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How Powell Industries, Inc. stacks up
POWL · against 432 other Industrials companies of similar size
Profitability
98/ 100
Near the top of its peers.
Ranked #12 of 433 · scores higher than 96% of peers
Bars: peers in each 10-point band of the profitability score54 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 | Position among peers | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Return on invested capitalHigher is better · 410 reported | 146.7% | 9.8% | 99% | 33% | |
| Operating marginHigher is better · 434 reported | 19.7% | 10.2% | 85% | 33% | |
| Return on assetsHigher is better · 412 reported | 13.6% | 4.3% | 97% | 33% | |
| Return on equityHigher is better · 411 reported | 28.3% | 11.5% | 91% | Context only | |
| Gross marginHigher is better · 439 reported | 30.1% | 29.2% | 52% | Context only |
Ranking by profitability score
Top 5 and the companies ranked around POWL| Rank | Company | Market cap | Profitability | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 32.0B CNY (≈$4.5B) | 100 | 73 | |
| 1 | 69.3B CNY (≈$9.7B) | 100 | 71 | |
| 1 | 1.71T JPY (≈$11.6B) | 100 | 75 | |
| 4 | 26.9B CNY (≈$3.8B) | 99 | 72 | |
| 4 | 7.8B USD | 99 | 82 | |
| 12 | 25.0B MYR (≈$5.5B) | 98 | 73 | |
| 12 | 82.6B NOK (≈$7.8B) | 98 | 74 | |
| 12 | 7.2B USD | 98 | 60 | |
| 12 | 4.5B EUR (≈$4.9B) | 98 | 73 | |
| 12 | 6.0B USD | 98 | 66 | |
| 12 | 11.0B USD | 98 | 65 | |
| 19 | 66.8B CNY (≈$9.4B) | 97 | 86 | |
| 19 | 4.9B USD | 97 | 78 | |
| 21 | 8.6B USD | 96 | 68 |
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