%	8.2%	100%	33%
Operating marginHigher is better · 465 reported	19.7%	8.5%	83%	33%
Return on assetsHigher is better · 462 reported	13.6%	4.4%	92%	33%
Return on equityHigher is better · 438 reported	28.3%	11.5%	86%	Context only
Gross marginHigher is better · 475 reported	30.1%	30.1%	50%	Context only

Ranking by profitability score

Top 5 and the companies ranked around POWL

Rank	Company	Market cap	Profitability	Overall
1	SBC Medical Group Holdings IncorporatedSBC · US-listed	536M USD	100	80
1	Verisk Analytics, Inc.VRSK · US-listed	25.6B USD	100	50
3	Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste, S. A. B. de C. V.ASR · US-listed	7.8B USD	99	82
3	Exponent, Inc.EXPO · US-listed	4.1B USD	99	59
3	Fastenal CompanyFAST · US-listed	60.0B USD	99	71
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12	Comfort Systems USA, Inc.FIX · US-listed	45.2B USD	98	47
12	Masco CorporationMAS · US-listed	16.2B USD	98	49
12	Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc.ODFL · US-listed	37.0B USD	98	54
12	Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico, S.A.B. de C.V.PAC · US-listed	14.2B USD	98	64
12	Powell Industries, Inc.POWL · US-listed	6.0B USD	98	66
12	Sterling Infrastructure, Inc.STRL · US-listed	11.0B USD	98	65
12	Vertiv Holdings CoVRT · US-listed	90.8B USD	98	59
22	Argan, Inc.AGX · US-listed	4.9B USD	97	78
22	Copart, Inc.CPRT · US-listed	28.8B USD	97	73

Scores are sector-relative percentiles from the latest snapshot, always calculated against the whole sector: narrowing the comparison group changes who you compare with, not the scores. Missing metrics are left out and the remaining weights rescaled. How we score

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