Powell Industries, Inc. (POWL)

Custom switchgear and electrical equipment. Read November 8, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending September 30, 2025, filed November 19, 2025. Ranked 172 of the 275 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

An electrical equipment maker with 3,143 full-time employees in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, read whole at electrical equipment manufacturing.

The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.

What follows from the reading

Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 27% now, 34% at the end of 2027, 36% at the end of 2028, 36% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 36% desk work, 16% people work and 48% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 63% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 31% becomes checking a model's work and 5% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

3,143 employees as of September 30, 2025 (stated). Not stated as a count; employees are primarily in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, and 80% of revenue is in the United States.

The filing: “At September 30, 2025, we had 3,143 full-time employees and 315 contract employees located primarily in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom (U.K.).”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: 3,143 full-time employees and 315 contract employees, the latter not counted; no unions; average tenure seven years.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Electrical Equipment Manufacturing, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five. Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.

• Eaton Corporation plc (ETN, 97,303 employees)29% now, 40% by 2028
• Vertiv Holdings Co (VRT, 34,000 employees)29% now, 37% by 2028
• Regal Rexnord Corporation (RRX, 29,200 employees)28% now, 36% by 2028
• Generac Holdings Inc. (GNRC, 9,400 employees)27% now, 36% by 2028
• Allient Inc. (ALNT, 2,478 employees)27% now, 35% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

9 sentences in the filing name AI. Nine sentences, risk factors: competitors or third parties may incorporate artificial intelligence into their products or production methods faster or more successfully.

• “The development or use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) by our competitors or other third parties may impair our ability to compete effectively and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.”
• “Our competitors may develop products or production methods that are superior in price or quality, or incorporate AI into their products that will make current products or services offered by us obsolete.”
• “Our competitors or other third parties may incorporate AI, including machine learning, data science and similar technologies, into their product development, product enhancement or product offerings more quickly or more successfully than us, which could impair our ability to compete effectively and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.”
• “We may not be successful in our AI initiatives, which could adversely affect our business, reputation, and results of operations.”
• “The algorithms and models utilized in generative AI systems may have limitations, including biases, errors, or inability to handle certain data types or scenarios.”

Its annual reports, year by year

Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector

• Fiscal 20210median 0
• Fiscal 20220median 0
• Fiscal 20230median 1
• Fiscal 20246median 4
• Fiscal 20259median 10

Headcount by filing year

As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.

Limits of this reading

• The 315 contract employees are not counted (rule 8).
• The U.S. share is not stated as a count.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000080420-25-000152, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.