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Vertiv Holdings Co

Strong FundamentalsStrong FundamentalsRevenue growing 30% YoY at strong marginsStreet coverage with positive forward estimatesConsistent chatter on X (394/wk), no spike
$VRT·$93B·Electrical Equipment & Parts·Industrials
$253.84-3.1%YTD+59.3%1Y+106.9%
Mentions · last 7 days
2026-08-16: 45 posts2026-08-17: 73 posts2026-08-18: 76 posts2026-08-19: 84 posts2026-08-20: 39 posts2026-08-21: 54 posts2026-08-22: 21 posts394+2%
Price updated 6m ago·X counts updated 2d ago
VRVRT
$VRTVertiv Holdings Co
$253.84-3.10%394 posts+2%
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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 2026-08-22

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

The data-center power and cooling franchise is real — the tape is chewing on securities-fraud investigations.

Vertiv makes the AC/DC power, thermal management, and rack systems that keep data centers running — the picks-and-shovels supplier to every hyperscaler AI buildout, plus telecom and industrial customers. It's been one of the best AI-adjacent trades of the last two years.

  • Growth remains genuinely strong: revenue was $2.65B last quarter, up 30% year-over-year with an 18.5% operating margin — that's the shape of an industrial name absorbing hyperscaler demand at scale, and the last four earnings prints have all beaten by 5-26%.
  • The liquid-cooling narrative is a real revenue expansion: as AI racks pass 130kW, liquid cooling stops being an optional attach and becomes standard — Vertiv is one of the few names with the acquisition-driven cooling franchise (Cool IT) at scale to capture that shift.
  • Securities-fraud investigations by Hagens Berman and Pomerantz Law Firm are on the tape: these are class-action fishing expeditions triggered by the recent drawdown, not confirmed disclosure allegations — but they create sentiment noise and legal-fee overhang until they resolve.
  • The insider bundle is empty (no directional signal): no Form 4 activity in the last 60 days from officers or directors, which is unusual for a mid-cap growth stock and neither confirms nor refutes the fundamental read.

The stock has cooled 11% below the 50-day but sits mid-range at 55% of the 52-week and up 107% TTM — the shape is digestion after a large run, not a top forming. The Oct 28 earnings print needs revenue growth to hold above 25% and the FY27 outlook to reference specific liquid-cooling revenue disclosures. Continued class-action escalation or an AI-datacenter capex-guide cut would extend the cool; a beat plus a fresh hyperscaler win breaks it higher toward $300.

Agrees with X sentimentX's split framing is honest — the liquid-cooling attach thesis is real and the tape has bounced off $210-$230, but the class-action noise and the $300-resistance short thesis both deserve airtime. Neither side is wrong; this is a genuine tug-of-war after a big run, and the crowd is being appropriately careful about both directions.

What to watch: Q3 earnings Oct 28: revenue growth needs to stay above 25% and FY27 liquid-cooling revenue needs an explicit dollar disclosure. A class-action escalation or AI-datacenter capex-guide cut would extend the cool.

On the calendar: 2026-10-28 — Q3 2026 earnings

X sentiment

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

Bullish sentiment11 posts analyzed · as of 2026-08-22

Vertiv chatter is bullish on Q2 net sales $3.27B (+24% YoY) and adjusted operating profit +51%, framed as the essential power-and-cooling gear for every AI server rack. Bulls group VRT with BE (power) and SKHY (memory) as the AI-datacenter bottleneck trio, note NVDA earnings next Wednesday as a catalyst, and one DDer's fair-value ~$225 (15% overvalued today) makes it a partial-position hold. A modest sector pullback with LRCX, VRT and ETN dropping while NVDA and MU held is the technical caveat.

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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

Partial — Makes power distribution, thermal management, and monitoring systems for data centers, growing with AI infrastructure buildout; partial earnings exposure to electrical equipment & parts demand dynamics through its product portfolio.

Industry benchmark

36-name peer basket
+22.0%YTD
+68.7%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
Q2 2026Jul 29, 2026$1.52$1.43+6.3%
Q1 2026Apr 22, 2026$1.52$1.42+7.0%
Q4 2025Feb 11, 2026$1.36$1.29+5.4%
Q3 2025Oct 22, 2025$1.24$0.98+26.0%
Next earningsWed, Oct 28·consensus EPS $1.81

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$13.7B – $14.1B$6.49$6.46 – $6.5720
FY27$17.8B$17.1B – $18.5B$8.82$7.96 – $9.4920
FY28$21.7B$20.0B – $25.2B$11.31$10.08 – $12.5119
FY29$25.1B$23.7B – $28.1B$13.36$12.41 – $15.4810
FY30$28.1B$26.6B – $31.6B$15.89$14.76 – $18.4116

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.55%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.-10.9%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.+4.1%Latest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.

Float & profile

FloatHigh float · 378.6M shFree-float shares — the slice of issued stock actually available to trade. Lower buckets squeeze harder on a catalyst.Traded today0.8% 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.β2.065-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

8-KPress release / Reg FDJul 298-K — Item 2.02: Earnings release · Item 7.01: Press release / Reg FD
AI summary

VRT (VRT) filed an 8-K under Item 2.02 on 2026-07-29 announcing earnings results for the 2026. The filing furnishes a press release with the company's financial results and operational highlights. No detailed headline figures are available in the excerpt — the full earnings press release is attached as an exhibit. This is a routine earnings disclosure; materiality depends on whether results beat or missed consensus expectations.

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.

+ 15 other (3 13Gs · 2 10-Qs · 2 routine 8-Ks · 2 proxys) in window

Recent news

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

Invesco Discovery Mid Cap Growth Fund Q2 2026 Portfolio Performanceseekingalpha.com·1d ago3 Data Center Stocks Powering the AI Buildout247wallst.com·1d agoVertiv Benefits From Margin Gains: Can It Outpace APH and SMCI?zacks.com·3d agoVRT Alert: HAGENS BERMAN, NATIONAL TRIAL ATTORNEYS, Encourages Vertiv Holdings Co (NYSE: VRT) Investors with Significant Losses to Contact Firmglobenewswire.com·3d agoAllworth Financial LP Has $5.64 Million Position in Vertiv Holdings Co. $VRTdefenseworld.net·4d ago

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