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Good afternoon, fellow investors, and welcome back to another episode of InvestTalk.

I'm your host, Luke Guerrero, today's Friday, January 30th, 2026.

Now, January's almost over, but it does not mean our mission to educate you ends just as we turn to a new month.

So we got a lot of good plan for you today. And as always,

we have plenty of finance and investment questions to answer. So why don't we kick it off right now

with this question that came in earlier to 88899 chart. Hi, Justin. Hi, Luke. This is Kirk

of Ohio. I'm just calling about Powell Industries, E-O-W-L. I see it do pretty well. I'm

held it on to it for a little while. I just wanted to know what you think it's going to do from here.

Thank you. Hi.

Powell Industries, Dr. P-O-W-L is an industrial electrical equipment manufacturer. So what they do is they design, they engineer,

and they build these custom power control systems as well as electrical distribution equipment.

There's really used all over the place, used for commercial reasons, used in the industrial

setting and utilities and refineries and oil and gas in pipelines. It's $5.6 billion market cap company.

So on the larger end of the small cap spectrum and got very little debt, less than $1 million

in debt on its balance sheet.

So very strong balance sheet, very strong fundamentals.

In fact, I mean, their return on equity sits

at 32.2% as of fiscal year end, September 2025, projected to fall a little bit there. But on top of

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