BN · rank #12 · 2026-07-22
SU
PARIS · EUR · $172.78B (USD)
The exact numbers the algorithm saw.
| Composite score Z-score blend of the factors below; drives the rank. | -0.27 |
|---|---|
| Forward revenue growth Consensus forward revenue growth. | +8.9% |
| Forward net margin Consensus forward net margin. | +11.1% |
| Net margin TTM Trailing twelve month net margin. | +10.4% |
| Margin expansion Forward minus trailing net margin (percentage points). | +0.7% |
| Forward PEG Forward P/E to growth. Below 1 is cheap for the growth. | 1.90 |
| Debt / FCF Net debt relative to free cash flow. Lower is safer. | 1.99× |
| Analyst upside Spread between the consensus 12m target and the current price. | +14.9% |
| Last EPS surprise Most recent reported EPS versus consensus. | — |
| Market cap (USD) | $172.78B |
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Summary
Schneider Electric is a global energy management and industrial automation leader offering an end-to-end "grid-to-chip" hardware, software, and services stack purpose-built for AI data center power and cooling infrastructure.
Rationale
The bottleneck-solver thesis is directly reinforced by triple-digit data center segment growth, multi-year U.S. contracts with embedded lifecycle services, validated NVIDIA reference designs, and 800 VDC/liquid-cooling architectures that position SU as a structural chokepoint rather than a sentiment trade.
Material risks
- 1Hyperscalers or large colocation customers internalizing power and cooling design (the brief explicitly flags this) could erode Schneider's sole-source positioning and compress backlog conversion — the single most direct disqualifier for a bottleneck-solver thesis.
- 2The $3.1B cash Cognite acquisition adds integration execution risk and reduces balance sheet flexibility precisely when FX headwinds of ~€750–850M are already pressuring reported revenues and margins.
AI verdict council
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