nVent Electric
NVT · Electrical Components & Equipment
$125.40
1.8%Sensata Technologies
ST · Electrical Components & Equipment
$40.38
0.8%The short version
- nVent Electric is the larger business, with $3.9B of revenue in fiscal 2025 against $3.7B for Sensata Technologies.
- nVent Electric grew revenue faster (29.5%, against −5.8%).
- nVent Electric kept more of each dollar of sales as operating profit (15.8% operating margin, against 6.4% operating margin).
- Sensata Technologies turned more of its sales into free cash flow (13.2% FCF margin, against 9.6% FCF margin).
- nVent Electric earned a higher return on the capital invested in it (9.3%, against 2.2%).
- Investors pay more for each dollar of Sensata Technologies’s earnings: a P/E of 67.3x against 34.4x for nVent Electric.
| Latest fiscal year | NVT · FY25 | ST · FY25 |
|---|---|---|
| Size | ||
| Market cap | $20.6B | $5.9B |
| Revenue | $3.9B | $3.7B |
| Free cash flow | $372M | $490M |
| Net income | $710M | $31.3M |
| Growth | ||
| Revenue growth | 29.5% | −5.8% |
| 5-year growth | 14.3% | 4.0% |
| Share count change | −2.1% | −2.4% |
| Profitability | ||
| Gross margin | 37.7% | 29.3% |
| Operating margin | 15.8% | 6.4% |
| Net margin | 18.2% | 0.8% |
| FCF margin | 9.6% | 13.2% |
| Return on capital | 9.3% | 2.2% |
| Return on equity | 20.4% | 1.1% |
| Balance sheet | ||
| Net debt | $1.3B | $2.3B |
| Net debt / EBITDA | 1.6x | 4.7x |
| Dividends and buybacks | $384M | $191M |
| Valuation & quality | ||
| P/E | 34.4x | 67.3x |
| Piotroski F-score | 6 | 6 |
FY16
NVT $2.1B
ST $3.2B
FY17
NVT $2.1B
ST $3.3B
FY18
NVT $2.2B
ST $3.5B
FY19
NVT $2.2B
ST $3.5B
FY20
NVT $2.0B
ST $3.0B
FY21
NVT $2.5B
ST $3.8B
FY22
NVT $2.3B
ST $4.0B
FY23
NVT $2.7B
ST $4.1B
FY24
NVT $3.0B
ST $3.9B
FY25
NVT $3.9B
ST $3.7B
NVT
ST
FY16
NVT 15.7%
ST 15.4%
FY17
NVT 15.1%
ST 16.8%
FY18
NVT 14.0%
ST 20.2%
FY19
NVT 15.1%
ST 16.1%
FY20
NVT 1.9%
ST 11.1%
FY21
NVT 14.4%
ST 16.6%
FY22
NVT 13.5%
ST 16.6%
FY23
NVT 17.3%
ST 4.5%
FY24
NVT 17.5%
ST 3.8%
FY25
NVT 15.8%
ST 6.4%
NVT
ST
FY16
NVT $290M
ST $391M
FY17
NVT $378M
ST $413M
FY18
NVT $304M
ST $461M
FY19
NVT $298M
ST $458M
FY20
NVT $304M
ST $453M
FY21
NVT $334M
ST $410M
FY22
NVT $354M
ST $311M
FY23
NVT $463M
ST $272M
FY24
NVT $569M
ST $393M
FY25
NVT $372M
ST $490M
NVT
ST
FY16
NVT —
ST 8.3%
FY17
NVT —
ST 11.5%
FY18
NVT 7.4%
ST 14.3%
FY19
NVT 8.2%
ST 7.9%
FY20
NVT 0.9%
ST 6.8%
FY21
NVT 9.1%
ST 10.6%
FY22
NVT 7.7%
ST 8.9%
FY23
NVT 11.2%
ST 1.5%
FY24
NVT 5.9%
ST 2.1%
FY25
NVT 9.3%
ST 2.2%
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