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Analysis as of: 2025-12-27

Vertiv Holdings Co

Vertiv designs, manufactures, integrates, and services power- and thermal-management infrastructure used in data centers, communications networks, and other mission-critical facilities.

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Summary

Infrastructure bottlenecks shift value to uptime enablers

Power delivery, thermal management, and reliable operations are becoming the pacing items for AI scaling. The setup supports strong revenue compounding, but the stock remains sensitive to multiple compression if growth moderates.

Analysis

Thesis

As AI compute scales, uptime and thermals become the binding constraints; Vertiv can compound content-per-megawatt plus higher-margin lifecycle services (including liquid-cooling services) and monetize verification/efficiency software, supporting durable above-industry growth even if equipment cycles soften.

Last Economy Alignment

Compute growth shifts value to reliable power/thermal delivery, fast deployment, and trusted operations—Vertiv sits directly on that bottleneck and can add software-like SLAs on top.

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Opportunity Outlook

Average Implied Multiple (to 2030)

1.9x (from 5 most recent analyses)

Reasoning

Vertiv is already executing in a market that is becoming more constrained by power availability, heat density, and delivery speed. The non-linear upside is not just “more boxes shipped,” but higher content-per-site (power train + thermal chain complexity), plus mix shift to recurring services and controls/software tied to uptime and efficiency outcomes. If Vertiv keeps converting backlog, expands service attach (including liquid-cooling services), and productizes monitoring/control into contracted offerings, it can grow faster than the broader industrial complex while retaining a still-premium multiple versus diversified peers.

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Risk Assessment

Overall Risk Summary

The business is well-positioned, but the equity is still an expectations trade: timing of AI capex, grid bottlenecks, and competitive bundling can compress the multiple before services/software become clearly durable. Operationally, scaling liquid-cooling services and any closed-loop controls adds safety, cyber, and liability complexity that must be engineered and contracted conservatively.

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Trends

Key Changes

No new earnings since the October 22, 2025 quarter; next earnings date is in February 2026 per market calendars.
Equity value appears to have stabilized near mid-$60B market cap into year-end versus earlier December volatility.
Recent strategic emphasis remains on expanding liquid-cooling services capacity following the PurgeRite transaction close earlier in December.

Thesis update

PurgeRite closing modestly strengthens the services-mix pathway; core thesis (power/thermal as bottleneck) is unchanged.

Forecast update

Higher confidence in services-led mix shift and execution cadence supports a higher 2030 outcome despite acknowledging premium-valuation risk.

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Third Party Analyst Consensus

12-Month Price Target

$196.61

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