datacenters, power & cooling · Industry Index 17 (rank #28) ·
price: as of 2026-10-29 index: as of 2026-10-29 fundamentals: latest filing 2026-10-28 Reports quarterly (10-Q XBRL)
Data-center power and thermal management; key supplier of liquid cooling for AI racks.
Industry exposure 0.7 (Data-center power and liquid cooling demand driven by AI buildout)
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Why flagged:earnings today
| Date | Contract | Score | Side (inferred)? | OI Δ? | Volume | Vol/OI | Flags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-28 | $237.5 PUT | 63 | buy-side | 0 | 418 | 19.9× | |
| 2026-10-28 | $250 CALL | 61 | mid-market · no side | +233 | 3,242 | 2.0× | |
| 2026-10-28 | $235 PUT | 53 | mid-market · no side | -9 | 1,179 | 4.3× | |
| 2026-10-28 | $252.5 CALL | 53 | mid-market · no side | +1 | 671 | 2.2× | |
| 2026-10-28 | $250 CALL | 52 | buy-side | +15 | 635 | 3.2× | |
| 2026-10-28 | $255 CALL | 51 | buy-side | +86 | 627 | 1.8× | |
| 2026-10-28 | $235 PUT | 49 | mid-market · no side | +1 | 354 | 27.2× | |
| 2026-10-28 | $260 CALL | 47 | buy-side | +152 | 822 | 1.4× |
12 smaller flags (under $100000 premium) hidden.
latest session: 1.0× its 13-day baseline
84% calls / 16% puts (by premium)
News led a bearish call; the other agents split, so conviction reflects the disagreement.
Most voters leaned one way; news dissented. Directional agreement 0.75.
A clear bearish score; conviction 0.75 reflects how strongly the agents agree. Conviction is confidence, not a probability of the move.
Vertiv sells the power and cooling that AI compute physically cannot run without, and its filing leads with 'first-to-market designs engineered for next-gen rack-scale artificial intelligence compute.' Its customers are 'the world's most critical industries' — hyperscale, colocation, neocloud and enterprise data centers — where competition, by the filing's own account, runs on reliability, quality, price, service and customer relationships. The differentiation claims are the company's own; the breadth of the named competitor set is the check on them.
Rating: narrow
The FY2025 10-K splits its competition into niche players (Delta, Stulz, Johnson Controls, Socomec) and large-scale globals (Schneider, Eaton, Legrand, Huawei) — real differentiation inside a field that contains several larger diversified rivals.
Type: switching costs
The filing pairs installed critical infrastructure with a lifecycle service estate — preventative maintenance, project management, acceptance testing, remote monitoring, spares — across more than 40 countries; ripping out the vendor means ripping out the service relationship too.
Leadership: co leader
Named against Schneider Electric and Eaton among global competitors; the filing claims differentiation through application expertise and the most comprehensive portfolio — attributed, not independently measured.
Pricing power: moderate
The filing lists price as one of five competitive bases but leads with reliability and quality, and sells into customers 'in some of the world's most critical industries' — where downtime, not price, is the binding constraint.
Curated moat judgment grounded in the cited source. source: sec.gov
Layer: datacenters, power & cooling
Layer-7 power and cooling under every AI rack.
Derived from this company's mapped supply-chain edges and its industry layer.
The moat prior voted +0.13 on the long (~6-month) horizon at weight 0.20 — the swarm call there is neutral (score 0.09, conviction 0).
Editorial prior — subjective, not backtested. It is bounded (±0.6), low-confidence, and never votes on short/medium. See exactly how it voted →
Products & services with an editorial market-share band and technical barrier band — qualitative judgments tied to a cited basis, never invented figures.
| Product | Market share | Technical barrier |
|---|---|---|
| Global services and spares · Lifecycle services | Unknown The filing details the service catalogue but states no market position for it. | Deep Service locations in more than 40 countries attached to the installed equipment base — the stickiest layer of the offering. |
| Power management (AC/DC, switchgear, busbar, UPS) · Datacenter power | Top 3 Core of the portfolio the filing calls the most comprehensive in critical digital infrastructure — attributed; Schneider and Eaton are the named scale rivals. | Moderate Certified critical-power engineering with a global install base per the filing. |
| Thermal management (air and liquid cooling) · Datacenter cooling | Top 3 The filing claims first-to-market rack-scale AI compute designs (attributed); the named global competitor set bounds the claim to a top tier, not a measured share. | Moderate Engineering depth and liquid-cooling designs, replicable by the named diversified giants. |
These charts plot Vertiv's reported income statement, cash flow, and balance sheet from its SEC filings through 2026-10-28. Every figure is as-filed XBRL — none of it is an estimate.
Over the reported window, net income at $1.3B in FY2025.
Analyst consensus — third-party estimates from Yahoo Finance, as of 2026-10-26. Not SEC filings and not a TradingPilot forecast. source: finance.yahoo.com
| Period | EPS (est.) | Revenue (est.) | YoY |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q/E Sep 2026 | USD 1.82 (USD 1.79–USD 1.92) · 25 | USD 3.8B (USD 3.6B–USD 3.9B) · 24 | +41% |
| FY 2026 | USD 6.73 (USD 6.60–USD 6.91) · 29 | USD 14.0B (USD 13.5B–USD 14.4B) · 30 | +37% |
Each figure shows the consensus mean, its (low–high) range where available, and · the number of analysts behind that estimate.
Next report ~2026-10-28.
Our model leans Low-confidence · Neutral on the stock over the medium horizon — a market-direction call, not an earnings forecast. See the Signal tab.
Some recent figures are from Yahoo Finance where the latest SEC filing hasn’t posted yet — FX-converted to USD and reconciled against SEC-filed periods.
Comparing against peers…
| Institution | Shares | Value | Δ shares QoQ | % of 13F | % shares out |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BlackRock Passive / index | 35,921,459 | $12.0B | -1,285,708 | 0.2% | 9.33% |
| State Street Passive / index | 16,531,530 | $5.5B | 704,970 | 0.2% | 4.29% |
| FMR (Fidelity) Passive / index | 4,296,854 | $1.4B | -1,116,999 | 0.1% | 1.12% |
| Coatue Management (Philippe Laffont) Guru | 806,594 | $270.1M | -175,039 | 0.6% | 0.21% |
| Bridgewater Associates (Ray Dalio (founder)) Guru | 71,078 | $23.8M | -358,688 | 0.1% | 0.02% |
| Renaissance Technologies Guru | 30,758 | $10.3M | -937,232 | 0.0% | 0.01% |
TradingPilot-computed columns (% of 13F, % shares out) are derived from as-filed 13F values; only name, shares and value are as-filed.
Yahoo Finance (PR Newswire) · 2026-10-27 · partnership
Vertiv completed its acquisition of UtilityInnovation Group, adding microgrid controls, onsite generation and energy-storage orchestration, and behind-the-meter power architecture for data centers. The company expects the acquisition to broaden its power-infrastructure capabilities.
Yahoo Finance (PR Newswire) · 2026-10-26 · product
Vertiv introduced SmartIT, a factory-validated architecture combining power, liquid cooling and monitoring for AI deployment. The solution is based on NVIDIA MGX and OCP ORV3 architectures and is available globally.
Yahoo Finance (PR Newswire) · 2026-10-26 · partnership
Vertiv completed its acquisition of King Environmental Services, a provider of fluid management, commissioning and load-testing services. The acquisition expands its thermal-management services into Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Yahoo Finance (GlobeNewswire) · 2026-10-21 · product
NVIDIA introduced DSX POD, a reference design for Vera Rubin AI factories assembled and validated in modular containers before delivery. Computing and infrastructure partners plan to deliver the modular systems globally in early 2027; deployment still depends on prepared-site infrastructure.
Vertiv · 2026-10-05 · personnel
Vertiv appointed Michael Resha as Executive Vice President of Manufacturing, Logistics and Operational Excellence, effective October 5, 2026, reporting to CEO Giordano Albertazzi. He succeeds Anders Karlborg, who becomes Special Operations Projects Leader to support the transition; Resha joins from Stellantis, where he was Senior Vice President and Global Head of Injection and Stamping.
NVIDIA Blog · 2026-08-08 · partnership
NVIDIA says AI cloud company Firebird has brought online the CIS region's largest AI factory in Hrazdan, Armenia, deployed in just over six months. Firebird plans to deploy more than 70,000 NVIDIA Rubin and Blackwell GPUs and 300 megawatts of AI infrastructure capacity in Armenia by the end of 2027, on a 2-gigawatt global roadmap spanning Armenia, Kazakhstan and additional markets. NVIDIA says it intends to invest in Firebird; partners include Dell Technologies, CoreWeave, Schneider Electric and Vertiv, with Perplexity an early customer.
2026-10-29 Yahoo Finance: NVDA · Why Vertiv Stock Soared Today
2026-10-29 Yahoo Finance: VRT · Why Vertiv (VRT) stock is trading up today
2026-10-28 MarketWatch Top Stories · Vertiv earnings just sent an upbeat signal about AI ahead of Big Tech results
2026-10-28 Yahoo Finance: VRT · Vertiv (VRT) Q3 2026 Earnings Call Transcript
2026-10-28 Yahoo Finance: VRT · Vertiv Soars 16% on Doubled Orders and Raised Guidance in “Largest Infrastructure Buildout”
2026-10-28 Yahoo Finance: VRT · Why Is Vertiv Holdings Co (VRT) Expanding Into Grid And Liquid Cooling?
2026-10-28 PR Newswire Tech · Vertiv Reports Strong Third Quarter 2026 with Net Sales Growth of 61%, Organic Orders Growth over 100% and Diluted EPS Growth of 91% (Adjusted Diluted EPS Growth of 78%); Raises Full Year 2026 Guidance Across All Key Metrics
2026-10-27 Yahoo Finance: ETN · The Single Most Important Metric For Vertiv Stock
2026-10-27 Yahoo Finance: SMCI · Can Vertiv's Americas Strength Drive Robust Q3 2026 Earnings Growth?
2026-10-27 EDGAR current 8-K filings · 8-K - Vertiv Holdings Co (0001674101) (Filer)
2026-10-27 PR Newswire Energy · Vertiv Completes Acquisition of UtilityInnovation Group
2026-10-27 Yahoo Finance: VRT · Vertiv Completes Acquisition of UtilityInnovation Group
2026-10-27 Yahoo Finance: VRT · Vertiv (VRT) reports Q3: everything you need to know ahead of earnings
2026-10-26 PR Newswire Tech · Vertiv Simplifies High-Density AI Infrastructure Deployment Across Data Center Environments
2026-10-26 Yahoo Finance: VRT · Vertiv Simplifies High-Density AI Infrastructure Deployment Across Data Center Environments
2026-10-26 Yahoo Finance: SMCI · Vertiv to Report Q3 Earnings: Should You Buy, Sell, or Hold the Stock?
2026-10-26 EDGAR current 8-K filings · 8-K - Vertiv Holdings Co (0001674101) (Filer)
2026-10-26 Yahoo Finance: VRT · Vertiv Completes Acquisition of King Environmental Services Ltd., Expanding Global Fluid Management Services
2026-10-24 Yahoo Finance: VRT · Vertiv (VRT) Stock Looks Below Fair Value After A Huge Run
2026-10-24 Yahoo Finance: VRT · Make or Break for VRT on Oct. 28: Proving the ‘AI Factory’ Thesis Amid a Brutal Valuation Reset.
Impact = company-prominence tier (High/Medium auto-assigned by graph centrality/size; Low only on curated minor events), not a magnitude forecast.
| Date | Type | Event | Impact |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2027-01-27 | earnings | Vertiv earnings (estimated) — Date not yet announced — estimated from EDGAR filing cadence (last periodic filing + 91/365 days); confirm via IR. estimated | High |
| Date | Event | Impact | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-28 | Vertiv earnings confirmed | High | EPS beat · Rev beat |
| 2026-07-29 | Vertiv earnings confirmed | Medium | EPS beat · +2.0% |
| 2026-04-22 | Vertiv earnings confirmed | Medium | EPS beat · +5.4% |
