nVent Electric NVT shares have lost 3.4% since the company reported its third-quarter 2025 earnings on Oct. 31. The decline can be attributed to challenges from inflation, including $30 million in tariff impacts, higher incentive compensation costs, and margin dilution from recent acquisitions.
The company reported third-quarter 2025 adjusted earnings of 91 cents per share, which beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 3.41%. The figure jumped 44.4% year over year.
Net sales increased 35% year over year to $1.05 billion, surpassing the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 4.75%. Net sales on an organic basis increased 16% year over year. Acquisitions added $139 million to sales. FX provided a tailwind of approximately 1 percentage point to sales growth.
NVT Q3 Segmental Details
Systems protection net sales of $716 million were up 50% on a year-over-year basis, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 6.59%. Organically, the metric increased 23% year over year. Infrastructure grew more than 50%, Commercial/Resi increased by low double digits, and Industrial was up by low single digits.
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The Return on Sales (“ROS”) was 20.4%, down 150 bps year over year due to inflation, acquisitions and growth investments.
Electrical Connections net sales were $338 million, up 11% year over year. The figure missed the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 0.41%. Organically, the metric increased 5% year over year. Infrastructure grew by high teens, Industrial grew by high single digits, and Commercial/Resi remained flat.
The ROS was 30%, down 40 bps year over year due to inflation and acquisition.
NVT Q3 Operating Details
The GAAP gross margin contracted 240 basis points (bps) year over year to 37.4%.
Selling, General and Administrative expenses totaled $207.4 million, up 28.4% year over year. As a percentage of revenues, selling, general and administrative expenses decreased 98 basis points (bps) on a year-over-year basis to 19.7%.
Research and development (R&D) expenses increased 28% year over year to $20.6 million. As a percentage of revenues, R&D expenses decreased 10 basis points (bps) on a year-over-year basis to 2%.
NVent reported an adjusted operating income of $213.30 billion, representing a 26.7% increase from $168.4 million in the year over year basis. Adjusted operating margin was 20.2% compared with 21.5% in the year ago quarter.
NVT Balance Sheet Details
As of Sept. 30, 2025, NVent had cash and cash equivalents of $126.9 million compared with $125.8 million as of June. 30, 2025.
nVent had net cash provided by operating activities of continuing operations of $272 million in the third quarter compared to $91 million in the second quarter of 2025.
Free cash flow generated was $253 million in the third quarter compared to second quarter of 2025 $74.1 million.
nVent Initiates Q4 and full year 2025 guidance
For fourth quarter of 2025 NVT expects net sales to be between 31% to 33%, expecting organic growth between 15% to 17%. Adjusted earnings are expected to be between 87 cents and 89 cents.
nVent estimates the reported sales for the full year 2025 of 27% to 28% having the organic sales growth of 10% to 11%.
The company now expects full-year 2025 adjusted EPS of $3.22 per share and to $3.30 per share.
Zacks Rank & Other Stocks to Consider
nVent currently carries a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy).
Some other top-ranked stocks in the broader Zacks Computer and Technology sector are StoneCo STNE, Fair Isaac FICO and Simulations Plus, Inc. SLP, each sporting a Zacks Rank #1 at present. You can see the complete list of today’s Zacks #1 Rank stocks here.
StoneCo is set to report third-quarter 2025 results on Nov. 06. StoneCo shares have gained 138.6% year to date.
Fair Isaac is slated to report fourth-quarter 2025 results on Nov. 05. Fair Isaac shares have decreased 17% year to date.
Simulations Plus is set to report fourth-quarter 2025 results on Dec. 1. Its shares have declined 39.2 % year to date.
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