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Jim Cramer - Mad Money
Powell Industries
POWL-Q
BUY
Aug 19, 2024
Stock price when the opinion was issued
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It's moved up, and is probably entering another consolidation phase. And if it's a good company, it'll move up again. Looking at a 1-year chart, it could be breaking down a bit on daily chart. Old resistance becomes new support, so $190-200 could be the potential target for that. Overall, not a bad longer-term picture.
Had a great run-up last year, but has slid this year. Why? Has strong fundamentals, positive analysts coverage and low valuation. It soared when data centres were hot, but is sliding when they're not. The actual business is doing well: a healthy backlog of $1.3 billion and $269 million of new orders, and excellent earnings. Sales and earnings have slowed from last year's insanely high levels. Still boasts mid-20s revenue growth and mid-40s earnings growth. The selling is overdone.
Has soared from $20 in late-September 2022 to $171 today. An industrial company that makes electricity-related equipment, geared to oil and gas companies (including pipelines and refineries), but they're growing because of new end-users in utilities, transportation, metal, mining and data centres. Big growth since last year, 31% revenue growth. EPS nearly quadrupled in 2023 as orders grew 94% and they saw a backlog of 118%. The street has been under-estimating them, so they have been beating their quarters huge.