NVT|Earnings Snapshot
EPS
| Qtr | Est | Actual | +/− |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q3'26 | $1.39 | - | - |
| Q2'26 | $1.17 | $1.45 | +23.8% |
| Q1'26 | $0.95 | $1.09 | +14.7% |
| Q1'25 | $0.66 | $0.67 | +0.8% |
Revenue
| Qtr | Est | Actual | +/− |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q3'26 | $1.4B | - | - |
| Q2'26 | $1.3B | $1.5B | +15.7% |
| Q1'26 | $1.1B | $1.2B | +10.8% |
| Q1'25 | - | $809M | - |
NVT|Monthly Returns
Market Data
NVT Stock Snapshot
- Market cap
- 23.73B
- P/E ratio
- 39.7
- Day range
- $146.40 – $151.12
- News sentiment
- 69/100 · Bullish
- Analyst target
- $204.07 (+39.4%)
- Consensus
- Buy · 24 analysts
NVT's technical picture is under pressure, with momentum working against price. The stock is liquid enough that positioning changes get absorbed without distorting the trend.
Reverse DCF
What growth is priced into NVT?
At today's price, nVent Electric plc needs to grow free cash flow about 50.9% a year for the next 10 years to justify its valuation at a 11.70% cost of capital. Over its actual history it has compounded free cash flow at 4.8% a year, so the market is asking for 46.1 percentage points above its own delivered rate. On that basis NVT looks priced above what its own growth record supports.
- Implied FCF growth
- 50.9%
- Historical FCF CAGR
- 4.8%
- Growth gap
- +46.1 pts
- Verdict
- RICH
- Discount rate (WACC)
- 11.70%
- Beta
- 1.43
Behaviour On Record
What NVT's own history says about today's numbers
- Realized volatility (21d)
- 61.1% 94th pct
- Below its peak
- -20.4%
- vs 200-day average
- +7.3%
- Up days (1y)
- 55%
nVent Electric plc is currently running 61.1% annualised volatility over the last 21 sessions. Measured against NVT's own 8 years of daily returns rather than a market-wide average, that is the 94th percentile — an extreme by its own standards, against a typical reading of 31.1%. The distinction matters because a number that looks calm for one stock is turbulent for another, and the absolute figure on its own tells you neither.
NVT is trading -20.4% below its running peak. Across 7 full years on file, its median worst-drawdown-in-a-year was -29.1%, and the deepest was -56.2% in 2020. The current pullback is therefore shallower than what this stock gives back in a typical year, which is context worth having before treating it as a dislocation.
Price sits +7.3% from its 200-day moving average. Against every other day in its history, that gap ranks at the 45th percentile — close to the gap it normally carries. Over the past year NVT closed higher on 55% of sessions, and it is currently 1 session into a rising streak.
On September specifically: over 9 years of records, NVT finished the month higher 4 of 9 times, with a median return of -3.7% and an average of +0.4%. Its strongest month historically has been November at +6.5% on average, its weakest March at -4.7%. Seasonality is a weak signal on its own — a decade is a small sample and regimes change — but it is a real distribution rather than a rule of thumb.
Overnight risk is measurable too: NVT has opened more than 2% away from the prior close in 180 of 2,114 sessions (8.5% of the time), with the largest gaps running +8.0% and -13.3%. For anyone holding through an event, that rate is a better guide to overnight exposure than the intraday range.
All figures computed from 2,115 daily closes between 2018-04-17 and 2026-09-15, split-adjusted, recomputed daily. Percentiles are against NVT's own 8-year history, not a peer group or index.
Sector Rotation
Is money rotating into or out of NVT's sector?
nVent Electric plc sits in the Technology sector, currently ranked 6th of 11 GICS sectors by relative-strength rotation score (lagging). Within its narrower Semiconductors industry group, NVT ranks 13th of 15 tracked industries, lagging.
- Sector rank
- #6 of 11
- Sector state
- Lagging
- Sector rotation score
- 50
- Industry rank
- #13 of 15
Analyst Rating Changes
Are analysts turning bullish or bearish on NVT?
Roth Capital most recently reiterated its rating on nVent Electric plc to Buy on Aug 25, 2026 with a price target of $210 (from $195). Over the last 90 days, coverage has run 0 upgrades against 0 downgrades, a net mixed lean.
- Latest action
- Roth Capital — Buy
- 90-day upgrades
- 0
- 90-day downgrades
- 0
- Net rating momentum
- 0
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