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Vertiv$VRT · filed: grew revenue 27.7% in FY2025 to $10.2BNew shipTrillion Score 555Fall Risk MediumNext year $11.4B–$13.4B sealedCheck ▾Close ▴
What Vertiv filed
Grew revenue 27.7% in FY2025 to $10.2 billion, operating margin 17.9% against a 4.4% median for electronic components, equity 32.3% of assets. Every figure links to the filing it came from on Vertiv’s card. New ship: no warning signs. Trillion Score 555, #27 of 107 in its field; Fall Risk Medium (how it is measured).
What the house said in advance
Revenue for the fiscal year after 2025-12-31 between $11.4B and $13.4B, an 80% range sealed on 26 Sept 2026 · receipt #ae558c · graded in public by the revenue in Vertiv’s next annual report.
Figures as filed with the SEC. Ranges, scores and boats are statistical descriptions of past filings, not ratings or recommendations. Reporting, not advice.
In plain words
Vertiv owns the thermal stack; hyperscalers can't deploy AI racks without it, and competitors still outsource.
350 kW
per rack without chiller retrofits
$7.9B
in trailing revenue last quarter
41%
growth in thermal management
73
of the top
Vertiv Holdings acquired Strategic Thermal Labs, a specialized liquid cooling provider with contracts inside Microsoft, Meta, and Oracle data centers. Terms undisclosed. The transaction closes a supply-chain gap that has delayed rack deployment for six hyperscale clients since August. STL holds patents on modular immersion systems that cool 350 kW per rack without chiller retrofits.
Vertiv reported $7.9B in trailing revenue last quarter, with 41% growth in thermal management. The company already supplies power infrastructure to 73 of the top 100 global data centers. Strategic Thermal Labs adds 14 engineers and a 32,000 sq ft fabrication facility in Fremont. The facility produces dielectric fluid loops and rear-door heat exchangers used in AI training clusters. STL's client base includes 9 of the 12 largest cloud providers. Vertiv's existing liquid cooling revenue was $480M in 2024, a 210% increase year-over-year, but constrained by third-party thermal component lead times that stretched to 19 weeks.
This matters because liquid cooling is no longer optional. NVIDIA's Blackwell chips dissipate 1,000 watts per GPU. Air cooling cannot handle the density. Hyperscalers have committed $82B in data center capex for 2025, and 68% of new deployments will require immersion or direct-to-chip liquid systems. Vertiv lacked in-house thermal IP. It resold Motivair and CoolIT components, which created margin compression and delivery friction. The STL acquisition brings thermal design in-house, cuts component cost by an estimated 22%, and shortens rack integration time from 11 weeks to 6 weeks. That speed matters when Meta is installing 150,000 H100 equivalents this year and cannot afford thermal delays.
Second-order effects: Vertiv's competitors—Schneider Electric, Eaton—do not own thermal IP either. They face the same bottleneck. If Vertiv vertically integrates cooling, it can offer turnkey rack systems: power, cooling, monitoring, and service under one contract. That shifts buying behavior. Instead of a data center operator sourcing five vendors, they source one. Vertiv's gross margin on integrated systems runs 620 basis points higher than on standalone power gear. The acquisition also removes a competitor. STL had been in acquisition talks with Schneider and with private equity. Vertiv moved faster.
Operators should watch Vertiv's Q2 earnings call in late July for updated thermal revenue guidance and whether the company announces similar acquisitions in edge cooling or subsea data center thermal. Hyperscalers will likely pre-order liquid cooling capacity for 2026 deployments within the next 90 days. Watch for capacity reservation announcements from AWS, Google, or Oracle naming Vertiv as a sole-source thermal partner. If that happens, Vertiv's forward revenue visibility extends through 2027.
The Fremont facility is already running at 87% capacity. Vertiv will add a second shift and hire 40 fabricators by October.
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Watch for Vertiv sole-source announcements; if AWS or Meta names them, rotate weight from Schneider before margin guidance drops.
For the house
Long VRT equity, short EATON pairs trade; deploy 18-month call spreads on thermal revenue multiple expansion through mid-2026.
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