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Our current read (analysis of 2026-09-11): Designation Low · Gem Score -17 (−100…+100 Quality+Value blend) · Quality 67 · Value -73 · Sentiment 8 (timing only, not weighted) · Composite fair value $230.21 vs $453.00 at analysis
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Hubbell Inc.
HUBB NYSEHubbell Inc. is an industrial company that designs, manufactures, and sells electrical and utility solutions for residential, commercial, industrial, and utility applications. Its product portfolio includes wiring devices, connectors, grounding products, enclosures, switches, smart meters, communications systems, and protection and control equipment, supporting the infrastructure used to generate, transmit, distribute, and manage electricity. Hubbell Inc. serves customers across construction, electrical contracting, telecommunications, and utility markets, with solutions focused on building, protecting, connecting, and controlling power systems and electrical networks. The company operates through its Utility Solutions and Electrical Solutions segments, which together address both grid infrastructure and building electrification needs. Headquartered in Shelton, Connecticut, Hubbell Inc. plays an important role in the electrical equipment market by supplying components and systems that help support reliable power delivery and modern electrical infrastructure.
Price Overview
Price History (1 Year)
Revenue & Net Income Trend
| Period | Revenue | Net Income | Net Margin | YoY/QoQ |
|---|
Key Metrics
EPS (Diluted): 16.54
Total Equity: $3.86B
Shares: 53,500,000
Total Debt: $2.33B
Cash: $482.50M
EBITDA: $1.41B
Total Debt: $2.33B
Cash: $482.50M
Revenue: $5.84B
Revenue: $5.84B
Revenue: $5.84B
Total Equity: $3.86B
Tax Rate: 20.3%
Equity: $3.86B
Total Debt: $2.33B
Cash: $482.50M
Current Liabilities: $1.51B
Long-Term Debt: $2.04B
Total Debt: $2.33B
Total Equity: $3.86B
Shares: 53,500,000
Shares: 53,500,000
CapEx: -$155.10M
Shares: 53,500,000
Stock Price: $453.00
Net Income: $887.10M
Industry Benchmarks
Income Statement (Annual)
Last updated: Sep 1, 2026 1:39am (37d ago)| Metric | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $4.2B | $4.9B | $5.4B | $5.6B | $5.8B |
| Cost of Revenue | $3.0B | $3.5B | $3.5B | $3.7B | $3.8B |
| Gross Profit | $1.2B | $1.5B | $1.9B | $1.9B | $2.1B |
| Operating Expenses | $619.2M | $762.5M | $849.6M | $812.5M | $855.3M |
| Operating Income | $532.3M | $709.1M | $1.0B | $1.1B | $1.2B |
| Net Income | $399.5M | $545.9M | $759.8M | $777.8M | $887.1M |
| EBITDA | $681.4M | $857.6M | $1.2B | $1.3B | $1.4B |
| EPS | $7.33 | $10.13 | $14.14 | $14.46 | $16.63 |
| EPS (Diluted) | $7.28 | $10.07 | $14.05 | $14.37 | $16.54 |
Balance Sheet (Annual)
Last updated: Sep 1, 2026 1:30am (37d ago)| Metric | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | $286.2M | $440.5M | $336.1M | $329.1M | $482.5M |
| Total Current Assets | $1.9B | $2.0B | $2.2B | $2.1B | $2.6B |
| Total Assets | $5.3B | $5.4B | $6.9B | $6.7B | $8.2B |
| Current Liabilities | $1.1B | $1.1B | $1.3B | $1.3B | $1.5B |
| Long-Term Debt | $1.4B | $1.4B | $2.0B | $1.4B | $2.0B |
| Total Liabilities | $3.0B | $3.0B | $4.0B | $3.4B | $4.4B |
| Total Equity | $2.2B | $2.4B | $2.9B | $3.3B | $3.9B |
| Retained Earnings | $2.6B | $2.7B | $3.2B | $3.7B | $4.2B |
Cash Flow (Annual)
Last updated: Sep 1, 2026 1:50am (37d ago)| Metric | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating Cash Flow | — | — | $880.8M | $991.2M | $1.0B |
| Capital Expenditure | -$90.2M | -$129.3M | -$165.7M | -$180.4M | -$155.1M |
| Free Cash Flow | — | — | $715.1M | $810.8M | $874.7M |
| Acquisitions (net) | $100,000 | -$177.1M | -$1.2B | $5.9M | -$958.3M |
| Net Debt Issued / (Repaid) | -$1.3M | $0 | $600.0M | -$600.0M | $1.0B |
| Dividends Paid | — | — | — | — | — |
| Stock Buybacks | -$11.2M | -$182.0M | -$30.0M | -$40.0M | -$225.0M |
| Net Change in Cash | $30.0M | $153.7M | -$104.0M | -$7.7M | $152.7M |
Growth Trends (YoY %)
Last updated: Sep 1, 2026 1:39am (37d ago)| Metric | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue Growth | +18.0% | +8.6% | +4.8% | +3.8% |
| Gross Profit Growth | +27.8% | +28.3% | +0.8% | +8.4% |
| Operating Income Growth | +33.2% | +46.5% | +5.1% | +10.7% |
| Net Income Growth | +36.6% | +39.2% | +2.4% | +14.1% |
| EBITDA Growth | +25.9% | +38.5% | +9.7% | +8.5% |
Dividend History (Last 20)
Last updated: Sep 1, 2026 1:30am (37d ago)| Date | Dividend | Declaration | Record | Payment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-29 | $1.42 | — | — | — |
| 2026-02-27 | $1.42 | — | — | — |
| 2025-11-28 | $1.42 | — | — | — |
| 2025-08-29 | $1.32 | — | — | — |
| 2025-05-30 | $1.32 | — | — | — |
| 2025-02-28 | $1.32 | — | — | — |
| 2024-11-29 | $1.32 | — | — | — |
| 2024-08-30 | $1.22 | — | — | — |
| 2024-05-31 | $1.22 | — | — | — |
| 2024-02-28 | $1.22 | — | — | — |
| 2023-11-29 | $1.22 | — | — | — |
| 2023-08-30 | $1.12 | — | — | — |
| 2023-05-30 | $1.12 | — | — | — |
| 2023-02-27 | $1.12 | — | — | — |
| 2022-11-29 | $1.12 | — | — | — |
| 2022-08-30 | $1.05 | — | — | — |
| 2022-05-27 | $1.05 | — | — | — |
| 2022-02-25 | $1.05 | — | — | — |
| 2021-11-29 | $1.05 | — | — | — |
| 2021-08-30 | $0.98 | — | — | — |
Deep Analysis
Risk : Reward — upside vs downside from this company's own quarters
Computed 2026-09-10 02:03A +1σ run of quarters pays -42%; a −1σ run costs 62%. Ratio -0.7:1 (μ 6.7%, σ 5.5% , 16 pairs).
Older method (repeat-worst-quarter): -0.6 : 1
| Case | Growth | Margin | Fair value | vs price ($453.00) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bull — recovery | +15% | 17.4% | $297.67 | -34% |
| Base — stabilizes | +10% | 15.1% | $225.34 | -50% |
| Bear — keeps slipping | +5% | 12.8% | $167.19 | -63% |
| Stress — last quarter repeats | +2% | 16.2% | $188.05 | -58% |
| Upside — a +1σ run of quarters (v2) | +12% | 16.6% | $264.55 | -42% |
| Stress — a −1σ run of quarters (v2) | +1% | 15.0% | $170.47 | -62% |
Narrative Economics
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Growth Outlook
Analyzed 2026-09-01 01:59The question every valuation on this page silently assumes: is this company likely to grow? Judged forward — the business, its category, the world — against what's already printed.
Claude Reading
Looking at the raw quarterly print first: revenue went $1.45B → $1.44B → $1.33B → $1.37B → $1.48B → $1.50B → $1.49B → $1.52B. That's a legitimate reacceleration — Q1'26 revenue is up 11% YoY vs Q1'25's $1.37B, not the 3.8% recent YoY the momentum module cites (which appears to average stale quarters). Net income tells a messier story: Q1'26 NI of $181.8M is up 11% YoY but margin compressed from Q3/Q4'25's 15-17% back to 12%. Either mix shifted, input costs bit, or there's a one-timer in the prior comps. Full-year 2025 delivered $5.84B rev / $887M NI — 3.7% revenue growth, 14% earnings growth, 15.2% net margin, 23% ROE, 16.9% ROIC. FCF conversion is excellent ($875M FCF on $887M NI). Debt/equity 0.60 with $482M cash is unremarkable but fine. This is a genuinely high-quality industrial compounder — not a value trap.
Where I diverge sharply from the synthesis: a $247 fair value implying -45% downside is not credible for a business earning 17% ROIC with mid-single-digit organic growth and grid/data-center tailwinds. That DCF is almost certainly using a punitive discount rate or terminal growth assumption inconsistent with what the market pays for peers (ETN at ~35x, ROP ~30x, nVent ~25x). Hubbell at 27x forward earnings and ~18x EV/EBITDA is a premium but not an outlier — it's roughly in line with the electrification cohort. The Market Forces module calls this a "value trap masquerading as recovery" and cites share loss, but nothing in the financials supports share loss: 2021→2025 revenue went $4.19B → $5.84B (39% cumulative, ~8.6% CAGR including M&A), operating margin expanded from 12.7% to 20.7%, and NI more than doubled. That's not a company losing structural ground.
The contrarian case I'd actually take seriously isn't "value trap" — it's cyclical peak margin. Op margin roughly doubled in four years; that's hard to sustain if utility capex normalizes or if the Utility Solutions segment sees the pricing gives-back that Eaton and others have flagged. If normalized margins are 17-18% rather than 20.7%, 2027 EPS is closer to $15 than $17, and a 22x multiple gets you to $330 — meaningful downside from $453 but nowhere near $247. The Q1'26 margin dip to 12% is the tell to watch: one quarter is noise, two is a trend. Also worth noting the insider activity is trivial — 547 share sale is a rounding error, not a signal, and the "Neutral" tag is correct but uninformative.
Committing: I dissent from the synthesis verdict of $247 fair value but agree HUBB is stretched. The narrative-economics module has this roughly right — fundamentals anchor a compounder story, the price demands a growth upgrade that hasn't been earned. Fair value in my read is $360-390 (22-24x $16 normalized EPS), implying ~15-20% downside, not 45%. At $453 you're paying for grid modernization to deliver another leg of margin expansion on top of already-peak margins — possible but not probable, and the Q1'26 margin compression is a warning shot. I'd wait for either a print-driven reset toward $380 or clear evidence Q1 margin weakness was one-time before adding. Existing holders should trim, not dump.
GPT Reading
At $453, Hubbell is being priced like a superior secular compounder, but the actual financial profile is that of an excellent industrial business growing at a respectable, not exceptional, rate. Revenue has gone from $4.19B in 2021 to $5.84B in 2025, a solid 8.7% four-year CAGR, yet the more recent slope is slower: $5.37B in 2023, $5.63B in 2024, $5.84B in 2025, so the last two annual increases were just 4.8% and 3.7%. The quarterly run-rate says the same thing. The latest quarter was $1.52B, up from $1.37B a year earlier, but that comparison is flattered by a relatively soft base; sequentially the business is basically moving sideways around $1.48B-$1.52B. What has really improved is profitability: operating income rose from $709M in 2022 to $1.21B in 2025, lifting operating margin from 14.3% to 20.7%, and net margin is now 15.2%. That is impressive execution, but it also means a big part of the equity story has already been harvested through margin expansion rather than durable top-line acceleration.
Cash generation is the best part of the story and the reason this is not a short-on-quality name. Hubbell produced $1.03B of operating cash flow and $874.7M of free cash flow in 2025, which is roughly a 3.7% FCF yield on a $23.9B market cap. Return metrics are strong — 22.99% ROE and 16.9% ROIC — and leverage is manageable with $2.33B of debt against $482.5M of cash and $3.86B of equity. This is a very good business. The problem is the price being asked for that quality. At 27.4x earnings, 18.3x EV/EBITDA, 4.15x sales, and 6.3x book, the market is valuing Hubbell more like a premium automation or software-enabled infrastructure franchise than an electrical equipment manufacturer with mid-single-digit revenue growth. A business with a 15% net margin and sub-5% recent sales growth can deserve a premium, but not an open-ended one.
The most important contradiction in the data is that earnings momentum still looks healthy while the underlying growth engine is clearly cooling. Net income increased from $777.8M in 2024 to $887.1M in 2025, and the latest quarter’s earnings of $181.8M were up 11% from $163.2M a year earlier. But margins in the most recent quarter fell back to 12% from 16.5%-17% in the prior three quarters and from 15% in the year-ago fourth quarter. That may be mix or seasonality, but at this valuation, any sign that 2025 represented peak margin rather than a new baseline matters a lot. If revenue is only growing 4%-5% and margins stop expanding, the 27x multiple becomes very hard to defend. The market appears to be capitalizing a multi-year grid modernization narrative as though it will convert into sustained high-single-digit growth; the actual numbers so far support “high-quality cyclical/defensive industrial” more than “structural grower.”
The strongest case against this view is straightforward: Hubbell may deserve to break out of the normal industrial valuation bucket because its end markets are genuinely better than average. Utilities, grid hardening, electrification, and data-center-related power infrastructure can create a longer and more resilient demand cycle than ordinary construction or MRO exposure. The company has also shown that pricing power and operating discipline are real, not theoretical: gross margin expanded from 28.4% in 2022 to 35.3% in 2025, and operating margin crossed 20%, which is elite for this type of business. If that margin structure is durable and revenue can keep compounding even at 6%-8%, then today’s multiple is less egregious than it screens. I still weigh that case less heavily because the burden of proof should be on sustained growth, and the most recent annual revenue trend — $5.37B to $5.63B to $5.84B — simply does not yet show the kind of acceleration that justifies paying nearly 4.5x EV/revenue for an industrial.
What would change my mind is evidence that Hubbell can pair its strong margins with a clearly better growth trajectory without leaning on further multiple expansion. Specifically, I would want to see at least two consecutive quarters of 7%+ year-over-year revenue growth on a base now above $1.5B per quarter, while keeping operating margin near or above 20% and free cash flow around or above $900M annually. If instead revenue remains a 3%-5% story and net margin hangs around 15% or slips toward the 12%-14% quarterly range, I would expect the stock to de-rate materially. This is a high-quality company, but quality is already more than fully reflected at $453; I struggle to get comfortable much above the low-$300s absent a visible re-acceleration.
Grok Reading
Hubbell’s numbers describe a high-quality mature industrial that has already harvested most of the easy margin expansion and is now decelerating into mid-single-digit growth while the market still pays growth-stock multiples. Revenue climbed from $4.19B in 2021 to $5.84B in 2025, but the path is clearly slowing: +18% in 2022, then +8.5%, +4.8%, and only +3.7% in 2025, with trailing quarterly run-rates still stuck near $1.5B and recent revenue YoY at 3.8%. The real story of the last four years was operating leverage—operating income nearly doubled from $532M to $1.21B and net margin expanded from roughly 9.5% to 15.2%—not top-line acceleration. Free cash flow of $875M is excellent conversion (almost dollar-for-dollar with the $887M of net income) and ROIC of 17% plus ROE of 23% confirm a durable franchise, yet at $453 the stock trades at 27.4x earnings, 4.1x sales, and an 18.3x EV/EBITDA with a FCF yield of only ~3.7%. That is a premium that requires sustained 7%+ growth and further margin upside the recent trajectory simply does not show.
Quarterly detail reinforces the plateau. The four most recent full quarters sit in a tight $1.48–1.52B band; the March 2026 print delivered $1.52B of revenue but only a 12% net margin ($182M NI), a sharp step-down from the 15–17% margins of mid-to-late 2025. Balance-sheet risk is modest—$2.33B debt against $3.86B equity and a 1.72 current ratio—but net debt still absorbs a meaningful slice of the enterprise, and the $482M cash pile is not a fortress relative to the $24B market cap. Insider activity is noise (small awards and routine sales). The quantitative models that spit out ~$247 fair value are not inventing a problem; they are simply refusing to capitalize a 4.3% revenue CAGR and 8% earnings CAGR at a 27x multiple.
The strongest counter-argument is that Hubbell is not a generic electrical distributor. Gross margin has held at 35%, operating margin has reached 21%, and the company sits inside regulated utility and code-driven construction channels where switching costs and specification lock-in are real. If grid hardening, data-center power infrastructure, and electrification spending re-accelerate Hubbell’s organic growth back into the 6–8% zone while margins stay at current levels, a mid-20s earnings multiple becomes defensible rather than absurd, and the DCF anchor near $250 would look too static. The FCF engine is clean, the balance sheet is serviceable, and sector leadership in a multi-year infrastructure cycle can justify a scarcity premium that pure industrial comps do not receive. That is the bull case the market is already embedding at $453.
I weigh that case as already fully—and then some—priced in. Growth has decelerated for three straight years even as the infrastructure narrative intensified; the multiple has expanded faster than the fundamentals. A smart opponent citing ROIC and secular tailwinds is correct that this is a good business; they are incorrect that good businesses automatically clear 27x when revenue is compounding at 4%. What would flip the verdict is concrete evidence that the top line has re-accelerated: two consecutive quarters of high-single-digit organic growth with margins holding above 15%, or a clear step-up in backlog/orders tied to data-center and utility capex that lifts the forward revenue CAGR above 7%. Until those numbers appear, the $453 price is a narrative multiple sitting on mature-earner economics.
Big-3 Panel — where each AI stands
Advanced Analysis Forensic deep-dive · separate lenses
Revenue has climbed from $4.19B in 2021 to $5.84B in 2025 (roughly 8.6% CAGR), with gross margin expanding from 27.5% to 35.3% and operating margin nearly doubling from 12.7% to 20.7%. Net income has more than doubled to $887M and FCF has swung from negative $90M in 2021 to $874.7M in 2025, tracking net income almost 1:1 (OCF/NI 1.2x, accruals -2.2% of assets). Beneish M at -2.46 and Altman Z at 5.35 corroborate that reported earnings are real cash earnings, not accrual constructs. Capital discipline is solid: diluted share count is drifting down (-0.6% CAGR to 53.5M), SBC is a trivial 0.6% of revenue, and buybacks run at ~3.7x SBC, so per-share value is being concentrated rather than leaked. The one meaningful constraint is the balance sheet: $498M cash against $1.83B net debt. That is manageable at $875M annual FCF (roughly 2x FCF net leverage) but leaves the balance sheet as a constraint rather than a cushion, likely reflecting M&A funding. Insider tape is unremarkable — awards, in-kind tax withholdings, and one small $284K sale; no directional signal either way.
Verify before trusting this (5)
- Composition and maturity ladder of the $1.83B net debt and any covenant thresholds
- Whether recent margin expansion is price/mix (durable) or driven by a specific acquired segment like Utility Solutions
- Customer/end-market concentration, particularly exposure to utility grid and telecom capex cycles
- M&A cadence and goodwill/intangible balance relative to tangible equity
- Pension and OPEB obligations given the industrial legacy
Price sits at $453 versus an e2e composite fair value of $232 and a signal-adjusted FV of $247, implying roughly 45% downside if those anchors are right. Even the most generous input, a DCF at $279, still leaves the stock ~38% above deserved value. The EPV floor of $139 shows what you would pay for the current earnings stream with no growth credit — the gap between $139 and $453 is essentially the price of the growth-and-quality story.
Verify before trusting this (4)
- Forward organic growth guidance vs the low-single-digit bear framing
- Utility segment order book and any grid-capex tailwind quantification
- Sustainability of recent margin step-up (mix vs price vs cost)
- Capital allocation intent given $1.83B net debt — buyback pace vs M&A
The macro backdrop is mildly risk-on (VIX 14.9, S&P near highs), and with a 0.9 beta HUBB neither benefits much from risk-appetite chasing nor gets punished on wobbles. This is a defensive-industrial compounder that trades on story, not flow; the tape is essentially neutral for it. What matters more is the narrative: a strong 'grid modernization / electrification platform-monopoly' story is holding a ~$453 price versus a $247 DCF anchor, meaning sentiment is doing real work here. Intensity is strong but durability is only moderate and cult coefficient is low, so the premium is supported by a plausible thematic story rather than fanatical holders. Newsflow is quiet (routine dividend), analyst tone shows no revision impulse either direction, and momentum is constructive but not euphoric. Net: the narrative premium is a live tailwind keeping the multiple aloft, offset by macro headwinds from 4.73% 10y yields and a 25.8x market PE pressuring long-duration industrial multiples. Nothing in the last 72h shifts the balance.
Verify before trusting this (4)
- Utility capex commentary from peers (ETN, nVent, GNRC) as a tell on the electrification narrative
- Any sell-side target revisions or downgrades citing valuation versus DCF anchor
- 10y yield direction - a move above 4.9% would pressure the multiple
- Q3 order-book / book-to-bill guidance as narrative durability test
The world is spending on electrons: utility rate-base investment, grid replacement of aged distribution assets, electrification of buildings and fleets, and a data-center load shock that has made electrical equipment the scarcest link in the chain. That backdrop is genuinely favourable to Hubbell's franchise and supports mid-to-high single-digit organic growth for years, since much of the spend is regulator-approved and therefore insensitive to the rate cycle. But the same wave is being captured disproportionately by suppliers of high-voltage power trains, switchgear and thermal management; Hubbell's mix of consumable utility components and non-residential wiring participates at a lower slope. Meanwhile higher-for-longer rates weigh on the commercial construction half of demand. Net: a good business riding a real secular tailwind at a modest beta, not a hyper-growth asset.
When we made this prediction on Sep 1, 2026, HUBB was $442.85. We expect it to be $412.00 by Mar 2027, and we consider it great value under $300.00. This is an early model (v0.6.0) — the direction is more reliable than the exact price. Made Sep 1, 2026.
Blue is our prediction, starting the day we made it. Grey is a slower route to the same place — the same destination, taking longer. Black is the actual price, so you can see how we are doing.