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Hitachi Energy IndiaPOWERINDIA.NSCompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

India · INR·Capital Goods›Electronic Equipment/Instruments

Makes power transmission and grid equipment (transformers, switchgear) in India, majority-owned by Hitachi Energy (formerly ABB's power grid unit).

≈ India's Hitachi/ABB grid-equipment armMomentum laggard 19
Mkt cap
$13.1B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
28%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$42.6M
20-day average traded
Fwd P/E
79.8×
forward earnings
ROIC−WACC
+7.4 pp
WACC 13.0%
Hurdle
+31 pp
Req g minus delivered
Next earnings
6 days
12 Nov 2026
Close · INR₹27,800
1D-1.4%
1W+2.1%
1M-12.1%
3M-12.8%
6M-20.3%
YTD+51.8%
1Y+55.0%
ATR %4.2%
Beta0.63
52w lowhigh28.3% off high

What Hitachi Energy India does

Makes power transmission and grid equipment (transformers, switchgear) in India, majority-owned by Hitachi Energy (formerly ABB's power grid unit).

In one line: India's Hitachi/ABB grid-equipment arm.

Products and services

  • Power transformers
  • Switchgear & grid automation
  • HVDC/grid transmission solutions

Customers

  • State/central electricity transmission utilities
  • Industrial and renewable power project developers

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Capital goods
  • Electrical equipment
  • Grid/transmission equipment - India

What could go right

  • India's power grid modernization/renewable integration spending
  • Export orders leveraging Hitachi Energy technology

What could go wrong

  • Order-book/project execution cyclicality
  • Raw material (copper, steel) cost swings

Moat: narrow (process know-how, customer qualification, brand). Technology and manufacturing expertise inherited from ABB/Hitachi Energy serving India's grid-upgrade demand.

Headquarters: Chennai, India · Founded: 1960 · Employees: 3,578

Named competitors

Hitachi Energy India at a glance

Size Hitachi Energy India (POWERINDIA.NS) is an India Industrials company (Electronic Equipment/Instruments) with a market value of $13.1B, the 81st largest of 1,058 India companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at ₹27,800 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares fell 20.3%, against -12.5% for the median peer and 0.0% for the India market (cap-weighted) — 4th lowest of 12 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue grew 40.2% over the last twelve months (peer median +5.7%); the operating margin is 15.4% (peer median 15.1%).

Valuation It trades at 79.8× forward earnings against a peer median of 19.2× (2nd most expensive of 12).

Price implies For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 50% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +19%, so the hurdle is +31 pp: the price needs faster growth than the company has been delivering — of companies that just grew 25–50% a year, 93.8% slowed down over the next four years.

Capital Return on invested capital runs 7.4 points above its cost of capital (13.0% WACC).

Next results Next results expected around 12 Nov 2026 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

8010011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026Peer median 87POWERINDIA.NS 82
Six months, rebased to 100: Hitachi Energy India against the median of its 11 peers (local-currency closes).

Hitachi Energy India financials

Reported figures in INR; fiscal year ends 2026-03-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue₹91.6B₹81.5B₹63.8B₹52.4B₹44.7B
Revenue growth—+28%+22%+17%—
Gross profit₹28.6B₹22.7B₹15.4B₹10.1B₹8.96B
EBITDA₹15.2B₹13.1B₹6.10B₹3.63B₹2.82B
Net income₹11.5B₹9.88B₹3.84B₹1.64B₹939M
Free cash flown/a₹9.67B₹13.4B₹1.22B-₹422M
Capital expendituren/a₹5.10B₹1.29B₹894M₹120M
Total debtn/a₹861M₹884M₹2.14B₹3.34B

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Hitachi Energy India competitor charts

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Performance: 6-month against 1-month return

-40%-20%0%+20%+40%-20%0%+20%NXT003670FTVRAL3969ESEMSAAPARINDS6841ST6845POWERINDIA.NS6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. Hitachi Energy India is the large dot.

Fundamentals: revenue growth against valuation

-20%0%+20%+40%0×100×200×300×NXT003670FTVRAL3969ESEMSAAPARINDS6845POWERINDIA.NSRevenue growth (TTM) →Forward P/E →
Further right = faster growth; higher = more expensive. The dashed lines are the peer medians. Hitachi Energy India is the large dot.

Capital: growth delivered against growth the price implies

0%+20%+40%0%20%40%NXTFTVRAL3969ESEMSA6841ST6845POWERINDIA.NSGrowth delivered (Del g) →Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs) →
Above the diagonal = the price needs more growth than the company has been delivering; below = the price already allows for a slowdown. Hitachi Energy India is the large dot.

Hitachi Energy India competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (POWERINDIA.NS vs APARINDS.NS vs GVT&D.NS vs ENRIN.NS)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq g
Hitachi Energy India POWERINDIA.NS$13.1B-20%+40%15%79.8×50.3%
APAR Industries APARINDS.NS$6.25B+10%+23%9%34.6×n/a
GE Vernova T&D India GVT&D.NS$10.9B-16%+41%26%62.7×45.7%
Siemens Energy India ENRIN.NS$10.6B-11%n/a20%60.1×27.3%
Voltamp Transformers VOLTAMP.NS$1.04B+1%+18%15%28.6×35.4%
ABB India ABB.NS$15.2B-6%+8%13%85.7×47.3%
CG Power & Industrial Solutions CGPOWER.NS$12.9B-10%+24%12%72.3×n/a

How Hitachi Energy India compares with its peers

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.

Hitachi Energy India against its 11 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasurePOWERINDIA.NSPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return-12.1%-6.9%4th lowest of 12
6-month return-20.3%-12.5%4th lowest of 12
Distance from 52-week high-28.3%-26.8%5th lowest of 12
Revenue growth (TTM)+40.2%+5.7%highest of 12
Operating margin15.4%15.1%6th highest of 12
Forward P/E79.8×19.2×2nd most expensive of 12
Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs)50.3%8.3%most demanding of 10
Growth delivered (Del g)+19.0%+4.1%2nd highest of 10
Hurdle (Req g minus delivered)+31.4 pp+1.5 ppmost demanding of 10
ROIC minus cost of capital+7.4 pp+2.4 pp4th highest of 12
EV / EBITDA81.5×17.2×most expensive of 10
Net debt / EBITDA-3.0×0.2×least indebted of 10

Peer table

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size
CompanyMarketMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq gDelivered g
Hitachi Energy India POWERINDIA.NSIndia$13.1B-20%+40%15%79.8×50.3%+19.0%
NXT NXTUnited States$15.8B-17%+14%19%20.9×22.0%+24.4%
Posco Future M 003670.KSSouth Korea$10.6B-36%-9%2%282.1×n/an/a
Fortive FTVUnited States$19.5B+8%-22%20%20.0×17.2%-2.1%
Ralliant RALUnited States$7.49B+43%-4%15%19.2×20.5%-0.3%
China Railway Signal & Communication 3969.HKHong Kong$7.40B-15%+6%12%7.4×-6.9%-3.6%
ESCO Technologies ESEUnited States$7.14B-24%+17%16%25.8×25.5%+8.4%
MSA Safety MSAUnited States$6.55B0%+8%22%17.5×8.3%+6.8%
APAR Industries APARINDS.NSIndia$6.25B+10%+23%9%34.6×n/an/a
Yokogawa Electric 6841.TJapan$6.24B-30%+7%13%15.5×6.8%+10.1%
Sensata Technologies STUnited States$5.72B-13%+4%16%9.9×5.2%+4.1%
Azbil 6845.TJapan$4.63B-2%+1%15%18.7×5.5%+3.9%

Questions

Who are Hitachi Energy India's main competitors?
Named competitors: BHEL (private or unlisted), APAR Industries (transformers) (APARINDS.NS), GE Vernova T&D India (GVT&D.NS), Siemens Energy India (ENRIN.NS), Transformers and Rectifiers India (private or unlisted), Voltamp Transformers (VOLTAMP.NS). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes NXT (NXT), Posco Future M (003670.KS), Fortive (FTV), Ralliant (RAL), China Railway Signal & Communication (3969.HK), ESCO Technologies (ESE).
Is Hitachi Energy India expensive compared with its peers?
On forward p/e it trades at 79.8× against a peer median of 19.2×, 2nd most expensive of 12 in its peer set. For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 50% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +19%, so the hurdle is +31 pp: the price needs faster growth than the company has been delivering — of companies that just grew 25–50% a year, 93.8% slowed down over the next four years.
How has Hitachi Energy India stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned -20.3% against -12.5% for the median peer; over one year +55.0%.

How these numbers are made. Returns are close-to-close in local currency. Revenue growth and margins are trailing twelve months. Req g is the revenue growth that today's enterprise value requires for seven years at the company's own cost of capital; Delivered g is what it actually grew; the gap is the hurdle (honest precision about ±8 points, so read the ranking more than the decimal). No fair values, price targets or analyst ratings are shown, by design. Method and validation.