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Industrials · Construction & Engineering
Structural read: PWR sells the labor + project-management layer that physically builds the grid. Datacenter capex from $MSFT, $GOOGL, $META, $AMZN pulls forward decades of transmission and substation work that utilities cannot self-perform at scale.
Backlog inflected - ~$36B as of latest print, with electric segment leading. Lineworker headcount is the moat (multi-year training cycle, union shops); margin expansion comes from labor utilization, not pricing.
- Datacenter electrical TAM scaling with hyperscaler capex - PWR named on multiple gigawatt-scale buildouts
- Backlog at record levels, electric segment book-to-bill above 1.0x
- Acquisitions (Cupertino Electric 2024) deepened mission-critical / datacenter exposure
- Lineworker scarcity is a structural moat - competitors cannot ramp labor on demand
- Utility transmission capex cycle (grid hardening, interconnect queue) independent of AI cycle
- Project-based revenue - quarter-to-quarter lumpiness, weather + permitting risk
- Margins thin (mid-single-digit operating) - execution misses compress quickly
- Sentiment-driven multiple ~30x fwd P/E priced for AI-capex continuity
- Hyperscaler capex digestion risk would hit the highest-multiple segment first
- Renewable segment exposed to IRA / policy reversal risk
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