---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000080420-25-000145"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "POWL"
cik: "0000080420"
company_name: "POWELL INDUSTRIES INC"
filed_at: "2025-11-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T18:58:50.118867+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.8
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Powell Industries Q4 EPS $4.22 (+12% YoY); revenue $298M (+8%); backlog $1.4B

## Summary
- Q4 net income $51.4M ($4.22 diluted EPS) vs $46.1M ($3.77) prior year; gross margin 31.4% vs 29.2%.
- Full year FY2025 revenue $1.1B (+9%); net income $180.7M ($14.86 EPS, +21%); new orders $1.2B (+9%).
- Backlog $1.4B as of Sep 30, 2025, up 3% YoY; Q4 new orders $271M (+1%) balanced across markets.
- Completed acquisition of Remsdaq Ltd., a U.K.-based SCADA RTU manufacturer for electrical substation automation.
- Outlook expects sustainable FY2026 margin profile; capacity expansion at Jacintoport facility underway, completion in H2 FY2026.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000080420-25-000145
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: POWL
- cik: 0000080420
- company_name: POWELL INDUSTRIES INC
- filed_at: 2025-11-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.8
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/80420/000008042025000145/0000080420-25-000145-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/80420/000008042025000145/powl-20251118.htm

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