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Vertiv Holdings Co

Strong FundamentalsStrong FundamentalsRevenue growing 30% YoY at strong marginsStreet coverage with positive forward estimatesConsistent chatter on X (1.5K/wk), no spike
$VRT·$115B·Electrical Equipment & Parts·Industrials
$320.58-1.0%YTD+91.1%1Y+152.3%
Mentions · last 7 days
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Price updated 14m ago·X counts updated 21h ago
VRVRT
$VRTVertiv Holdings Co
$320.58-1.03%1.5k posts+18%
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AI verdict & sentimentAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Top X posts

Today's AI verdict on what's driving $VRT, plus how loud the X conversation is and which way it's leaning.

AI analysis

TickerTalks’ read on the fundamentals and what’s driving the move.

Proven numbersCooling offAI verdict · as of 2026-07-09

Catching its breath after a run — could pick back up or fade from here.

Vertiv is being priced as the physical backbone of the AI data-center — with a $15B backlog, 2.9x book-to-bill, and a Malaysia manufacturing expansion.

Vertiv makes the thermal and power infrastructure inside AI data centers — cooling units, power distribution, and rack-level modules. It's the most direct picks-and-shovels play on data-center capex, and it's up 152% year-over-year on a backlog and order book that keeps growing.

  • The backlog is doing the storytelling: a $15B+ backlog and 2.9x book-to-bill means Vertiv has three years of revenue already sold, and the new Johor, Malaysia manufacturing facility for thermal and power modules is a capacity commitment aligned with a demand curve — not a build-it-and-hope-they-come move.
  • The mechanics are catching up: Q1 revenue grew 30% year-over-year at a 17% operating margin, TTM ROE is 42%, and free cash flow is genuinely positive — this is a real earnings story, not just a book-to-bill headline.
  • The tape has been digesting after a run: shares pulled from ~$358 to ~$302 over the last 30 days on essentially normal volume, position sits at the 77th percentile of the 52-week range, and the +6% session on the day of the $3.2M September $360 call sweep is a specific bullish flow print.
  • The valuation leaves no margin for a book-to-bill downtick: 74x TTM P/E and 50x EV/EBITDA for an industrial with a book-to-bill this high still needs the hyperscaler capex cycle to keep extending — the Malaysia investment plus infrastructure-spend-per-MW rising is the specific mechanism.

The July 29 earnings are the near-term test — book-to-bill sustained above 2x, backlog conversion cadence, and any dated Malaysia-plant revenue timeline. A clean beat plus a raised backlog guide and $358 gets retested; a book-to-bill step-down or a hyperscaler-order pause and the 74x multiple compresses toward the $270 support fast.

Agrees with X sentimentThe bull thread on the $15B backlog, 2.9x book-to-bill, the Malaysia manufacturing expansion, and the $3.2M September $360 call sweep is aligned with both the operating math and the flow — 30% revenue growth at 17% op margin plus 42% ROE actually earns the AI-infrastructure-backbone label. The pull from $358 to $302 as a buyable dip is the setup the crowd is playing.

What to watch: The July 29 Q2 earnings. Book-to-bill staying above 2x, backlog conversion pace, and any dated Malaysia-plant revenue timeline. A book-to-bill step-down or hyperscaler-order pause and the 74x multiple compresses toward $270 support.

On the calendar: 2026-07-29 — Q2 earnings

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X sentiment

What the X crowd is saying right now — descriptive, summarised from the day’s posts.

Bullish sentiment21 posts analyzed · as of 2026-07-09

Vertiv chatter centers on AI-data-center exposure, with unusual $3.2M call flow at the $360 strike and a breakout-retest holding the golden pocket. Posts frame VRT as a top pick alongside power-and-cooling peers on the AI capex theme. Momentum traders eye continuation into new highs.

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What it does

Plain-English summary of the business — what they sell and how they make money.

Makes power distribution, thermal management, and monitoring systems for data centers, growing with AI infrastructure buildout.

Industry overviewAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Where Electrical Equipment & Parts sits in its cycle right now — and what that implies for $VRT.

Electrical Equipment & Parts · Industrials

No material change from last week — VRT and NVT confirmed at fresh highs that hyperscaler rack power acceleration is a multi-year capex cycle for electrical infrastructure.

What this means for $VRT

Direct beneficiary — Vertiv Holdings Co, headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, is a global provider of essential digital infrastructure technologies and comprehensive lifecycle services.

Industry benchmark

29-name peer basket
+29.4%YTD
+95.4%1Y

Fundamentals & catalyst

Profitability, valuation, and the next earnings event — at a glance, with rule-of-thumb signals.

Key ratios

P/E
73.8How much investors are paying per dollar of profit the company actually earned in the last 12 months. Lower means the stock looks cheaper relative to earnings.~15–25 is typical for the S&P 500; high-growth names trade 30+; hyper-growth or speculative can be 100+ or negative.
ROIC
20.3%What percentage return the business earns on every dollar of capital (equity + debt) deployed in operations. The cleanest measure of business quality.Above ~15% is high-quality; consistently above 25% suggests a real moat. Below the company's cost of capital is value-destroying.
Op margin
18.5%Operating profit (after sales, marketing, R&D, and overhead but before interest and taxes) as a percentage of revenue. The clearest view of how well the underlying business is run.Mature business above 20% is healthy; software businesses can run 30%+; commodity / retail businesses operate in single digits.
FCF yield
2.0%Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capex) divided by the company's market cap. The cash-on-cash return you'd get owning the whole business at today's price.Above ~5% is attractive; below ~2% means you're paying up for growth. Capital-light businesses (software) run higher than capital-heavy ones (utilities).
P/S
10.6Same idea as P/E but per dollar of revenue. Useful for companies that aren't profitable yet, where P/E is meaningless.Under ~2 is cheap; software / SaaS often runs 8–15; well above 20 implies the market is pricing in very high future growth.
ROE
42.1%Net income as a percentage of shareholders' equity. Similar to ROIC but counts only the equity side.Above 20% is strong, but can be inflated by leverage — a heavily indebted company can show high ROE with weak underlying ROIC.
Gross margin
36.2%Revenue minus the direct cost of producing what was sold, as a percentage of revenue. The first read on whether the product is structurally profitable.Software / SaaS is typically 70%+; consumer goods 30–50%; commodity / hardware businesses can be under 20%.
D/E
0.8Total debt divided by shareholders' equity. Measures how much the business runs on borrowed money versus owner capital.Under 1 is conservative; 1–2 is typical for mature businesses; over 2 is leveraged and more sensitive to interest rates.

Past earnings

QuarterReportedActualEstimateSurprise
Q1 2026Apr 22, 2026$1.17$1.00+17.0%
Q4 2025Feb 11, 2026$1.36$1.29+5.4%
Q3 2025Oct 22, 2025$1.24$0.98+26.0%
Q2 2025Jul 30, 2025$0.95$0.83+14.2%
Next earningsWed, Jul 29·consensus EPS $1.43

Quarterly trend

QuarterRevenueYoYGrossOpEPSFCF
Q1 FY26$2.6B+30.1%37.7%16.6%$1.02$654.2M
Q4 FY25$2.9B+22.7%36.9%20.9%$1.17$911.6M
Q3 FY25$2.7B+29.0%37.8%19.3%$1.04$466.7M
Q2 FY25$2.6B+35.1%32.2%17.2%$0.85$277.0M

Forward consensus

5-year forecast · up to 20 analysts
FYRevenueRangeEPSRangeAnalysts
FY26$13.9B$13.8B – $14.1B$6.49$6.44 – $6.5620
FY27$17.8B$17.1B – $18.4B$8.80$7.96 – $9.4620
FY28$21.6B$21.6B – $21.6B$11.28$10.05 – $12.5719
FY29$24.9B$23.8B – $27.2B$13.20$12.46 – $14.7810
FY30$28.1B$26.9B – $30.7B$15.89$15.00 – $17.7816

Setup & momentum

Volume, range, and moving-average position — the technical setup driving short-term moves.

Right now

Vol vs 30dToday's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.0.6×Today's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.
52w rangeWhere the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.79%Where the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.
vs 50d MALatest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.-0.6%Latest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.
vs 200d MALatest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.+38.6%Latest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.

Float & profile

FloatHigh float · 377.8M shFree-float shares — the slice of issued stock actually available to trade. Lower buckets squeeze harder on a catalyst.Traded today1.0% of floatToday's volume as a percent of the free float. Above 5% on a single day is unusually high turnover for the available share count.β2.035-year weekly beta vs the S&P 500. Above 1.5 means the stock typically moves more than the index; below 0.8 moves less.

Insider activity

Recent open-market buys and sells by officers and directors — flagged when multiple insiders cluster.

Recent transactions

SellMar 6Edward L MonserDirector1.7K sh$407K
+ 47 other (42 awards · 4 inkinds · 1 exempt) in window

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SEC filings

Material 8-K, 13D, S-3, and 424B5 events from the last 180 days — the filings that actually move the price.

Recent material filings

3New insider — initial holdingsJun 183
AI summary

Krishna Mikkilineni joined Vertiv Holdings Co's board of directors effective June 17, 2026, and directly owns 278.2 shares of Class A common stock. Routine initial Section 16 director disclosure for this data center power and thermal management equipment manufacturer.

8-KShareholder voteJun 188-K — Item 5.07: Shareholder vote
AI summary

Vertiv Holdings Co held its 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders on June 17, 2026, in virtual-only format with 86.05% of shares constituting a quorum represented; three proposals were voted upon, including the election of eleven directors. Routine annual meeting at this high-growth data center infrastructure company; all eleven directors were elected under a majority-vote framework.

8-KPress release / Reg FDJun 128-K — Item 7.01: Press release / Reg FD
AI summary

Vertiv Holdings disclosed the closing of its acquisition of ThermoKey S.p.A., an Italian manufacturer of thermal management and liquid cooling systems, by a wholly-owned Vertiv subsidiary on June 12, 2026. The announcement was furnished as Exhibit 99.1 under Regulation FD and is not filed for Exchange Act Section 18 purposes. The deal closes an earlier-announced transaction that expands Vertiv's cooling and thermal management product portfolio in the European market.

3New insider — initial holdingsMay 53
AI summary

Form filed by More than One Reporting Person Table I - Non-De filed a Form 3 (initial ownership statement) for VRT on 2026-05-05, initiating required Section 16 reporting. Role: of Reporting Person. Form 3 is a mandatory administrative filing upon first becoming an insider or 10%+ holder; it does not reflect a purchase or sale event.

8-KPress release / Reg FDApr 278-K — Item 7.01: Press release / Reg FD
AI summary

VRT filed an 8-K Item 7.01 (Reg FD) disclosure dated 2026-04-27. Reg FD disclosures make material information simultaneously available to all investors; content may include guidance updates, strategic plans, or preliminary results.

8-KPress release / Reg FDApr 228-K — Item 2.02: Earnings release · Item 7.01: Press release / Reg FD
AI summary

VRT reported period ending 2026-04-22 financial results (8-K Item 2.02). Investors should review the full earnings press release and any management guidance for forward outlook.

8-KPress release / Reg FDApr 138-K — Item 7.01: Press release / Reg FD
AI summary

VRT filed an 8-K Item 7.01 (Reg FD) disclosure dated 2026-04-13. Reg FD disclosures make material information simultaneously available to all investors; content may include guidance updates, strategic plans, or preliminary results.

8-KPress release / Reg FDMar 248-K — Item 7.01: Press release / Reg FD
AI summary

VRT filed an 8-K Item 7.01 (Reg FD) disclosure dated 2026-03-24. Reg FD disclosures make material information simultaneously available to all investors; content may include guidance updates, strategic plans, or preliminary results.

+ 17 other (3 13Gs · 2 routine 8-Ks · 2 proxys · 2 8-Ks) in window

Recent news

Latest headlines from major outlets, sourced and timestamped — context for whatever just moved.

South Korea's $576 Billion AI Bet Shows Why Vertiv Is More Than a Cooling Company247wallst.com·1d agoVertiv Expands in Malaysia to Boost AI Infrastructure: What's Ahead?zacks.com·2d agoWhy Vertiv Holdings Co. (VRT) Dipped More Than Broader Market Todayzacks.com·3d ago2 AI & Quantum Stocks to Buy Now for Gains in the Second Half of 2026zacks.com·3d agoIs Vertiv (VRT) a Solid Growth Stock? 3 Reasons to Think "Yes"zacks.com·3d ago

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