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Company snapshot — Powell Industries Inc

POWL in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook 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
Closelook'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 Closelook tracks it
Powell is a Rubin Build-Out 100 constituent and carries a Closelook 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. Constituent of Rubin Build-Out 100.

The Closelook company score reads 50/100 composite (momentum 24, quality 65, valuation 36) across 7 modules — the full breakdown, chart structure and analog history load live above.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’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.

Signals for this name

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

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 Closelook scores where it exists.

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 Closelook index and its own sleeve — equal-weight, nightly closes.

Rubin Build-Out 100 · as of 2026-09-16

DayWeekMonth3 months
POWL+3.7%−1.4%−18.8%−39.3%
DC Power & Electrical+4.0%−2.1%−6.4%—
Rubin Build-Out 100+1.9%−5.3%−7.4%—

Against the index: 3.9 pts ahead on the week, 11.4 pts behind on the month; against its DC Power & Electrical sleeve 12.4 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 45/100 · S&P 500 fund at 42, above its 200-day averageEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-16
  • Factor regime Momentum leadership cooling, still above trendMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 91th percentile of the window, -0.7% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-16
  • Sector × region Industrials in US: −1.8% week · −9.5% month · −6.0% quarter · −5.2% 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 → 2026-09-16
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.17 · up 0.22 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-16

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-17

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 Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-17.

Is POWL in a Closelook index?

Yes — Powell Industries Inc is a constituent of Rubin Build-Out 100, as of 2026-09-17.

What is Powell Industries Inc's Closelook composite score?

50 out of 100, with momentum 24, quality 65 and valuation 36 sub-scores, as of 2026-09-17. Scores are Closelook's own research readings, not ratings or investment advice.

Where does POWL trade against its moving averages?

Resizing — 45.8% off its high: 45.8% below its 52-week high, under its 200-day — a deeper resizing of the trend, not a shallow dip. As of 2026-09-16 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How is POWL doing against its Closelook index?

Over the past month Powell Industries Inc is −18.8% against −7.4% for the Rubin Build-Out 100 — 11.4 points behind its index, as of 2026-09-16. Its DC Power & Electrical sleeve is −6.4% 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.

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. Closelook'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.

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 Closelook 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 does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for POWL, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

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