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Nextracker Inc.
NXT NASDAQNextracker Inc. is an energy technology company specializing in intelligent solar tracking and control solutions for large-scale solar power plants. Headquartered in Fremont, California and founded in 2013, the company focuses on utility-scale and ground-mounted distributed generation projects across global solar markets. Nextracker’s platform combines single-axis solar trackers, structural foundations, electrical balance-of-system components, and advanced software to help solar arrays follow the sun and optimize energy production. Key offerings include NX Horizon and NX Horizon-XTR tracking systems designed for standard and challenging terrain, as well as NX Gemini for two-in-portrait configurations. Its TrueCapture and NX Navigator software enable automated tracker control, performance optimization, monitoring, and risk mitigation under varying weather and site conditions. By providing an integrated hardware-and-software solution that supports diverse module types and project geographies, Nextracker plays a significant role in the deployment and operational efficiency of utility-scale solar infrastructure worldwide.
Price Overview
Price History (1 Year)
Revenue & Net Income Trend
| Period | Revenue | Net Income | Net Margin | YoY/QoQ |
|---|
Key Metrics
EPS (Diluted): 3.84
Total Equity: N/A
Shares: 152,710,033
Total Debt: $0.00
Cash: $1.09B
EBITDA: $727.87M
Total Debt: $0.00
Cash: $1.09B
Revenue: $3.56B
Revenue: $3.56B
Revenue: $3.56B
Total Equity: N/A
Tax Rate: 17.9%
Equity: N/A
Total Debt: $0.00
Cash: $1.09B
Current Liabilities: $1.16B
Long-Term Debt: $0.00
Total Debt: $0.00
Total Equity: N/A
Shares: 152,710,033
Shares: 152,710,033
CapEx: -$49.28M
Shares: 152,710,033
Stock Price: $101.47
Net Income: $585.88M
Industry Benchmarks
Income Statement (Annual)
Last updated: Aug 15, 2026 11:39am (26d ago)| Metric | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $1.5B | $1.9B | $2.5B | $3.0B | $3.6B |
| Cost of Revenue | $1.3B | $1.6B | $1.7B | $2.0B | $2.4B |
| Gross Profit | $147.0M | $287.0M | $813.0M | $1.0B | $1.2B |
| Operating Expenses | $81.1M | $118.5M | $225.9M | $369.7M | $462.8M |
| Operating Income | $65.9M | $168.5M | $587.1M | $639.1M | $697.3M |
| Net Income | $0 | $1.1M | $306.2M | $509.2M | $585.9M |
| EBITDA | $77.1M | $173.1M | $591.5M | $652.5M | $727.9M |
| EPS | — | $0.02 | $3.97 | $3.55 | $3.96 |
| EPS (Diluted) | — | $0.02 | $3.37 | $3.47 | $3.84 |
Balance Sheet (Annual)
Last updated: Aug 15, 2026 11:26am (26d ago)| Metric | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | $29.1M | $130.0M | $474.1M | $766.1M | $1.1B |
| Total Current Assets | $714.1M | $872.3M | $1.8B | $2.2B | $2.8B |
| Total Assets | $1.0B | $1.4B | $2.5B | $3.2B | $4.1B |
| Current Liabilities | $473.4M | $507.4M | $891.5M | $1.0B | $1.2B |
| Long-Term Debt | $0 | $147.1M | $144.0M | $0 | — |
| Total Liabilities | $516.2M | $934.8M | $1.5B | $1.6B | $1.7B |
| Total Equity | $501.1M | $484.9M | $992.0M | $1.6B | — |
| Retained Earnings | $0 | -$3.1B | -$3.1B | -$2.6B | -$2.0B |
Cash Flow (Annual)
Last updated: Aug 15, 2026 11:39am (26d ago)| Metric | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating Cash Flow | -$147.1M | $107.7M | $429.0M | $655.8M | $562.9M |
| Capital Expenditure | -$5.9M | -$3.2M | -$6.2M | -$33.9M | -$49.3M |
| Free Cash Flow | -$153.0M | $104.5M | $422.8M | $621.9M | $513.6M |
| Acquisitions (net) | — | $0 | $0 | -$152.2M | -$117.2M |
| Net Debt Issued / (Repaid) | $0 | $150.0M | $0 | -$150.0M | $0 |
| Dividends Paid | — | — | — | — | — |
| Stock Buybacks | $0 | -$693.8M | -$552.0M | $0 | $-395,000 |
| Net Change in Cash | -$161.5M | $100.9M | $344.0M | $292.0M | $328.9M |
Growth Trends (YoY %)
Last updated: Aug 15, 2026 11:39am (26d ago)| Metric | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue Growth | +30.5% | +31.4% | +18.4% | +20.3% |
| Gross Profit Growth | +95.2% | +183.3% | +24.1% | +15.0% |
| Operating Income Growth | +155.6% | +248.5% | +8.9% | +9.1% |
| Net Income Growth | — | +26,692.7% | +66.3% | +15.1% |
| EBITDA Growth | +124.7% | +241.7% | +10.3% | +11.5% |
Deep Analysis
Risk : Reward — upside vs downside from this company's own quarters
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Growth Outlook
Analyzed 2026-08-17 16:15The 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
Reading the raw numbers first: NXT did $3.56B in FY26 (Mar-end) vs $2.96B prior — 20.3% growth, but the quarterly cadence tells a different story. Q1-Q4 FY26 went $864M → $905M → $909M → $880M. That's not growth, that's a plateau with a sequential decline into the most recent print. YoY comps look great only because H1 FY25 ($636M, $679M) was depressed; lapping into FY27 the comps get brutal. Net income is similarly flat-lining around $145M/quarter, and the trailing four quarters sum to $586M NI — essentially the run-rate the market is capitalizing at 26x. Free cash flow of $514M on $3.56B revenue is genuine (14.4% FCF margin, capex only $49M — asset-light is real), and $1.09B cash with no disclosed debt is a fortress balance sheet. So the business is high-quality; the question is what you pay for a plateau.
On the models: the synthesis fair value of ~$54 feels directionally right but the math is aggressive. At $101 and ~148M shares, EV is roughly $14.5B against $514M FCF — a 3.5% FCF yield, or 28x FCF. For a company whose sequential revenue is flat and whose end-market (US utility-scale solar) faces genuine IRA-rollback risk under the current administration, that's a premium multiple. But $54 implies ~16x FCF, which is industrial-commodity pricing and ignores the software attach story and the 40%+ market share. I think fair value is $65-75, not $54 — the synthesis is over-punishing. That said, I agree with the *direction*: overvalued. The market-forces "neutral" call is too generous given decelerating quarterlies plus unusual insider selling (those June 2026 J-Other and option-exercise clusters are not a coincidence — that's insiders monetizing into strength).
The contrarian case I'd steelman: gross margin expanded from 15% (FY23) to 32.6% (FY26), operating margin from 3.5% to 19.6%. That's not a hardware commoditization curve — that's software mix and pricing power showing up. If TrueCapture truly becomes 25%+ of revenue at 70%+ margins, the terminal margin profile looks more like a Roper-style industrial-tech compounder than a solar equipment vendor, and 26x PE is cheap. The bull needs two things: (1) revenue to break out of the $880-925M quarterly band in FY27, and (2) gross margin to push toward 35%+. Neither is visible in the current data. The recent quarter's 17.1% net margin is the highest of the year, which is a small tell that mix is improving — but one quarter isn't a trend. The pre-flight "traditional" classification is correct; the narrative layer's "platform-monopoly" framing is what the market believes but the numbers haven't yet earned.
Where the data is thin: total debt and equity are blank, which is a real gap for a leverage read (though $1.09B cash and $563M OCF suggest it's immaterial). The insider table lacks names/roles — "unusual selling" as a signal is weak without knowing if it's the CEO or rank-and-file RSU vesting. The macro-headwinds flag is under-weighted in synthesis: NXT's backlog is heavily US utility-scale, and any ITC/PTC modification is an existential multiple compressor, not a rounding error. I'd dissent from the synthesis on magnitude (fair value $65-75, not $54) but agree on direction. At $101 you're paying platform-multiple prices for a company whose most recent four quarters show zero sequential growth and whose CEO+team are selling. I'd want to see either $102, $107, $112, $118M... trajectory to justify current price, or a 30%+ pullback to build a position. Starter position makes sense in the $70s; at $101 the risk/reward is unfavorable even for a high-quality business.
GPT Reading
What stands out is that Nextracker is not a speculative solar name anymore; it is already a very high-quality earnings machine. Revenue has gone from $1.46B in FY2022 to $3.56B in FY2026, a 2.4x increase in four years, while net income went from effectively breakeven to $585.9M. Even more important, this was not bought with margin sacrifice. Gross margin improved from 10.1% in FY2022 to 32.6% in FY2026, operating margin from 4.5% to 19.6%, and net margin to 16.5%. Quarterly results show some lumpiness in revenue, but not a business losing control: the last four quarters were $864.3M, $905.3M, $909.4M, and $880.5M, while net margins stayed in a very healthy 14.4%-18.2% range. A solar equipment company producing over $500M of annual FCF on just $49.3M of capex, with $1.09B cash and no debt, deserves a premium to industrial peers.
The core question is whether that premium should still be this large at $101.47. On trailing numbers, the market is paying about 26.4x earnings, 19.1x EV/EBITDA, and roughly 30x FCF for a business that just grew revenue 20.3% and earnings 15.1%. That is not obviously insane, but it is rich for a company whose near-term revenue has flattened sequentially around the $880M-$925M quarterly band. FY2026 revenue rose 20% to $3.56B, but operating income only rose 9% from $639.1M to $697.3M, suggesting the easy operating leverage phase is fading. The annual numbers show a major structural step-up from FY2023 to FY2024, then much more incremental gains after that. To me, the story the numbers tell is less “early innings hyper-growth compounder” and more “excellent cyclical category leader now entering a steadier, more mature earnings phase.” If that framing is right, a low-20s earnings multiple is defendable; a high-20s/30x FCF setup leaves limited room for solar project timing hiccups, policy noise, or tracker pricing pressure.
That is why I do not get to the extreme bearishness implied by a fair value in the low-$50s. A company earning $585.9M with net cash of about $1.09B and converting 88% of net income into FCF ($513.6M / $585.9M) should not trade like a generic cyclical fabricator. Even if one haircut margins from the current 16%-18% quarterly net margin zone toward, say, 13%-14%, the business would still be very profitable on a multi-billion-dollar revenue base. The balance sheet sharply reduces downside because there is no leverage amplifying a sector downturn. In other words, the raw data argue against both the “commodity tracker” dismissal and the “software platform” fantasy. This looks like a superior industrial franchise with real moat elements, but not one that merits paying almost any price.
The best counterargument to my caution is that the last three years have repeatedly made valuation skeptics look foolish. Revenue has compounded at roughly 19%, earnings much faster, and FY2026 still posted 20% top-line growth on a base already above $2.9B. Gross profit reached $1.16B, and margins have held remarkably steady despite scale, which is exactly what you would expect if product differentiation and execution are real rather than narrative fluff. A bull would also note that 26x trailing earnings is not demanding if the company can keep compounding EPS at mid-teens rates while carrying excess cash and no debt. If utility-scale solar deployment remains structurally strong, today’s multiple could compress naturally through growth rather than price decline. I weigh that argument less heavily because the quarterly revenue cadence already looks more mature than the bull case wants to admit, and mature businesses with policy and project-cycle exposure rarely hold premium multiples indefinitely.
What would change my mind is simple. I would turn constructive if Nextracker reaccelerates from this $900M-ish quarterly plateau and proves FY2027 can deliver another leg up without margin erosion — specifically, sustained quarterly revenue above $950M and net margins still above 15%, or annual FCF moving decisively toward $650M+. That would support the premium as earned rather than narrative-driven. I would turn outright bearish if revenue slips back toward the $700M-$800M range while gross margin falls below 30% or operating margin drops under 17%; in that case, the market would likely stop treating this as a quality compounder and start valuing it like a cyclical equipment supplier. At $101, I see a great company, but not a cheap stock.
Grok Reading
The raw numbers describe a genuine high-quality industrial franchise that has completed its transition from break-even hardware vendor to cash machine. Revenue scaled from $1.46B in FY2022 to $3.56B in FY2026, with net income going from essentially zero to $586M and free cash flow of $514M on only $49M of capex—an asset-light conversion rate that pure hardware peers rarely achieve. Gross margin has stabilized near 33% and operating margin near 20%, while the balance sheet carries $1.09B cash and negligible debt. That is the story the income statement and cash flow statement actually tell: Nextracker is a mature earner with real pricing power and working-capital discipline, not a story stock still proving unit economics.
What the quarterly tape shows, however, is that the growth engine is already decelerating. The four most recent quarters print $881M, $909M, $905M and $864M—essentially flat sequential revenue after the $924M peak in March 2025. Year-over-year comparisons still look healthy (roughly +20% recently) only because the prior-year base was weaker; the run-rate has stopped compounding. Earnings margins remain excellent at 14–18%, but they are no longer expanding. At $101.47 the stock trades at 26.4× trailing earnings, 4.4× sales and 19× EV/EBITDA—multiples that embed continued mid-teens volume growth plus software-mix uplift that the last four quarters simply do not yet demonstrate. The valuation synthesis fair value near $54 is directionally correct; the market is paying an 80–90% narrative premium for a “platform monopoly” that the current P&L still looks like a very good tracker OEM with software attach, not a locked-in nervous system.
The strongest contrary case is straightforward and data-backed. Earnings CAGR of 38% and FCF of half a billion dollars justify a premium to ordinary industrials; if TrueCapture and related software can push mix toward 25% of revenue and hold 60%+ incremental margins while global utility solar keeps adding capacity under IRA and international equivalents, then 26× earnings on a business still growing mid-teens is defensible rather than absurd. Bulls will also note that the cash pile and current ratio of 2.45 give management optionality for buybacks or bolt-ons that could close the gap between DCF and price without needing heroic organic growth. I weigh that case as real but incomplete: it requires the decelerating quarterly revenue trend to reverse, software contribution to become visible in segment disclosure, and the competitive tracker market to remain rational on price—none of which is evidenced in the latest four prints or the unusual insider selling activity.
What flips the verdict is concrete: two consecutive quarters of sequential revenue re-acceleration above $950M with operating margin holding above 19%, or explicit disclosure that software/services exceed 15% of revenue at gross margins structurally above hardware. A sustained drop in the forward order book or gross margin compression below 30% would confirm the overvaluation call more forcefully.
Big-3 Panel — where each AI stands
Advanced Analysis Forensic deep-dive · separate lenses
Nextracker has transformed from a breakeven business in FY22 ($1.46B rev, 10.1% GM, 4.5% OpM, $0 net income) into a genuinely profitable one at scale: FY26 revenue of $3.56B (2.4x in four years), gross margin of 32.6%, operating margin of 19.6%, and net income of $585.9M. Free cash flow of $513.6M plus $1.09B in net cash means the business is fully self-funding with zero reliance on external capital. Earnings quality checks are pristine: accruals -0.4% of assets, Beneish M -2.52, Altman Z 6.64 (safe zone), and cumulative OCF/NI well above 1 across the trajectory - reported profits are backed by cash. Diluted share CAGR is only ~1.5% and buybacks have exceeded SBC (376.5% ratio), so per-share value is being protected rather than eroded despite 3.4% SBC/revenue. The operating leverage story is real - gross margin expanded from 10.1% to 32.6% while revenue more than doubled. FY26 shows a mild margin give-back (OpM 21.6% to 19.6%, GM 34.1% to 32.6%) worth watching but not yet a trend. Insider tape is mostly option-exercise-plus-J-Other (likely charitable/gift transfers) with one small S-sale; not classic distress selling, though the concentration of Shugar and other officer activity in June 2026 deserves noting.
Verify before trusting this (6)
- 10-K disclosure of customer concentration - top utility/EPC customers as % of revenue
- Nature of June 2026 J-Other transactions by Shugar, Ledesma, Bennett, Wenger (gifts to family/trust vs true dispositions)
- Working capital and capex detail explaining FY26 FCF step-down from $621.9M to $513.6M
- Backlog and book-to-bill trend to gauge whether recent growth is sustainable or peaking
- Any warranty accrual or project-related liability trends given long-duration tracker warranties
- Segment/geographic mix and exposure to US IRA/ITC policy changes
Price is $101.47 against a composite FV of $49.50 and a signal-adjusted FV of $53.81, implying roughly -47% downside to deserved value. The three methods bracket the debate: EPV floor at $30.85 (what the current earnings stream is worth if growth stops), DCF at $42.60 (a plausible growth path), and anchored-PE at $81.96 (market-comparable multiple). Even the most generous method sits below the tape, so the price is discounting continued share gains, sustained 30%+ operating margins, and multi-year utility-scale solar capex growth. The Company-Quality lens (score 65, Strong) and clean earnings quality justify pushing deserved value toward the upper end of the range - call it $70-$80 on a generous, quality-adjusted anchor - but that still leaves the stock 20-30% rich. Bull case (platform monopoly, software attach, 40% share) is real but already in the multiple; bear case (tracker commoditization, margin normalization, solar capex cyclicality) is the asymmetric risk since none of it is priced in. This is a good business at a full-to-rich price, not a mispriced one. I would need a materially lower entry before valuation does any of the work.
Verify before trusting this (4)
- Forward backlog conversion and pricing trend in next 10-Q - is ASP holding or already compressing
- Segment/geographic mix shift and any commentary on tracker-only vs software attach economics
- Guidance for FY operating margin - the market is anchoring on peak margins; watch for normalization language
- Any customer concentration or project delay disclosures that would compress the DCF growth path
The pressure on NXT right now leans clearly positive but not euphoric. The tape is risk-on (regime score +52, VIX 14.3), and with a 1.95 beta this name inhales that beta - risk-on days push it harder than the index, and today's solar-beats-wind headline lands directly on the bull narrative (utility-scale solar deployment accelerating). The platform-monopoly archetype with strong intensity and medium cult gives the story real gravitational pull, and momentum is confirming (19.3% CAGR, strong_positive score). That is a real tailwind stack for a story-driven high-beta name. The offsets are non-trivial though. The 10y at 4.63% and market PE 26.2 are a background headwind for long-duration growth equities, and NXT is exactly the profile that gets punished when duration reprices - narrative durability is only moderate, meaning the story is not bulletproof if solar-capex headlines cool or a cheaper tracker competitor gets airtime. Analyst tone is not in the brief, so I lean on the price action and narrative intensity as the tell: the tape is carrying this name, not fighting it, but the force is more moderate tailwind than dominant.
Verify before trusting this (4)
- Whether solar-capex or IRA/policy headlines stay supportive through the next earnings cycle
- Any analyst target revisions or sell-side downgrades citing tracker commoditization
- 10y yield direction - a move above 4.8% would pressure this duration profile
- Emergence of credible low-cost tracker competitor headlines that could crack the moat narrative
The world is adding electrical load faster than it has in decades — data centers, electrification, industrial reshoring — and solar plus storage is the fastest-to-deploy incremental supply. That structurally favors anyone selling shovels into ground-mount solar, and Nextracker sells the most unavoidable shovel. Against that: the US portion of the cycle is being timed by tax-credit deadlines rather than economics, which front-loads volume; capital costs remain elevated with the 10y at 4.63; and the equipment layer of energy transition markets has a long history of commoditizing once volume arrives (see modules, see inverters). Nextracker's defense is that its unit is engineered, project-specific and increasingly bundled with foundations, eBOS and software — harder to bid out than a module. That defense is credible for a few years and unproven for a decade.
Prediction unavailable. valuation-synthesis has no result for NXT — the prediction needs its fair-value anchors.